Being Present

Find a pace where you can be with yourself

This week, I have really struggled to write. I have written four drafts in the app and two in my notebook. They all are good but I kind of forced myself to put something on the paper and I did. So according to me they didn’t flow naturally from me to the paper. The joy and satisfaction I feel after completing the post where the words flow from my heart to the paper is one of the most beautiful things I have felt in my life. And once you have felt like that, you look for that feeling every time you write and some days it is missing for different reasons.

On the days, when you crave for that feeling and it feels far away from you, let it be. For me it usually happens when I am trying to write something which my heart doesn’t align with in the present moment. Don’t force yourself to write something which is not in your heart. If there is something you need to process or complete which is sitting on your shoulder like a monkey, handle that first. After doing that, just write whatever is in your heart. If there is any worry or confusion about what you should be writing, just write about that. I think, every writer or artist goes through this sort of journey with their writing or art. The idea is to feel and give space to whatever your heart is saying in that moment.

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I have been feeling that my creative energy has not been very flowy from last few weeks. The potential reason of that could be is that I have not being very present in the moment. The opposite of being present for me is worrying about something in future or thinking about something that has happened in the past. When I am not being present, week goes by like a fast-running train. I had plans to achieve a lot but couldn’t because I don’t remember where my time went by. If I don’t pay attention, years can pass like that. I have had few years in my life in the past when I don’t even remember what I did in that year. I just remember they were hard years of my life, and I was busy in proving to the world or myself that I am alright, but I was not. There are different ways of wasting your time and energy, one of the ways is acting cool, calm and collected when you are not even close to that.

This morning, I went to a dance class. In their description they said their class promotes freedom and fluidity in dance and in lives. One of my friends told me about it. I liked the description she gave and the description on their website so I went to try it. It was a dance class with no prescriptions or rules. Felt like a dance, I do it in my living area with myself alone or with my mum with different music. Some days it is Taylor Swift songs and some days it is 90’s Bollywood songs. But it was different as there was a group of strangers in the class. But it didn’t bother me much, I was awkward in the beginning but enjoyed it thoroughly. The instructor was giving some instructions during the class and was saying some profound things. One of the things she said stayed with me was, find a pace where you can be with yourself. The class actually brought me to the present, it was a proof to my soul that whatever happened in my past and whatever worries I have about future, there are beautiful things happening in my present, if I pay attention to them. I hope you all had a beautiful week. Thanks for being here.

Lots of love and healing,

Harneek!

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This week’s recommendations:

• Back to the Beginning by

  Austin Kleon
  . I recently read Austin’s book “Show Your Work” and I can’t stop keep the book down until I completed it. If you are an artist, his words would really help you keep going

• little-things-that-arent-so-little by

  Mansi Kwatra
  .Simple yet profound words by Mansi

• Toughen Up by

  Patrick Muindi
  . Life humbles everyone in different ways, so toughen up.