Strip down

We would live easier and much lighter if we were able to strip down the limiting believes for the same amount of time we can strip down our outfit.

The clothes behind which we hide our body, as it’s not magnificent and our natural look, but it has to be hidden and forbidden of observation.

Last weekend I was reborn again - for the first time I was completely nude in public and in front of people, bathing in the mountain’s river surrounded by nature and accompanied by a close friend. I felt alive. I felt normal and completely natural.

Why do we hide so much? Why is so wrong and unacceptable to be who we are? And isn’t the rules and all the norms actually separating us further from our nature?

I know we can’t just walk in the metro naked, but spending more time nude, in our birth outfit is connecting us more to ourselves, to our bodies, helping us accept it more for what it is - the magnificent, intelligent robe of our soul in this current life.

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.

We like to touch

There is a reason we crave the physical representation of things, such as photographs, art, books… The experience we gain form form is something that the screens will never be able to provide us with.

Artefacts will never die because of this very fact - we like to touch with our skin, to see in person with out eyes, to have our body surrounded by. It’s a multidimensional experience that involves our senses, our emotions and our energy. That is irreplaceable.

Here comes the reason why we feels disconnected in a world with such fast, wide and immediate digital connection. It’s antinatural to our nature. Tools are great, innovation is awesome to have. However, what we need most remains the same - physically and energetically felt, part of a secure community to pay contribution and be acknowledged.

Fitting in is robbing you

from your authenticity and purpose. You’re different for a reason, not because you are no good.

Perhaps finding your own voice requires loosing yourself in the noises of others. As to appreciate the light we also must know the darkness.

And just like this all starts to make sense, to flow in the right direction. That which comes easier to you, what your heart desires to do is what you came here for.

Expressing your true self is not selfish, rather required. The imposter syndrome is just a mind game, not the real deal. Don’t eat your emotions, go throw them into creation instead. Their opinion doesn’t matter, materialising your ideas does.