To view this newsletter in the browser, click here                 Issue #178       A newsletter from Creativegarh to help you live a life of passion, purpose and meaning.         Be 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 leads you back home to a hearty meal of inner peace.           Become your own Santa. Show up with hikindness 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!                       Ask for the unreasonable, big life. The universe meets you at your level of audacity.                     Everything about the universe is unreasonable. And the universe only imagines and creates in abundance, in exuberance, in a state of overflow. Words like lack or scarcity are not a part of the universe’s lexicon. You are trying to think ‘realistic’ in a universe that just doesn’t understand the concept of small.           The universe doesn’t spew a star here and spew a star there. It blows out entire universes in one breath. It throws out millions of galaxies and trillions of stars like bling glitter. It doesn’t create three kinds of beings and calls it a day. It creates millions of species in colours and shapes that human beings can’t even remember. It doesn’t ration sand on a beach or grains of rice in a field. It pours and then overflows. The universe gives us trillions of cells - each a tiny universe of its own. It gives us 3 billion heartbeats, 650 million breaths, 86 billion neurons, millions of thoughts and ideas and infinite choices. It doesn’t drop a polite sprinkle from the sky. It sends showers, storms, monsoons - millions of raindrops drumming on roofs, oceans, fields, faces. It doesn’t copy-paste one design. It makes every snowflake different, as if it has nothing better to do than over-deliver on beauty.           Nothing in this universe is ‘just enough’. Everything is extra, over the top, abundant, unreasonable.           Reasonable people have reasonable lives. Unreasonable people have the universe.           Ask for the big, unreasonable life. The universe meets you at your level of unreasonability and audacity. Dream big. Plan big. Play big. And take thousands and thousands of reasonable baby steps - for it’s those little steps that make an unreasonable life.           The universe is not on a budget. We are. Our big dreams are which we keep rationing. But big doesn’t mean followers, revenue or square feet, it means depth, aliveness, alignment, service, love.           You are the child of the universe and you are entitled to everything the universe creates. But the universe does not dish out the riches for who you are but as you are. The universe doesn’t respond to entitlement. It responds to expansion. Ask big, then grow big enough inside to receive it. Have the strength and the willingness to become the person who can hold what you’re asking for.           When you keep asking for reasonable, your life starts organising itself around surviving. The biggest danger is not that you will ask for too much and not get it, but that you will ask for too little and get all of it. Be audacious and meet the universe on that stage with a full-on manuscript of your big life and don’t edit your dreams.                   Our upcoming retreats                         Mandi Sold Out 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         Bhimtal Registrations Open 10th to 16th May     Bhimtal offers a rare kind of Kumaoni serenity. This landscape creates the perfect setting for inner work, allowing reflection to unfold naturally.   More details     Reignite conversation     Mandi Registrations Open 14th to 20th June     Mandi in summer is a calm escapade. Cool mountain air, green slopes, and quiet mornings create space to breath, rejuvenate and slow down.   More details     Reignite conversation           This week, let's revisit     Udaipur October 2025                         Experience a life full of purpose                     My purpose is to facilitate and teach people to be the most evolved versions of themselves.   Jyotsna Singh Kasauli, April 2023         The purpose of my life is to create wealth and respect for artisans who are reigniting Indian handicrafts in people's hearts.   Pankaj Bhaandari Kasauli, April 2023               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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