Hello, my friends! Welcome back to Mindful Life, the weekly column that celebrates and promotes content on awareness, healthy habits, connection, kindness and gratitude. The global process is reaching a much darker phase than before, there's no point in mincing words, it's already tough and it's going to be even tougher as the year closes, and far worse in coming years. I've been expecting this and now that it's here, I think I must stress the importance of perspective and attitude.
The things that we've lived so far with this pandemic and the associated lockdown measures are but a taste of what we're about to witness, and we have to be able to navigate the storm with efficacy, so it's important to question ourselves about what we truly want to do, how and why we live our lives. It's time to dust off old skills and passions, to begin expressing our inner worlds more often and much more extensively than before. Times of hardship are also times of opportunity for meaningful connections, but we must always keep in mind that the each person has a unique life with unique challenges, and that despite how dedicated we claim to be to others, it's ultimately ourselves that we live for and answer to, as @merit.ahama explains in this wonderful reflection regarding the purpose of living.
Helping others find their vocation and appreciate their lives is a worthy and valuable service, which I think we're all called to fulfill in our specific fields, with our particular approaches and tools. But how are we supposed to do that if we can't appreciate ourselves? We're packed with all sorts of unconscious codes and are bombarded from birth with dissonant messages about self-worth, respect, pain, responsibility, goal-setting, creativity, sexuality and everything else. For instance, early on we start to consume definitions of beauty that almost inevitably distort the way we look at ourselves. I know what it is to feel physically ugly, to be bullied, to feel rejected and cast away. Although it no longer troubles me, when I hear or read someone explain their own struggles with this, I instantly understand where they're coming from even if the details are unknown to me. This is what the awesome @danielapevs discusses in this post, one again valiantly baring her heart about her anxiety for her appearance.
We all doubt and hesitate at times, about the worth of being alive, about the events and scenes that we have to go through from time to time. At worst, this uncertainty can corrode our resolve daily, so that we find ourselves unable to do the things we love because we lack energy and focus. One of the first things that are affected in those moods is creativity, the capacity to innovate and explore different topics. For us hivers and anyone in the content creation business, this is a reality that we have to manage constantly, and it's easy to get bogged down by circumstance, discouraged by the perceived disinterest in our message and, in the case of this platform, the lack of votes and engagement. However, there are people creating amazing content that can itself spark our own inventiveness and insight! Take a look at this Mindful Monday video by @pixiepost regarding four simple and excellent tips that we can build a habit around in order to make content creation more fun and fluid.
Have you noticed how many hivers just put up tremendously useful content out there basically for free? Sure, some get great upvotes for their work, but a lot just share their wisdom and visions because they need to and want to, not because of the payout they're getting. That's what I like to do, because every little spark of energy that I put in the world returns to be like an unfolding nugget of abundance. Although we're here and do this mostly for ourselves, we're also connected to something greater, a loving Universe that gives us no more and no less than what we ask for. The service that we offer here with our revelations, our artistic accomplishments, our reviews, tutorials, thoughts and theories is a form of kindness, of generosity without borders that we give one another mostly selflessly. What have been your experiences with the kindness of strangers? You can see @misslasvegas' stories, which may inspire you to develop some more hope and faith in the people around you, in turn contributing to the beauty of collective evolution.
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Thanks for the support, and I agree that the new times will require new tools to navigate them.
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