- Do something good for someone else
- Eat the best chocolate you can get your hands on. In bed. Or in the bath.
- Turn up music you really love. Play it so loudly that it soaks in through your skin. Dance in your pyjamas. Feel the pain lift.
- Call a friend & ask them if they want to have a sleep over.
- Throw yourself head-first into a creative project. Something that you’re excited about but which feels a little too big for you. You’ll be so consumed by it that it will fuel you for ages.
- Cover your entire body in cocoa butter & fall asleep.
- Write a list of things that you appreciate right now, in the present moment. Focus on each of them & let the love inside you well up. Even when things appear to be going really, really badly, there are always things to be happy about.
- Indulge in your “guilty pleasures”, whatever they are. (Old episodes of America’s Next Top Model, ginger ale, chocolate cake, romantic comedies, etc.)
- Load up your ipod & go for a walk through your favourite park.
- Write the birthdays of your personal heroes in your planner & work out a way to honour them on that day.
- Tell someone cute, “You’re cute”.
- Find a secret place with a great view. Like a tree, or a rooftop, or a hill.
- Be optimistic.
- Lie down in the sunshine.
- Watch movies you used to love as a child.
- Make a list of practical, actionable ways you can improve your situation.
- Listen to Divine Harvest by The Mae Shi.
- Take a nap with your head at the other end of the bed.
- Walk around a garden centre & buy a colourful plant. Give it a name.
- Go somewhere that people walk their dogs & make friends with some fluffy creatures.
- Hug your friends.
- Tell someone everything.
- Believe that everything is always getting better.
oct 17 2009 ∞
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