I woke up this morning and meditated for a while, I felt light and expanded. I had a coffee and went for a walk with my ukulele. I sat in an expanded place shaded by trees and started writing and singing a few lines for a new song. This beautiful dog joined me and amplified the creative process with his love. I wrote about how I'm taking back my power from my mind. The mind, which has been heavily conditioned by the system, - how to live, work, earn, and create. It seems to work in terms of delivering something that can be called success in our society. As I came back, my friend told me about an artist who is doing many gigs in the city above the part-time job he is already doing. He is using most of the money to release his songs. This, to me, sounded like the left-brain approach to meeting the world, but it is fueled by passion and soul expression. It's quite compelling to operate this way. Yet when I orient myself with this approach, I lose touch with reality, and my centered connection in the heart and start to feel more and more depleted, and creation can't happen in this depleted state. So I asked the question while I was sitting there: "Is it possible to live purely from love?" The love that we embody in our hearts gets reflected in the outer world. Literally, I drew the dog to me, and the birds started to chirp in accordance with my expression.

It doesn't serve to be anywhere else other than here. There are many visions, and ideas in my mind that are aligned with my passion and orientation. It requires quite a degree of trust to hold it in the mind and not force it into creation. What I have observed is that when I let go of the need for it to happen in a particular way, something similar manifests, but in a way the mind couldn't expect. The tendency of the mind is to overthink it because it's not happening the way I expected or simply drop it because it feels like a burden. I think what we are looking for is the middle way, which, as written in the article, requires quite a degree of mastery. It's difficult because our distortions get in the way: expectations, attachments, fears, and desires. It's a progressive letting go of all of it until we realize it doesn't serve to be in the constant loop of the mind but to be in the flow.

Another quality that is essential to embody to create flow is patience. So, for example, sometimes a song takes several months to come to fruition, and we need to revisit it several times until it fully lands. Lack of patience creates effort, which simply comes from a sense of lack. Before we can create a way that is aligned with reality, we have to let go of the doing mentality and settle into beingness. The simple isness of living and the contentment of that

With that, I'd like to share a small snippet from a gig River and I played yesterday in the nearby village in a mudhouse. River wrote this song: Jeevitham Ippozha: - Life is right now!

What the cool breeze say to me
What the trees speak to me
What the butterflies sing
What the forest stream whistle

Life is right now!
Where are you off to?

Vimal