Living Happiness
It's the first day of Spring!
A new season. A new week. A new day.
I hope you feel refreshed, rejuvenated and ready to bloom something awesome this season.
Over the weekend, I attended a cool meditation and yoga class that was led by Lauren (Black Girl in Om) and Karla (Gypsy Yoga). Let me add right now that Karla's yoga session was no joke, but it also reminded me of why I loved yoga in the first place. Ok, I digress.
At the start of the class, Lauren suggested that we use the session with intention, specifically we were asked to think about a seed we wanted to nurture and manifest in this new season.
My seed: Living Happiness
A few weeks ago, one of my girls texted me as our usual check-in.
Her: Hey girl. You living?!
Me: Hey. I'm maintaining.
The text was simple but my response said everything. For the past few months, I had made it a point to be genuinely transparent for my own sanity, regardless of outcome. And these days, what came up, usually came out. What came out was honesty.
So my response was real. At the time, I was just maintaining - keeping my head afloat. I wasn't living. Just maintaining. I wasn't breathing. Just maintaining. I found myself going through the motions without true enjoyment, without true presence. I lacked the zest that I had talked myself into believing months prior. Somehow, I forgot that living required a conscious effort. It took action - a continuous action. And happiness is just the same - a conscious effort. And with living (really living), comes happiness. It sounds so simple. So easy to acquire. So ridiculous to read an entire blog post about it, right?!
But as grown folk, it's so easy to get caught up in our mundane routines, forgetting what makes us laugh, smile, and most importantly, ALIVE!
Long story short - my own response to my girl's question was a red flag that I needed to reboot and refresh some shit. So with the turn of the new season and a mind/body/soul cleansing from Saturday's meditation and yoga session, I've planted the seed of living happiness, both as a noun and verb.
What seed(s) are you planting this season? What's cultivating this manifestation?
