10 Ways to Magically Celebrate Life
Jul 09, 2025
Celebrations of all kinds support our well-being. They support our emotional, physical and spiritual health as well as the health of all our relationships.
Here are 10 ways you can celebrate every day:
- The Happy Dance - Are you eating something delicious? Are you smelling or seeing something really nice? Or just happy to be alive? A happy dance can a wiggle of the torso, a shake of the shoulders, or an elaborate full body celebration. Try it out and enjoy the magic.
- The Big Inhale - Few ways of celebrating are as magical as just taking it all in. As in you inhale deeply, close your eyes for a few moments longer than you usually would when you blink. When your inhale is almost complete, open your eyes and gaze softly as you celebrate life.
- Hands in the Air - The gesture of raised arms and hands is one of the oldest recorded in history. In it is the desire of humans to reach up towards and connect with the divine. We do this without even noticing, when we dance, when we don't have a clue what's going on, when we pray, and if we do the classic morning stretch while sitting or standing up. We can enact this same gesture with celebration in mind. Combine it with exclaiming a 'whoop' to add a little extra sauce to the celebration.
- Hand on the Heart - Isn't it amazing that our hearts keep the flow and rhythm of our body throughout our entire lives? The beat of the heart is life itself. Celebrate life by placing your left hand on your heart, your right hand over the left hand and closing your eyes. Allow a smile to weave its way across your lips and quietly celebrate the rhythm of your heart and the rhythm of life.
- Face the Sun - The life giving sun lights up our hearts. It makes us sneeze and warms our planet flying through the vast expanse. Celebrate life and the sun by turning your face towards it, much like a sunflower. Close your eyes, feel its warmth, and send some love and warmth back. As you relate to the sun in this way a smile is bound to cross your face.
- Drink the Moon - Without the sun we would not see its silver light that sings us songs of mystery, magic and the never-ending cycle of life. Tides rise and fall and everything is always changing. Celebrate the unknowable aspects of life by lifting your gaze to the moon and sipping its light. Feel it spread throughout your body and feel yourself begin to glow.
- "Wooohoooo!" - Do you dare to make loud sounds of joy? In contemporary Western culture our voices have been silenced in many ways. To be quiet and polite is by far more pleasant than to be noisy and overly zealous with our voices. Yet some traditions say the oldest mantra is a powerful scream that rises from the place between our belly button and reproductive organs. It is the beginning of all life and a way to celebrate all that exists. Do you dare to try it out and feel its transformative magic?
- Smile - Even the most dreary day can be lightened with a smile. To smile as a celebration can at times be challenging. Is there anything right in this moment that is worthy of a smile? The wonders of the sky, the roof over your head, the house plant or furry friend you live with. Perhaps a the shimmering green glitters upon a house fly, the forest full of trees, the mountain, or the loud rev of an engine that reminds us of the first scream that was there when all life was birthed awakens within you a celebratory smile at the wonders of life.
- A Story of Ancestors - Celebrate all that brought you to where you are right now, which is exactly where you are meant to be, by recalling an ancestral story. It might be one that is near and dear of someone who has recently passed. It could also be a myth that your ancestors told over fires as the rays of the sun gave way to the glimmers of stars. Tell the story out loud to a friend or whisper it silently within your mind.
- Perceive - Every moment of our lives can be a celebration. Our thoughts that keep circling around and around, our dear friend's wedding, the food on our plate, a sip of water on a hot day, the pain of tense muscles can all be celebrated for each is a sign that we are alive right now on a planet with a complex ecosystem beyond our understanding, circling a sun in a solar system in a vast galaxy in a vast expanse. What could possibly be more magical?
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