Summing up, making plans and making wishes – this is how we usually imagine the calendar transition, which for us adults comes faster every year. The past of our country is unpredictable, the future is vague, and only the present is at least partially in our hands.
How can we please ourselves right now, what can we spend precious holidays on? Favorite activities, communication, caring for others and expressing gratitude – the list of techniques for increasing subjective well-being is known.
There is something to do: a lot of good books and films have come out, decorating a Christmas tree and preparing treats is also nice. At the same time, there is a reason to chat with loved ones: discuss gifts, go on a trip, read to children, glue garlands with them and cut snowflakes. Or play: snowball fights and Monopoly, lotto and Scrabble, charades and live pictures.
Read more:
- What to read to children at leisure?
We at Psychologies offer you our game. Imagine that Santa Claus came to see a psychoanalyst. What torments such a client the most? “Sometimes I don’t read letters.” What will the analyst ask him? “And when did you stop believing in yourself?” If the conversation gets sidetracked, the psychoanalyst will remind you, “We’re not here to discuss what I want for Christmas. We find out what you would like for Christmas. What dialogue do you hear when you look at this picture? Send us1 their signature options by December 25th. We will publish the best of them on our pages in social networks, and the author will receive a gift.
Happy New Year!
Attention: the competition is closed! Thank you for your participation, captions, anecdotes, poems and scripts that you sent us! Winners:
- Maya Tyurkova “Doctor, yesterday I gave my last New Year’s gift to a child and now I feel empty” (from the editorial mail).
- Nadezhda Ignatchik “I stopped believing that people exist” (Facebook group).
- Natalia Zimina “Doctor, I think people are using me” (Facebook group).
- Nadezhda Gorlova “So, you never take off your outerwear. “Yes, I’m afraid of losing my identity” (Facebook group).
- Valentina Dobrash “I am tormented by the question: who brings gifts under the Christmas tree to me?” (group VK).
Thanks everyone! Happy New Year!
1 To the editorial address info@psychologies.ru; in the comments to the post in the Psychologies group on Facebook and VK. After the New Year holidays, the editors will contact the winners to give gifts.