Merry Mindful

Give yourself the gift of a calm, focused and happy holiday season by putting mindfulness and meditation at the top of your wish list

- Karen Robock

TO SAY THE HOLIDAYS CAN BE stressful is an understatement. Between baking, shopping for gifts and prepping for parties, things can get pretty hectic. Add some inevitable family drama and the season can quickly become more manic than merry.

“We can really miss the entire season when we get caught up in the gotta-get-done list,” says Heather Cameron, founder of +focus mind space, a meditation studio in Toronto. During life’s busiest times, tools like mindfulness are needed more than ever, she says. But, ironically, it’s when self-care tends to fall off the to-do list.

“When we’re super-busy, we really need to think about doubling up on practice rather than skipping it,” says Cameron. And if you’re new to mindfulness and meditation, you’ve actually picked the perfect time to get started. “A mindfulness and meditation practice helps put us in the present moment so that we can experience the holidays rather than just survive them,” she says.

Here are three ways that mindfulness can help you through the holidays and into 2020.

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