Mindfulness Alive

One of the challenges of this time of the year is all of the images of the perfect Christmas that we walk around with in our head. As a consequence, we run around stressing about making it all perfect. Yet because we compare our experience with an impossible ideal, it never lives up to how it 'should' be. We feel disappointment, even a sense of failure. Naturally, however, the ideal Christmas is a curated ideal, and an external view, whereas our reality is an internal perspective full of all our 'to do's', commentaries and self-doubt.