Different Ways to Luxuriate
While I truly appreciate luxury items, such as, a beauty from the latest line of Longines watches that I received for Christmas, I'm finding other ways to luxuriate, too. For example, I got a fabulous hand scrub, made with lemongrass oil. I take the time to really enjoy massaging it into my hands. I focus on the wonderfully uplifting scent, and really enjoy feeling the sensation of the scrub on my hands. I've also started to take a small piece of chocolate on my daily walk. I take the time to really enjoy the aroma, the taste, and the texture. As I'm walking, I'm really enjoying the chocolate, and then I focus on really appreciating the world around me. I focus on the sunlight, or the hue of the sky, the trees and plants, the type of ground I'm walking on. I just try to remind myself not to take things for granted. I try to appreciate what otherwise passes as "ordinary" or "the same old tree," etc. So I've found this is a whole other dimension to the sense of luxury. If I'm drinking wine, I really make sure to savor it, no matter if it from our best bottles or our every day.