All over the world, cultures engage in practices to welcome the start of a new dawn and bid the old year goodbye.
As the new year begins, people tend to look back on the previous one and take stock of all the joys and defeats they have experienced. Of course,…
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Take a look at these tips on how to show your love more in the new year.
It isn’t always
easy to show your significant other how much you care. In fact, a lot of people
tend to take their partners for granted for the most part. While it may not be
the norm…
Many Christmas traditions can be traced back to pagan origins.
Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier each year. November will barely be over and people will begin setting up their trees, hanging wreaths, and blasting carols from their cars and homes. While ma…
Kwanzaa encourages black heritage and pride while honoring important values that uplift the community and promote positive growth and development.
From Yule commemorations of ancient Germanic cultures to Jewish Hanukkah festivities, midwinter is often a time when p…
There are many different ways to find a spiritually strong ending to your year.
As the year comes to a close, many people are thinking ahead about resolutions they can make for the future. While there’s nothing wrong with this, it can be easy to get ahead o…
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Keep your spirits warm during the winter.
People who live
in seasonal climates tend to hate winter after a while. Though the first half
of this time is loaded with comforting holidays and feelings of togetherness,
the second half can often make the world feel l…
The swastika symbolized a racist vision for a new world order.
Would you want to live in a neighborhood named Swastika
Acres? Probably not. As the Denver
Post reports, residents of a Denver-area suburb faced this very problem. The
locals called it Old Cherry…
Through the freezing weather, it can be useful to discover winter practices to help and warm your spirits.
Winter can be a very brutal season. Between sudden snowstorms, frigid temperatures, and mornings when you just can’t get out from under the covers, th…
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One of the best ways yoga can improve your mental health is by helping you feel less tension.
For
many years now, yoga has become a popular practice across the world. Though it
has origins in the East, people of the West have taken to it for all of the
health…
Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest and most practiced religions.
Hinduism is the third largest religion in the
world, following behind Christianity and Islam. Still, a vast majority of
followers of Hinduism live in India. Though there are followers all ov…