Daily Mystic Messages - The special thing
All of us have things in our lives that we tend to save for a ‘special occasion’.
What happens sometimes is we get into this mundane way of living and nothing in particular seems that special, or it takes something really, really big to make it a special thing. So we wind up with these beautiful things, clothes, jewelry or other special things in our lives, the special China that just sits on the shelf or in the closet collecting dust. But something really beautiful and magical happens when we use those things, it brings a sense of specialness to it and in this course on self-love, one of the things that we want to do is bring more of that specialness into all areas of our life.
Today I want to invite you to bring out the special thing, whatever it might be. Maybe it's a special outfit, maybe it's your expensive China, or maybe it's something else for you that you consider special. I'd like you to bring that out and give yourself an opportunity to wear it, to play with it, to experience that specialness. It could be a big thing, it could be a small thing or it could be anywhere in between, but bring that thing out today. Dust it off if you have to and bring it out so that you can experience that in your life.
To be sure, and for any of you doubters there, if we do this every single day with the same thing, well, the special thing becomes less special, right. Maybe the ice cream, if we have it every single day no longer brings that same sense of joy to us.
So there is something to be said for giving a little bit of space. In the Vedanta philosophy we call this regulating our interaction or our experience of a certain thing so that it does keep that kind of specialness about it. But that doesn't mean that we have to wait for years or months in order to do that.
Maybe it's one special thing that you give yourself permission to do just today or to experience or to wear. And maybe you do that once or twice a week or maybe it's a different thing that you do once or twice a week. And that helps us to bring that sense of specialness into all the little areas.
So I hope you do that today and definitely let me know what special thing you pull out and how it goes.