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Dear readers,
Welcome to another issue of my newsletter! How are you feeling today? How is this “New year, a new beginning “ treating you? As I said in my last newsletter, this constant pressure to improve your lifestyle just because it’s the new year does not have to be overbearing on ourselves. We can improve our habits or live a peaceful life once we are ready for it. Once, we acknowledge our challenges and fears we should go for it. Each day can be a new year irrespective of day, month, or year. For me, it has worked wonders over the years and that does not mean I do not try to set a routine. My body can not function without a to-do list or a consistent routine. Loneliness is a blessing in that way. It gives you more time to work on yourself, rather than piling up your worries and miseries, loneliness helps to focus only on yourself, in a few cases.
“ Somebody is going to catch your vibe and love it”
Links of the week-
watch this video if you like me struggle with all the thoughts that make us lost- this is for you.
How to learn something new every day in 15 minutes-
Why should you read Virginia Woolf?
Virgina Woolf and Mrs Dalloway- 1987- A splendid video to binge on.
6 tips to start easy mindfulness habits
Positive affirmations for people who don’t like affirmations
Feeling overwhelmed? Remember RAIN???
R- Recognize what’s going on?
A- Allow the experience to be there, just as it is
I- Investigate with kindness
N- Natural awareness which comes from not identifying with the experience
Get cozy and read some poetry now?
art- Euan Ernest Richard
More than enough- Marge Piercy
The first lily of June opens its red mouth.
All over the sand road where we walk
multiflora rose climbs trees cascading
white or pink blossoms, simple, intense
the scene drifting like colored mist.
The arrowhead is spreading its creamy
clumps of flower and the blackberries
are blooming in the thickets. Season of
joy for the bee. The green will never
again be so green, so purely and lushly
new, grass lifting its wheaty seedheads
into the wind. Rich fresh wine
of June, we stagger into you smeared
with pollen, overcome as the turtle
laying her eggs in roadside sand.
art-Milt.K
As I grew older- Langston Hughes
It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream.
But it was there then,
In front of me,
Bright like a sun--
My dream.
And then the wall rose,
Rose slowly,
Slowly,
Between me and my dream.
Rose until it touched the sky--
The wall.
Shadow.
I am black.
I lie down in the shadow.
No longer the light of my dream before me,
Above me.
Only the thick wall.
Only the shadow.
My hands!
My dark hands!
Break through the wall!
Find my dream!
Help me to shatter this darkness,
To smash this night,
To break this shadow
Into a thousand lights of sun,
Into a thousand whirling dreams
Of sun!
Wait-Galway Kinnell
Wait, for now.
Distrust everything if you have to.
But trust the hours. Haven’t they
carried you everywhere, up to now?
Personal events will become interesting again.
Hair will become interesting.
Pain will become interesting.
Buds that open out of season will become interesting.
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again;
their memories are what give them
the need for other hands. The desolation
of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness
carved out of such tiny beings as we are
asks to be filled; the need
for the new love is faithfulness to the old.
Wait.
Don’t go too early.
You’re tired. But everyone’s tired.
But no one is tired enough.
Only wait a little and listen:
music of hair,
music of pain,
music of looms weaving our loves again.
Be there to hear it, it will be the only time,
most of all to hear your whole existence,
rehearsed by the sorrows, play itself into total exhaustion.
It was when I was going through my phone gallery, I witnessed how many changes I have actually been through. Good and bad both. I am not sure about that. Something that made a huge impact on my physical health was when I actually made exercising a habit. I started slow with 15 minutes and then gradually increased my time limit and started weights even. I still am on with my exercise pattern and take pride in actually sticking to this goal even now. I started eating mindfully rather than mindlessly.
Picked up small changes to declutter my space and mind both.
What is that one thing from the past year which made you proud?? Tell me in the comments and I would looove to know that.:)
Read my book Crimson Skins here
If you like what you just read, I would love it if you can share a word about it maybe?
Sending lots of love. Stay warm!:)
Devika