How cool that you enjoyed my last three articles. They are somewhat overlapping, for sure.

Many, many "new age" people like to focus on the thought aspect to a ridiculous degree. "Think long enough about getting or having it and you eventually get it". As if the conscious would be all there is!

And I certainly agree with your position regarding Christmas. Meant to be days of harmony, I experienced the general mood during Christmas time more and more gloomy over the years, and even if it was harmony on these days I couldn't arrange myself with putting on a fake mask of good mood for a few days when things were simply not that way. Since I neither like to get entangled in collective gloom nor in collective fake harmony during these days I eventually started blinding out this day. Peace should be the way to go everyday, not only on some fixed dates.