Usually we are so stuck in our daily routine that we forget to take a break and do something that we enjoy. When was actually the last time, you rewarded yourself with a small pleasure?
The following list should give you some inspiration on micro-experiments to practice in order to break out of your daily program. Enjoy 🙂
- Walk very quickly barefoot on the burning sand.
- Putting on a wet and cool t-shirt after sunbathing on the beach.
- Read while dipping your legs up to your knees in the water of a stream, a mountain stream or the sea.
- The urban variant of the sea: the relaxing footbath. In a basin, fill with water then add sea salt and a few drops of lavender essential oil.
- Go for a walk at dawn with just a thermos of tea or coffee.
- Organize an evening reading aloud and by candlelight.
- Turn off your phone for twenty-four or forty-eight hours.
- Say to yourself out loud: here and now, I am in paradise.
- Swim naked, early at dawn or at night.
- Go out naked at night, and walk in the garden or on the beach.
- Fall asleep under the stars.
- Take a nap under a tree or under a mosquito net impregnated with lavender essential oil, a fig tree or ocean scent.
- Make a real good child’s snack on the grass or on the sand (why not by re-reading a book).
- Playing the old-fashioned way: croquet, blind maillard, chat perch…
- Write long letters by hand and send self-made postcards.
- With family or friends, make rebuses with objects, like the artist Romain Denis.
- Make something that lasts (jam, soap, liquor, object, clothing…).
- Exfoliate with green tea in the shower (mix 1 tbsp of sweet almond oil, a handful of green tea leaves, i.e. powdered sugar).
- Identify and name the constellations.
- Give colors to smells, smells to colors, sounds to textures, and vice versa.
Do not hesitate to continue the enumeration of the small and great pleasures!
I am really curious to learn about your creative ideas, so I invite you to leave a comment and share them.