Are you fed up to death with ultramodern #catchthemoment or #mindfullife techniques? Haven’t succeeded with this stuff either, have you? Let me share with you a fresh and ready-made recipe:
1. You handle more than you are able to withstand: work, everyday routine, relationships, hobbies - all that counts, just mix to taste 👨🍳
2. You’re persistently simmering in all this until you are sick and tired (I can see you are gonna blow up) 😤
3. You note at least 8-9 out of 10 signs of a nervous breakdown (you can easily google the full list)
Everything is simple for the moment. If you suddenly feel sick of the thought that you need to think about anything in the morning, then you’re on the right way
4. Great! Now it’s high time to book the tickets and set off to a calm warm place or even better: buy just a one-way ticket. And go alone! The southeast of Crimea and Georgia will do at the end of October, after that - Cyprus, Tai, Nice 🏖
5. As soon as you reach the place, screw everything except the minimum necessary for survival (social networks are not included 😉)
6. Let yourself lie in the sun a couple of days until you feel a slight touch of a sense of security and serenity 😌
7. Now you’re ready to roam around the place whenever your feet take you without even seeking anything. Leave your phone, camera, book, notebook – all vital things you can’t imagine your life without - in the room. Personally, I took the keys and a bit of cash that I wasn’t afraid to lose. Your clothes should be the most comfortable one
8. While walking, just stop, well, i.e. REALLY STOP looking for any ways to solve your problems or carry out duties. Stop even thinking about them or thinking about that you don’t need to recollect any of that stuff 🙊
9. Then you start listening… Listening to yourself. Do it sensitively, delicately. Do respond to every inner impulse. If it’s positive, then carry it out. If it’s negative, just take away the cause. Suddenly you feel you’d like to turn into this weird street or turn around and go back? Please do it then. You feel you’d like to taste this beautiful candy? Well, take it! You didn’t like seller? Then call another one or go to a store nearby (why store for God’s sake!? it was in the Crimea, not in Nice ... well, doesn’t matter). You’d like to switch off the phone, hide from the radar and get lost? (it’s been already mentioned -- leave the cellphone in the room!!! 🤬). Go for it, it’ll be fun! And so on and so forth. You’ve made a wrong wish or choice, then listen attentively and correct as you like: when you’re on edge every mistake is perceived more acutely
10. Catch this state like a wave and surf it🏄♂️
11. I won’t write anything after that. If you’re lucky, you’ll get to know yourself, and nobody will come as an adviser. Most likely, it’ll go well... or not, but then well again. And vice versa ... And then again ... I can only say that it’s worth it in the finale. Good luck! 😁
PS: Huh, it’s been already 2 months since I posted this recipe in my personal account. A lot has happened and changed during this rather eventful period of time (Zanzibar, resolving real estate issues, Moscow, launching a blog, Nice, planning and moving to St. Petersburg ... uhhh), but when posting here (into this blog), I didn’t have to change or add anything, I only brought some beauty in it
PPS: If someone has already tried it out or has gone through anything like that earlier, feel free to share, it's interesting to hear feedback and impressions
Translation by: Irina Zaitseva