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Hello, my friends! Since last week's curation was so successful and well-liked, I'll continue using the simple format of dissertation and narrative in this one. To be honest, the previous format may have appeared to be more practical, but that's only a passing perception. In truth, it's much easier and more fluid to just write a full post including the curated content as I go.

The other advantage of this form of curation is that I've noticed there's often a single guiding thread connecting all articles in any given curation, and this format allows me to develop a reflection along the path which feels most natural. This Tuesday, for instance, I began with a Rune Reading that literally spoke about enjoying life more and let worry melt away, only to realize later that many other people had hopped on the same wagon. Take a look, for instance, at this wonderful post by @mrnightmare89, where he talks about the choice to be free, to change angle and perspective, to stop thinking about all of our troubles, which aren't unique or special, and instead cultivate our awareness of beauty and joy. He also discusses the weight that we place upon our shoulders by constantly making plans for the future instead of living in the Now.

We all have this essential task to free ourselves, to go deeper into our fear, shame and guilt in order to dismantle and integrate them, for all of them conceal knowledge and tools required for the new challenges ahead. The process of self-discovery is also the road to greater self-love and deeper sense of purpose, but it demands nothing less than the highest faith and trust. Living wholeheartedly is easy, getting there is the issue. For generations we've built a web of dread that prevents us from accepting simple facts of life, such as death or sorrow; we resist and trash about, unknowingly making our existence harder than it needs to be. We would do well to pay attention to reflections such as the one shared by @greenie.girl, regarding the importance of taking life one step at a time, to shed the need to rush and the desire for things to be what they're not. She invites us to internalize the value of failure in learning, and to live in the moment rather than trying to find a hypothetical treasure on the other side of our fantasies.

Most of us are taught to follow conventions with the promise of finding that treasure at the end of the rainbow, but we never get there. We labor so hard at the behest of others for a wage and sometimes a series of purported social benefits that we may or may not enjoy at some point, all the while accumulating stress and debts as we struggle to keep up with the changes around us. Employers are rarely interested in the wellbeing of their employees, like absentee landlords expecting the rent every month without a thought on how their tenants are faring. Fortunately, there are some employers who truly give a damn about the success of their projects, so they care for the people they've hired, and @kellyane has a nice story to share in this regard. Thanks to her experience at a previous job, she acquired the habit of Yoga which has improved her life well beyond any wage or promise of a bright future.

Why should we expect others to give us access to that bright future we imagine? Why were we raised to do that? How much frustration, boredom and dissatisfaction could we have spared for ourselves if we'd been given a different choice? Hard to say, because these perspectives could only be born from those limitations. Oppression teaches us about freedom, sadness shows us the value of joy, pain gives us insights about pleasure. When we leave the carcass of the people we were taught we should be and decide to improve on our own, we literally give ourselves the treasures we thought we had to look somewhere else, and @pixiepost knows this quite well, as her recent post shows. She's making a bunch of changes in her life, jumping into new projects while continuing her inner work and her podcast. She's also happy about her recent power up. As she says: gratitude is truly attitude.

This same wonderful energy inspires the final post I have for you today. Perhaps some readers have been following @mamrita's process inasmuch as she's been able to share it with us, and I've personally found it very beautiful because of her candor and willingness for exposure. She's taking this to another level and is now focusing more on her coaching work with her own lovely website and an Instagram account. She's also in the countryside and shares so many gorgeous pictures of her future cottage, surrounded by radiant nature and vibrant, fresh colors. I'm happy to see her so motivated and expansive, which is why I chose to conclude this curation with her contribution, a fitting summary for the topics discussed in the previous publications, and a powerful statement of accomplishment and self-love.

In every curation, we reward one of our delegators as a 5% beneficiary. This week I randomly chose @consciousangel7

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