A Clean Slate

The holidays … some look forward to them with great anticipation and some dread them.  What a perfect example of how thoughts directly determine your experience.  What is a holiday, but a date on a calendar associated with time, which is nothing but an artifice to allow you learning opportunities.  How can a date provide such variations of experience?  For the thoughts you associate with it are based solely upon your memories and beliefs. 

What do the holidays do to you?  Absolutely nothing.  What do your thoughts do to you?  Absolutely everything when you allow them to dictate your experience. 
How would you like to experience the holidays this year?  Take control of your life instead of allowing life to control you.  Wipe the slate of your mind clean, which you can always do at any moment, and design the perfect holiday for yourself.  If that holiday is filled with love and compassion for yourself, that is a good way to start.