Post-holiday blues usually refer to the short-lived mental distress, anxiety and sadness that arises after the holidays. It’s common after all of the hoopla for people to experience a letdown or what some call the "post-holiday blues." Usually not long-lasting, most people swing “back to normal” after a short while.

While it may be an exciting stretch for many people, it can also be a prolonged period of loneliness and sadness for others. Throughout this time, emotions are heightened, and sometimes difficult to regulate. Here is what you need to know about this down period. This article will discuss the Christmas effect on mental health, signs of post-holiday blues, emotions you might feel after the frantic holidays, and tips on how to feel better.

How Chinese Medicine Sees Anxiety

Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress. It helps one deal with a tense situation in the office, study harder for an exam, focus on an important speech. In general, it helps one cope. But when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations, it has become a disabling disorder.

If you’re looking for natural ways to reduce anxiety and improve your mental well-being—or want to complement your current treatment—Chinese Medicine might offer the relief you need.

How Chinese Medicine Tackles Inflammation

From the perspective of Chinese medicine, modern life generates excess Heat. In Western terms, this is a result of sympathetic overdrive—too much cortisol and adrenalin—that set the stage for inflammation.

9 Worst Habits

“If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.” — Michael Jordan

You have to make an effort to be happy.

No one wakes up feeling happy every day, but happy people do their best to frame their mornings with positivity. They work harder at it than anyone else because they recognise that happiness takes inner-work and effort.

They constantly reflect and evaluate, monitor, and explore and eliminate bad habits of thinking that can derail their positivity. Find out what they are …

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MINDFULNESS

Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens.

Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, for instance, that there’s a “right” or “wrong” way to think or feel in a given moment. When we practice mindfulness, our thoughts tune into what we’re sensing in the present moment rather than rehashing the past or imagining the future.

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Focus on the Process

By learning to master what you can control, you will start to make more net positive decisions and fewer net negative ones. With time and practice, empowering, positive behaviors will become second nature.

So let go of all the stuff you can’t control, and start using your time to use what you can control to feel better and live life to a fuller extent.