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What if the secret to enjoying the season lies in the simple, elegant art of standing still?
The pre-holiday frenzy has begun. Your inbox overflows with sales alerts, your calendar fills with obligatory gatherings, and somewhere beneath the mounting to-do lists lives a quiet exhaustion masquerading as seasonal spirit. Yet what if the secret to actually enjoying this season lies not in doing more, but in the radical act of standing still?