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To be loved and accepted, I discovered are the biggest desires of many people. For some, this might mean changing themselves to be someone they're not, in hope other people will love them. • It's easy to get into this cycle of pleasing other, especially in our Asian communal culture. This too is something that I notice I have tendency with. • Which is why I'm really glad that my husband is the most considerate and accepting, human being I've ever known. A characteristic that I truly admire: to see things as they are. Something that I continuously learn. • If you're longing to have someone to love you truly, I hope you know that each of us are unique and needs to be loved in a different way.  • The right person who knows how to love you the way you are, in a way that you wanna be loved, will come eventually when you're  already love and accept your true self.  • www.balancelife.id/body-type-quiz • #zimmokimmo #WrittenByZia (at Bali Asli, Amlapura, Bali)

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For the last year or so, my travelling intensity has been increased substantially. When I dreamt that I wanna travel the world, I didn't expect it would be this much haha. • So the last few months, I've been feeling overwhelmed with the amount of travel that I've done, and the one that will comes. The amount of long distance travel will only increase and not less. • So at some point, I cried and talked to Kimmana that I'm tired of travelling. I just wanna settle in one place, thinking that this would make me happy. • But it seems like I just need a restart button to make me appreciate the things that I already have. • Visiting the big smoke of Jakarta for a day, made me realise how lucky I'm to live the life I have. Being able to travel and make money at the same fine, together with the people that I love. • Sometime the wind direct your sail to an unexpected direction. Forcing it to the other direction, not only it's a hard work, but it might not ripe the result that we expected. • Trust and doing my best to respond to the unexpected wind is I believe, what will give me the most growth and happiness. • www.balancelife.id/body-type-quiz • #WrittenByZia #zimmokimmo

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It's my ultimate dream to be able to work anywhere, anytime, so I can be close with the people that I love (and love me back wholeheartedly ❤). • It felt surreal to have an almost 2 months of holiday with Kimmana's family. His 4 parents, 3 sisters (and their partners), and 1 little Bubba. From the States to Bali, I had such a great time especially during this time when things are a bit full on in our life. Realising how much love and support around us, that in the end, everything is gonna be okay. • Back to my kind of reality now... More laptop work 😂. • www.balancelife.id/body-type-quiz • #zimmokimmo #WrittenByZia

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I never been an exercise-everyday kinda person. I think because my family has never been one, so it was difficult to see the importance of it. • Most people think of exercise as a tool to be slim, but underweight is always been my tendency (except until 2010 after I lived in Europe for few months. I gained extra weight and never went down). • Only until I met Kimmana and learnt about #Ayurveda about the crucial role exercise plays in our life. And that is to activate the digestive fire in our body. • Without a function digestive fire, we're unable to digest food that we consume, experience that occurs in our life, or emotions that we're feeling. • Studies has even shown a group of stress people, actually got out of their issue not by pharmaceutical medicine, but by sleep early and wake up early, and perform exercise during sunrise. • From never had a morning exercise routine, to have some fork of daily exercise, it took me around 3 years to finally install that as a habit. • Now if I don't do my morning exercise, I felt foggy and not in my best state for the whole day 😢. • When I don't have the time, I'd just jump for 100 times, as this helps to pump the lymphatic system to work and make my body to heat up. As sign that ky digestive fire switch on. • What about you, what's your morning exercise look like? • www.balancelife.id/body-type-quiz • #zimmokimmo #HolisticNomadsTips #AyurvedaIndonesia

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Life is a lot like learning #snowboarding. There's always a lesson/challenge in every corner. • As the driver of your life, you got 2 options: 1. Let fear control your life, and stay on the safe side. Continuously making excuse on why it's okay to not to live up to your highest potential (but please don't feel jealous of other people who are living their best life because it's just gonna make you feel more miserable), or • 2. Tackle your fear of the unknown and face the challenges as an opportunity to grow. If you fall/fail, it's not the end of the world (for people who hate failure like me, I know how bad failure could feel 😢). It's only the end of the journey if you decided that's the end. • On the video was my last day of snowboarding because I sprained my ankle and wrist after trying a more steep hill 😄. • I decided that was the end because I have another life besides snowboarding that requires a good healthy wrist and ankle 😂. • 📷 by: @mrgmissus • www.balancelife.id/body-type-quiz • #WrittenByZia #zimmokimmo

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Cold weather makes my skin dry, in the other hand, overly hot weather makes my hair fall 😂. • I concluded that there's no perfect place to live. Every place that I've been too has its own ups and downs. • Sometimes we can't choose on the things that happen to our life (like the place where we were born). But we have the free will to respond and react to it. • Like how I've been religiously do abhyanga/self-love massage with cold pressed oil in the winter here (-22 Celsius now 😱), or how I'm reducing chilli and fried foods if I'm hot places like Bali. • You have the power to create a life that you are born for. God provides the nuts but doesn't crack them. It's saved for people who truly deserve it. • Love, Zia • PS: have you read my newest blog about finding the ideal place for you to live based in #Ayurveda? Go to www.balancelife.id/blog or click the link on bio. • #zimmokimmo #WrittenByZia #AyurvedaIndonesia #HolisticNomadsTips

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We're all need spices and herbs in our life. The difference is the quantity and which type of herbs that will balance your being in certain circumstances, certain environment, or certain season. • Spices and herbs in general are a dominant #pitta element. And the summer season as well as the tropics is an example of a dominant pitta environment. • In my newest blog, I wrote what I just learned from Kimmana at his previous month long Yoga-Ayurveda-Bodywork training: an ideal place for us to live in, based on our unique body needs and constitution. • Head over to www.balancelife.id/blog, or click the link on my bio. • 📷 taken at @rootedapothecary . A sweet spot where Kimmana and I stumbled around today. Happy finding as I found a beautiful pine infused oil to clean my face 😍. • www.balancelife.id/body-type-quiz • #WrittenByZia #zimmokimmo #AyurvedaIndonesia #AskHolisticNomads

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There are 2 ways to see how our life works. One, see it like an oak tree, grow as big as you can individually, without thinking or supporting others to grow as well because well, we're different and separated. • Or grow like an #AspenGrove. Understanding that even if one the surface we're look like an individual being, we are actually all connected. • POP QUIZ: do you what’s the largest living organism on Earth? No, it’s not a blue whale. It’s a tree, a Quaking #Aspen. That's right, a single Quaking Aspen in Utah, USA, covers 106 acres of land and is estimated to weigh more than 6,000 metric tonnes 😱. • www.balancelife.id/body-type-quiz. • #zimmokimmo #WrittenByZia