Lots of Joyful Ingredients to Add to Your LIfe

Here are some joyful ingredients to add to your life. If you have any to add, by all means add to this hopefully growing list of fun:

• Pick yourself a fresh bouquet of flowers or buy one
• Walk in nature
• Call a friend you haven't called in a while just to wish them a great day
• Get a professional massage, especially if you never have, yummy!
  
• Meditate for 5 minutes
• Dress up in fun clothes (and do any of the above or below)
  
• Sing a song to your dog or cat
• Paint your nails a color you have never used before
• Hold a puppy while it's sleeping
• Give your dog or cat a massage
• Go to the library and walk through the isles looking for interesting books
• Buy yourself a great mattress
• Push a child on a swing
• Use a swing yourself, see how high you can get
• Learn how to skateboard
• Do handstands in the pool
• Go to the beach and collect things to make into art
• Go to an art store and buy some art supplies to play with
• Finger paint with a child
• Play in a sand box
• Plant a garden (or just a seed or a plant)
• Watch the bees on flowers
• Lie in the grass and take a nap
• Climb a tree
• Take a bath with candles, bath salts, aromatherapy, and a good book
• Hold a baby
• Read a child a book
• Make yourself (&/or family) a yummy meal
• Try some cartwheels in the grass
• Go on a night time walk
• Gaze at the stars
• Draw someone a picture and send it in the mail
• Do some yoga/ stretching
• Dance to some good music (with your friend, dog, cat, or child)
• Make a fairy house under a tree and leave doll clothes and flowers for the fairies