Magical Life Lessons Learned from Christmas
These magical life lessons learned from Christmas should be remembered throughout the year, and not only in one month or one day of the year.
Dear Spirited Earthling,
Christmas is one of the most magical times of the year. The spirit of Christmas can be carried with you throughout the year. Let’s keep the significance of Christmas to family, love, faith, and gratitude.
Christmas Teaches the Importance of Giving
Giving is a large part of Christmas. Gift-giving makes your loved ones feel valued and special. Extend your giving to people in need and those less fortunate than yourself. Sharing what you have with others is a magical life lesson from Christmas to teach your kids. Embracing the spirit of generosity is good for your health, helps you maintain a positive attitude, lower stress levels, and may even lengthen your life.
2. Christmas Teaches the Attitude of Gratitude
One magical life lesson learned from Christmas is counting your blessings. Throughout the Christmas season, you think about how much there is to be grateful for since last Christmas. Adopting an attitude of gratitude helps you celebrate the present moment, is good for your health, lowers stress and increases happiness in life.
3. Christmas Teaches the Importance of Family
Family travel to spend the holiday together. You sit around a table for meals and talk to each other. There is a chance to connect and converse and catch up. You help each other in the kitchen or decorating the home and tree or shopping for food and presents. Spending quality time together shouldn’t be limited to the holidays. This life lesson learned from Christmas should be practised throughout the year.
A reminder that family does not have to be blood and your family does not define you.
4. Christmas Teaches the Importance of Community
Community is a lovely part of the Christmas season. There are events in the city that bring people together. People are welcomed to celebrate with other families when they can’t celebrate with their own. There is a building of community when different families come together to celebrate the holiday. You reach out to your community with Christmas messages, cards, and goodies.
5. Christmas Teaches the Meaning of Growth
During the Christmas season, you look back at the year and think about how much has changed and how much you’ve grown. You see family you rarely see and notice how big the kids have grown. You decorate a tree that seemed so huge when you were young but now you stand taller than it. There is always room and time to grow.
6. Christmas Teaches a Love of Tradition
Each family has their own traditions and different towns and countries celebrate Christmas with their own traditions. There is beauty and magic in the different traditions. You spend time with loved ones making cookies, decorating the tree, and visiting Christmas markets. Whether you continue traditions you grew, merge traditions when you merge families, or create your own – there is a simple love of tradition.
7. Christmas Teaches the Value of Joy
Christmas is known as one of the most joyful times of the year. There is more joy in the home, in the city, and in series and movies. Welcoming joy looks different to everyone. Choose joy, do things that make you smile, and spend time with people who make you happy.
8. Christmas Teaches the Significance of Faith
Faith is having hope for the future. The time of Christmas brings a faithful optimism for the seasons after. Having faith gives you renewed strength to get through tough times and can be spread to others as inspiration.
9. Christmas Teaches the Charm of Simplicity
The time spent together is often more memorable than the presents received. You can recall and retell stories of past Christmas’ but not every gift. Sharing a warming cup of hot chocolate can bring as much joy during this season as any materialistic item. Homemade gifts and crafts can make charming and treasured gifts.
10. Christmas Teaches the Worth of a Childlike Spirit
Christmas always feels more Christmas-y when there are children around. There is excitement about Santa and gifts. There is a love for treats and good food. Families play games and watch movies together. You’re never too old for Christmas. Embracing a childlike spirit means enjoying some of the simplest things in life as if they were the biggest. It means believing in magic.
These valuable and magical life lessons learned from Christmas can enrich your life and help start your new year with an abundant mindset. Stay present in this season and love it for all that it is.
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