holiday

What are your resolutions this year? If you’re like many people, you’ve got a goal in mind: lose weight, make a change in your job or relationships, treat yourself better, or otherwise embark on an Operation: Transformation!

We often confuse sharing with giving. Giving is connected to things and is often mixed up with our definition of what we “need.” It can appear in many forms, but often it is very much attached to our identity. But sharing is heart-centered and not attached to the material world.

Not to be a total bummer, but no matter how many hours we’ve put in on the mat, how many “Om”s we sing or how many times we dent the meditation cushion, anyone can regress in times of stress. We get snarky, we lash out, we turn on the waterworks and display a host of other behaviors better suited to the Terrible Twos than, say, a holiday dinner at the adult table.

The holidays mean lots of time spent with family, which also means lots of opportunities for stressful situations to arise—it’s a universal law that the people who love us the most and know us the best also push our buttons like nobody else.