To view this newsletter in the browser, click here                 Issue #176       A newsletter from Creativegarh to help you live a life of passion, purpose and meaning.         When you have nothing going your way, find the way to yourself.                     And one morning, it seems you have come to your lowest point. All promises of a better life lie shattered on the bedroom floor, the project that took the best of you as been called off, the relationships that you were holding on to have finally called it quits, the life that you built is caving in, you are questioning everything, the decisions that you took are all coming back to haunt you, the credit card has been maxed, the milk has boiled over, the househelp has not turned up, hell, even the damn cat has not used the litter box today. It's rock bottom.           How wonderful!           The beautiful thing about rock bottoms is that things can only get better from here. When you come to that point in your life when you do not know what to do is when the real work of your life starts - of knowing you and everything else that controls you. When you come to a point when you do not know which path to follow or which way to go, that's when the real journey starts - into yourself and to follow the path of surrender.           When you are feeling restless and don't know what’s the first thing you do, start with giving, follow your natural instinct to give. Where can you give right now? Can you give your love to your teenager healing from a heartbreak? Can you give a loving whisper to your cat who has an upset tummy? Can you show up with kindness to the delivery boy who delivers a new packet of milk? Can you send a note of gratitude to the client who pulled the plug on you?           When everything seems mournful and you are looking for a new project to distract yourself, take a break and make yourself your newest muse. Pour yourself into yourself. Because at this moment, a project doesn't need you. You need you. You need you to hold you and love yourself. You need the solace of your constants, your cup of tea, your chair, your balcony, your view. You need you to sit with yourself and give yourself company and a long overdue heart to heart without a phone, Netflix, emails, or anything else that keeps you away from being completely present to yourself.           When you have nothing going your way, please find the way to yourself and go your way.                       You have no real say about the length of your life but you do have a say about its depth.                     You may never be able to count the moments you live in this lifetime, but you can always make every moment count. You may never know how many birthdays you will celebrate in life, but you can always celebrate life as if every day of your life is a rebirthday - a new beginning, a fresh canvas.           You may never be able to measure your life by the cars you have owned, but you can always choose to be driven by the very things that put you on the road to fulfillment. You can measure your life in the visa stamps on your passport, or how much your soul has travelled to find its way back home.           The length of life can only be measured in doing, but the depth of life comes alive in simply being. Depth is created in tiny, repeated actions, not one big breakthrough, when you choose presence over autopilot, presence of performance, truth over pretending, creation over consumption, and one more courageous conversation over one more mindless scroll or gossip session.           The length of your life is probably defined by your work, your retirement, and your accolades - the hard work you have put in to build a life and identity. But depth is pure soul work - the heart work you put in to lose every identity you have created or acquired.           Depth comes when you learn your lessons while learning to love, learning to give, learning to forgive, learning to create, learning to serve. Depth comes when you are ready to sit and not run. To sit with discomfort instead of numbing it. Depth comes in how often you remember the divine within you while doing the most ordinary tasks.           Depth happens when you choose to create the life you want, choosing a conscious response instead of a default reaction. Depth is felt when you create the days of your life rather than live them as templates that you have inherited.           Depth is not what happens to you; it’s what you dare to create with what happens to you.           Our emotional states - what we notice, the memories we access, the stories we tell ourselves - influence our depth. When we live in chronic stress, life becomes narrow and shallow, always in survival mode. But when we experience emotions like curiosity, gratitude, awe, love, our body and brain open up - we think wider, connect deeper, remember more fully.           Depth is how deeply you breathe, taking the world in, instead of fast, shallow breaths that don’t allow you to feel the universe and its living, breathing, expansive magnificence.                   Our upcoming retreats                         Andretta Sold Out 15th to 21st February     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         Mandi Last 4 Seats Left 4th to 10th March     Mandi’s tranquil environment serves as the perfect backdrop for personal metamorphosis, ensuring you return home with a revitalised spirit and fresh perspective of life!   More details     Reignite conversation     Mandi Registrations Open 14th to 20th June     Mandi’s tranquil environment serves as the perfect backdrop for personal metamorphosis, ensuring you return home with a revitalised spirit and fresh perspective of life!   More details     Reignite conversation           This week, let's revisit     Andretta November 2025                         Experience a life full of purpose                     My purpose is to inspire hope in the human soul through the beauty of visual storytelling.   Bernadette Lobo Sakleshpur, August 2022         My purpose in life is to energize the world and lead people towards self-healing.   Ekta Sheth Sakleshpur, August 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. 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