Keep a gratitude journal ღ

❤ Hugs

❤ Meditation

❤ Going with the flow

❤ Having learnt to live spontaneously

❤ Deep connection and mutual attraction…

❤ Suddenly realising that I’m now the person I once wished I could become

❤ Absolutely wonderful new people in my life I feel a soul-level connection with

❤ Starting my day with a cup of good, dark roasted coffee while enjoying the early morning sun on my balcony, feeling the warm wind on my skin

❤ Love

❤ Living without fear

❤ Wonderful new people to hug and connect with

❤ Befriending my new neighbour and her adorable chihuahua

❤ Learning from dogs how to live in the present moment, fully engaged in life

❤ Having a warm home to live in, healthy food to eat, and clean water to drink

❤ Being able to look back in awe at the distance covered, the perils faced, and the heights attained

❤ Having discovered a strong current to be in a flow with, letting it effortlessly carry me along, ending up in places I feel in my heart I was supposed to explore and learn from

❤ Having started a little project of trying to compliment at least 10 strangers every day, mostly women. I feel that the energy between women is often quite toxic, competitive and negative, so spreading a few genuine compliments here and there and making a few people smile feels good. It seems I’ve been able to make a few strangers’ days too. :) _{We don’t generally talk to strangers in Finland so people are usually very surprised, sometimes negatively, when someone talks to them, but so far it seems I’ve only made people smile instead of creeping them out.}

❤ Feeling overwhelmed with gratitude when starting to write this entry, knowing I couldn’t put into words how I feel, or mention even a fraction of things that are going well in my life at the moment. I have my challenges that are pushing me to see how far I can go and many things are far from perfect, and yet, the imperfection is exactly how things are supposed to be right now. What a wonderful journey my life has been so far! In December and the following months it didn’t seem likely I’d live to see the spring, but here I am, and enjoying the adventure more than ever.

❤ Having people to hug

❤ Improving as a healer and getting great feedback from people

❤ Beautiful, sunny weather after several weeks of rain. I love spring.

❤ Adorable photos of the puppy. I am so hopelessly in love with this tiny, black, furry, four-legged being.

❤ A long barefoot walk in the quiet woods with a good friend, the gentle May sun on our skins, the warm winds going through pine trees. Feeling one with nature.

❤ Reiki

❤ Spring

❤ Healing

❤ Good coffee

❤ The smell of new books

❤ Long discussions with other dog people on different training philosophies

❤ I love my new hair! I’ve always been blonde so it’s fun to have a darker hair for a change. I wonder if my reiki teacher will recognise me.

❤ My new furry four-legged family member is almost one week old and everything looks great at the moment. Only seven weeks to go and she’s all mine! :D _{Not that it’s entirely sure this is my puppy. Can’t make the final decision until actually meeting her and seeing how she turns out. But I love her parents and I love the breeder.}

❤ Having people to hug

❤ Opening my window for the sounds and smell of rain to come in

❤ The sand looking like little drops of gold in the early morning sun

❤ Sitting under blossoming trees, surrounded by the soft rays of sun coming through the leaves

❤ My pathetic Spanish – as bad as it is, it’s been of so much help… there’s no way I could survive with English.

❤ Having found a great doctor, by far the best I’ve ever had. He has had really interesting insights into my situation. _{bonus points for his cute Spanish accent}

❤ The unexpected turns that life takes – it seems I may be getting an opportunity to study abroad some of the things that matter to me most, starting in the UK and then possibly continuing my studies in other countries including India and the US. :)

❤ The joy of evening walks, warm breezes, city lights in the dark, passing through the streets slowly waking up to the night life, small bars opening in places that seemed completely empty during the day.

❤ Dancing with strangers to beautiful guitar music performed by a few cute guys with dreadlocks on the beach while the sun was setting and the warm darkness started falling on us.

❤ Spending an evening watching the sun disappear as a golden glow behind the mountains, getting gradually replaced by the hundreds of lights of the nearby mountain villages, twinkling like candles in the darkness.

❤ Being present in the moment and available for the little blessings of life to flow through me: the songs that the early morning birds sing, the smile of a stranger, dry leaves slowly falling from the trees, the grass dancing silently in the wind, the feel of sand under my bare feet, warm breezes playing with my hair.

❤ Spain and this city – I am so grateful for everything it has taught me while I’ve been here. This has been for sure one of the greatest adventures I’ve ever been on, and has meant to me more than any other travelling because I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it here and through the heart episode.

❤ 43Things and the wonderful, endlessly wise, luminously beautiful 43Thingers ♥ It seems the Robots have forgot about this site, but I’m glad that so many of the people here haven’t.

❤ Freedom to be myself

❤ Beautiful beings of love and light

❤ The feel of warm evening breezes on my skin

❤ Sitting under ficus trees drinking cappuccinos from a small Italian café

❤ Discovering a little shop selling beautiful handmade shoes, each pair a unique piece of art, an imaginary world to get lost in

❤ Breathtakingly magnificent sunsets over the sea, each unique in its way to colour the sky and disappear as a golden light behind the mountains. No church or temple could offer the same magical atmosphere of showing the beauty and sacredness of everything in the world.

❤ The sea and the beach… Since I live only a minute away from it, I start every morning with a meditative barefoot walk on the beach, then come at least once during the day to enjoy the peace and the depths of the water, and then end my day with another barefoot walk, listening to the waves and standing in the dark waters reflecting the starry sky. I’m in love with its character and ever-changing nature; the sea always remains, but yet never feels the same.

❤ The ways life and the universe take care of me when I trust them and follow my intuition… I didn’t specifically want to come to this particular city, it’s never been one of the Spanish cities in my “must stay there for an extended period of time” list, and yet I felt like I had to come here first before going with my list. Yesterday, after a month of being here, I got to know why I had to come here, and just to think of the road that led me to discover it – it took the whole month of so many seemingly random occurences, coincidences, so many different people, that ended up holding such meaning and importance. Absolutely everything, even the tiniest things that don’t seem important at the time, happen for a reason.

❤ Barefoot walks on the beach

❤ Letting my hair dry in the sun

❤ Sun-kissed skin and flowers in my hair

❤ Listening to the music of the winds as they pass through palm trees

❤ The “Oh my God, I’m living in Spain!” feeling that strikes me at least once a day out of nowhere and makes me smile like a crazy hyena for a few minutes

❤ Delicious Spanish accents walking around everywhere. So far today I’ve wanted to eat alive with whipped cream my neighbour, butcher, a couple of new friends, three surfers, two guitar players, and probably a dozen random strangers in the street. :D

❤ Everyone being excited about the Madrid vs Barcelona game… as someone who understands nothing about soccer, the excitement is adorable, and it’s fun to stroll down the streets and hear waves of excited shouting from every bar when something happens in the game. :D

❤ 43Things and wonderful 43Thingers – thank you so much for all the kind comments, PMs and cheers, everyone! :) ♥ I’m so sorry I’m even more behind in replying than usual… and I’m not sure when I’ll be able to catch up with everything. But please know that I really appreciate everything and am still reading your entries and following you as usual :) ... I’m just having trouble finding time and opportunities to concentrate on writing. Hugs and Spanish cheek kisses to all ♥

❀ Sunshine

❀ Outdoor cafés

❀ Organic goat’s milk kefir

❀ Candlelight dinners under big trees

❀ The beauty, art, and poetry of everyday life

❀ My heart and arrhythmia being better by the day

❀ Warm evening winds bringing the subtle fragnances of flowers

❀ Coconut shampoo and conditioner… loving the coconut scent that lingers with me for hours.

❀ A group of men dressed as various Disney princesses running around the city center _{(I love Spanish men for stuff like this so much :D …can’t imagine Finnish men doing something like this.)}

❀ The atmosphere of celebrating life, not needing any special occasion to do so, because being alive is a reason more than enough to celebrate and enjoy.

❀ 43Things

❀ Connecting with kindred spirits

❀ All the beauty, love and light in my life

❀ The sense of adventure and exploration

❀ Being in flow with all that is good in the world

❀ Knowing that everything will not only always be well in the end, but that everything already is well, and has never been otherwise

❀ Love, compassion and harmony

❀ Freedom, passion and adventure

❀ Inner peace, stillness and bliss

❀ Osho… I really enjoy reading his teachings from 1970s at the moment.

❀ Infinite love and gratitude – I love those words often used by h.g. ~happiness ♥

❀ An absolutely gorgeous and sunny winter day, the magic of living in a Winter Wonderland

❀ Noticing and smiling at the thought that I might have become a weird spiritual hippy – something I never, ever imagined to become during my previous mathematical and scientific life. And the thing is, I’ve never been as blissfully, shamelessly, guiltlessly, outrageously excited about life as I’m now as a weird spiritual hippy. So I’m embracing it and loving every minute. :D

❀ Tomatoes with fresh basil, green smoothies, wild fish, wild blueberries… generally clean, organic food and wild spring water. I think it’s now been two years, probably more, without drinking any tap water… I could never go back to it despite the fact that Finland probably has the best quality tap water in the world. After experiencing what a difference changing to wild spring water makes, it’s just impossible to even imagine drinking tap water again. No diet change, for example, has been able to do anything even near as remarkable for my well-being as good quality water. That isn’t actually too surprising since our bodies are mostly water, so what kind of water that is makes a big difference. If someone is as crazy as me (haha!), you might find this site helpful: FindaSpring.com