Simple Pleasures

 

Here’s a list of a few things to help you enjoy the simple pleasures of life:

1. Walk outside and look carefully at your yard without thinking about the stuff that needs to be done in it.

2. Take a little time to notice how good it is to have a climate-controlled place to live with running hot and cold water and inside toilets—and so many other amazing amenities that would astound our ancestors.

3. When you are with or around a child, try to get completely out of your world and totally into theirs.

4. Sit silently for a few minutes and just feel your aliveness. Feel the life that is inside you—the life that you are.

5. Make sure that you have compassion and good will in your heart toward all the people in your life.

6. Notice how good it feels to laugh with someone or enjoy something with them. We are not alone!

7. When you shower or bathe, take your time. Get the water just right. Change the temp for a different feeling. Pretend that you just spent a week camping in the desert and this is your first bath.

8. Celebrate the magnificent organism that you call your body. Don’t allow yourself to label it “fat” or unhealthy in any way, even if there are some “problems” with it. Instead recognize how marvelous it is. Think of it as your masterfully made vehicle through this brief earth visit, enabling you to feel, see, smell, taste, communicate and interact in countless ways with this temporary world.

9. Think about all the people who have loved you—and still do. Let their love feel in you the same way that you want your love to feel in them. Can you feel it? It’s all the same Love!