Episode 35: Something To Celebrate

Each and every moment, thing or person can be celebrated – given our attention and appreciation, setting negative aspects aside and allowing the positive to reveal its full glory – and doing so is a skill that can and should be practised for us to live in health, happiness and wisdom. Many of us can stuggle to celebrate ourselves or others and the worthy things we achieve, but focusing on the bright side is essential to keeping balance over the mind. Festivals such as Christmas are formalised celebrations which seek to focus appreciation on certain values by which the society can flourish; like personalities, these vary wildly in their choice of worthy things to embrace as admirable, however to celebrate something is essential to a culture's preservation and evolution. Christmas in the year 2022 may not be perfect and may have become hostage to unsavoury consumerist interests, but in the sense that it calls for the veneration and embodiment of kindness, generosity, peace, joy and love, I for one will be gladly joining the celebrations – in ways overt and subtle – to lift my own eyes as well as the collective toward a vision of well-being that must be let bloom. Whether you join in or not, may your end-of-year be full of goodness, renewal and life.