school is approaching, and I made these playlists to make your nights and mornings a little bit eaiser.
fall asleep [listen]
to help you fall asleep or calm down and breathe. slowly take deep breaths, close your eyes and let the music hit your inner self.
wake up [listen]
make the mornings peaceful and lovely instead of dreadful and horrible. I have put together the most calming and positive songs into this playlist, and I hope it will make the mornings eaiser.Â
girls: exist
me: god..... i have to lie dow....n .. . thank u for blessing this earth,, , with such beauty
1. First, quieten your rational mind as it has a tendency to hush, distort or quash the intuition of your heart.
2. Practice mindfulness. This is grounding yourself in the present moment, and being aware of all the sights, sounds and sensations that are happening in the here-and-now.
3. Go with the flow. Don’t try to force your heart to speak to you. Instead, simply “be” and allow your heart to speak in its own time, and in its own way.
4. Get into the habit of paying attention to every nudge and whisper from your intuition. We are taught to silence those inner tugs and pulls – so begin to notice, and to listen to, them.
5. Trust and act upon your intuition. It’s important to treat those inner messages as valid, and then follow your instincts – and notice where they lead you.
You’ll find that life is more rewarding if you listen to your heart – as well as listening to your rational mind.
“You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.”
— Jamie Tworkowski
(via bleachvii)
“It scares me how happy I get around you. I spent so long learning how to be happy on my own. And I promised myself I would never lose that.”
“Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.”
— Wes Angelozzi
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness – that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what – at last – I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.”
— Bertrand Russell
1. “If the Brits didn’t come here, someone else woulda.”
If I didn’t bash that nerd in school someone else woulda. If I didn’t abuse that orphan homeless girl someone else woulda. If I didn’t put a sweatshop in that country someone else woulda. “Someone else woulda” doesn’t justify anything.
2. “The Brits were a more advanced society.”
They had more advanced weapons, that doesn’t make them a more advanced society. North Korea has nukes. They could blow us up tomorrow. Does that make them more advanced than us? No.
And seriously, compare how 1700s Brit society and 1700s Aboriginal society treated their citizens. Women? Kids? Disabled? The hungry? Paint the worst possible picture of both if you like, you’d be hard pressed to say Brit society looks better (and I’m not saying Aboriginal society was a utopia either).
3. “What’s the point of going on about it, it’s in the past.”
*Rafiki coconut staff to the head* The past still hurts in real tangible ways. One example, from about 1910-1970 Aboriginal people were forced, by law, to work and live where the Government put them for 16 hour days, but then in many cases the Government “withheld”/“lost” their wages. These are the Stolen Wages cases.
Now, lots of these people are still alive. They are now old and they have bugger-all money for their retirement even though they worked hard for decades. This didn’t happen to white fellas, just black ones. Why? Well, to fully explain it we have to talk about how disempowered Black people became due to invasion. This put them in such a crap position by 1910-1970, that they could be exploited like this, with the flow on effects flowing on to this day.
But if you still think there’s no point going on about tragedies from the past, let’s scrap Anzac Day.
4. “I didn’t do it, Brits 100s of years ago did, why should I feel guilty?”
I don’t feel guilty. I don’t want you to feel guilty. I just want you to stop standing in the way of accepting the truth of what happened so we can all move on. As stated above, the past still has impact today. Yes you and I personally didn’t do it. But you and I still reap great advantage from what happened then. Hell, the reason my government has so much money sloshing around is cause they still have all that “stolen wages” money - with interest! And all that money that shoulda gone to Aboriginal people when their land was first taken! And all that money that through inheritance laws is in the hands of white people when it should be in the hands of black ones! The injustices of the past are completely paid forward to create the inequalities of today. Not all inequalities! But some of them. So yep, you and I didn’t do it. But by denying this past injustice and allowing all the injustices that still flow from it to fester, you are perpetuating it. If you really want all of us to “move on” you need to acknowledge this history. We can’t “move on” till we do.
5. “It was normal at the time in that society.”
Should we cut 1940s Germans slack because “Jews are awful and Nazis are great” was normal at the time in that society? Should we cut current Saudi Arabians slack because “women are second class citizens and gays are scum” is normal at the time in that society? Nup. There were heaps of people back in the 1700s, 1940s and now that knew and shouted loudly that the Brits, Germans and Saudi Arabians respectively were doing something crap. It was normalised because someone had something to gain from normalising it. And there were people then who could see through it. “Normal at the time” doesn’t justify it.
Think about it. “I genuinely believe that black people are inferior so I am entitled to take their land,their resources, have sex with the ones I find hot whenever I like and use them for slave labour so I don’t have to do the hard work.” What a spectacularly convenient thing to “genuinely believe.”
