Managing Holiday Stress - Un-Crunch Your Holidays
Tips to Help You Decompress and Get Rid of Stress After the Holiday Stress
Relationship Advice Expert April Masini
Advice Seeker: Dear April Masini,
I'm so relieved that the holidays are over. The shopping, the parties, the eating, the drinking, the family -- I'm so burned out. But I feel like I'm so used to doing it that I can't chill out now that it's over. Any tips on getting over all this holiday stress?
Sincerely,
Post-Christmatic Stress
April Masini's advice:
Dear Post-Christmatic Stress,
There are lots of simple ways to get yourself de-stressed after the busy-ness of Christmas. Here are five tips toward winding down from the holidays and heading into the New Year in peace, with a calm state of mind.
#1 - Take a moment of silence — or an hour — to ring in the new year. In this age of stimulation and 24/7 communication one of our rarest commodities is silence.
#2 - Take an hour alone in a quiet place and be still. Don’t walk around a museum — instead sit in a classical or folk music concert.
#3 - Sit in a park.
#4 - Meditate in your own space.
#5 - Hike to a great view and stay there for an hour alone.
It’s a great discipline and a rejuvenating exercise to be quiet and listen before getting back to the business of the new year.
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April Masini -- nicknamed "the new millennium's Dear Abby" by the media, is author of the best-selling books Date Out Of Your League and Think & Date Like A Man, the two (just released) step-by-step dating and relationship manuals, Ideas for a Fun Date and Romantic Date Ideas, and the critically acclaimed dating and relationship online magazine www.AskApril.com.
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