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 Photo by me in Vietnam

🏮Sometimes, stopping is the only way to move forward. 🏮We need to revise and learn from the past, but not get stuck in it. 🏮As always, balance is key. 🏮If we don’t slow down when we know we should, life will surely find a way to slow us down; be it a physical injury or pain, illness, emotional stagnation, etc. 🏮To live a plentiful and fulfilling life we always need to accept and cherish the moments we are moving forward, and the moments we are resting and nurturing our bodies, minds, projects, lives…. 🏮I only aspire to that, balance. •••

 Photo by me in Vietnam

Travelling is a lot of fun, really, but it is also stressful sometimes, especially when there are more people and we are all different. The thing is, yesterday I discovered something. It is going to sound very simple, and you might have heard it before, but I only grasped it a bit more than usual yesterday. Just let go. In every sense. Let go. Let go of your fleeting emotions when you need to, the way you need to. Let go of your expectations, plans… Let go of what you think things or people are. Once you let go, even if it means getting angry and having a meltdown, once you really really let it go, things just naturally fall into place. Then, you realise clearly how we are always meant to be where we are, when we are. It does make perfect sense to me!

 Photo by me in Vietnam

🌬I am beginning to recognise some repeating patterns in myself and in my life. 🌬The more I meditate the clearer they are. 🌬That doesn’t mean I don’t continue to fall again and again in the same traps. 🌬It becomes really funny actually, to feel divided in two, the witness and the unfolding of everything. 🌬I see myself falling again and again, I see it, I recognise it, I accept it… but I still fall… 🌬That’s where my practice has taken me for now; to observe and let myself do whatever I do. 🌬With my background in Art History, I have this tendency of wanting to know everything, all the details, the symbols, the meaning… the past… 🌬I am using that knowledge on myself. 🌬Observing the past from the present. 🌬Changing past and future from the present. 🌬As always, on a journey to the self… •••

 Photo by me in Vietnam

🌲Last night Mercury went retrograde, and so am I also going on a journey to the Underworld. 🌲I am travelling inwards, at the same time as my outer reality is travelling outwards. 🌲Finding stillness in chaos is the real deal for me. 🌲Finding the space between inhalation and exhalation when everything around you screams movement, and change, and cycles, and death… Death and rebirth, that is. 🌲The messages I am receiving is to look myself in the mirror of life and feel gratitude for all. For all that is. 🌲Only through acceptance of all my parts can I then feel compassion for the rest of the world. 🌲My job during this inward-outward journey, until October and its new beginnings and projects, is to learn and observe. 🌲To wait before responding and acting, and only then doing so from a place of sacral wisdom deeply rooted in my soul. 🌲Intuition is key. 🌲I must listen to that voice within that guides me through all my choices. 🌲It’s not my mind, or heart. It is Soul, Spirit, the part of me that isn’t really a part, but the Whole through which all parts of me, and all parts of existence, stem.

Photo of me by Hinton Faram

Paradoxes of life…. When you stop looking, you find. When you stop rationalising too much, you get the answers you were thinking about. When you stop worrying, everything falls into place. When you are thinking of the past or the future, you are not really living anything. When you are afraid of situations, you attract them to you as lessons….. So, why is it difficult to understand that we can be extroverted and introverted at the same time? Or that we can guide our lives through our feelings AND our thoughts? Or that all religions are the same, just different ways of exploring and explaining same concepts? Or that one day I wake up wanting to be who I am right now, and the next day wanting to change completely? Why? Well, because I think the essence of the Universe is in its paradoxes. In my opinion, there cannot be any type of existence if there is no imbalance somewhere; in vibration, frequency or light. Creation stems from chaos, I never want to forget that. Only through CHANGE and transformation and ENDLESS possibilities (maybe all at the same time) can life exist. If we ARE human and divine, why is it so difficult for us to accept that we can be whatever, whenever, without fear of it being judged by others?