To view this newsletter in the browser, click here                 Issue #94       A newsletter from Creativegarh to help you live a life of passion, purpose and meaning.         Be your own mother.                     We are born free, fearless and with unconditional love but as human beings, we are dependent on our parents, primary caregivers and society to love us, clothe us, feed us, bring us up, keep us safe and listen to us as we express ourselves without restraint.           But very soon, we learn that the love of our protectors and caregivers is seemingly conditional. We are expected to become their version of us to be loved. As we grow up, to feel loved, wanted, safe, and heard, we build our own coping mechanisms and manipulation strategies, letting the heart take a back seat and the mind, the driver’s.           In the process, our authentic self is lost and one fine day, we realise, life has passed us by, as we are still using the same coping techniques we did when we were five years old. In the real world, these tactics don't work. We need new ideas and new ways to feel loved, wanted, heard, protected, to meet our unmet childhood needs.           It's time to reparent ourselves. To understand how our childhood needs were not met, and we need to work on ourselves to fulfil those - lack of emotional support, affection, security, attachment, or structure from one’s caregivers. Or relook at those expectations they set on us because society set on them and how every belief of theirs was slapped onto us to keep us in survival mode.           Have self-compassion, go slow, go gentle, go with a box of tissues and lots of patience as you attempt to change what you were not able to control as a child.           Honour your feelings, feel every emotion that you were not allowed to feel or were mocked on or were punished for. Allow every emotion to connect with your being. Don't deny, repress or suppress any feelings because through those feelings you recognise the triggers, from the triggers, the wound is revealed, from the wound, the path is revealed, from the path, the destiny is changed.           Honour your gifts, talents and purpose. The treasure chest that you are. Let the gold and the gems you are born with come out and light the world with your unique light.           Give yourself the love you needed as a child. For once, choose yourself, unconditionally. Take yourself on a playdate. Do the things that you wished you did as a child. Give yourself the love you lacked.           Forgive. Forgive. Forgive.           Forgive your caretakers, your parents and all those who expected you to lose your authentic self so that they could accept you in the embrace of their arms and their limiting beliefs created from fear.           Dote on your inner child. Reparent yourself with love. Be your own mother.                 The law of attraction is the law of subtraction.                     You: So, are you saying that the law of attraction doesn't work?           Youniverse: Everything works only if you want to work it. You can attract whatever you want to but whatever you want to attract, you have to first become it. My vaults of riches and abundance are open 24x7 and you don't need a password like Khulja Sim Sim to open those mountains of gold.           You: So where do I find these mountains?           Youniverse: In the higher realms, high above the stratosphere of your own mind is my Soan Nagri - the land of gold. In this land I have higher thoughts, magical ideas, subtle messages, the bliss you seek, the oneness you want, the miracles you create, the abundance that is yours to be.           You seek additions to your fortunes, but you can only add once you learn subtraction. Shedding off your preconceived templates, your stories, your conditioning, dropping your fears and desires, cutting off the attachments, letting go of the identities you have - your ego at its conniving best, the anger, the shame, the regrets.           Once you get out of your mind, and as you subtract all the weight of the past and the expectations, you become lighter. As you become lighter, you start rising, you start ascending your own self and sail through the doors of the golden mountain, all yours for the taking. It'll be effortless because that is what a spiritual life has to eventually become, playful, joyful, effortless.           You: But I say affirmations every day, I meditate, I visualise goals, I believe. And I do receive too!           Youniverse: Yes, you do because you make yourself lighter and you enter the higher realm. But by the end of the day, you are drained by keeping a 'forced positive approach' towards life. It doesn't come naturally to you. Next day, you're at it again. Why not permanently become lighter and live in the realm of abundance?           When you do Sewa with no expectations of the fruit, the riches fall at your feet to fulfil all your desires, which then you have none left anymore for yourself. When you use this abundance in the service of others, you find moksha. Let everything you do be an offering to the divine. The way to abundance is through me.           I am you. You are me. May the way to abundance be through you.             Our upcoming retreats                         Jodhpur Sold Out 11th to 17th August     In a place of princely palaces and forts, travel back in time as we seek to relook into your life. Rediscover yourself amidst the undiscovered side of Thar at this retreat.   More details         Athoor Last 6 Seats Left 22nd to 28th September     Nestled amidst the serene Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu, the picturesque village of Athoor will make for the perfect setting for relaxation, introspection and exploration.   More details     Reignite conversation     Mandi Last 10 Seats Left 7th to 13th December     Mandi’s tranquil environment serves as the perfect backdrop for personal metamorphosis, ensuring you return home with a revitalized spirit and fresh perspective of life!   More details     Reignite conversation           This week, let's revisit     Kasauli March 2023                         Experience a life full of purpose                     My life’s purpose is to empower voices to spark change.   Smriti Raghunandan Kasauli, April 2022         My purpose is to shift people to find the courage to follow their calling, enable them to express themselves through creativity and inspire them to design their life, and not life by default.   Pratik Jain Tirthan Valley, December 2022               For a daily dose of Creativegarh and our retreats, follow us here:                                 Watch All Episodes Here                   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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