6 Ways to Fall In Love with Life
By Cheryl Wright
Life is the consummate lover - ready, willing, giving and calling you to see, to hear, to enjoy, to love and to be loved. Are you a lover of life in return - aware, seeing, hearing, savoring, living, loving and sharing?
Maybe the strain and pull of day-to-day life and its countless demands has rendered you lukewarm towards the essence of life and all that it whispers, shouts and offers. If this is your attitude and relationship with life, use the following suggestions to get fall in love with life. .
1. Acquaint yourself with the essence of life.
Much of what life wants to show and tell you, you already know. You have already experienced many of her joys, blessings, gifts. It is just that in your mad rush to keep pace with your world and the world at large (family, friends, peers, innovators, experts, professionals, technology...), you have not taken the time to name, count, be grateful for, savour and share the joys, blessing and gifts of life. Begin with what comes immediately to mind - the day-to-day moments, tasks, responsibilities, activities that lay claim to your attention, time and energy. They will give you a hint of how life treats you lovingly, tenderly.
2. Engage with life every day.
Love cannot thrive and flourish in the absence of attention and nurturing. Life degenerates into “just life” when you fail to dance, swim, live and love in its beauty and wonder. To dance, swim, live and love with life again, be grateful every day.
3. Schedule special times for special activities.
Love grows and strengthens by leaps and bounds, when you spend quality time together. Set a regular time and place to enjoy life’s greatest blessing to you. Make an appointment to explore the other blessings, joys, wonders, and promises that life holds before you. Elizabeth Gilbert wrote, “Eat, Pray, Love”. Choose your own title for your relationship with love. For example: Wake, Give thanks, Share.
4. Keep a record; leave a legacy.
Even if you are not a writer or an avid journal writer, you can still keep a record of your relationship with life. Consider what a legacy you will leave for your loved ones to read, relish and share. You don’t necessarily have to write detailed, daily entries. Write only what your heart leads you to record and write with passion.
5. Share your love of life with someone else.
Do you have a family member or friend who is also passionate about life? Then love life together. Share activities, discoveries, experiences and blessings. You’ll share two benefits:
• When you share the heartaches that no doubt come with all relationships, you not only have a ready shoulder to cry on and a sympathetic ear to listen to your woes. You also divide the sorrows. Your partner in loving life (spouse, sister, mother, friend), understands and carries a portion of the pain, allowing you time to heal at a more comfortable pace.
• Even more important, you will multiply joys. Can you imagine the abundance, the overflow, when joys multiply as you share them with another lover of life?
6. Encourage others to love life.
A good thing can’t remain a secret for too long or it will lose its appeal and vibrancy. Tell someone, anyone about your love for life. Share how you live that love every day and encourage that person to develop his or her own relationship with life. Often, you will discover that the people who accept your invitation to love life becomes a friends, a confidants, a brothers or sisters, kindred spirits in your life journey and you in theirs.
Begin today, to cultivate your love of life.
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Cheryl is a freelance writer, whose essays, feature articles and columns have been published online and in print since 1998. Cheryl's weekly column, Wright Words of Wisdom, debuted in September 2006 in the WomanWise magazine - a Sunday pullout in the Trinidad Guardian Newspaper. You can catch up on the column here : http://www.guardian.co.tt/category/byline-authors/cheryl-wright
Website: Cheryl Wright - Perspectives
Cheryl's column here focuses on "Womanly Wisdom."
Website: Cheryl Wright - Perspectives
Cheryl's column here focuses on "Womanly Wisdom."
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