FINDING PEACE: How to survive the holidays – A spiritual toolkit

How to survive the holidays – A spiritual toolkit Dec 1: How to deal with expectations Dec 8: The skill of not retaliating Dec 15: love and attachment. When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in reality, whatever problems we experience come from the mind. If we were to respond to difficult situations with a positive and peaceful mind they would not be problems for us; indeed, we may even come to regard them as challenges or opportunities for growth and development. Problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind. Therefore, if we want to be happy all the time and to be free from problems, we must maintain and develop a peaceful mind.