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The inner child wants to break out from the confines of its self-made prison and walk free. It's the gatecrasher. The inner perfectionist has locked the gate and swallowed the key. It's the gatekeeper. The inner child wants to create for wonder. The inner perfectionist wants to create only if there is a reward. The inner child wants to just be. The inner perfectionist wants to become something. The inner child is willing to let go. The inner perfectionist knows nothing but holding on. The inner child finds every form of creation exciting. The inner perfectionist wants to create only what’s exciting. The inner child thrives in silence. The inner perfectionist needs anxiety and conflict to feel alive. The inner child wants to create alchemy. The inner perfectionist understands nothing but productivity and blacksmithing. When the inner child creates, it gives away everything from the abundance it attracts. The inner perfectionist gives away too little of itself because it fears scarcity. The inner child wants to create impact and be selfless. The inner perfectionist just wants to protect the self image and creates to impact only if the world notices. The inner child seeks nothing but inner peace. The inner perfectionist seeks nothing but external validation. The inner child co-creates miracles. The inner perfectionist needs proof of concept for miracles before it starts creating. The inner child allows itself to surrender to the universe. The inner perfectionist allows itself nothing but strategy. The inner child makes the universe the center of everything. The inner perfectionist makes itself the center of the universe. The inner child makes everything childlike. The inner perfectionist thinks everything is childish. The inner child understands just one language: the language of love. The inner perfectionist knows only the language of fear. The inner child wants to evolve fearlessly; the inner perfectionist wants it to stay in a loop where perfectionism is worn as a badge of honor and evolving means taking unnecessary risks. The inner child wants to break the rules; the inner perfectionist has strict instructions not to allow any wandering or exploration.

Life's a keyboard. Ctrl N and we are born. As an original, not a copy. A new document, a blank canvas, untainted, vulnerable, impressionable. We are ready to write a new story in this lifetime. We meet many characters with many characteristics who impact our thinking, behaviours and actions. Based on what we learn, we use the character keys to start writing our personality, our story. We admire some things about some people, we are given dictums by society and some are forced on us. Without us realising, one day, the original document becomes just a Ctrl C Ctrl V version of other people’s lives. Yes, there are suggestions to change some words and sentences, our intuition never leaving our side. We keep writing paragraph after paragraph, dictated to us by the world around us and caught up in the race to write a story that the world would love, we become trigger happy with the Enter key and keep giving our stamp of approvals. Life circumstances happen. Desperate to find answers in our story we use the arrow keys to control the ups, downs, past and future of our lives. We don't know what the Home key means yet. Our ego is caught up in the comparison game and we use the number keys to create new goals and new numbers for us to achieve. At some stage we feel that our story is not going anywhere. There is nothing original about us anymore. We are just words strung together not by the love of life but the fear of it. We realise, nobody is coming to save us. We need to Ctrl S ourselves. We press F5 to refresh our lives. We are desparate to Esc from this self created prison. We try Alt ways of living and finding answers, we start pressing the Shift key in our lives to a point that is starts feeling violated. We use Tab to skip the dark areas of our life that we do not want to face. We use Caps lock for parts that we do not want to erase for they define who we are, even if it's our conditional separate self. We need Space. We use the Backspace to change what we can. Ctrl Z becomes are only way out. To undo the stories of our traumas, our suffering, our guilt and shame, our experience of the experiences, our childhood, our victimhood, our should, would, could.

You: Hello! Youniverse: Oh hello, my child. How can I serve you today? You: I want to write a song but nothing's coming to me. Youniverse: How interesting! I have a question here. If the song is not coming to you, are you coming to the song? You: What does that even mean? Youniverse: It means, are you becoming the song that you want to bring alive? You see, everyone has a song inside them. How do I know this? Because I am the universe and I turned myself into a song and sat deep inside you. And I am the divinity that sits within you as well. To realise the song in you is akin to realising the God within you. Me. And I am not only the song with you. I am also the music, I am the lyrics, I am the vocals, I am the business plan, I am the presentation deck, I am the editing software, I have seen the song in its entirety. Not only this, I am also the painting that sits within you, I am the peom, I am the story, I am the words, I am the punctuation, I am the colour, I am the lamp, I am the sculpture, I am the installation, I am the business idea, I am the recipe, I am the the taste, I am the ingredients. I am the flower, I am the bouquet, I am the bee that pollinated the flower. I am also the formless and the unmanifested. When you manifest that song, you manifest me. When you give form to that painting, you give form to me. When you realise the divinity with you, you become one with me. You: Ok, let's take a step back. So how do I write the song? What do I need to do? Youniverse: Sit down. Just start writing. And make your song an offering to me. I will send by most precious angels to hold your pen and take over. But you have to let them do their job. Surrender, fully surrender to the process and fully surrender the outcome of the song as well to me. You: That's it? Youniverse: I sit in the deepest part of you. To manifest me and the song that I am, you have to meet me there by dropping layers and layers of the conditioning, programming and the separate self that you have created. You have to be free of everything, every outcome, every attachment. You have to be fearless and accept the outcome as it manifests. You have to be childlike and playful and you have to honour the unique talent that I have endowed you with. You have to be an embodiment of love. Your only super purpose is to love the world, pour your love in the world with your song, be a presence of love and be the most loving person you can be. And then you become me and we become the song you want to write.

What if the idea of God as a mythological character doesn't sail your boat anymore? What if the idea of God as an idol in a temple or an esoteric concept explained by gurus and priests doesn't excite you anymore? What if you have come to a point in your life where the belief in an old man sitting in the clouds running a simulation that you are a part of is an obsolete, outdated program from which you need an exit plan? What if your faith is hanging by a thin thread and you need solid proof that God exists? What if you treated life as God? What if you gave life the respect, love, devotion, and reverence you have for God? What if life were God in all its avatars, in all its magnificence, expansiveness, immensity, and awesomeness? What if, starting right now, everything and everyone you come across you see as the divine creator standing in front of you? What if you saw God in the parent at home who has sacrificed so much for you? What if you saw God in the child who has brought so much joy to your life? What if you saw God in the partner, friend, colleague, uncle, aunt, niece, and nephew? What if the people who love you are God? What if the people who hurt you are also God? What if you saw God paying you a visit in the tiny butterfly that pirouettes around your nose? What if it were God in the golden retriever who snuggled up with you last night, its snout in your armpit and its unconditional love in your being? What if you saw God in the sun cajoling a water droplet in a puddle to evaporate, climb onto a cloud, and in this lifetime, live in an ocean? What if you saw God in the huge tree that just stands there on the sidewalk, smiling at you as you walk past? What if the life circumstances are God? What if the joys, sorrows, pain, suffering, and happiness are all God in varied forms coming into your life to help you experience life wholly? What if there is as much God in grief as there is in elation? What if every emotion you feel is God? What if depression, despair, and powerlessness are also God, helping you know and value the grandeur of empowerment, enthusiasm, and eagerness, which are also God? Life is God. The whole of it—not just one part of it, not just one tree but the whole of Mother Nature, not one butterfly but all living and non-living beings, not one emotion but everything that comes together to make life beautiful.

What if you make your own life a dress rehearsal? When you are kind to yourself, you are preparing yourself for how to be kind to the world. When you are able to love yourself fully, you have mastered the art of pouring unconditional love into the world without waiting for applause or a standing ovation. When you go through the drill of forgiving yourself, forgiving others becomes just a natural instinct that you don't have to rely on method acting for. When you practice gratefulness, then every idea, event, person, and interaction is an opportunity for being grateful and welcoming the flow of life with open arms. When you are empathetic to yourself, when you can acknowledge your own feelings, recognize and validate your own emotions without judgment, then you ready yourself to be empathetic with the world. When you can practice sitting with yourself, holding space for others comes very naturally to you. When you rehearse well at identifying your own triggers, you can pick out the triggers of others even when they are not aware that they have buried them backstage. When you rehearse being with yourself and spending time with yourself, you never need the spotlight on you. In fact, you allow others to take the lead while you find deep contentment in just being, witnessing your own life from the audience. Your perception of the outer world is a reflection of you. And your reaction to the world is an awareness of you. Raise your own consciousness. Expand your awareness, perception, and understanding of yourself. As you see yourself shift, the world around you changes the script and becomes a part of a larger cure instead of a larger disease ailing the world. You can only love others as much as you love yourself because you can't pour from an empty cup. And as your cup becomes full, it becomes bottomless, so you can pour from it endlessly, never needing to refill it from the outside. This love then is not a role play but your beingness. It's not the result of a rehearsal but an improv of your own healing journey and telling of a story spanning lifetimes—a biopic of your divine self and its evolution. You become what you practice. What are you practicing today?

Life is not about a nine-to-five workday, having a drink at home while watching K-dramas and saas-bahu serials, and going through the drudgery of another work week to meet the weekend with open arms, drown it in pints of pale ale, and then bid goodbye to it on a Sunday evening with a closed, heavy heart, waiting for the next weekend. Throw in a vacation, a family wedding, a therapy session, a reunion, and an appraisal, and we believe that life is sorted. Ten years run by, and the dreams we had in 2015 are being recycled for a decade. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, brooding over an unlived life, but to be engaged thoroughly and lived fully. This glorious life happens when the fine line between work, play, and rest ceases to exist, and they all blur together so you just can't separate one from another. Life was not created for us to pour our love into things and circumstances that diminish our purpose and extinguish our light. Life was created for us not as a directive but to be participative in nature. It is for us to create a life we want for ourselves from the raw materials and supplies of the universe—the elements, the senses, the sense objects, the motor objects, the wisdom, the ego, nature, and the divine consciousness itself. Life is meant to be a divine creation shaped by our hands and hearts, not by the minds of others. Work is meant to be play—of carving a path that reflects our deepest truth: joy, and our infinite potential. It is about honoring our sacred purpose and not being a slave to the mind, working hard towards creating and protecting a self-image far different from our unconditioned self. Wake up and see this beautiful life, this precious human life that has been given to you to experience your immensity, your magnificence, and your expansiveness, and not to waste it in hedonistic pursuits. Experience this beautiful life that is nothing less than a privilege—a life that calls upon you to come, play, roll in the mud of sorrows, blows, trials, and tribulations, and still find it within you to dust off the muck and rise again and again. A life that wants you to expand your heart to others and serve the universe. Come, let's play.

To the mommy who is rocking her baby to sleep while she can't keep her own eyes open. To the girl who is choosing to give love one more chance, even after another heartbreak. To the old man who is reading up on AI trends just to hold and keep a conversation going with his grandson. To the writer who has nothing to show up for but still is. To the girl who chose to make a cup of coffee instead of hitting the half-leftover bottle of gin from last night. To the mother who put her own life on hold so that she could bring up the kids while her husband chased his dreams. To someone who hugged his father for the first time in years. To someone who kissed his wife after years. To someone who shed a tear after years. To someone who chose to take herself to the cleaners, wash herself of her shame, and not be a doormat her entire life. To someone who woke up today to make music to heal someone in the future. To the father who decided to take a day off today to spend time with his father. To someone who quit her job to become a scuba diving instructor. To the scuba diving instructor who fed a school of fish with love. To the Uber driver who welcomed his passengers with a warm smile today. To someone who gave their word and stuck to it. To someone who showed up today for no reason other than to show up and be in selfless service. To the young man who chose to be vulnerable and tell his story to a group of strangers. To a stranger who hugged a lady weeping in the metro and offered her a sip from his favorite homemade coffee. To someone who said no, finally. To someone who said yes, finally, to a new idea and challenge. To the man who kept his faith during a time when his inner core was shaken. To the artist who stepped out of her comfort zone today and tried a new genre. To someone who offered to hold space for a colleague. To the young boy who held a scared old lady’s hand on the escalator. To the boss who is willing to handhold his employees. To someone who is willing to hand over his collection of books to a library. Whoever you are, wherever you are, you are doing a great job. You are being what you were created to be. Love. God bless you!

We never make the second-best decision. Never. At any given point, we make the best decision to the best of our understanding of things in that present moment. It’s only in hindsight, when we see the complete picture, do we discover if the decision was the best, the second best, or the only option we had at that time. The decisions we make define our destiny and shape us into the people we are today. Decisions happen when we slap our conditioning and prejudices onto the thoughts that drop into our consciousness. The same thoughts on loop then become beliefs, which are followed by the same behaviors, leading to the same actions, which become habits and yield the same results and patterns in our lives that shape our destiny. To change our destiny, we need to change the quality of our thoughts. And while we go through this journey, it helps to change our perspective on experiences and see them in a larger context. An irreversible mistake that you made, which was probably the wisest decision you could have made at that time, could be the greatest lesson of your life. A failure that left you stranded and frozen could be rewritten as the most important turning point in your life. The ending of a relationship to which you gave everything could possibly have been the new beginning your life needed. The success you experienced at a young age followed by a downhill slide can be reinterpreted as the finest lesson on the impermanence of life. The experiences will happen. The experience of those experiences will happen. Our role is to keep making the best decisions from a space of love and to keep showing up for life as it unfolds day after day. And one day, after many years, when you take stock of all the experiences and see them from a new point of view that lacks self-pity but has an abundance of compassion, you’ll notice that every experience in your life has been a positive one, every decision the right decision, and every outcome exactly as it was meant to be. From this moment onward, slow down, check the quality of your thoughts, make another best decision—this time consciously—change your actions, and rewrite your destiny. + Creativegarh.com

When you are out to bring joy, love and miracles into your life and create a change in your life and in the universe, the first thing life calls on you to do is invoke the giver in you. Second, to give yourself the joy, love and miracles for only once your cup is getting filled will you be able to pour them into the world. It then demands you to move from self to service. To put yourself into the service of the universe and its beings. It asks of you to be a go-giver than a go-getter, to come from a space of abundance, not scarcity. It calls on you to you to give your undivided attention to your dreams, your unrelenting commitment to your gifts being used in the universe and not hoarded in forgotten cupboards, your non-negotiable devotion to showing up to honour your talents and your purpose, your selfless generosity and your magnanimous love. Giving is asking the universe what you can do for it and how you can serve it instead of asking the universe what it can do for you. It's not about turning prayer into a shopping list but a gratefulness inventory. It inspires you to move from a get to a give state of being. We all may have a unique purpose on this planet but a there's one purpose that's common to all of us in whatever we do. To be a giver of love and spread it in abundance. Through our beingness, work, actions and interactions. But on the journey of deep, meaningful living, there can be no authentic giving without forgiving. Forgive all those who didn't give you a chance. Everyone who told you that you were no good. Those who rejected you and your ideas. Forgive those who hurt you. Forgive them. Ask for forgiveness from those whom you have wronged, knowingly or unknowingly. And most importantly, forgive yourself for not allowing yourself to live a fulfilling, joyful and abundant life. Forgive yourself for your past mistakes and failures. Forgive yourself for all the shame, wrongdoings and the guilt. Forgiveness sets you free. When you are free, you are fearless. And when you are fearless, you give fearlessly. Just forgive. And then give it whatever you have. For giving, you have to be forgiving.

You: I think I will never find love in my life. Where do I look for love? Help me find love? Please, pretty please? Youniverse: Hello, pretty child. But you ARE love. I very clearly remember making you AS love, as a part of me. Why do you need to find love outside of you? Are you looking for love because you don't feel loved enough? Have you forgotten that you are love? You: But I still need to find love, no? Youniverse: What if I say that you have to find love inside of you rather than outside of you? And once you become love, you will attract the love. Alike attracts alike. That's how I have created the law of this universe. You: But how do I love myself? Youniverse: First, you need to set the intent—sankalp—an unattached intent to believe that you are made of love and that you will search for it within you. Second, simply become the most loving person you know. Just find the love within you. Or better still, find me—pure love—sitting within you, and manifest me into this world. You see, I made you whole and complete, but somewhere on the path towards light, you have stopped loving yourself. You have disintegrated and split, thinking that love and you exist separately and that love exists outside of you. Through your life and experiences, you have started believing that you are not loved. You have started fearing that you will never find love. And to hide this fear, you have abandoned your own self and started looking for someone outside to love you and make you feel loved and whole. And this person who has come to fill you up also feels unloved, and you complete him with parts of yourself and he completes you with parts of you. You make each other feel that you complete each other. Atleast that's what you to each other tagging when them on social media. But one person is incapable of filling every part of your being. Only you are capable of making yourself complete. To hide your lack of love for yourself, you show up in your most seductive, admirable best. You manipulate to attract attention to fill the empty parts of you and make this love long-lasting. You bring reason to love not remembering that love needs no reason. All this while, you do not realise that you are feeling more and more unlovable by yourself. All's good for some time, but you all are ever-evolving, temporary beings. You change, the person changes, and the reasons you ‘loved’ each other don't exist forever. But by now, you have built attachments with the person, and those attachments weigh you down. And then you try to break free to find someone else to fill the empty parts of you. You: So this becomes a pattern? Till when will this go on? Youniverse: Till the time you become aware of the parts of you that are unloved, integrate them back into your wholeness, and become love again. And manifest this love to become the most loving person and create a world that’s built with love for everyone and everything. May you become the love that you seek in this world.