Soular Bliss

100 ways to show love to yourself and your community

In honor of love day, which is today and every single day, here is a growing list of ways to show love to yourself and your community. Thank you to everyone that contributed to this glowing list. I love you so incredibly much! You are what makes love alive and brilliantly visible!!! Check out more and add to the list at www.soularbliss.com AND ADD TO THE LIST!!!!!!

SELF LOVE

1. Tell yourself the truth about who you are
2. Create a vision map that creatively showcases how you intentionally want to live your life
3. Write your own definition of what love means to you and put it into practice
4. Make a list of your personal boundaries within relationships. Identify what a healthy relationship means to you
5. MASTURBATE!! *
6. Get enough sleep. Each night get up to 6-8 hours of sleep so that your body can recover from the present day and rejuvenate for the day ahead.
7. Spend time alone
8. Dance around naked in your room to your favorite soundtrack
9. Write a love letter to yourself about what you appreciate about YOU physically,  emotionally and spiritually
10. Create a workshop about something you are passionate about and share it with friends
11. Practice actively listening to yourself and your needs
12. Get tested for STDS
13. Improve your facilitation skills
14. Bask in nature
15. Take a healing bath
16. Cut your spending and save more
17. Un-procrastinate!!
18. Find the elusive work-life balance
19. Pray for the person on your mind right now
20. BREATHE
21. Honor your body with beautiful, delicious and healthy foods
22. Put fear aside and trust in the universe
23. Trust in your ability to do good
24. RECYCLE
25. Participate in a sweat lodge
26. Make a gratitude list of people who love you
27. Speak up for yourself
28. Attend a free 5 day activist retreat
29. Embrace your spirit totem
30. Write an ode to your future self
31. Participate in community acupuncture
32. Be still
33. Be compassionate with yourself on your journey
34. Dance! Dance! Dance!, whether its taking a dance class or going out dancing
35. Join a laughter yoga class
36. Create a blog about something you are passionate about
37. Clean out your homespace and workspace. Reduce clutter
38. Allow yourself to grieve
39. Quit your job if it is not serving you and in line with your purpose
40. Make a dreamcatcher
41. Celebrate your successes
42. Make love balms for yourself and your loved ones
43. Do a letting go ritual to release all that does not serve you
44. Learn a new hobby
45. Practice saying “NO” 
46. Love yourself unconditionally
47. Live the life you envision for yourself with intention, courage and surrender
48. Go on a word fast. Spend a day in silence and in deep prayer and reflection
49. Embrace the full spectrum of who you are and your ever-evolving journey
50. Release an old habit and welcome in a healthy habit

COMMUNITY LOVE

1. Define what community means to you with communities you identify with and put it into practice with integrity and care
2. Honor your ancestors
3. Host a progressive dinner with your community
4. Stop law enforcement violence against women of color and trans people of color
5. Develop community accountability principles, process and practices
6. Support community members in telling their stories 
7. Talk about suicide in safe and accurate ways
8. Start a safe space program
9. Build an earthship
10. Build a communal vision map
11. Be a fierce LGBTQ ally
12. Support your community in getting tested
13. Be a fierce ally as someone with privilege
14. Support a survivor of rape
15. RECYCLE
16. Compost
17. Support anti-oppression practices and principles in your community
18. Start a community garden
19. Do a new moon celebration ritual ceremony
20. Support a loved one from transitioning out of an unhealthy relationship
21. Tell your community how much you love them
22. Bike together
23. Write a gratitude letter to your community
24. Create a communal lending library
25. Start or support your local CSA (Community supported Agriculture)
26. Host a community skillshare
27. Send handwritten gratitude love letters to folks in your community
28. Live a life you envision in community
29. LAUGH
30. Celebrate your successes
31. Participate in grieving rituals
32. Support youth in getting access to comprehensive information and resources
33. Support your local farmers
34. Be honest with each other
35. Love each other
36. Create intentional spaces where community resources that support personal and collective well-being can be shared
37. Reflect on  your relationships with each other, what has worked, what needs more work
38. Deepen relationships with people you only know on a surface level
39. Read bed time stories to each other
40. Support a recovering addict
41. Start and/or support an organizing campaign to create systemic change in your community
42. Make community events accessible to all people. Create safe spaces that allow the fullest expression of age, gender, race, sexual orientation, body expression, political belief, spirituality, economic status, relationships status..etc
43. HUGS!!
44. Practice healthy polyamorous relationships
45. LISTEN!!!
46. Ask the best ways to support each other
47. Build a communal bank account
48. Say “NO” to things that do not encourage communal growth
49. Build a communal tree house
50. Play and take care of each other’s children