How to Git Rid of the Holiday Blahs

The Holiday Season can be one of great joy! It can also bring up uncomfortable feelings or issues. Here are a few:

• You may feel anxious because of all that you have to do, and not enough time to do it all.
• Maybe you don't have enough money to buy the gifts that you want to buy for your loved ones.
• Maybe you are away from family and you would like to be with them and you can't be.
• Maybe you are going to be with family and that brings up a lot of old patterns that you would rather not deal with.
• Maybe you'll get gifts that you feel obligated to "act" like you like them even though you don't.
• Maybe you are going to be alone this holiday season.
• Maybe you want to be invited to an event that you haven't been invited to.
• Maybe you are fighting with someone.
• Maybe something happened during the Holiday Season in the past and it comes up for you during this time.
• Maybe you just don't like the idea spending money on gifts to show people that you love them.
• Maybe you hate how commercial Christmas is.

This is just a partial list of issues that come to mind. You can cross out the ones that don't resonate with you, and add ones that do. Not only that, there is something POSITIVE that you CAN DO that will make it so you have less stress during this season. You may have guessed it--EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique).

For those of you who are not too familiar with how to do EFT, here is a way to make for less stress this holiday season. Start with one of uncomfortable feelings or issues. Make it into a Set-up Phrase, for example:

• Even though I feel anxious because of all that I have to do, and I don't seem to have enough time, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Before tapping on it, you need to assess what level of distress you are feeling--on a level of zero to ten (zero being no stress, and ten being the max!) Take a note of the distress level.

Now, you either rub on your sore spot on your chest or the karate chop on the side of the hand while repeating your Set-up Phrase three times.

Then, tap on the different points while saying the Reminder Phrase, "Holiday Anxiety" at each point.

• Eyebrow
• Outer eyebrow
• Under eye
• Under nose
• Under bottom lip
• Collarbone
• Underarm

Close your eyes and ask yourself what is the distress level now? Your working on bringing it down to zero.

HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY!!!

Important note: While EFT has produced remarkable clinical results, it must still be considered to be in the experimental stage and thus practitioners and the public must take complete responsibility for their use of it. Further, JoAnn SkyWatcher is not a licensed health professional and offers EFT as an ordained minister and as an energy coach.