Slowing Down to Look Upside Down

Sometimes changing doesn’t need to involve starting a brand new activity or training for the next marathon. Don’t get me wrong: those are great ways to discover more about yourself and unlock new ways of experiencing life. However, more than adding exercises to your daily routine, there is something even more powerful that can be at your fingertips at any moment. That is: changing, even so slightly, the way you understand things to be.

What if the reflection of a tree on a pond could become roots? What is what I am looking at / experiencing / living could be something a whole new reality? What if we could take situations less seriously and live for the discovery, for the exploration, for the new?

The world is asking, time and time again, for the repetition, for the fastest and most accurate, for the competition, for the gains. But what if what we need is to slow down? What if stopping to smell the flowers would be the most necessary way to tap into the unknown, the creative, the beautiful? Sometimes caring too much about what the noise around us says can lead us to a very known path, but one in which we don’t belong.

Slowing down to look upside down. Or even inside out. But daring to change, daring to question, daring to explore. The need for the new, the curiosity lives inside each one of us and if you have the power, the means and the ability to tap into creative endeavours, jump right in. Bathe yourself in the waters of explorers, of artists, of craftsmen. Cleanse your soul by finding your true, inner self that might be suffocated by the demands of everyday life. Find yourself by turning the world upside down and, in this process, finding out possible new realities.

Manifest that dormant inner child as much as you can to fight for the ones who have lost sight of their soul’s yearnings.