If you haven’t tried it yet I highly recommend yoga đ§ââď¸đ¤¸ââď¸
Adriene on YouTube has since the start of this year shared a new yoga series called BREATH. As someone who has done yoga and some meditating đđ before I really enjoy this one. The practices are fun, gentle, strengthening och very cleansing for me. In my opinion this is a great way to exercise and stretch – even if you are a beginner oas well as familiar with yoga and meditation.
I will post the link to the first day video here and you can decide for yourself if this is something for youâŁď¸
https://youtu.be/ZSIp00SewO8
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Journaling
Today I finished writing in a journal I’ve had for the past two years. At the beginning it was supposed to be a journal of write letters in for my – back then long distance relationship partner – but after a few months I decided to keep it for myself. I didn’t write in it everyday which is why I was able to keep it for so long.
Whenever I reach the end of a journal I get sentimental. I feel the need of ending it in the right, perfect way. So with the last few pages I put all my emotions and energy in to it and ended it the way I started, by writing to my boyfriend but also with a letter to myself.
The following hours I spent looking for another old journal of mine. It was tucked away in my boxes that I still kind of need to unpack, but that will be done when we have our own place since we don’t have space for everything in there now (but that’s alright, I don’t want to rush.)
I’ve seen people on YouTube read their old journals and oh my goodness, it is so much fun to watch those videos. I wanted to do it too – I don’t mean making a video of me reading my old thoughts, no, but I wanted to read it for myself. And I did.
I am very happy that I decided not to throw away this journal. The ones I had before this one are gone, torn apart and thrown away. But this one I told myself to save.
Reading it was a weird experience but it was fun to see what my focus was back then in 2016 and -17. Lots of anger, heartbreak and a constant search for who I was and wanted to be. Long story short: I am now exactly where I wanted to be.
What will my focus be now? To enjoy myself and my life, as much as possible. To live life to the fullest.
Connecting with Mother Earth – with plants at home
Often when I want or feel the need to connect with Mother Earth, ground myself, I think I have to go out and away to do so. But as many others in this world we have plants at home. Plants and soil = Mother Earth, right? In my opinion, it does. And since some of our plants has been in a serious need of TLC I took it upon myself to deal with it. Also because I was the one who had overwatered them >_<
As you can see, they were not doing so great. The fern has taken too much sun which caused the green to turn brown and die; the what we in Sweden call ElefantĂśra had mold on its soil! and the third I don’t even know what kind of plant it is, but it had a too small pot and no support for its heavy body.
Before I moved away from home I would just water the plants when mum told me to, but now that I sort of live on my own I have to know the plants myself.. which is almost like caring for a baby, like with the bunny babies. So I spent a long time searching and reading up on the plants we have, to get to know them a bit better and I learned that most of our plants are tropical plants who likes humid and moist, but not too much nor too little. The most exciting facts I found was that the ElefantĂśra plant, which my dutch boyfriend calls Pancake plant, will grow bigger leafs if it’s placed further back into the room and still have access to sunlight.
I had overwatered quite a bit. Two buckets like that in the photos, from four plants in total!! Now that they are emptied of water and I have repotted the ones who needed it, I have them to dry up as much as possible for them. Some plants have a new home in the room too and I really like the set up we have now. It is more like a jungle.
I really enjoyed working with nature and its soil again, to burry my hands into the dirt and tune into the plants, connect with them and breathe with them. Sometimes when we feel like we *have to go* somewhere, I find that it’s mostly to my own center and home I’m being called. Mother Earth doesn’t mean you have to go away to connect with her, she is right there with you. The ground on which you stand and walk, cycle or drive your car. The plants that brings green and beauty to your homes. In our hearts.
a rhapsody that is life 