We’ve become SO independent, it’s depressing us(and what you can do about it)

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“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” ~ Ryunosuke Satoro

Many years ago, one of my spiritual teachers shared this story with me. I would like to share it with you all today.

The story is about a village where all the women washed clothes together down by the river. When they all got washing machines, there was a sudden outbreak of depression and no one could figure out why. It wasn’t the washing machines that could do such a thing. It was actually the absence of time spent doing things together. It was the absence of community.

We’ve all gotten so independent these days… Our birthday wishes have also becomes so impersonal over texts, whatsapp or facebook. We rarely pick up the phone to talk, everything is done over texts. I feel like the human to human connection in this uber connected world is severely missing. Read on to know what you can do about it…

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23 Empowering Quotes to Boost Body Positivity and Self-Love

This week I feel like sharing some of my new favorite self-love quotes that will make you think, help you remember and inspire you towards a deeper, a gentler and a more loving connection with yourself and your body.

Your self-love journey is actually the journey back to yourself. Back to loving yourself, as a child in your pure innocence, you did love everything about yourself, till ofcourse the world took over when you grew up. Believe me, it is one of the most beautiful experiences you can have. Life is too short to be anything other than who you truly are.

I know, I grew up with severe body image issues. Lots of trauma surrounding my looks and how I was treated and body shamed from very early on in my life. I have since done a lot of work to heal from it. Its a hard inner battle. One of the ways(among many others) that helped me heal was reading empowering words like the ones I am going to share with you.

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6 Positively Simple Ways to Heal From Emotional Trauma

“If you are to free your heart, you must embrace your painful feelings, have faith that your thoughts will arise and cease of their accord. They will pass if you can face them head on, with kind eyes. Your thoughts and feelings will dissolve if you don’t try to hold on to them or push them away. Thinking will dissipate. Trust in this universal law of change.” ~ Valerie Mason-John from her book “Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Healing Emotional Trauma”

We are each products of our life experiences. We grow and evolve with every experience we have. Be it a happy experience or a traumatic one.

Traumatic experiences have the tendency to leave unhealed wounds on our psyche. They are those nasty cracks through which anxiety, stress, depression etc. can easily manifest themselves. Hence healing these deep seated emotional traumas is necessary for your overall well-being.

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