In actual fact, Christmas is a fantastic opportunity to ‘do’ personal growth. It’s often only when you’re faced with your own strong prejudices and upsets that you get the opportunity to resolve things. It’s amazing how many of you come back to me at Christmas time to seek advice, support and guidance to be able to manage challenging situations.

I, for one, often find I do some of my deepest personal work in the gap between Christmas and New Year: the shedding of the old in time for the advent of the New Year. And New Year is particularly important for Buddhists as we redetermine and refocus our energies on what we’d like to achieve over the coming 12 months.

So whether it’s learning to relax more and work less, to stop smoking, to move into a new venture, move house, end a relationship, pursue a new one, Christmas is a good time to meditate and reflect on who you are and what you want. And of course, I can help you do that with my Meditations to Inspire CD.

The 5 tracks on the CD take you through relaxation, shedding of old beliefs, establishing calm, and reaffirming who you are and who you want to be. Because in this busy life of many distractions, it is often easy to forget who you are and what makes you peaceful: so eager are we generally to fit into a society that is driven by materialism, and image. So eager are we to keep everyone else happy except ourselves……who are you thinking of right now? Then do yourself or them a favour!

The tracks are varying lengths but once you’ve listened to them a few times, and allowed yourself to relax with them, you’ll find one that inspires you more than any other. That’ll be your shortcut to getting the full benefit of the CD. Give it a go. Just click here to get your copy. And if you want to send one as a present, give me the address and I’ll package it and post it for you direct.

An Opportunity for Personal Development

I’ve already told you how Christmas is a great time for personal development. With all those boring hours in front of the TV a really great gift idea is to buy a personal development book for someone. I’ve read some life changing books at Christmas and determined in the New Year to completely revamp my life, thanks only to books.

That’s why I’ve now set up an Amazon shop on my website. Every book barring one or two on my site are books I have read. They have, in some way or another over the years, changed my life. I am eternally grateful to all those people who are driven enough to write their thoughts down to share with us. What amazing insight some people have developed. Take a look.

And remember, buying a book as a gift for Christmas, could be the life changing moment for one of your closest friends or family members. Have a browse and see which one you think might suit them. Click here to be taken to the shop.