Bringing A Bit of Romance Into Your Life

Bringing a bit of romance into your life really has to do with some self-appreciation.  Our present world is definitely wired.  Metal and concrete everywhere.  Speed in all things–our food, our interactions, our transactions.

Self-appreciation means slowly down.  Taking time to admire the beauty of a lace table cloth and a china table setting.  It means a massage or a bath with bubbles or rose-scented bath salts.  Pausing to look at the flowers in a window box.

Enjoying the romance of life is to linger over a fine meal,  a great wine, the sweet morsel of dessert.  Taking an afternoon with old friends to chat over tea.  Walking a beach at sunset and stopping to collect a shell or two.

Breathing.  When did we forget to breathe in life?  When did everything become so fast, we can't catch our breath?   Close your eyes and just breathe.

There's an old saying that you can't love someone else until you love yourself.   Do this one thing right now:  Write down a list of ten things that are great about you?  Post that where you will see it tomorrow, and when you do read it, close your eyes.  Visualize that truly beautiful place that makes you happy just to think of it.   The romance has started.

–Susan

Susan Hanniford Crowley

http://www.susanhannifordcrowley.com

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