It's a struggle to get the right words out;
then I remind myself,
inspiration is not a valve you switch on.
It's more like the rainbow you wait around for,
amidst/after the rain.
It already says something, that I manage to blog only because I've fallen ill enough to have MC for three days consecutively. It crept up on me slowly, but my exhaustion levels are reaching the roof; and it's a long, deep-seated tiredness that's not really about how many hours of sleep I get at night. It's about the need for replenishing in a soul sense, I guess. I want to revisit Kamikochi, for instance, and breathe in the pure, clean air, away from the harried-ness of this city life I live, that seems to be all about haveyou's and whyhaventyou's and shouldntyou's. I want to live life with a lightness, and a peace, and a deep love and gratitude, with no concern for timelines and social rank or status or money-making schemes. I am aware it is not impossible to keep a state of mind like this despite the environment, but it's so bloody hard.
Hence I am noting this down here (I've already noted it down on a hardcopy notebook):
Fighting Your Shadows
1) Recognise what your shadows are
2) Don't get complacent about the shadows (especially when you're in a good place and think you've fought them all off); how do you usually keep up the light? Do those things!
3) Shadows will come at your Achilles heel, or the crack in your armour; it WILL happen
4) Partner with other souls on the soul growth journey
(Courtesy of a youtube podcast I was listening to.)
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