it's amazing how much an afternoon passed baking cakes and biscuits can calm my nerves and fill me with energy.
the preparation of pastry is like a mantra to me. i repeat mentally the recipe and every action i do has a specific and pre-ordered purpose.
last week i went to a Yoga Meditation session in Buda. i really felt that it was time to introduce Yoga values and attitude in my life, since sometimes i live in what i named hurry-mind-state. that is to say, when i forget about enjoying the present and i worry too much about the future. maybe, i thought. meditation would teach me a way to calm down and let it go when i need it the most.
at the end of the meditation session, when the sweet, calm and warm voice of my Yoga teacher told us to focus on our positive energy flowing from the Heart Chakra after the relaxing repetition of a sanscrit mantra, to send it to ourselves, the people we love, the people we are angry with, and to smile to ourselves, to give thanks for the good things we have in life... that exact state is the one i experience after baking cakes most of the times.
sometimes i live with the overwhelming feeling that i do not have control over the things that happen to me. which is true. we do not have the control over everything, and that's part of life.
but doing simple things, like preparing my daily dose of endorphynes, leaves me with the feeling that i can enjoy what i do even if i do not have any control over it apart from my goodwill.
most surprisingly, i feel that i'm grateful exactly because it's a miracle if i'm here, if i'm even able to relax in a quiet, warm and safe place, enjoying myself, in such a chaotic world i have no control on.
take your time to do something that makes you feel like this. that's the best advice i can give myself and everyone else.
