A great way to ensure your Christmas will be remembered
with warm and cherished memories is to incorporate some
rituals. Adding rituals to the festivities will create fun
and magic moments that will not only live in your families
memories forever but will be excitedly looked forward to
each year. Rituals will bring your family closer together
creating joy and happiness for all!
Here is a fun ritual you could incorporate into this coming
Christmas. Add some Christmas bells to the dinner table
and ring them just before the festive meal is ready,
calling all to attend the dinner table. Long before
Christmas in the old days, bells were once rung with the
assumption that the noise would chase away evil spirits.
Santa Claus has jingling bells that he uses accompanying
his sleigh ride around the world each year. His bells are
symbols; they are jingled to remind us of the birth of new
beginnings and the death of ignorance (once referred to as
the devil).
Ringing bells before the meal is eaten is a wonderful
reminder to push away judgments, speak no ills, and come
together with a sense of joy, positivity and acceptance for
one another. Make the festive meal a time where you all
come together and share a positively good time. A time
where only supportive words are spoken, encouragement and
acknowledgement of each other is heard. Ringing the bells
will remind all to keep positive, bright and joyous!
So have some fun, get yourself some jingling Christmas
bells and chase away any menacing spirits or thoughts
before the festive meal. You can be creative with your
jingling and get your children to enjoy a brisk stroll
through the house or around the dinner table as they jingle
the bells joyously to ensure no menacing mischief makers
will be heard on the day! The children will love this fun
activity and all will enjoy the friendly reminder of the
bells if anyone starts to slip up on their good attitude
throughout the day!
Another ritual you could incorporate is the 'Mistletoe
Game'. This is a very old Christmas game where it was once
common place to have suspended Mistletoe hung in the main
room. For this game everyone would assemble in a circle
around the Mistletoe. The first player (a male) has to
slide a slipper and aim so it will land under the
Mistletoe. If he fails another takes their turn. If he
succeeds, even more fun begins as there is a scramble in
the direction of the lady towards which the slipper points.
She must seize the slipper and get away before being
caught!
Rituals offer the opportunity for family and friends to
interact in a joyous and fun manner. So why not add a few
rituals to your festive day to add some fun and create
great memories of a truly joyous and happy day.
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