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Staying Connected

16/5/2017

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​How to keep our roots firm in the ground if the ground itself is shaking under your feet?
How to stay connected when the mantle of the society is unraveling a bit more every single day?
How to keep our hearts detached when they are bombarded with self-deprecating messages from all sides?
How to keep our calm when we are running like hamsters on a wheel chasing shades of fear, worries and longings?
How to stay sane in an insane world?
 
Are we chasing shadows?
Are we fighting the wrong battle?
Are we still on the Right path?
How can we know for sure?
How can we reconcile the bitter reality with a virtual Utopian vision of perfect world?
How can we stop living in a virtual reality and start engaging in everyday life?
 
The virtual reality in our heads is what keeps us going. It is what makes life worth living although we know it is a fake dream-like life. Yet, for us, it seems as real as the pain we bear in our body… for us, it seems as real as our bleeding hearts, as our foggy brains, as our achy bones…

​Sometimes life is too painful to take seriously. We turn on the autopilot… we disengage… and, we throw ourselves in our everyday reality hoping for the best…
Our only protection is a deep innate instinct that tells us that we are safe, we’ve always been and always will be… We’re loved, we’re protected, we’re guided every step along our way by an All-Merciful, All-Mighty God.
 
Is this surrender? Or, is it helplessness? Is it belief or hopelessness?
A fine line separates them, like the fine line separating sanity from madness… We’re all a bit mad… we’re all struggling to keep our sanity – or at least what is left of it- amidst an insane world…
 
Is this how life supposed to be? Or, is this a side effect of the affluent life we drenched ourselves in?
 
People living in poverty, war-torn zones and natural disaster areas of the world don’t possess the luxury of self-reflection… They don’t have the time or energy to repeat their affirmations in the mirror, tap their pains away or choose between raw kale and gluten-free macchiato… Yet, many of them are happier… Yes, believe me, many of them are… they are way happier than our Prozac-dependant societies.
 
They have a different meaning of happiness… They don’t label it, define it, search it or Google it… They don’t spend their last dimes on self-development books and mood boosting webinars… They are just happy… as simple as that… They have the one thing that is missing in our affluent reality: Connection
Connection with the Divine
Connection with their pure uncorrupted, un-adulterated soul
Connection with a higher meaning and mission
Connection with the tribe … with the family
 
We babble all day long about happiness, callings, mindfulness and positivity… We repeat the affirmations, journal our life story, exhale our worries and burn some incense… But, we fail to connect.
We mistakenly think that those tools will draw us closer to an undiscovered land of milk and honey… They won’t… Simply because this land of milk and honey does not exist – not in this life time any way.
If misused and abused, those tools will further detach us from reality, they will further disconnect us from who we are… they will disconnect us
From the Divine
From our pure uncorrupted, unadulterated soul
From a higher meaning and mission
From the tribe and the family
 
A candle can shed a powerful light that helps us see our way out of a dark tunnel or it can be a fire starter that burns what is remaining of our soul ruins… It’s our choice!
 
Life is not meant to be all milk and honey… It is not meant to be all suffering either… Life is a test and if we keep postponing our happiness until the test marks are up, until all the challenges and struggles are over, we will keep chasing the shadows…
The challenges and struggles are our tests… our lessons… We are meant to enjoy the ride with all its bumps and troughs… we are meant to find happiness amidst the rubbles… happiness in learning and growing… happiness in serving… happiness in meaning and mission… happiness in connecting
Connection with the Divine
Connection with our pure uncorrupted, unadulterated soul
Connection with a higher meaning and mission
Connection with the tribe and the family
 
Happiness in honouring the struggle and staying curious about the endless possibilities it is bringing… Happiness is finding excitement on every corner and joy in every lesson…
Happiness is there if you look for it … if you take off the foggy lens, if you drop that label… if you stop confining it to a dictionary definition or a New Agey ‘guru’ stamp of approval.
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Happiness is there if you dig deep in your heart and connect…
Connect with the Divine
Connect with your pure uncorrupted, unadulterated soul
Connect with a higher meaning and mission
Connect with the tribe and the family
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    Hi, I'm Amira... I'm all for simple, natural, uncomplicated life... My core values are derived from my Islamic faith... My definition of wellness includes lots of smiles, human interactions, delicious food, music, joy, colorful paint, Mediterranean sunshine, blue sky and turquoise sea, care, love, compassion and deep heart-felt peace.
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