Try Something New Every Day

In week four of the six-week course I teach, Superconscious Living by J. Donald Walters, it is suggested that we do something new every day during the upcoming week. It always surprises me that when this is introduced, people have big question marks over their heads. What do you mean, they invariably ask?

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give them examples. Drive or walk a different way to work. Go to the market and look at the fruits and vegetables; buy and eat one you’ve not eaten before (this is how I got introduced to star fruit). Go to websites outside your areas of interests and read articles about topics you don’t usually think about. Wear colors you don’t usually wear. Listen to music outside your comfort zone. Draw or paint a picture. Write a poem. Try a new aspect of your hobby; for me, it might mean learning a new crochet stitch or coloring with a color I usually bypass. Try a different meditation technique or yoga pose.

With some suggestions, the students understand they are being encouraged to open themselves to aspects of life and of themselves they have not experienced before. What does this have to do with living superconsciously? Everything.

Our superconscious is our soul-self, our God-self, the part of ourselves that is intimately connected to the energy of universal creation and expansion, to joy, to health and healing, to prosperity and abundance, to life. When we can connect with this aspect of ourselves and dwell there, live from there, life is ever-new, ever-expanding joy.

Doing something new every day is one way to gently crack open this doorway to living larger, more expansive, true lives. Why not give this a try this week, do something new every day and see what happens to your creativity, your energy, your sensitivity to life itself. Just think: if you do this every day for the next year, by this time in 2017 you’ll have tried 365 new things!  Let me know what happens!