Holiday Tips - Spiritual Holidays

Give And Be Closer This Holiday Season

Advice Seeker: Dear April,

For the holidays, I want to try and get in touch with my spiritual side. I feel like I need to give back or do something good, even if it's a little good deed or something like that. Do you have any tips on what I can do?

Sincerely,

Need to be Close

April Masini's advice:

Dear Need to be Close,

There are several ways to give something up in order to feel closer relationship to god around the holiday season.

* One way is to sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice. If you feel that sacrifice is a virtue, then giving up something — anything — will make you feel closer to your purpose.

* Another way is to sacrifice to better someone else’s life. If you give something up in order to better a second person, this may make you feel closer to God. For instance, giving charitable donations, or doing something for someone that will take your time, money or possessions, may make you feel more whole.

* Anonymous sacrifice is a third way that people feel closer to God. If you give something up or give something up to someone to better their life, without claiming any credit for it, there is a sense of purity in the sacrifice.

Understanding why you do what you do and what makes you feel good, bad, whole or less whole, is important in order to live an authentic and genuine life, and doing that, is the most spiritual, religious, and godly thing anyone can do...even when it's not the holiday season!