[1: 2,084 of 10,000] How are you?

This week, two people I’m not close to asked, “How are you?” I couldn’t answer immediately because it drained my energy to connect with them.

I know I’m overthinking it, suspicious about their real intentions, and taking life so seriously.

What I’m sure about –

• I don’t like to respond with an inauthentic answer, yet I don’t simply let people into my inner world.
• I don’t like responding with cliches and being curt.
• The truth is, I don’t feel so well, and I don’t want them to shoulder the burden of solving my problem because I know it’s my responsibility to figure it out.
• The truth is, I’m overwhelmed, and I don’t know their capacity to truly hold sacred space for me. I guess I’ll never know unless I try to tell them.
• At this time, I would rather speak to my best friend about the heaviness that I feel than to a stranger.
• I don’t want to spill my guts because I have yet to learn how to be open to receiving help and not be the one giving advice all the time.
• I don’t want to tell people my problem because I don’t want them to expand and amplify it because now it’s the main focus. I don’t want to give my problem momentum and turn it into unnecessary drama. I don’t want to add fuel; instead, I address the root cause by relying on a higher wisdom that I can tap into when I’m still.
• Is there a hidden agenda? Are they connecting only to open the floodgate of wanting selfish for themselves?

How are you? These are three words that I no longer treat lightly. When we ask this question, we have to be ready to hear someone’s truth and hold space, not because it’s the norm to ask yet expect a regular unrealistic answer or simply brush it off when the truth is uttered.

[1: 2,083 of 10,000] How do I want to feel every day when I wake up?

• Excited to interact, connect, and engage with life
• My heart is open to give and receive LOVE
• Grateful to be alive
• Feel free to move in the world doing what brings me joy
• Blessed when I feel my heartbeat, follow my breath, and see the sky out of my window
• Healthy with full awareness and mobility, starting with delicious body stretch
• In the flow and at peace
• Grounded like a strong and tall tree
• Giddy and smiling for what the Universe will surprise me for the day
• Sovereign and empowered
• Surrender to the magic
• Inspired, motivated, and well-intentioned to serve

[1: 2,082 of 10,000] Two Become One

Life is a marriage between dreaming and acting, as well as receiving and giving. Doing one without the other will not feel complete; something will always be missing.

The BEING is our feminine energy, while the DOING is our masculine energy, and both energies are within us. The moment they intertwine with one purpose, life becomes meaningful and fulfilling.

Balancing the stillness and passion are gloriously dancing with life’s magic.

I started life more inclined to master my masculine energy, but work lost its meaning. I was missing the other half, so for the last 3 years, I tend to my feminine energy, and it feels nourishing. In 2024, my word is BALANCED because I intend to keep these two aspects of myself equally cared for and fully expressed.