The giving of gifts, a long honored tradition that applies to almost every celebration we humans conjure up certainly takes center stage during the Christmas season.
On the surface of our modern day world, marketing and retail corporations would like us all to believe the world's financial state relies on brisk Christmas and Boxing Day (After-Christmas) sales. Millions of dollars are spent promoting a frenzy of consumerism and blatant overconsumption.
Ya, yawn, we all know this, really, BUT...
Come on Scrooge it IS Christmas!
The giving of gifts is still something that we all enjoy doing, anytime of year and I celebrate it. In my opinion I've acquired the philosophy that;,When a gift is offered, the giver also gains a gift of their own. They are reminded of their own abundance and good fortune and affirm it through sharing that abundance with another. Sharing with whom there is a great emotional or respectful relationship seems to me to charge the circumstances with that much more good energy for all. Consequently I would say that
the promotion of abundant gift giving during Christmas may actually be doing us all more good than harm because it has a healing affect on us. Despite all that seems to be negative about the whole system of consumerism, when it requires overconsumption by the masses to satisfy the beneficiaries, it may at least help the masses feel good. And feeling good is where we all want to be, what we all want to feel, what we're all searching for in our lives.
I received a gift today from Jerry & Esther Hicks and the group consciousness known as Abraham, it's a great reminder and I wanted to share it because it is one of the most important things I've learned in the past and I know many others will benefit from remembering this! I'm much more interested in allowing improvement and so this was an important reminder for me!
Most people do not realize that as they continue to find things to
complain about, they disallow their own physical well-being. Many do not realize that before they were complaining about an aching body or a chronic disease, they were complaining about many other things first. It does not matter if the object of your complaint is about someone you are angry with, behavior in others that you believe is wrong, or something wrong with your own physical body. Complaining is complaining, and it disallows improvement.
--- Abraham
I enjoy listening to the audio work of Jerry & Esther Hicks and the group consciousness known as Abraham, there's an interesting website at abraham-hicks.com a lot of their material is available to download. However purchases are limited to credit card payments at the moment.
Hoping you are abundantly celebrating your abundance through your holiday giving and receiving, however way you enjoy going about that!With love,
...from the garden
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