Live life lovingly!
A few lines of inspiration from my series ‘Life & Living’.
Savvy Raj
Artwork by Savvy Raj
A vision a verse.
As thoughts keep on arising
These dots of thoughts shape into patterns
Emitting in the strength of momentum
To countless circles of thoughts in the propelling.
Savvy Raj
This above artwork Titled ‘Circles of thoughts:3’ is a creative interpretation of encircling thoughts, The verses that follow is the third part of my series of micro poems on interconnecting thoughts. Savvy
To be contd …
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Have you really touched someone today?
Have you been embraced with expansive love?
Have you felt like reaching out with all your heart?
Have you held another’s hand in your hand?
Great is the healing in a caring touch.
One handhold can lift a broken spirit.
One hug can heal another soul.
One step to reach out can tug at another’s heartstrings.
One touch of kindness can make all the difference.
Great is the healing in a caring touch.
Both life and living can at times turn cold
When the children grow and empty their nests,
When life becomes too busy to be,
When relationships start to lose their meaning,
When tired body leaves one forlorn,
When thoughts seem to turn anxious,
When moments seem to drag,
When a sense of utter loneliness prevails,
Whenever there are feelings of helplessness.
Remember to reach out and hold a needy hand
As the power of healing is in a caring touch.
Savvy Raj
About the Author:
Ms Savvy Raj is a Member of the International Dance Council UNESCO the official worldwide organisation for all forms of dance. As a Dance Educator and Corporate Wellness Trainer, she conducts workshops in Social Dances, Holistic Well-Being as well as Personal Effectiveness. She is a certified adult trainer who uses the creative medium of dance towards bringing empathetic consciousness in her students. Using International Social dance forms and a variety of improvisational techniques as well as creative movement exercises she brings forth the human connect in it all. Working towards the development of an individual through dance applications and nurturing in the learners an enthusiasm to see and live life positively.
Savvy is also Certified Graphologist who pursues this as a hobby in her spare time along with a passion for writing, painting, poetry, drawing, sketching and designing.
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Every dot is a circle
And think every dot is a thought
And the dots of thoughts form a circle
That flows to connect along
Savvy Raj
This above artwork Titled ‘Circles of thoughts:2’ is a creative interpretation of encircling thoughts, The verses that follow is also the second part of my series of micro poems on interconnecting thoughts. Savvy
To be contd …
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#Micropoetry 1#tetrastich #visual verses
# Circleoflife #wisdom of change#A sense of it all#subtlety of consciousness #inside outside
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A vision & verse
A thought is a full circle
From synapse to the sensing
It travels beyond spaces and back
Symbol of life in the buzzing.
Savvy Raj
The above artwork Titled ‘Circles of thoughts’ is a creative interpretation of encircling thoughts, it is also the first in a series of micro poems on interconnecting thoughts. Savvy
To be contd …
#Micropoetry 1#tetrastich #visual verses
# Circleoflife #wisdom of change#A sense of it all#subtlety of consciousness #inside outside
Artwork by Savvy Raj
Also published on
https://medium.com/@savvyraj/circle-of-thoughts-91169f939c0b
Mother…
Evolving in the learning
About the preciousness of being.
And of the wisdom emulating….
Providing and perfecting
Sharing and smiling
Soulfully nourishing
The art of practising
A lifetime of unconditional loving
Caring and Comforting
Selfless and Sacrificing
Eternally Hope giving
Healing and Hugs unending
Mother
Divinity in action ever so touching
Our
Bliss of blessing.
Savvy Raj
PS: This post is dedicated to my dear mother ‘Anjana’
Happy Mother’s Day Mom and to all the Mothers the world over…. :))
Savvy
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A mail to me this morning made me stop and smile and tap into gratitude with all my heart.
It was from my reader and friend now over the years, Robert Mason, who has been extremely supportive of my journey through the visions and verses.
A share of kindness and appreciation can be the spring well of creativity.
A few lines in dedication to this kind and caring soul…
My dear patron,
Your compliments inspire me on my path
Your words encourage & your belief supports
Recently you asked about my art, vision and verse …
You asked me, where I create from
You asked me how long it takes to form.
You asked me from where warmth and positivity spring forth in my words.
Life they say, is the best teacher guide and mentor
Perhaps in the siftings of life and living
The colours of my art emerge.
Perhaps the sounds of words felt deep within
I sense again, in the verses I write
Perhaps the blow of incessant hot and cold winds of changes
Mellow my words with moderation.
Words are powerful I deeply believe
As I had written somewhere earlier too
In faith hope and trust
I care to send out my thoughts
That they may shift the perspectives
Of another’s thought to turn to the positive.
That they may bring the very same contentment
in the reading and sensing
to awaken the spirit and let their souls shine
With love and gratitude
In the realization of all that is.
That I feel deep within.
Beauty of it all is
That life continues
To be a great impactor
In the winds of changes.
There is much to understand and know
New learnings, new knowings
That teach as they are happening now.
The trick is to be open
And allow it all in the flow
To assimilate and acknowledge
This wealth of wisdom between you & me.
So I thank your questions here to me
As it awakens my spirit now
To brave new frontiers of creativity
But with deep responsibility.
Thank you for the pause in my thoughts
You invoke with your caring query.
Significance of creative endeavors
Arise first from curiosity and care
And that propels new paths and purpose…
In this journey of life and living.
Savvy Raj
It is often said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”…. as beauty can be a very subjective and a personal choice and experience of life. This attraction or admiration, after all, is an interpretation of harmony, of proportion in the features attributed to a culture for beauty.
Is beauty measurable to a certain standard? Well according to the Golden Ratio, the ideal result for an attractive face would be 1.6. Greeks believed a beautiful face is 1.6 times longer than its width. But then it has been refuted by attributing it simply to the ability of pattern recognition by humans. After all cultural differences have strange ideas of what is beautiful and they seem poles apart from each other. Such is the paradox of beauty!
From smooth skin devoid of wrinkles, a long neck and flowing hair, to face tattoos and body scars, long earlobes, shaved heads, pale skins to small feet, to full figures different countries and culture have different standards of beauty.
Take the case of some Eastern countries where straightened hair is considered beautiful and many are turning to chemical hair straighteners and flat ironing for holding up to standards of beauty. Girls in Mauritania, West Africa when shown an article about liposuction, laugh so hard in disbelief as it shocks their concepts of what is beautiful. In fact, this goes to extreme measures like ‘Leblouh’ the practice of force feeding girls to have heavy figures and stretch marks like in Mauritania, to the overwhelming numbers of rhinoplasty in Iran and where women wearing post-surgical bandages consider it as a badge of honour and wealth.
The human capacity to appreciate beauty has perhaps radically evolved with the species and men and woman see and process beauty differently. Humans are complex beings and if beauty were a language, its expression would be unique to every individual with respect to their nature and nurture.
So in the quest towards understanding the beauty and the ideals of beauty, there are many questions …
Is there a possibility of greater survival of what is considered beautiful.?
Or is the reverse true?
History is replete with numerous wars on account or on behalf of desire to possess own nurture, save and protect beautiful people animals or things.And beauty becomes a victim of situations and often is the cause of chaos and destruction.
The very beauty that emits an utter of exclamation of awe in the admiration of the exquisite creation can extract emotional outbursts and create and spread hate and malice, upheavals that can mar the course of peace in history and cause wars.
Beauty can thus become a two-edged sword.
Is there more to the reason there exists for the quality of beauty and its perception.The genetic codes that determine beauty can be there for the purpose of an evolution of the species and refinement in the subtlety of consciousness….
There is beauty in a soul that is kind without prejudice
There is beauty in choosing to transform to a better person inside out.
There is beauty in words spoken and deeds of generosity
There is beauty in making people feel valuable
As after all beauty is in the way you make another feel.
Savvy
Image Credits: An Artwork by Savvy Raj from a series Titled: ‘Faces’
Presenting my artwork:
Titled: ‘Transcendence– Clarity amidst the chaos in the Interconnects ‘.
From circles in the spheres
And shapes unknown
Of thought to imagination
You to me is a continuum
Of expression in life and living.
As you and I see it
In unique ways.
Every perspective
Every interpretation
Creates shifts in space
To accommodate every emergence
And all matters
In the infinity of being
Beyond scale or count
And boundless beyond measure.
Every single flicker in participation
Every bit of intention
Every action is your contribution.
Impacting the world for you and for me.
Leaving imprints in time, altering the energy
Such is your value in the synergy.
Care to sense the responsibility
In making sense of it all!
Savvy Raj
All our insights and shares in understanding and the uncertainity, in clarity amidst the chaos, create the shape of things to come and therein is the reason to continue on the path of shaping ourselves by chiselling at a transformation towards transcendence. Savvy
A dance can introduce you to yourself,
as it beckons you to know your limitless potential.
Savvy Raj
To dance is to converse with your soul in oneness.
To dance is to acknowledge the living you in this moment
To dance is to move with your soul’s longings in this present now.
To dance is to feel the rhythm of your own beating heart.
To dance is dare to reach beyond the spaces visible.
To dance is to sense the magic as you touch the intangible …
To dance is to sense the preciousness of time.
As it glides with your movements sublime
In every move, the heart and mind is looped in joyousness
In every flight is the beauty of lightness …
To dance is to be connected to your being
In the contentment of life and living!
Savvy
In every moment of my life….I relate to the fluidity of movements we make, to the rhythm of the words we write, to the harmony in the words we speak, to the synchrony of the breaths we take, to the connectedness in the flow of thoughts we have , to the strength in the similarity of one being to the other, to the heightened awareness of feelings and emotions to the consciousness of every deed and actions, to the mind and body connection we touch upon with a simple dance.
Dancing regularly has the power of release … from inhibitors like fear, seclusion, loneliness depressive states, mood swings, lack of confidence, social reservations and lack of communication. An hour of dancing regularly can bring a spring in the step and smile on one’s lips.
That said there are some parameters to take note of for enhanced benefits from dancing which need to be mentioned.
Every individual is unique and it would be good to start learning gradually with an appropriate dance form suited to their innate nature and choice.
For example, there is no reason to push a beginner beyond their boundaries at they are introduced to certain dance movement without consent and choice. As the benefits of dancing can be seen when they love what they learn and dance what they love.
Dance is not a war with oneself or another it is about being in harmony and at peace with the self so as to enjoy the dance.
The trainer the teacher you learn from always plays a much bigger role in making you love or hate what you learn.It is a huge responsibility as a teacher than to send out positive reflection appreciation and encouraging signals to communicate the power of dance and movement.
Although there are many wonderful teachers out there, try to work with someone chosen according to the goal plans you set for yourself as you begin to learn. That said …dedication discipline, attendance punctuality, appearance personal hygiene and faith and trust in your efforts are going to play a major role in the efforts from both sides.
Today as we celebrate the International Dance Day … I dedicate this post to the celebration of ‘Dance in and around us to the Dance and the Dancer in us all.’
Savvy Raj
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Knowledge is one thing, understanding is quite another. Knowledge needs constant upgradation as it is never ever constant in the dimensions of time and space. The pathway to true wisdom is in acknowledgement of the possibilities of the new or the yet unknown.
Wisdom is in knowing beyond knowledge.
To think universally and act globally; to begin with and see the structure in chaos and relate to the rhythms in nature;
To follow along the infinite beginnings all leading to the same place — ‘Your true self’;
In a knowing that allows you to exercise free will to be who you are;
And that thoughts are but a tool for the thinking, that allows you to process the integration of the self and the entire cosmos.
Self and beyond —
Is there a distance and a difference?
If so, how far and of what?
Physical and social,
Mental and psychological
We may think immediately.
We may be set apart in time and space, yet we are so similar in vulnerabilities,
Persevering in hope and knowing the truth of mortality.
We breathe the same air, live in the same world.
We learn to see wisdom in change, in the interrelation, in the interdependence, in the interconnects.
So, in the wisdom of the wise, the wiser and the wisest
Is the understanding of the knowing behind the knowledge
To make sense beyond their meaning
And in the knowing, change begets wisdom
To accept from ordinary things can permeate untapped wisdom.
That the ‘ordinary’ possess nuggets of wisdom
In the knowing is the learning.
Then, there is no search, all is within —
The change, the changer, and the changing.
Change is inevitable, but you are the one in charge of how the change impacts you and how you respond to the changes.
Dare to dance with it! Dance with life!
Savvy Raj
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Artwork by Savvy Raj Titled: ‘Swirling in Circles’
My Artwork Title: Circles of Bliss: Positive Intention for our World.
Come help make this world blissful
Envelop the world with your own goodwill
Connect into these circles of bliss at your pace
Care to uplift life with your light of grace
Choose to believe in a better future
Embrace nature even just to simply nurture
Every intent invokes in the aspiring
To fulfil the path of its own making!
Savvy Raj
About me:
“Art is a creative intention arising from deep rooted emotion that connects the inner and outer world and bridges the gaps in the conscious awareness.” Savvy Raj
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There is a dignity in emergence
With understanding that arises
In patience tolerance and perseverance
Beyond an attitude of indifference
Emerge in trusting
Heart over mind
Or mind over heart
Is not the question at all …
Emerge in spirit and soul
With all of your being
In every conversation
Or crisis confrontation
Emerge with conscious awareness
Accepting the interconnects
Acknowledging the interdependence
Arising to evolve in life and living.
Emerge knowing truth is eternal
In Spirit, knowing it is for you to kindle
In Empathy knowing you are because they are
In compassion sensing the suffering and pain
Emergence is not an on off act
It is a never ending journey
It is a lesson in humility
It is a lifetime of learning.
Emergence is to arise to any occasion
In hope and goodwill
In strength of positivity
In light beyond passions.
Emergence is an art of living
In bringing to light the hidden good
In surfacing with dignity and grace
In knowing the infinite truth of being.
Emergence in the unfolding resurrection
In transpiring to regeneration
As in such a reviving emergence
Life begets the vital resurgence.
Savvy Raj
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Image Credits: Artwork by Savvy Raj Title: Emergence.
Fractal Art of Being
Savvy Raj www.savvyraj.com
To be in every now has infinite potential.
When every thought arises from abundance substantial.
You can be an impactor or the collaborator.
You can be a follower or followed.
You can be a connector or a commentator.
You can be a trendsetter or a team player.
You can buzz from post to post sharing the creative wonder.
You can spread the sweetness while pausing to ponder.
You can be a soulful voice with a singular vision.
You can hum the song of your soul in passion.
You can buzz on the music in the being.
You can tap into the rhythm of a distant drumming.
Your purpose is ordained, as time will tell in the living.
Your path is in your heart unfolding in the giving.
You can be all that you are meant to be.
Your choice rests with you for you to see.
In every rise and fall
It is the power ‘to be'(e) that gives it all.
To share in the learning
And learn in the sharing.
To value another’s ways to be
To share joy in the being is to be
All this and more emanates from this beautiful verb ‘To be’
Celebrating the now is a great way to be
Savvy Raj
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In the spirit of Thanksgiving
You can join the dance of life in this now with all your heart and soul
And partake the pleasures of being there in both the receiving and the giving.
Savvy Raj
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