My invitation for you this week is to be totally sneaky and secretive. Doesn’t just hearing that give you a burst of energy? We were certainly secretive and sneaky when we were kids, but when we become adults most people tend to be honest and open and want to be forthright.
This week, however, let’s adopt a more secretive life. My invitation and challenge is to commit an anonymous act of kindness each day. Let me emphasize the word anonymous. My guess is that many of you commit many, many acts of kindness every day to others and hopefully to yourself.
The difference is that these acts of kindness need to be anonymous; no one should know that you actually committed any particular act of kindness on their behalf.
I must warn you, it’s not exactly as easy as it sounds. This requires a bit of planning the night before. Please put a little notebook beside your bed. Before you retire for the night plan out exactly what act of kindness you will commit the next day. Feel free to sneaky and cleaver in your designs.
Keep in mind that you do not want to be caught. You don’t want anyone to realize,
“Ah, I figured it out. You were the one who did it. Well, thanks a lot.”
That’s not the idea. The idea is that all acts of kindness that you commit are anonymous and secret. That’s why it takes quite a bit of planning to be able to actually implement these acts each and every day successfully.
I’m going to give you now some examples of what anonymous acts of kindness might look like. Obviously the list is endless. I could presents thousands of examples, but in the end you will have to come up with your own ideas of what would give you a burst of energy in committing an anonymous act of kindness that has meaning for you.
For example, you could:
- Wash dishes that are dirty for someone else. Of course if you live in a household where it’s obvious you did it, that particular act is not going to be anonymous.
- Pick up some trash during a walk in your neighborhood. Nobody is going to know that you actually did that.
- Make an anonymous donation to a charity that you treasure and relish.
- Leave a health food candy bar on a co-worker’s desk when no one else is looking.
- Send an anonymous note of appreciation and thanks to someone who was particularly helpful, though you obviously don’t want to be clear about what they did specifically.
- Answer a question (that you happen to have the answer to) on the internet, but do that anonymously.
- Send flowers to a friend – what a thrill it is to receive flowers and you have no idea who sent them!
- Plant a tree in your yard for a loved one who may be particularly challenged or troubled this week.
- Send a prayer in your thoughts as you pass by a stranger. Your prayer could be: “May you find endless joy and happiness today.”
Please remember the rules of this kindness mindfulness invitation this week.
- It needs to be an act of kindness; that’s probably not going to be hard to fulfill.
- The act of kindness needs to be anonymous. Nobody can figure out that you actually committed the deed.
The end result promises to:
- Open up those blocked energy channels and meridians throughout your body.
- Strengthen your energy field.
- Actualize your divine essence.
- Come into your full power.
One of the ways to accomplish these ambitious goals is to be mindful in committing anonymous acts of kindness. May you have a magnificent week as you dole out random acts of kindness that are entirely anonymous.
Robert
© Parkinsons Recovery