18 Collegian Magazine Thursday, Dec. 10, 1981 Holiday escape The days before Christmas break keep travel agents busy planning Holiday get aways for those fortunate to escape the balmy December weather in State College. Travel agent. Peggy Shive and Centre for Travel receptionist Mary Ann Hallo ar range a trip for Jackie Menoher (graduate business administration). H - .6. -. 11 11 1 . d : . O_YH.b. ..:-!00.....'...'5:::: •hoOtic-shOprj.ing--..s.#oss.:'-000:::Oiqh-. expOptations" . •Bh. - .:61.10.00 spirits By MARY BETH HORWATH Daily Collegian Staff Writer coping with a tight budget are undereven more during. Christmas, it is often not in the form of balanced financial pressure during Christmas. meals.'This nutritional imbalance, paired with - Lasswell and Lobsenz, who write a magazine column increased activity and strain, can also evoke feelings This year's Christmas tree is the most beautiful on coping with stress, said another reason people feel of exhaustion and irritation, • ever, the gifts for everyone are perfect, and the annual disappointed at Christmas is because their Precautions can be taken to reduce the possibility of familY get-together-is happy and peaceful no, not for expectations 'are too great. - • - depression, - althOugh reducing your'expectations of the _ everyone. For some people, Christmas can be a . "After all the shopping, wrapping, cooking and holiday may be difficult Eating a balanced diet and depressing time of the year. celebrating, the holiday never seems to be as much fun moderating alcohol'intake are the first steps. Doctors' One reason people feel disappointed during the as it should be,'Lasswell said." recommend that alcohol not be consumed with sweets. Christmas season is because of the enormous stress the Attempting to recaptiire the magic of childhobd Trying to reduce stress on yourself and on yo - ur holiday creates. Two psychologists have established a Christmases also can lead to disappointment. In many family can also help. For example, instead of letting universal stress scale after interviewing hundreds of families, Chriitmas is for the children, and they are one person cook the entire Christmas meal, each people and asking them to rate stressful events in their the center of attention. For adults, the holiday never family member should contribute something. life. Points were determined by how much.a person seems to be as much fun - ' Lasswell and Lobenz suggestsome more significant - must readjust his or her life after or during the event. ' "An unusual aspect of the expectation.- steps, such as talking about family problems that On the scale, Christmas rated al2 out of a maximum disappointment syndrome is that people don't seem to occur during Christmas before they happen. Also, they 100 points higher than the rating for violations of the learn from year to year not to expect too much from suggest that changing certain holiday traditions can law. • - Christmas , " Lasswell said.. "People say the blues help. For example, instead of rushing between families Selecting, purchasing and wrapping gifts, and catch them by - surprise every Christmas." - on ChristmaS morning, a young couple can start a new preparing for family and friends' visits contributes to Not only can normally stable people become - tradition of opening gifts on Christmas Eve at one the stress. Worrying about the svitability of gifts depressed at Christmas, people who are already house. bought for family and friends causes substantial depresied because of illness, poverty or the death bf Setting a monetary limit'on family gifts can emotional strain, and visiting with relatives is another loved one can feel worse because they cannot share in sometimes cause more problems than it solves. But source of tension: the gaietyllf the holiday, Lasswell and Lobenz said. Lasswell recommends setting a limit if eitravagant Christmas_can create unusual family problems or They feel lonely and alienated. gifts get out of hand, and if the family members agree intensify problems that are avoided during the rest of Depression during the holidays is not caused only by to it. • the year, according to psychologists Marcia-Lasswell emotional aspects, it can also be a chemical or "Giving expensive gifts is often a problem with and Norman‘Lobsenz. For example, many young biological reaction. Researchers have discovered that grandparents," Lobenz said, "Particularly when one married or engaged couples argue about which family the cycle of eating sweets and drinking alcohol has set of grandparentsgives extravagant gifts, and one to spend the holiday with. been linked to short-term depression during the set cannot afford to." • While other holidays can be shared, Christmas ,is a - holidays. Alcohol inhibits the absorption of sugar into Lasswell and Lobenz recommend teaching children more family-oriented holiday. An alcohol problem, the brain, and when sweets are consumed with the not to judge the gift-giver by the gift. Christmas is one which is controlled during the year, can get out of hand alcohol, the sugar level in the bloodstream rises. This Of the most important times of the year to teach values during the array of holiday parties. Financial can cause depression some people. to children, they said, and to help them have a realistic problems are a common source of stress. FaMilies • Although enormous amounts of food may be eaten attitude. Christmas _Continued from Page 10. too modest to accept credit for-his generosity. After the,wrapping paper : is pushed aside, the office cocktail parties are over, and 'you've exchanged most of your gifts, the holiday season reaches its climax with the celebration of the,New Year. ' Before the presence and popularity of the late Guy Lombardo's music, Times Square and the television marathon of-football games, many people would spend New Year's Day cleaning houses and stables to protect everyone in the home from evil. Some would open all the doors and windows' in the house a few minutes before midnight on . Dec. 31 and would leave them open until the clocks struck 12. It was called "Letting the old year out and the new year in." Whether you choose to chop down your own tree, make your own cards and gifts or face the combat of shopping in stores that resemble war zones, the spirit Photo by Greg Mldgley of the holiday season can remain a traditional one when we appreciate some of the old customs and remember their importance. Mo.M.-and.Diad Continued from Page 8. Auditorium, said Gloria Newton, Publicity and, Inforthation Specialist for the Artists Series. You can also purchase subscriptions for the next Artists Series season that begins in April by contacting the Artists Series office in Pine Cottage, Newton said. If you do not think any of these gift ideas will send your parents dancing gleefully out in the snow, perhaps you might consider giving them memberships to a health and fitness spa, or a collection of books by their favorite author, or even a portrait of yourself to replace the one that has been hanging in your living room since your high school days. And, of course, if all else fails, there is a sale on ties and cologne this week down at . . . Hanukkah Continued from Page 11. There are Hanukkah sales, commercials and advertisements, she said. However, many of the more traditonal Jews do not give gifts on Hanukkah. "Hanukkah is not a gift-giving holiday. It's a dedication, remembrance-type holiday. Only as a - result of the society we. live in - is Hanukkah a gift giving holiday, 2 : s Glass said. In Jerusalem, there is a large celebration at the Western Wall, the only standing remnant of-the Second Temple the onethe Maccabees recaptured from the Greeks 2,000 years ago, she said. "After a great torch Menorah is lit, all the youth from all over Israel gather and march together into the area of the Western Wall, singing and dancing, especially the first and last nights of Hanukkah," she said. • , "It's a very joyous, festive holiday,•and one that holds much meaning to the Jewish people as a nation." • c00p.;,.. 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