I truly value these family treasures that accompany the Christmas stories and the threads of love in a country where we go from laughter to tears at times. Where today we breathe and tomorrow we don't. Where there are beautiful illuminated squares and sectors and sectors in darkness (without light and without water). Where some have a lot of willpower and others have lost it through various stages of misery.

Finding Santa was to discover my little miracle today... and I allowed myself to feel again the childish innocence of delivering a letter, or sending a Voice to Santa asking for the long-awaited gift for the 24th (Christmas Eve).

I realized that I had already received mine

The rebirth of the desire I have for my country. Faith I have in those who go ahead and do the rest for this noble land and who understand that Venezuela is more than a government in power.

When we all understand this, we will see the real and tangible change of consciousness that we all deserve. I let go of what is not mine to solve... I let go of the desire to solve the lives of others... Also, I let go of the desire to be self-sufficient and decided to open my heart to whoever wants to help me this Christmas 2022... and to whoever wants to establish real win-win situations.

These are decisions that go hand in hand with love and friendship. Because one must be at the top of the list so that, truly, we can all be ONE.

Christmas is a balm for my never-ending ode

Stress management has enough literature and experience to give a lecture, with its implication in more than 90% of pathologies, both as a causal or predisposing factor of disease. A dose of cortisol activates you, but too much and chronically makes you sick.

However, the question is, what do I in particular do to manage my stress?

Well, I have dealt with my stress intuitively all my life. I don't always succeed because it all depends on the emotional magnitude of the events. I always deal with it quickly to try to solve the trigger (fear, anxiety, will it go away, hopelessness, death, etc.), when I get that I'm not in control, I keep my emotions from magnifying by engaging in something routine, repetitive that doesn't let the thinking fly.

That said, everything has its moment during the Christmas season

In unavoidable chronic situations, with a permanent degree of stress, I look for time for myself, simple places with nature where I feel free, and I watch simple, romantic series... I also like to watch comedies or sitcoms to ease my brain

The stress generated by the month of December is long gone, I don't feel it. I tend to be practical and make do with what I have, if I go shopping and I don't have enough money, I turn around and buy something else. Not having children to keep the false illusion of toys makes things easier. I usually make 10 hallacas a (a typical Christmas dish in my country), but if I can't make them, we eat something else.

The nostalgia of not being together (family, and loved ones) is hard, but we all carry the burden together, and it's easier through (video calls). Today is Friday, December 9, one of those days that I do not do lunch, I have my therapeutic outing with two friends to discuss issues of coexistence, and learn to flee from nostalgia, excellent to take away the stress of the Christmas season, that longing that sometimes makes us wrinkle the soul and skin.

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The colors of the Christmas season are of another level

Feeling support helps reduce stress. To live life without ups and downs is impossible, to keep the balance, for example: when you are standing inside the subway, without falling, without getting dizzy, attentive to what surrounds you, in the company of reggaeton and also enjoying the trip, is the goal, to be able to be calm and healthy peace..... Then I realize that no one seems older than the one who speaks with the poetry of "the good times of Christmas"... times of five or fifty years ago and the present time... And with Him the memory of... The Child was born! Who illuminates our lives with His light.

That is my law of life. Love the other as you want him to love you

I wish to have abundant health, to have a state of permanent joy, this month of December that is strong of work, parties, and emotional discharges with Christmas, nothing better than to prevent stress to continue filling our city and its inhabitants with consciousness, empathy, and love for what is ours, it is something I love and with which I feel very identified, to be light in the midst of darkness is my gift of creation and learning.