THE ART OF "SLOW" LIVING, LIVING HARMONY WITH NATURE (MINDFULNESS)

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The art of slow living or in Bahasa it is called as Seni Menikmati Hidup Seutuhnya secara Sadar.

I once have the opportunity to work and live in Singapore, I have more "prosperous" life there however the funny thing is I don't feel happy that time, instead I felt TIRED with everything in life at that time. 

So I decided to take sabbatical leave for a year, away from work, social media (till now) or whatever,  and fully spent time with myself, doing my hobby and have a date with NATURE.

In the nature we find ourselves, soe hok gie.

Like a MAGIC! NATURE has the POWER to help me to Heal, Recover, and Recharge my mental health, Cause Nature has very POSITIVE ENERGY that helps me to be POSITIVE again towards LIFE. Look deeper into nature then you'll understand everything better, its really true! Just like Nature, in life everything has its own season, after autumn there's winter, then its transform to spring then summer :), that's the cycles of nature~, similar with our life, people need to going through hard times in order to have a good times afterwards. And it continues, sustain and never end, as long as we live, we will transform and grow. 

Nature can help to reduce stress and negative emotions, by feeling the coolness of nature, our blood pressure becomes stable and stress is reduced, trees gives human more energy. Nature is also able to calm us, invite us to stop for a moment from the hustle  and bustle of the city. Help us to "slow down", enjoy every moment to moment, create a lot of good memories. Nature brings us to a calmer feeling, in the wild, we can live fresh air as we please. Shout as loud as you can to let go of your heart. Occasionally close your eyes, sit cross-legged and let the wind blow our body. It feels like nature whispers a magic spell that can make our problems go away on their own. With a calm atmosphere that comes from nature, our way of thinking and feeling will be more positive, humans will find it easier to contemplate, understand, and explore themselves in the wild. 

Lately, I build my greenery garden at home, it was comforting, refreshing and relaxing, even though I need to do lot of "hard" works like lifting up dozen bags of sand, fertilizer, compos, play with goat poop, and other animal poop but its enjoyable.

And believe it or not gardening can help me to gain back my energy and positivity, free self healing! NATURE IS VERY POWERFUL! , sometimes I believe when we step our bare foot to earth, earth can help to detox all the negativity and absorb it, in the same time the greeneries trees around us release positive energy that we can absorb. That's why when you feel stress, anxiety, overthinking, worrying, just go out see the blue sky and mingle with greeneries, then you can HEAL! Thank you Nature!

WHY NATURE IS SO POWERFUL TO HELP US RECHARGE, RECOVER AND HEAL?! WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM NATURE?

Wisdom

Have you ever ask that there's difference character between people who live in the village and big city? this is what I found, villager tend to have patience, sincerity, empathy, kindness, helpful, and gratitude while people who lives in a big city tend to be emotional, in rush, greedy, lack of gratitude, jealousy, selfish and arrogant, HOWEVER NOT ALL OF THEM LIKE THAT, still there's lot of GOOD PEOPLE OUTTHERE, just put more understanding in it as in the end we are all HUMAN BEING. So from here we can learn to take the good part of it and leave the bad part of it. 

God's Power

to grow small seeds to great giant plant!

Everything will comes back to earth, include us, after we die, we will sleep inside the earth! so stay down to earth, help each other, create a meaningful life, create a good legacy to our next generation that's how we respect life and thanks God who already gives us an opportunity to live this LIFE. 

Karma

We reap what we sow, we aren't harvest what we plant immediately but SURELY, so if you want to have GOOD HARVEST, then plant a GOOD SEEDS and take care of them well, so in the future you can harvest what you already plant before :), IN THE END IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO YOU :), I once ask my mom I've been doing good to people, but why people still can be so mean to me?! should I reply to it? and my mom said NO NEED TO DO THAT, LET GOD DO IT, just becomes a good people, do the right things, as everything that you do will comes back to you in the end! God's power will always protect and safe you from the harm, you can't see it however after you look back then you realize how amazing God's way to safe and protect you from the harm, and yes it's true! as I've prove it!

I always believe Those who hurt you will screw themselves up, and if you're lucky GOD will let you watch! 

Patience, Live in the Present moment and Enjoy the moment

Urea story,  this is sad yet funny story to tell, I once had bought urea fertilizer for my plant in the garden, as I want my plants grow bigger rapidly so i watery all my plant with urea in high doze, and you know what instead of having a healthy plant, the day after tmrw i saw all of my plant is die~ :( sad!! but that's becomes lesson learned for me to not rush in anything, enjoy the moment, everything will fall a part in time! don't worry! 

Life to be meaningful and give meaning

Be a part of solution for our future generation, as what we do now will impact to our future generations, so it's our responsibility to preserve this nature, to LEAVE A GOOD LEGACY FOR OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

Give Back to Nature and Community, Mutual Cooperation between all "stakeholders" in the ecosystem

Nature is giver, whatever we do nature always give us its best, oxygen, food, everything, that's why we need to give back to nature by preserve it, instead of exploit it. 

Food Independence and Economic value, Free groceries stores!

If we can produce vegetables, fruit by our self in our garden, we're not only help to build green ecosystem but also to empower ourselves to have more healthy food, more productive and independence and save budget as we minimize our work to market, instead we grow our own plant and eat it! 

Holistic Interconnectedness

Holistic cycle of life, in example, nature gives us banana to eat, and we give back to nature, by throwing away banana skin back to the land so it can be a natural fertilizer. Nothing waste if we can proceed it. 

ALL IS COMING BACK TO US, If we can preserve our nature, then the one who have the benefit is also us, NATURE WILL PROTECT US from disasters, provide us with oxygen, clean water, healthy food, and relaxing place to recharge ourselves 

Serenity, Balance, Stillness, Positivity

Peacefulness for mind and soul

Tolerance with other creatures 

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BLUE MIND (SOLITUDE, SERENITY, WISDOM)

“The world is full of uncertainty and the road you are traveling may be a bit scary at times, but don’t ever lose faith. Let go of the scary things that are holding you back and start noticing the great realities unfolding around you. Most of all, believe in yourself and never give up on what’s important to you! Life is always going to present you with unexpected changes. But if you keep an open mind, look for the goodness in every situation and are able to adapt in any of life’s misfortunes, you will always prevail.”- The goodreads.

Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do

Book by Wallace J. Nichols

Having solitude and serenity through Nature, Ocean, and Mountain.

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ART AND HISTORY

As a big fans of ART and HISTORY, visiting MUSEUM, GALLERY and OLD TOWN(listening to OLD SONGS 😁) becomes my favourites activities, I found lot of fun, walking in the silence, UNDERSTANDING the GREAT CREATIONS OF ART and HISTORY from every nations around the world. 

RarArt has some new paintings to share....here they are....

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Some history quotes that I loved.

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AUTHENTIC TASTE OF INDONESIA

Everywhere I go I always make time to go to Museum, Gallery, and TRADITIONAL RESTO AND MARKET. 

WHY? Because Cooking and Tasting every single traditional recipes from every corner of the world is amazing! 

From a dish, we can learn about history, culture, character and legendary story that shapes that communities/society.

Beyond the tasty taste, every traditional food hold the authenticity of the recipes, legendary stories and art behind it, that makes the food legend, resilience, and sustainable for loooooooooong time! 

as young generation, we have the responsibility to preserve this treasures, so that our future generations still can taste the deliciousness of the legendary authentic recipes from our great ancestor before.

Besides the FOODIE, I'm also a cook/chef! here I'm going to share several creations of mine.  This is it! :D

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SAD TRUTH/REALITY

1. Children cannot go to school and have to work in the earlier age because have no money
2. Old man/women still need to do "hard" work
3. Veteran cannot afford life properly 
4. People cannot afford basic needs (food and health)
5. People die because have no money to buy food or cannot go to hospital
6. Women labor working abroad as low level worker/housemaid which treated inhumane by their employer
7. Gov are still allowing Chinese labor come and work easily to Indonesia during lockdown, while in other side Indonesian must stay at home, becomes jobless, and can't go anywhere easily #unfairness
8. Indonesian citizen split up because ethnics, religion, cultures, race issues
9. Young people lost their future because of Narcotics
10. Local people have to get disease, disaster, loose their land and their source of life from nature because of irresponsible mining industry that come and go easily as they liked
11. Broken Nature (Flora and Fauna) because too much irresponsible exploitation and exploration 

I'M CRYING INSIDE SEEING THAT TRUTH, I WISH SOMEDAY I CAN HELP ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEEDS! PAY IT FORWARD! AMIN🙏

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INDONESIA KAMI LAHIR UNTUKMU BERKARYA DAN MENGABDI BAGIMU

Indonesia kami lahir untukmu
Berkarya dan mengabdi bagimu
Bersatu untuk membangun bagi negeri tercinta
Mari majulah Indonesiaku

Indonesia kami lahir untukmu
Berkarya dan mengabdi bagimu
(Berkarya dan mengabdi bagimu)
Bersatu untuk membangun bagi negeri tercinta
Mari majulah Indonesiaku

Bersatulah semua raih kejayaan
Melengkapi dalam perbedaan
Bersatu membela merah putih tercinta
Bangkitlah Indonesia
Buktikan pada dunia
Mari majulah indonesiaku

Bersatulah semua raih kejayaan
Melengkapi dalam perbedaan
Bersatu membela merah putih tercinta
Bangkitlah Indonesia
Buktikan pada dunia
Mari majulah indonesiaku

Bersatulah semua raih kejayaan
Melengkapi dalam perbedaan
Bersatu membela merah putih tercinta
Bangkitlah Indonesia
Buktikan pada dunia
Mari majulah indonesiaku

Bangkitlah Indonesia
Buktikan pada dunia
Bangitlah Indonesia
Buktikan pada dunia

Mari majulah, majulah
Ooh majulah, majulah
Mari majulah Indonesiaku

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Liliana Tanoesoedibjo

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DREAMS COMES TRUE PACHELBEL CANON IN D

My FUTURE WEDDING SONGS 😏

WITH SOMEONE THAT GOD ALREADY DESTINED FOR ME, DON'T KNOW WHO 😂

Come with me, and we will fly together,

to a place, where we can love forever,
Take my hand, and we will see tomorrow,
only joy, and no more tears or sorrow,

A love I never knew, until I found you,
I promise that I do, believe that dreams come true.

Miracles will be, look at you and me,
heaven helped us to, believe that dreams come true.

Instrumental Break

In this moment, filled with deep emotion
hold me tight,  you'll feel my true devotion. 


A love I never knew, until I found you,
I promise that I do, believe that dreams come true. 


Miracles will be, look at you and me, 
heaven helped us to, believe that dreams come true, 
believe that dreams come true. 

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THE BOOK OF JOY

For All that has been: Thanks!

For All that shall be: Yes!

-Dag hammarskjold, markings-

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God. We are transformed by what we accept. We transform what we have accepted by understanding it. Believe that there is a design that wants to come through in our lives despite the random and untidy display.

Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and to be free from the past. Without forgiveness we remain tethered to the person who harmed us. We are bound to the chains of bitterness, tied and trapped. Until we can forgive the person who harmed us, that person will hold the keys to our happiness, that person will be our jailor. When we forgive, we take back control of our own fate and our feelings. We become our own liberator.

 

Every reality meets us with impermanence. The fact of impermanence gives us the hope that we will rise again. The first given of life is that changes and endings are inevitable for any person. Everything falls apart in time. Every beginning leads to a finale.

We will never be given more than we can bear. Humility lies in accepting reality with all its surprises and in accepting ourselves with all our limitation 

Life is committed to variety and new growth, and that comes at the price of endings. Perhaps things end so that we can reach the high spiritual peak that comes with letting go. 

 

Be Grateful always, Everything in Life occurs in Cycles just like season. Spring-Summer-Autumn-Winter, Enjoy every moment in your life,

Everything in life is temporary, so live your life!

 

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