To view this newsletter in the browser, click here                 Issue #157       A newsletter from Creativegarh to help you live a life of passion, purpose and meaning.         The happiest people are the ones who are slowing down, not going fast.                     In a rushed world where we are expected to keep running on a never-ending treadmill, working the hamster wheel, manifesting the ideal life before everyone else, it’s a radical act and a rare gift to be able to slow down.           The happiest people have discovered this, ironically faster than everyone else, that always being on the move is not what life is about. Joy waits in stillness, waiting to be savoured in delicate sips of presence rather than glugs of action. They don’t chase time, they savour it. They have learnt the incredible art of stealing time from time itself, of making a few hours magically appear for them out of nowhere, almost as if they have 30 hours in a day.           They sip their tea slowly, watch suns set and not sunsets, they give conversations their time and presence, they close their eyes to shut out the world not only to sleep but to view their inner world with love and compassion. Instead of trying to be everywhere, they choose to be fully somewhere.           The happiest people are not running a sprint to beat records, for saving microseconds doesn’t excite them anymore. They are running slow marathons, not to beat their records, but for the record of their own joy. They choose depth over pace, being over doing, allowing over controlling.           The happiest people are not glorifying busyness. What troubles them the most is to see everyone hustling and trying too hard. They know that busyness is a serial killer. It kills the inner child before it kills the spirit. They have learnt to prioritise presence over productivity, wonder over reward, joy over pleasure. They know that being slow is not being lazy, but a way to be friends with themselves. They don’t live in calendars and invites and meeting rooms. They live in breathing rooms, where they make room for reflection, creation and connection.           They respond, not react. They slow down to create a pause between trigger and response, between chaos and choice.           They live with the rhythm of nature. Like an acorn, they are in no rush to become an oak. They bloom in time and live with the wisdom of the ancestors that when a tree falls, everyone hears the sound, but when a tree grows, no one hears it. They know that life takes time to become life. Aliveness is a process, a pilgrimage, not a destination.           Slow down. For only when you go slow, do you get home faster.                 In healing, failure is a myth.                     Our healing journey is a part of a divine dance – a cosmic-sized choreography arranged in intricate detail by the divine himself.           In this dance, some days you take three steps forward and on some, two steps backward. That’s also how healing happens and it’s all part of a divine rhythm. You are not out of step at all and every time you feel broken and out of alignment, you are actually being put together as some delirious dots of your life come together as delicious, mouth-watering insights from your own life.           In healing, failure is a myth. Some days you may feel that you have made a breakthrough and then a trigger breaks you down to humble you on your path. A breakdown is a breakthrough in disguise that opens a new door for you to walk through. What you need then is not more self-hate – no reprimanding yourself, no calling yourself names – but meeting yourself in a safe space with a cup of green tea, a warm, tight self-hug, lots of self-compassion and all forms of judgement left outside the door.           And just because you have fallen once doesn’t mean you have fallen behind. You are not starting over from zero but you are starting from a deeper awareness, from experience, from a lived insight. So cut yourself some slack, show up again in your authenticity and join the dance of life, not tentatively swirling at the edges but leading the show from the centre.           Healing is not linear. It’s a spiral, a dance that brings you to the same point many times – many experiences leading to the same wound – and when the healing of that wound happens, a surprise test comes in when you least expect it, just to see if you have learnt your lessons.             Our upcoming retreats                         Udaipur Last 4 Seats Left 29th October to 4th November     Discover joy at a 400-year-old fort nestled in the peaceful hills of Bambora. For souls in search of a purpose, it provides a perfect space to just be.   More details     Reignite conversation     Andretta Last 6 Seats Left 16th to 22nd November     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     CG Breathe Only for Creativegarh Community 12th to 16th November     Creativegarh Breathe is a heartful breathwork program rooted in holotropic breathing, yoga and meditation, designed to help you reconnect with yourself.   More details     Reignite conversation           This week, let's revisit     Jodhpur January 2023                         Experience a life full of purpose                     The purpose of my life is to use expressive arts to create an abundant flow in the lives of people.   Vaishali Gandhi Kasauli, April 2022         I believe that the universe needs every great idea to come to life. I make ideas come alive.   Sowmya Mahadevan Tirthan Valley, December 2022               For a daily dose of Creativegarh and our retreats, follow us here:                           Mantra Gold Coatings & The White Paper Creative         Sunita Somani         Pedal On               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. If you would not like to receive any more newsletters from us, please click here to unsubscribe.