12 Days to a Healthy Holiday: Day #9 – Jingle All The Way 21
A few years ago my mother started a caroling party in her neighborhood around the holidays. Right around Thanksgiving the invitations would go out and everyone would be asked to bring a healthy dish of food for the pot luck style party.
It started out small, with just a few of the neighbors attending and singing, but it turned into an annual event that drew most of the neighbors to sing and those that couldn’t make it to sing were treated to a group of singers that were belting out their favorite carols. It got so popular that people would start asking about it in November and even my sister would travel from hours away just to participate and let my nieces have the experience.
I don’t think anybody involved would argue with me if I said that they weren’t classically trained singers, but that didn’t matter one lick, because they all thoroughly enjoyed the season and sharing the spirit of the holidays with their neighbors.
As a true believer in the power of music to lift ones soul and improve ones health, I think this is one of the most important things to add to your healthy holiday traditions. Just listening to your favorite music throughout the year can have a tremendous impact on your happiness and your mental health, but caroling takes that to another level.
When you sing your favorite songs not only are you exercising muscles that you typically don’t exercise you’re also lifting your spirits. You know the feeling when you’re riding in your car, you don’t think anyone is looking, so you turn up your favorite song and sing at the top of your lungs. Don’t you feel better after you do that? Now add your favorite holiday songs to the mix and imagine the spirit that will be rushing through your body.
You might not be able to gather a large group of people together to go for a caroling party, but maybe you can gather a couple of family members around an mp3 player and sing along to your favorite carols while enjoying each
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