Yes, we can make the moon shine brighter … just as we can smell the fragrance of flowers more sharply, feel the raindrops more distinctly and enjoy everyday life more intensely!
We can take delight in a simple walk in the park as if it were amazing. Yes, we can relish our food more !
Caught in the daily grind of our work and routines, it is easy to look at everything in a hazy, superficial way. It is easy to feel things in a dull, disengaged manner.
But is that what we want? Or do we want everyday to have something fabulous in it?
Do we not want to get a kick from everything we do ?
Here are 4 ways to make everyday brighter, more memorable and joyful !
1.Engage fully:
When we engage fully, we see more, listen better, understand deeply, and do more.
Engaging fully means to give focused attention, open our senses completely, involve deeply, and be connected to whatever we are doing at that moment.
It could be simple acts like eating breakfast, talking on the phone with a colleague, jogging in a park, teaching a kid to do Math… Or gazing up at the Moon ! 🙂
While the word ‘detachment’ can mean different things in different contexts, for the best moments in our lives, we need to be attached and engaged with our passions and with whatever we are doing in that moment, not detached.
Engaged moments make us feel productive, fulfilled, and content.
“Do your best but be detached from the fruits/results of your actions though”, advises Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita.
2. Experience intensely:
There’s the superficial or shallow way of looking at things, of experiencing something. And then there’s the deep, engaged, intense way of experiencing things.
Think of how you would play with a new puppy in the house! After a long hard trek to the top, how would you enjoy the stunning, pure white waterfall spread out in front of you? If you had the opportunity to enjoy a cool, delicious drink in a lovely ambience… how you would relish it? How would you enjoy a fresh, juicy, crisp green apple plucked directly from the tree?
When we feel something intensely, our senses become acute and we experience things more.
When we feel more, we are more alive. Indeed, we can make this way of experiencing anything a habit !
To be able to feel intensely is a sign of a great and rich inner life, of deep thoughts, and an essential passion that allows us to enjoy everyday things more brightly.
Expressing what we feel is as important as experiencing it. The expression of intense feelings in positive and creative ways makes us feel wonderful ! It is the combination of emotion and intellect in intense ways that give rise to great works of art, prose, poetry and other forms of creativity.
It is through emotional intensity that we experience joy in life, have a passion for learning, have a drive to express our talents, and have the motivation for achievement.
When everyone lives with intensity, it elevates this world greatly.
3. Allow more sensitivity:
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
– WB Yeats
To experience the magic, it is good to be comfortable with natural human expressions and emotions. Feelings make us human, it is what makes us special. Definitely, there is no need to be passive, stoic or non-expressive.It is easy to desensitize ourselves to avoid emotions. This makes our days dull, draining and boring.
When we open our senses to perceive more and receive more, when we develop both our external and internal sensitivities to absorb more, we see things in more beautiful detail.
Sensitivity allows us to practise empathy, understanding and kindness. Our communication is clearer and our connection better because we perceive people and their feelings more clearly when we become more sensitive to others.
Emotional health is about our willingness to say yes to our inner and outer world, our ability to engage with it all, expand as required to absorb the beauty, challenges, changes and demands of this world. It is about allowing life to touch us, move us and affect us deeply, without losing our ground.
Thus, magic is about making the best of our emotional intensity.
4. Feel twinklingly, pulsatingly alive:
To be alive is to experience everything; sing, dance, love and give as totally and overflowingly as we can !
Pause when you feel drained, dull or bored ! Check your emotions and the work that you are doing. Are you engaged with what you are doing? What are your feelings? Are you doing something without having a feel for it? Without opening your senses to that task ?
To feel more alive, it is important to practise immersive living, intense experiencing and fully engaging with what we do, what we enjoy and the positive experiences we have!
We can explore exciting spaces beyond regular, societal or learnt constructs, being more sensitive rather than desensitizing.
Here’s wishing you all days that are twinklingly, pulsatingly alive !
Days with an abundant, bountiful, joyful, inner life, with an immense, unlimited zest for life !!
When we look at the moon with a sparkle in our eyes,… yes it WILL shine brighter ! 🙂
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