Take more photos, thank me later

What is the first thing we reach towards when we want to bring back a record for a place, a situation, a state of being? What is the first thing we reach towards when we need to look into the past, the history, the memory of our life? What is the first thing we reach towards after we loose a person dear to us?

Photographs.

Use that smart phone in your pocket not only to screenshot information from the web or note something down. Create more meaningful photographs of yourself, your loved ones, the life you live. Yes, you do look good with messy hair and no make-up on, and no, the body weight is not a reason to deny your existence.

Take more meaningful photographs like we used to back in the days, before photography became the new pen and paper/sticky note/scrapbook pocket diary.

Take more meaningful photographs. Make a small summer album. Remember this time, it will never repeat again (for good or not).

If you only had 36 frames for your summer vacay, what would you use them on?

The more you look, the better it gets

Photography as any other craft demands repetitions. In order to create beautiful and interesting photographs, you have to learn to learn to see. And by learning I mean practice looking at life from different perspectives constantly.

At some point it becomes a habit that nurture your craft and expands your vision. You don’t see life in the same way and cannot I see it anymore. You become the craftsman who will never be an amateur again.

I’m not fully sure if it’s a 100% a fair trade, but it’s definitely worth the ride.

Are you (dis)connected?

We feel lost when we’re disconnected. From our body, from our essence, from who we really are. Disconnection makes us ill. Mentally, physically, both together.

Disconnection comes from separating ourselves from who we really are, from what we feel is good for us, from what we desire, from the way we express ourselves authentically.

Disconnection from oneself can lead to self harm through substances, all the way down to suicide.

Does this sound scary to you? Have you been there? Have you been afraid to accept, confront and share that you need help? Have you asked for the help? Have you tried to end it all?

Or are you still thinking you can manage the pressure, you can handle the situation, that it’s not too bad as there are worse things in life?

What is worse than the hopeless than one thinking that ending their life is the best or only way out?

You are strong and you can go through all the challenges life throws at you. But you’re also entitled to ask for help and receive it. You’re also supposed to rest, recharge, accept or deny what is good for you and what is not anymore.

You ARE supposed to put yourself first.

Life is too precious to be wasted living outside of your true Self.

You could never guess, so don’t

You can never know how things will turn, twist, switch around in order to get you where you are meant to go. So leave the controlling and enjoy then ride.

You don’t need to know how you’ll get there, you just have to know where you want to go. The how is out of your human reach.

Don’t take it personal and don’t try to manage it. The Universe knows how to get you what you want, you just focus on the final aim.

If we let ourselves enjoy the ride, the flow and all the work the Universe arranges for us, for sure we’ll leave an easier, more aligned stress-less life.

So, can we try?

Change the viewpoint

What if the changes that we first take with anxiety and denial are actually supposed to be taken with excitement instead?

What if the question is not “why is this happening to me?”, but instead “I’m excited to see where I’m going!”

Fifteen years after I’ve left my family home I’m finally beginning to learn to flow with life and its waves.

Lately is very popular to talk about manifesting, to understand how to do it best. Yet when things starts to change, because it doesn’t look like we thought it would, we start resisting the flow.

Why? Wasn’t this what you wanted? Does it matter how you get there if you get what you wanted at the end?

We’re not those who manage the Universe. She knows better. All that is required from us is to let ourselves flow with it. Because regardless of our opinion, life will continue its sacred movement.