A30 • Wednesday, December 5, 2012 • Burnaby NOW
Live mindfully during the holidays HEALTHWISE
Dr. Davidicus Wong
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t the end of It’s a Wonderful Life, Zuzu Bailey says, “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings!” These days, every time a Christmas song is played, some grownups grit their teeth. Though this is a season of celebration, for many, it comes with sadness and stress. We can easily get caught up in consumerism, cynicism, stress and gloom. What can we do to cope with Christmas and begin a New Year healthy and hopeful? We have to psyche ourselves up. The attitudes we adopt now will influence our mental and physical wellbeing over
Without the rush, I’ve the holidays. been more mindful. This year, I resolved Of course, the accelerato begin my Christmas tion of time we experience preparations early. On at Christmas happens Nov. 25, I had put up the throughout the rest of the lights and the tree and year – and becomes more already started the search pronounced over a lifefor the right gifts for the time. kids. To get The seasons in the mood, “In past years, and years pass I started playI would proever more ing Christmas music a week crastinate while quickly; we are another earlier. I continued to year older, our In past work and attend life situations years, I would and relationprocrastinate to everything ships change, while I conelse in our busy and people tinued to work pass in and and attend to home. With out of our everything else each passing lives. in our busy The days of home. year, Christmas our lives are With each seemed to go fleeting. passing year, faster. The greatChristmas est gift we can seemed to DR. WONG give ourselves come and go Health columnist is to be fully faster. present. By startEach year, I remind my ing early this time, I’ve children to be mindful. enjoyed the sights and With each gift they sounds of the season and choose for one another, I taken the time to consider ask them to consider first the needs of family and friends. Season Page 31
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