Valentine Day Activities
for Singles
Activities that
singles celebrating Single’s Day on Valentine’s Day can engage in include:
Valentine Yourself
Celebrate
Valentine's Day by treating yourself the way you would expect your Soul Mate to
treat you on Valentine’s Day. For example you can:
a. Spend your day shopping
b. Send yourself a card which makes you feel better. For example it can
have the message “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”
c. Send flowers to yourself
d. Take yourself out to watch a movie
e. Take yourself out for dinner
f. Buy yourself jewelry
g. Buy yourself a luxurious
Valentine’s
day gift basket so that you can spend the entire day savoring its
contents. If you are stressed, choose baskets with stress relief products to
help you cope with the Valentine Day stress. You can also buy gift baskets of
things you love. For example if you are a chocoholic, buy a chocolate gift
basket. Other examples of gift baskets that you can buy include:
Natural handmade soap gift basket if you love handmade soap.
Italian foods gift basket if you are infatuated with everything Italian.
Space food gift basket if you have an interest in the outer space.
Cheese gift basket if you cherish cheese.
Aromatherapy gift set if you enjoy using essential oils.
Make up gift sets if you love applying make up.
Perfume gifts sets if you have a passion for perfume.
Candle gift sets if you have a soft spot for scented candles.
Valentine Someone
Remind yourself of
all the less fortunate members of your society who in addition to not having
someone to celebrate Valentine’s Day with also have other major problems to
contend with like life threatening physical illnesses.
Therefore instead of
wasting the day pitying yourself, spend it visiting the sick in hospitals and
in hospices or the hurting in battered women's shelters and reminding them that
God still loves them by:
a. Making or buying several holiday day themed cards with the message
"God Loves You" and giving them to residents of those institutions.
b. Buying chocolates and distributing them to the battered women and
their children.
c. Buying a bouquet of fresh flowers or even artificial flowers like a satin
rose bouquet and giving one stem to each person.
d. Baking chocolate chip cookies and distributing them to the battered
women and their children.
e. Using your hobbies to create unique, handmade Holiday day gifts for
them such as handmade candles or hand painted cards.
Be Someone’s Secret
Valentine
If you have to spend
Valentines’ Day at work, decide to be someone’s Secret Valentine and enjoy the
day watching glowing as they wonder who has sent them such as lovely present.
Choose someone who
is hurting terribly from a recent divorce, separation, broken engagement or
terminated long term relationship and do something lovely for them.
For example you can
send them a bunch of flowers or a gift voucher for their favorite shop or spa
or restaurant anonymously and watch as enjoy them and wonder who loves them so
much.
Check into a Spa
Give yourself a
special Valentine’s Day gift and check into a Day Spa or a Destination Spa and
spend the day receiving tender loving care in the form of pampering pedicures,
manicures, massages and facials.
You can even go ahead and buy spa gift certificates
for all you single friends so that you can enjoy the pampering together.
Journal
Journaling is a very
flexible activity since you only need a journal and a pen and you can journal
while luxuriating in your languid bath or while hanging on a hammock or while
lying in bed or while sipping your favorite smoothie or you can schedule a
specific time to sit and write.
There are several
things you can journal about during Valentine’s Day. These include:
a) Jot down your
feelings about being single. Write without censoring yourself since this is
very effective catharsis. Write until you feel the oppressive weight of
loneliness and other hurts lifting from your heart.
b) Count your
blessings on paper by reminding yourself of all the great things that have
happened to you in the past week, month, year, decade and let these activities
serve as proof that other great things are going to happen to you in the future
including meeting your Soul Mate.
c) Analyze your life
to see if you are fulfilling Your Life’s Purpose. If you don’t know your life’s
purpose, understand that it involves serving others by doing something that you
love while using your gifts and talents. Then formulate realistic and
attainable short term and long term goals to fulfill Your Life’s Purpose.
d) Remind yourself
that you are special and lovely and lovely by writing down all the attributes
that make you a special and lovely and loveable person. These can include:
1. I am wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14)
2. I am honest
3. I am caring
Sing
Singing reduces
tension and helps you relax.
Equipment
Your favorite CDs
Engage in
Complementary Hobbies
Spend some time experimenting and enjoying hobbies that
complement your day job so that you can balance your life and relax . For
example:
a) If you are a blogger or internet marketer and you spend
most of your days glued to your computer, engage in a hobby that does not
involve the use of machine such as drawing or painting.
b) If your jobs entails mental concentration with minimal
physical activity you can, engage in physically challenging activities such as
stretching or aerobic exercises which reduce the levels of circulating stress
hormones and result in the release of endorphins which make you feel good as
well as weight bearing exercises which tone your body and help you look better.
You can also utilize this time to take home based courses
and learn about new things. For example you can take an:
c) Wedding Planning Course
and plan your future wedding in faith or begin a side gig to generate extra
income as a wedding planner for your family and friends.
Watch Comedy
Laughter is one of
the best ways to chase away the blues on Valentine Day. Activities that you can
engage in during the holidays to put a smile on your face include:
1. Watching funny movies or DVDs of your favorite comedians
2. Attending stand up comedy shows
3. Surf clean jokes online
4. Watching clean comedic videos online
5. Reading comics
Go To Church
Attending a Church
service and praying for God to send you your Soul Mate is another way of
spending Valentine’s Day.
If you cannot get to
a Church, spend time reading the Bible to remind yourself of all the other
great people who fulfilled their Life’s Purpose while being single like Jesus
and Paul.
Prepare a Favorite
Foods Feast
Plan in advance to
prepare or buy the foods you love eating so that you can look forward to a
Favorite Foods Feast. For example if you love spa cuisine you can prepare the
following treats to enjoy either in the company of other singles or by
yourself.
Chocolate Dipped
Fruit
Ingredients
20 bite sized fruits
such as strawberries or 20 apple wedges or 20 pear slices
9 ounces of dark
chocolate
Instructions
Chop the chocolate
and melt it in a microwave for 1 minute at 50% power.
Line a baking sheet
pan with waxed paper
Pierce each piece of
fruit with a toothpick and dip it in the melted chocolate before setting it on
the waxed paper.
Pawpaw Smoothie
Ingredients
2 cups peeled sliced
bananas
2 cups peeled sliced
pawpaw
1 cup yogurt
5 ice cubes
Instructions
Put all the
ingredients in a blender, blend until smooth and serve.
If you don’t have a
blender, you can mash the bananas and pawpaws and sieve them before mixing them
with the yogurt.
Ginger Tea
Ingredients
1 teaspoon peeled
grated ginger
1 pinch cinnamon
powder
2 cups water
Honey to taste
Instructions
Boil the ginger and
cinnamon in the water for 15 minutes. Sweeten with honey and drink.
Throw a Home Spa
Party
Celebrate your
singleness by calling your single friends and having a group home spa party or
pamper your single self by yourself in your own solitary home spa party.
Activities that you
can engage in your home spa party include:
1. Facials
Full facial treatments
improve your appearance and their associated therapeutic touch can also improve
your mental well being
For starters you can
use the products you normally use to clean your face but if you want to
experiment, you can try The Honey Cucumber Facial which offers a natural
alternative to the commercial ones.
Ingredients
Fresh lemons
Fresh cucumber
slices
Honey
Cotton balls
Facial sauna
Instructions
Add 10 drops of
fresh lemon juice to 1 cup of warm water and use this to clean your face using
a cotton ball.
Add 10 drops of
fresh lemon juice to 1 cup of honey and massage this mixture onto your face for
15 minutes. Feel the lemon exfoliate while the honey moisturizes.
Wipe off the mixture
with a warm wet cloth
Steam your face for
15 minutes
Apply mashed
cucumber to your face for 15 minutes and put 2 cucumber slices over your eyes.
Rinse off with warm
water
2. Aromatherapy
Baths
Warm baths with bath
salts, bath oils and calming essential oils can relieve physical aches and
mental tension by relaxing tense muscles and alleviating mental strain and thus
helping you feel better.
Equipment
Bath salts
Bath oils
Lavender essential
oil
Body cream
Beeswax candles
Soothing music
Essential oil warmer
Instructions
To take an
aromatherapy bath, fill your bathtub with warm water.
Add a few scoops of
scented bath salts or cupfuls of soothing bath oils or 15 drops of relaxing
lavender essential oil to the bath water to calm tense minds and wash away dirt
and distress.
Boost the tranquil
experience by bathing in the warm glow of beeswax candles while listening to
soothing background music as lavender essential oil diffuses in the room from
essential oil warmers.
Conclude this
awesome Home Spa Day activity by wrapping yourself in comforting body creams to
rejuvenate your skin and soothe your psyche.
3. Manicures and
Pedicures
Manicures and
pedicures are nurturing Home Spa Day activities that improve your physical
appearance and mental well-being.
Ingredients
Lavender essential
oil
Exfoliating scrub
Marbles
Manicure and
pedicure set
Hand and foot
moisturizer
Nail polish
Instructions
Strip off all traces
of old nail polish with an acetone free remover
Soak your hands and
feet in lukewarm water with soothing lavender essential oil or a lavender bath
oil.
Exfoliate your hands
and feet with an aromatic scrub
Wash the scrub off
with warm water.
Add marbles to the
foot bowl and run your feet over them to massage your feet if there is no one
to massage them for you
Trim and shape your
nails with a clipper and nail file
Slather on an
aromatic moisturizer
Finish off by
applying two coats of nail polish
4. Massages
The therapeutic
touch of massages whether full body massages or scalp, face, neck, hand or foot
massages make then tension taming physical treatments.
Ingredients
Lavender essential
oil
A carrier oil like sweet
almond oil
Instructions
Add 2 drops (for
facial massage) or 6 drops (for a body massage) of lavender essential oil to 10
ml of sweet almond oil or a carrier oil of your choice and apply it to your
body using gentle circular motions.
5. Hair Treatments
Hair treatments
whether or not they are accompanied by scalp massages improve the condition and
appearance of your hair and thus they can also be included in your home day spa
agenda.
Ingredients
Hot oil hair
treatment
Shower cap
Instructions
Apply your heated
hot oil to your hair, put on a shower cup and let the healing hair oils work
their magic into your hair and scalp as you soak in a warm bath or soak in a
warm book for at least 10 minutes.
