Having a Fun Valentine's Day for the Single and Dateless
If you're, single, dateless with no mate in sight, you can still
totally spoil yourself and have fun on Valentine's Day in a
number of special ways.
There are many advantages of your singledom. You'll
eliminate:
**The stress involved if you don't get a card, flowers or
chocolates!
**Receiving flowers with their use by date expired and in a
color that doesn't match anything you own;
**Having to eat out where you know you won't like the food;
**Receiving humorous cards that you don't find amusing and you
don't get the punch-line anyway;
**Making conversation and being nice when you'd rather be
reading or sleeping;
**Going away on a surprise weekend away where there are NO shops
and the only thing to do involves sporting activities;
Instead, as a single person you can spoil yourself silly
as well as have fun doing any of the following:
Take a leisurely bath with rose essential oil and pink bath
salts. Have some relaxation music in the background, light some
pink and green candles, and place a few rose quartz crystals in
your bath.
Meditate and reflect on all your wonderfulness and how you are
continually learning, getting even better (if possible) at
living life, remembering your closest friends and all the kind
words and gestures they've shown you.
Whilst meditating, visualize with your mind's eye a bag you can
call 'life skill toolkit' or something similar. Then, as you
recall all the wonderful things you've been told about how
generous you are and what you've done for others (listened to
their problems etc) place these memories inside your bag and
breathe all those really wonderful and cool experiences fully
throughout your body.
Set up in a room of your choice at home, light pink and red
(scented rose) candles (remembering to always extinguish naked
flames when leaving the room). Next put on some soothing easy
listening music. Bring out your journal or diary or other
special paper, then, using a special pen, maybe with pink, gold,
blue ink (or other color of your choice) and write down all the
really good and fabulous things about you. Once you've done that
write about all your dreams, your wishes, anything at all really
that catches your fantasy. This IS NOT a goal setting exercise,
this is for you to access the authentic you and the dreams
inside yourself.
Hire your favorite DVD or video. Cook your favorite meal or
order in, pour yourself that special drink, turn the lights down
low and enjoy spending time with you and only you.
Send a Valentine's Day card to you, writing only what you want
to hear about yourself. You know what you want to hear about
yourself so enjoy yourself as you write about how brilliant and
outstanding you are.
How can you go wrong with sending yourself the nicest bunch of
flowers you can afford, in the colors you love, and the perfume
you love?
Treat yourself to a day of shopping where you want to shop,
maybe get in a hairdressing appointment, have your nails done;
go to a restaurant you've always wanted to go to but never had
anyone to take you and just chill out.
Valentine's Day needn't only be for couples; it can also be for
singles. So have some fun and spoil yourself, because quite
simply, you're worth it!
Michaela Scherr
Transformational Coach