Why can not give gifts in advance?

In our fast-moving age, people are separated by cities, years and distances. Working on a rotational basis, urgent business trips, performing official duties away from your home, round-the-clock duty, a sudden illness, and a number of other circumstances may interfere with the timely delivery of the presentation to relatives and friends close to their birthday or another holiday.

Optimists believe that you can congratulate the birthday man and present the present at any time. Pessimists and superstitious people, citing ancient pagan signs, say that a premature congratulation can bring major annihilation to the hero of the day, serious illness, or even death.

The explanations of the ancient signs about why gifts cannot be given in advance go back more than two millennia back to the era of ancient paganism. There are many options for explaining the relationship between an early gift and subsequent adverse events. Let us dwell briefly on the analysis of each of them.

• Such a gift scares away the saints and spirits of deceased relatives, who come to the birthday night on the eve of a significant date. According to pagan mythology, a person, having lost the protection of ancestors, will become vulnerable to the evil eye, curses and diseases. The explanation is based on ancient pagan myths and legends. It has nothing to do with reality.
• Birthday gifts and wishes carry a powerful charge of positive energy. A premature gift does not have such power. Without energy nourishment, a person begins to weaken and become seriously ill. The explanation is based on mysticism, bioenergy, torsion field theory, and the occult sciences.There is nothing to do with the traditional scientific approach and probability theory in this explanation.
• At the festive table around the person, besides friends and acquaintances, invisible angels and demons gather. Premature collection of them will greatly anger, as a result, they can punish the birthday boy. The explanation is based on ancient mythology, mysticism and related speculation.

The most logical and plausible version of the explanation of the mechanism of the adverse effects of premature presentations (without mysticism) asserts the following: having read online posts about mysticism and signs, having seen enough videos with ghouls and ghouls, computer-generated thrillers, having read many articles on the subject of occultism, the suspicious person begins get very nervous in anticipation of a sad outcome after a presentation accepted earlier.

There is severe stress, which is the cause of poor health. Ancient signs and legends have nothing to do with this. In this version of the explanation of the events there is a very large share of truth, however, many emerging aspects and conclusions are in the field of psychology, extrasensory perception and other areas of medicine far beyond the scope of this article.

Superstitions, signs and mysticism arose simultaneously with the advent of Homo sapiens. The lack of knowledge did not allow the primitive man to conclusively explain elementary natural phenomena (lightning, wind, the onset of day and night, changing weather, rainbow). As a result of this, synthetic explanations arose (various superstitions and signs).

In the slave-owning era, superstitions frightened recalcitrant slaves, inspired fear of breaking ancient traditions and rites. Paying tribute to ancient traditions and trying to find a way out of a difficult life situation, in the XXI century civilized people with two higher educations still divine on wax, coffee grounds and put a copper coin under their heels.

A simple and effective way to circumvent bad signs is to not focus all thoughts on the possibility of a bad outcome. By focusing attention on a possible unfavorable outcome of the business begun (relying on bad omens and signs), a person creates in his mind a stable zone of increased excitement distracting from the main problems. It captures memory resources for the cyclic process of finding a way out of the situation. Attention is scattered, a person begins to make gross logical errors.

Bypassing superstitions and bad signs is of particular importance in the lives of people who were born on the last winter day of a leap year. Strictly following traditions, they can celebrate their birthday on time only once in four years. All other years they are forced to accept gifts on February 28.

Experienced psychologists and psychics recommend that the following steps be taken to minimize the negative impact of premature gifts and bypassing bad ones.

• Hide the present in a secluded place in the birthday man’s room, informing relatives or acquaintances who will hand it to the hero of the day on time.
• Send a present by mail indicating the exact date of delivery to the addressee.
• Present a present before the birthday without congratulations and wishes, saying that the congratulations on the anniversary will be right on time. On the right day, you can call the hero of the day and congratulate him on the holiday.

Such tactics of behavior:

• leaves a person a good impression from the attention paid to him;
• avoids conflict about not appearing on a birthday;
• prevents an unpleasant situation presenting a gift much later than the anniversary;
• allows you to give a gift on time when it is impossible to meet in person for objective reasons;
• does not affect the canons of the worldview of a superstitious person, so as not to inflict insult or mental trauma;
• creates prerequisites for further development and strengthening friendships.

An interesting fact: statistics collected from open sources indicate a tiny percentage of adverse events coinciding with early birthday gifts. In total, about 100,000 documented facts of presenting gifts a few days before the birthday were analyzed.

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