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The run up to Christmas can be an extremely busy and stressful time. In this extract from The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us the importance of allowing ourselves space to meditate and step aside from external pressures: Every day and every hour, one should practice mindfulness. That’s easy...

Christmas’s gift-giving tradition has its roots in the Three Kings’ offerings to the infant Jesus. The magi traveled to Bethlehem to present Christ gifts. Some Eastern Orthodox Churches and European countries still celebrate the traditional date of the Magi’s arrival — January 6 or Three Kings’ Day — with a...

It’s the first of December and the preparations for Christmas are really starting to hot up, but did you know that until the 1840s, Christmas was hardly celebrated – at least not in the way we celebrate it today. Easter was the big Christian festival, a festival of grief followed...