One Endless Birthday Aura
Thursday, April 1st, 2010I turned 50 today. No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke. It really is my birthday. I’ve been celebrating it for a couple weeks and now I’m thinking the celebration shouldn’t end.
About fifteen years ago, I came up with the idea of a birthday aura. I think birthdays are important. They do, after all, mark the beginning of our physical journey here. So I decided one day just didn’t do it. I began treating myself especially well a couple weeks before my birthday.
In a birthday aura, ideally, you don’t schedule things you don’t want to do during a birthday aura. No trips to the dentist. No dreaded chores. You treat yourself to things you love. Sleep in if you want, take long baths, visit places you enjoy. You buy yourself little gifts.
When Tim and I got together, I told him about my birthday aura, and he asked if he had one too. Of course, I said.
And when his birthday came around, he got a surprise (either a gift or a special experience) every day for two weeks. He thought that was pretty cool.
My mainstream parents thought my birthday aura thing was silly … until my stepdad turned 80. Then he asked me, “Why haven’t I ever had a birthday aura?”
I said, “If you want one, have one.”
Mom told me later that I “created a monster.” For a month before his birthday, he kept suggesting they go out to breakfast or lunch (which he loves to do but doesn’t do as often as he’d like) because it was his birthday aura.
I love celebrating, and I look for reasons to do it.
Back when Tim and I had the money to spend (and we will again soon), we celebrated every 7th and every 26th of the month by having a candlelight dinner and giving each other small gifts. We were married on the 7th, and we first got together on the 26th. So we had two “monthiversaries” every month.
Tim used to give me roses every 7th, one rose for every year we’ve been married. It was affordable for the first couple years, but we’re up to nine now, and the budget won’t allow the romance.
When we stopped giving gifts, we somehow got out of the habit of the candlelight dinners too. Sigh.
What do we do when we celebrate?
We focus on some positive aspect of our lives and do something that makes us feel good to mark that positive. So isn’t finding alignment with our highest self just about celebrating more?
Celebration is a mindset, I’m beginning to realize. And it’s the mindset that Abraham-Hicks wants us to find a lot more often.
So I’ve decided to extend my birthday aura indefinitely.
I may not have the money at the moment to buy myself gifts, but I can still live from a birthday aura perspective. I can choose to do things that make me feel good. I can stop uninspired doing by either not doing at all or finding a different way to look at the doing.
I can take more long baths, watch the rain more often, and play with Ducky more. I can blow bubbles off my back deck, eat more avocados, and listen to more music that makes me tap my feet.
And I can have more candlelight dinners with my husband.
Life is supposed to be one long birthday aura. We’re born knowing that, but we forget and end up snatching bits of joy just here and there, confining celebration to specified days.
How about it?
Want to celebrate with me?
Your birthday aura starts today.
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