Indulgent Enviroment

On my journey of pure indulgence I am noticing that when I indulge I get a wonderful warm and fuzzy feeling because at the same time I am honoring some of my core values. In short I am being who I am, who I am meant to be, being my true self and living my true life and to tie in with my theme for the year, creating and walking on my own unique path. That wasn't really short was it!

One of the components of my true, authentic self is a strong need and love of peace and calmness. Each time I purely indulge this wonderful feeling of calmness comes along for the ride and trickles down into my soul. It is delicious, I highly recommend it.

Yesterday I had a strong want. I wanted to have my hair cut. But my hairdresser was not working. Unwilling to risk it with someone else I had no choice but to move on. A whole morning opened up and as I sat on my couch relaxing and sipping on a hot cup of coffee an indulgent idea arose. My in-laws and nephew were visiting and while they sat in the living room I began pushing the couch across the dining room. Used to my unusual behaviour they paid no mind to me. I unplugged the phone from the desk in the corner freeing the desk and a few pieces of fluff and then escorted the desk to the far side of the dining room. Thus opening up the perfect little piece of real estate to park the couch which had been hovering in the middle of the dining room like a car waiting for a parking space to open up. It slid perfectly into place. I sit down on it to truly test the positioning. "And look the phones in a handy spot" my mother-in-law announced looking on with a smile. I have two phones and the one that was mounted to the wall by the desk now sits in that same spot next to the arm of the couch. Happy with the positioning I surveyed the rest of the jigsaw. I moved the desk around the room trying to find it's home and then bingo, in the living room by the stand-in armchair (that's a whole story on it's own). Perfect. Sofie ran through the dining room giggling and melted into my lap in a chatter of non sensicalness. She stopped and declared "the couch was over there now it's here" Yes I said with deep satisfaction. The rest of the clan filtered into the dining room for breakfast. Kirk brought our fresh waffles and Sofie piled on the powered sugar. The smell of bacon and waffles filled the house with love and satisfaction. Kirk's dad said "ahh you moved the couch"; "hmm" Kirk snorted I bet you in won't last three weeks".

So maybe I like to move my furniture around but if you've never tried it you really should. I feel like every time I do this I am getting closer to completing the jigsaw of life. Mentally and physically life is like a jigsaw to me, I don't' doubt that this puzzle is possible it's just a question of putting the pieces together.

Later that night when we got home for Kirk's birthday dinner and a wonderful trip to the aquarium which filled my creative well to overflow I sat on the couch with a nice glass of... yes you guessed it red wine. I lit candles, dimmed the lights put on The Indigo Girls and indulged. I love that there is no TV in this room. I love that I can be close to the people I love and have peace and calmness while they watch TV. My new corner couch makes me want to read, it makes me want to relax and it stimulates me to indulge. Just sitting on it gives me the warm fuzzy calm feeling. It is a physical reminder right in the corner of my life.

Environment stimulates you, it can make you happy, sad, lethargic or energized and action orientated. When something is out of place in your life, physically, mentally or spiritually, you feel off, out of integrity. When you have things in place you have a wonderful feeling of flow. I will be focusing on indulgent environment this week, hey maybe even a little Fung Shui, as indulgence trickles out of my evenings and splashes on my mornings, lunchtimes and everything in between.