What do the holidays mean to you? Many of us want the warm hugs and thoughtful wishes we associate with holiday get-togethers. We want to feel appreciated and loved. But for many the holiday seasons bring about stress and only remind us of our troubled hearts.

What happens to us then, how do we start with a desire to be loved, and share it with others, and end up feeling stressed? The answer is simple; we only have a difference between what we want and what we believe. Our beliefs can be filled with concepts and memories that support us or diminish us. We want the safe and loving feelings, but sometimes we cannot let ourselves be in that loving space.

While this may sound a little depressing, it doesn’t have to be that way. We are spirit, loving and beloved beings, not just a compilation of life experiences. Life is supposed to serve us and inspire us to learn and grow. We can get caught up in the flurry of activity though, and become so engrossed in our living that we forget who we are, and then we start to see ourselves through the slide show we’ve created. We see through a moment instead of through the eyes of eternal love.

Consider this time to be an opportunity for your personal growth. By this I mean seeing yourself a little more clearly, and redefining your values. You are spirit, and that means your source of love comes from being, not what you do. The time has come to take off that life lesson overcoat and let go of those things that you no longer want to define you. It’s time to step out of the story and see it in a different light.

What means do we have to bring ourselves out of the story and into a clearer perspective? One way is through a spiritual reading session. You see, those stresses tell you that there is a discrepancy between your inner beliefs and your outer events. When we are in flow between our wants and needs, and reflect that into the world we feel happier, and loved.

The spiritual seer has a role to stand in the middle, that place where Source resides, and guide you gently back into the realization of self. We seek to be loved, and often forgets that this begins within.

Holiday stress is an opportunity for growth. You can listen to those inner signals, those events that cause you tensions, and ask that magic question: what am I leaving out? The answer to that question is always going to be you.