High on Life

Hello!

Sun makes me happy. After such long dark winter it seems like we finally have our well deserved late spring. How wonderful!

Everything seems so much brighter. People smile, trees blossom and the bees are having little races in the air. I love this collective happiness. The energy bounces in the air and I just randomly smile at everybody. At last, sun, you are back.

How long it has been? Nearly 7 months that I've been living in Bristol, whaaaaaat?!

But let me tell you my little love story between me and this crazy city.

You know that feeling when everybody loves something and they keep telling you how great that thing is and then they ask what do you think and you feel like it's wrong to say something opposite because everybody just love that thing so much. Well, that's how I felt about Bristol for a while. I liked it but it was far away from loving it.

In the past few months everything changed. I joined the tribe. The tribe of people who kept telling me how great this place is. But it wasn't the city. It was people that live here. Again this collective energy thing. 

I found perfect job- working in a really sweet and laid back vegan/veg cafe, serving amazing food and being able to make that food. Not just serving people but actually cooking and experimenting with plant based ingredients. Not long it was that it changed my diet too. I ditched the rest of the things I always wanted to ditch and felt inspired to be able to make clean and guilt free food.

Dancing became something I started to adore. No wonder why ancient tribes used (and still use now) dancing as shamanic healing experience. It felt amazing to share my dance love with others. I felt uplifted, I felt that I can be free with music and movement, I felt that I could strip off all my fears and dive into the present moment effortlessly. And partner dancing is something magical. I felt that I learned an ancient language. Language that lets me communicate with others without words. 

I realised how long I've been reading about the things that I am interested but not applying them in real life. So I started to experiment with making my own stuff. Like deodorant, toothpaste and shampoo. I feel like I was tricked by society to have that need to buy these products and just realised how simple is to live more naturally.

I connect more with my body now. I want to know my real self, I want to feed my soul with activities I love and care for my body and mind. Our lives can be so short, the time is so precious that wasting it on the things you don't like is not worth it. Especially in my case, being born in the country that lets me travel free, having healthy family and friends and having so much inspiration and positivity around me.

Learning massage therapy helps me to connect with my body too. I feel so privileged to be able to move, to be able to see and touch and feel. To be able to have a long run with no pain, to be able to dance until the clothes are covered in sweat, to be able to appreciate what I've got.

I am high on life and although not every day is happy and joyful I'm so fascinated to be part of my own life journey.

I felt like the collective energy in this place pushed something inside me, can't tell you really what exactly it is. Or maybe just again I felt at home. Like in all places I lived so far. Can I call this my own personal skill? To find home wherever I go?..

You all still have one month left to visit me before I fly away again... <3

Ligita

while visiting Dom in the Alps..

spring is here

cute clouds!

cake time

hiking times

Everything Is Constantly Changing

Hello,

Recently I've been interested in yoga, I have tried some chanting and meditation before but there was always this secret magical word in my head- Vipassana.

I've heard about this meditation from few people who did it but all I knew is that you are not allowed to talk for 10 days. That was all. Then I started keep meeting people and over the years I got a little bit more information. However, I was never ready for it. 

When we started our South East Asia trip I knew I want to do it and I met quite few people who did this meditation course so I thought it is a sign for me to do it.

Few days ago me and Dom finished our Vipassana meditation course and came back from it with a beautiful life philosophy.

The fact that you can't speak or keep an eye contact with people is really easy. The fact that you get up at 4 am every day, can't read or write or your last meal is at 11 am is pretty easy as well. The fact that you need to meditate 10 hours a day, that's what is hard. In the beginning it is your body. Everything aches, your legs, your back, your neck, your ass. You feel like a real granpa. And then you are taught to ignore the pain and work on your concentration. Concentrate on your breathing and then concentrate on your body sensations. Seems really easy, yeah? Well, the concentration is gone after one minute, you keep thinking about everything. Your mind is controling you, you don't control anything. After you work out with concentration is the sensation part. Our bodies are constantly changing, if you have sharp mind you must feel every single part of your body because there are always different chemical reactions, vibrations happening in your body. Then they teach you not to react to those sensations. So when you feel pain you are not allowed to dislike the feeling, the idea is to observe. When you feel some good sensations that you really like you are not allowed to crave for them. The pain will come and go, the good sensations come and go, life is impermanent, it is true nature of reality.

However, our mind is always reacting which creates negative energy inside and then it stays there forever. We become more miserable, more unhappy or unsatisfied. Human beings always suffer. And this tecnique teach you how to purify your mind and how to escape from suffering.

After 10 days of course I didn't become enlightened but I felt that I learnt something really useful. I learnt more about myself and most importantly I learn the tecnique which can let me to live altruistic life, with no ego or selfishness, to live morally happy in a real harmony.

I recommend to try this meditation to everybody, it is a beautiful life philosophy and it is so logical and true. Let's purify ourselves, let's all find real happiness, real love and real harmony.

Anicca, anicca, anicca