Savvy Raj

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Hope beyond despair

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Yesterday night a quote caught my eye…

You will continue to suffer if you
have an emotional reaction to
everything that is said to you
True power is sitting back and
observing things with logic. True
power is restraint. If words
control you that means everyone
else can control you. Breathe
and allow things to pass

Warren Buffet

I began to think what makes one hopeful. To move beyond despair, we need to learn to see hope no matter the storm. To make light of the heavy, is not easy but it helps to stay in touch with practice. To feel emotional is human but to be aware of how to balance these feelings in conscious awareness consistently is about inculcating practice.

I felt strongly resonant with Warren Buffet’s words in the quote above…

And he said the truth.

For life is a game

A play of power

A chessboard to challenge

The adversary in action

If you balance your emotions

Channel your thoughts & feelings

Take time to traverse through

And let the cool winds blow…

You begin to understand

The spaces between the steps

Trusting time in tolerance & patience

In choosing to practise restraint.

In choosing faith beyond fear

In choosing hope beyond despair.

That’s what keeps you going

That’s what keeps you balanced.

That’s what makes life worth living.

Breathe and allow things to pass…

Savvy

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Author: Savvy Raj

Dance Educator, Writer, Artist, Designer, Wellness Mentor & Consultant

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  1. katiemiafrederick's avatar
    katiemiafrederick
    July 26, 2023 at 9:05 am

    SMiLes Dear Savvy Never Missing A Dance Date Through Many Minor to Rather Major Injuries
    Along the Dance Path of Almost a Decade Now Come August 26, 2023 Through All the 18,613
    Miles of Dance Events Free in Public Perhaps Tonight Was a Greatest Challenge in That Through

    All These Years i Never Injured A Hip Surely A Requirement

    For Dancing Legs Knees and Feet With SMiLes

    Barely able to Walk Limping into the Store

    True More Than Likely in the Pain And

    Spasm Cycle That Usually Comes Even

    With Minor Injuries as It Surely Wasn’t

    Too Major As Hehe i Strained it Doing A Calf
    Raise in the Gym Compensating For a Slightly
    Twisted Knee That is Healed Now Completely

    Through All These Years Developing Emotional
    Regulation and Sensory Integration of FLoWinG
    Meditating Free Dance That is Often Labeled By

    Others As Tai Chi Although i Surely Go Much Faster
    Than That Usually Through Moves All i Had to Do to

    Remove the Limitations of Apparently What Was the Pain Cycle
    of Spasms Tonight is Turn on Positive Music Through my Earbuds

    And Move Slowly Until All the Pain Melted Away And In Appreciation

    of that Gift of Healing Having one of the Smoothest Balancing FRiEnDS

    With Gravity
    Free Dance

    Moving Experience
    Decade Yet to Date

    For me at Least It’s Not So Much
    Cognitive Control As It is the Feed
    Back of A Body In Tune With Mind

    to Lead the Way Back to Healing And Free…

    And Before i Started Dancing i Experienced All
    Types of Somatic Difficulties of Being Trapped
    Between Two Ears of Mechanical Cognition Above

    Now my Body Sings A Dance of Healing Naturally With SMiLes..:)

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  2. anjanaradha's avatar
    anjanaradha
    July 26, 2023 at 9:28 am

    Emotional storage especially of negative responses, is the severest self harm one can do to themselves
    The one who is the cause without intention must have forgotten it.
    With intention means ur hurt will give them a reason to smirk or smile.
    Words are ofcourse powerful. But wisdom is in knowing how much importance one should give to it, both for positive & negative, knowing the transiency of time. .
    Remembered a story read somewhere. A famous saint was asked once how he could smile in spite of the insults and vicious things said about him, he asked, what would u do if u r taking a gift to some one n they are not accepting it.
    I’ll take it back with me.
    The saint smiled and said same thing here. I’m not accepting the gifts they are giving me , hence whatever they say goes back to them. Both praise or curse I never take it . Hence I’m not affected by it in the least.
    A lesson we all should learn to keep our sanity . Lesson on equanimity

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