Contemplating Advent: Transform Your Christmas Season Through Spiritual Practice

So many of us have this sense that this is not what Christmas was meant to be. We juggle sacred and secular expectations, struggle with family and disappointments, navigate overflowing schedules and abjesct loneliness. Sometimes, it can feel like this is a season to simply be endured.

It doesn't have to be that way.

We won't find the joy we're promised by finding one more thing to buy. It's not about making more moments; it's about making the most out of the moments we're already living. It's about approaching this time of the year in a contemplative manner.

There are over 30 different spiritual practices in these pages. They are arranged around traditional advent themes like joy, hope, and peace, and taken together they will not only lead to new possibilities for your experience of the holidays, they can also be the foundation for a new way of being in the world, the first steps in a daily practice which will carry you into the New Year and beyond. Science and traditional spiritual wisdom agree that a daily meditative practice can change so much. I hope you'll join us.