The Christmas It is a celebration that hardly leaves anyone indifferent. There are as many concepts of Christmas as people who have experienced it, however, beyond traditions, memories, experiences and opinions, the origin of this celebration reveals a beautiful message for us and our relationship with nature.
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What does December 25 represent?
December 25 is the birth date of Mithra (Persian sun god), Krishna or Jesus Christ. Actually, we know that it is an astrological reference, not a historical one. represents the birth of the new sun, With everything it implies. Fertility, heat, light and .
In winter, at least in the northern hemisphere -where this festivity originates-, the Earth sleeps preparing for a new life. For this reason, Christmas was always a reason for meeting and homage to that invisible and rationally inexplicable force that offered us food and health. That is where traditions come from, such as decorating trees with lights and decorations, symbolic ways of honoring nature.
What is christmas?
Christmas is really the way to mother nature what she has given us throughout the year and to ask him, at the same time, that next year be the same or better.
We have become accustomed to the fact that Christmas is celebrated with many lights, with many people and with many gifts. But this does not have to be like this. The important thing is to keep in mind that this is a time to become aware of how much we can thank Mother Nature and the life that sustains her. From this gratitude arises the custom, now established, of giving gifts at Christmas.
The mythological tradition of those “magical” and kind beings who bring gifts while you sleep like Santa Claus or the Three Wise Men are other ways of honoring that invisible and protective divinity that the men and women of thousands of years ago felt. The tradition of giving gifts is a thanks to the for all the riches he gives us during the year.
It is not about stopping what we are doing. But we must be clear that what is important is not the behavioral acts, but with the consciousness that are realized.
Reflection time and purposes
The period of lethargy prior to the rebirth of the sun, of the is a moment of reflection and . For this reason, symbolically each end of the year we recount, we look back and see what we did, what we did not do and what we would like to have done. This point and followed allows us to compartmentalize and address a seemingly infinite and overwhelming existence.
Christmas is the time to find yourself, to see what we have experienced throughout the year and what we can improve. For this reason, we meet with the family, to become aware of what we have received and to give thanks. It is a circle that closes and another that opens. It is time for reconciliation and forgiveness.
But we don’t just look back. Another tradition of these holidays is to write our of . We use this little astrological impasse to connect with our needs, dreams and desires. With everything that, for one reason or another, we find reasons to postpone and delay throughout the year. We meet with our loved ones because they represent better than anyone else the result of the decisions we have been making.
Christmas, an invitation to important changes
As we have said before, Christmas is an invitation to reflection and the to decide to improve and change.
- Each one of us is responsible for our well-being, for how we choose to live each situation. We have the opportunity to get out of victimhood, and develop our mastery.
- Improve our way of relating to ourselves. Everything starts with
- Renew our commitment to loved ones. Let’s become aware that what really unites us with others is not physical closeness, but emotional closeness.
The importance of recovering the meaning of Christmas
Beyond judging everything that Christmas has become, I invite you to recover the archetypal sense that, thousands of years before we existed, it already had. The sense that they used and experienced personnel who really lived by and for the land. That moment of gratitude to the force that sustains our existence, whatever it is.
«Christmas night is the night of resurrections and memories. The children, falling asleep in their cribs, are confident in the mysterious spirit that will come down during their sleep to fill the new booties that they have purposely left in the fireplace with sweets and toys.
Manuel Gutierrez Najera
We take advantage of these dates and what Christmas means to collect our experiences, since all of them contain a treasure, a gift to integrate into our lives. Being able to recognize them will be what will prepare us to bear new fruit next year.
We are about to finish another round of the sun, to close another cycle, and with it another opportunity to look back and understand that the best way to honor life is to respect ourselves.
Merry thinking and Merry Christmas.
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