The Science of Christmas Spirit and How to Nurture Holiday Cheer

Christmas Spirit Does Live Within You…And
It May Be in Your Brain, Not Just Your Heart!

Did you know
that there is an actual location in your brain for Christmas Spirit? I wrote about this last year. (1) In summary,
researchers implemented a comparison study of ten people with Christmas traditions
and ten people without them and compared their brains. The authors results stated
there were indeed differences in the brains of those who had a little holiday
cheer:

Significant clusters of increased BOLD
activation in the sensory motor cortex, the premotor and primary motor cortex,
and the parietal lobule (inferior and …read more