Are You Fit To Love After
Christmas?
By Allie Ochs
Perhaps
the word love has never a more pervasive meaning than at Christmas. Most
of us who celebrate Christmas jam loving words and acts into the holiday
season. Our world becomes narrower as we feel closer to others and kinder
towards ourselves. We can let go of resentment and anger; we can forget
our pain and worries. As we feel more loving our hearts become alive even
if it is only for a few days. I remember Christmases when I could have
sworn that I felt love between people known to be enemies.
Why can most people find that loving feeling during Christmas, but lose
it soon afterwards? Christmas is an agenda-driven celebration and there
is consensus that expressing love is part of this agenda. In other words
we are being told to be loving and most of us are ready to follow suit.
Quite apart from sticking to the rule, Christmas allows us to give and
receive love, be vulnerable and show our emotions. This is a time of the
year when we can be truly human and it feels great! After Christmas we
retreat, become defensive and are afraid to show loving feelings. Once
again we complain about the state of affairs in the world and the people
in it.
The past year has contributed to our living with increased fear. Geo-political
unrest, employment insecurity, fires, diseases and terrorism have been
on most of our minds. At the same time, many interpersonal relationships
are far from loving and border on disastrous. Yet, we sincerely wish and
hope things would change for the better.
On the other side of the fence there is an awesome world unfolding right
in front of you where many are making a loving difference. Don't sit on
the fence and wait for others or the world to change. A better world begins
with loving relationships, one human step at a time. Keep that loving
feeling alive after Christmas. It will go a long way towards improving
all your relationships, your life and help create the world you wish for.
Put love on your speed dial to take part in this loving revolution. You
know that you have an abundance of love inside because you are about to
embrace another Christmas. Make this one last all year!
Once you have learned to love, you will have learned to live. ~Author
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Allie Ochs, Relationship Coach, Speaker and Author of:
Are You Fit To Love? A Radically Different Approach To Successful Relationships
Visit her website at: www.fit2love.com