To view this newsletter in the browser, click here                 Issue #126       A newsletter from Creativegarh to help you live a life of passion, purpose and meaning.         Become your own Secret Santa.                     Be fun, be playful, be naughty. Let the Santa in you allow you to be who you always were—childlike, fearless, free, and an embodiment of love. Let the Santa in you enable you to be naughty and, in your own way, delightfully you, rather than conforming to how your parents, teachers, or society defined obedience or naughtiness. Let the Santa in you celebrate your uniqueness and not your fearfulness and inauthenticity.           Be your own Santa. Gift yourself that one big decision today that will change your life forever. Gift yourself the power of faith that will allow you to sail through life as a beneficiary of divine grace. Gift yourself the permission to heal, bloom, reclaim your life, grow, be, belong, relinquish, let go, take up, stop, start, or show up. Gift yourself the freedom from the beliefs that left you in the cold like a snowman—someone’s momentary delight, but for you, a suffering for life until you melt away into oblivion.           Become your own Santa. Own your wounds, your choices, your chaos, your fears, your dark side, your anger, resentment, and envy. And as you own it all, you realise you’ve let go; your bags of sorrow become empty, and your reindeer sleigh lead you back home to a hearty meal of inner peace.           Become your own Santa. Show up with kindness to the next person you meet today. You never know, this little act of kindness may become a secret gift that comes back to you manifold a few years from now when someone’s act of kindness changes your life.           As you overcome the odds and pull up your socks to take responsibility for your life, become your own Santa and be generous in filling others' stockings with your riches, gifts, talents, and the golden heart that you possess. May this generosity fill your home with the abundance that you deserve.           As you slide down the chimneys, clearing the soot and muck of your own traumas and conditioning, become your own Santa and help someone today whose dreams have been going up in smoke. Douse the raging infernos and fill their lives with your warmth. Let this be a gift that ignites a new passion in you a few years from now.           As you become Santa to yourself, you become a gift to the universe.           Joy!                 Your bus has no timetable. It'll come when you are ready.                     Your journey is not their journey.           Your bus is not their bus.           You never miss the bus.           Because the bus you are trying to hop on has been chartered by someone else based on their needs, with their judgment, how they measure their own lives, their expectations from themselves and the world, their life experiences, their own filters, their shame and guilt, their own path and journey.           And their bus is not your bus. Never is, never will be.           Your bus will come when you are ready. When you pack the bags of your past or decide to travel light, whatever choice you make, the right bus will come to pick you up. And the bus stop will be exactly where you want to restart your life.           Your bus will come when you buy the ticket to a journey deep within and when you are ready to drive far, far away from your small life.           Your bus may come with a fellow passenger or two who will travel with you for some distance, have a deep conversation with you, and then get off at their stop, never to meet you again.           In your bus, you have the choice of the seat without an extra charge. There will be enough leg space too. You will have the choice to take the seat by the cliff side where you see a gloomy, monotonous life for hours, or you will have the choice of taking the window seat for an expansive view of the verdant valley, a sign of joy, hope, and the largeness of life ahead.           And here's the interesting thing.           You drive your own bus. You drive what you are driven for. You decide the route too, and you decide the pit stops. No one else. And in your bus, overspeeding is allowed when you desire, but you know that going slow gets you home faster.           You can choose to fuel up whenever you want, wherever you want. Experiences, people, food, and vibes are your filling stations.           Look out for the road signs, though. But not the usual ones. Everything on the road to becoming whole and complete is a sign. Every pothole is a learning experience; every sharp turn is to test your resilience so that you don't hand over the wheel, yet again, to someone else.           Your bus is your life. And in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for you, not to you.           Hop onto YOUR bus when you're ready.       Our upcoming retreats                         Andretta Registrations Open 16th to 22th March     To reconnect to your inner child at a beautiful hillside retreat with 14+ soulful individuals will make this a life-transforming experience. See you at Andretta!   More details     Reignite conversation     Kasauli Registrations Open 20th to 26th April     The stunning vistas and holistic experiences at Kasauli create the perfect space for self-discovery, and ensure this retreat is a transformative and unforgettable experience!   More details     Reignite conversation     Kolhapur Registrations Opening Soon 10th to 16th August     Escape the city's clamor, reconnect with your inner light. Indulge in a life changing retreat, experiencing the discovery of your true self, within the arms of nature.   More details               This week, let's revisit     Creativegarh Deep, Kasauli April 2024                         Experience a life full of purpose                     The purpose of my life is to make people fly like a bird and shine like a star.   Shruthi SS Tirthan Valley, July 2022         The purpose of my life is to ignite change through powerful expressions using theatre.   Shubhra Tandon Nainital, May 2022               For a daily dose of Creativegarh and our retreats, follow us here:                           Nirali Manchanda         Kausar Sultana         Advaita Dubey               View Our Collabs for Joy                   creativegarh.com             You are receiving this newsletter because either you have subscribed to it through our website, interacted with us by filling an invite form or because you have asked us to put you on the database. 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