I believe we do better when someone simply believes in us.

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I have been brought up differently and though children usually change after spending years outside, the effects have become even deeper with me.

My parents took me to temples wherever we stayed. My mom insisted that I prayed, my dad makes sure to do Puja everyday, read Hanuman Chalisa on Tuesdays and worships Maa Kali— % &Years later I am a Shiva and Krishna devotee. I am on a path where religious scriptures entice me. I don't want to visit pubs or clubs but temples with great architecture or history. I want to immerse myself in the sounds of keertans and damru. I believe the great high is the high in association with the merciful Godhead himself. — % &If I need to stop overthinking, I chant Hare Krishna, if I ever feel lonely I listen to Amarendra Dasa's talks and that's how I have been spending months on my own. When you're alone, strength comes from faith. Faith comes from bhaktibhav. And when what you believe in so obvious, strength, grace, truth naturally flows. — % &No depression, no anxiety is big enough. Just need to chant his name, open the doors of your heart and My Lords do the rest. — % &

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The first person you should be closest to is yourself. You may think you exactly know what you need or know what your boundaries are, but soon enough people or work creep into your time and boundaries and you can't really even blame anybody but yourself.— % &Why is setting the order of your day or evening important?

- It gives you a reason to wake up to, it could be an hour of silence where you pamper yourself, meditate, journal, sort list of tasks you must do during the entire day.

- This also tells you exactly how much time do you have in your hand for spending in gym, reading, cooking cleaning — % &Self care and setting boundaries helps you identify your needs and improve your relationships with people around and yourself.

Healthy boundaries naturally attract people with higher frequencies and similar mindsets in life.— % &Stop "doom scrolling", life is too precious to be wasted like that. — % &

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At times in life, you would be doubtful if your mind has been playing tricks on you. Lying to you about the trauma or the anxiety that doesn't exist. Making a villain out of other people that they're not.

But here's the thing, you're going to live with you for the longest time, spend most of the time with yourself.
Choose yourself, listen to yourself, your intuition is protecting you before injuries turn to trauma..— % &It's only that as time goes by, you realise it was not your mind telling you lies, it was just showing you the scared child in you that needed to be rescued from whatever monsters it felt threatened from.

And it takes a lot to get better from thereon. Meditations. Healings. Therapies. Changing cities, friend circles. Leaving your dreams too, so take care of yourself..trust yourself more than you trust anyone. — % &

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Recall the last time you called the shots in your life? Recall the last time you led things in life rather than letting circumstances lead you or when you valued your own time. When you don't value your own time, people around you won't value YOU.

Being too available is advice because it lowers your worth in the mind of other people subconsciously.

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We hide our flaws because nobody made us feel secure about being flawed. When we are broke, we are not accepted for lifestyle - clothes, phones, accessories. Our materialistic possessions are under constant scrutiny. When we put on weight we are admired a lot less. When we fail, we were lashed out at or walked all over.

So in a world, where we are constantly judged for our flaws and losses rather than being accepted for what we are how we are, how to be secure?

— % &Firstly, thank all those who made you feel you're not good enough because one, you began to work on yourself and second you realised they were not the kind of people you should have around you.

If not blessed and peaceful, you should never live under the feeling of being not good enough. — % &You're good. You're improving. You should believe in it. And lastly, security, healing, self belief should come from within because external validation can be withdrawn. Anyday. Any moment but what's yours from within can't be shaken or touched.. — % &

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We get used to receiving less
That the bare minimum
Becomes our ideal standard

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In between letting go and holding on
Rage and forgiveness
Oversleeping and sleeplessness
Between meditations and anxieties
Fearless conversations to leaning on
the closest ones
I am healing.
You're healing.
We are learning to live.

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My mom said Krishna tests, and somehow I don't believe it anymore. God gives. God never asks. What he does is when you open your heart to him, he helps you get rid of evil, darkness, pain, bitterness, rage, dilemma and what not.

Krishna is full of love. Once you have his company, life becomes better, not painful.

#harekrishna

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Flowers are beautiful but fragile
When trampled, they lose their essence.

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