The Flower of Joy

I´m anything but a pessimist, but times are mad and to not acknowledge that would be to live in denial. I´ve never been an overly political person, yet if the personal is political, too, I might. I´ve always been more interested in giving my attention to the other P, the Poetic. But now I feel I can´t squeeze past the other P, Politics, completely. I´m feeling angry or sad too often and often enough in disbelief of what is happening. Hasn´t humanity really learned anything of the past? Is this just the course of things? Internally I´m shaking my head a lot and if I´d do the same externally I´d be taken for a mad lady, too, I guess… Anyway, this is just a prologue, so don´t worry. I´m still not a pessimist, just a little shaken idealist. Luckily by now I know what helps me personally to shake off that weight of a mad world before it paralyzises me: Humour, walks, Embodiment practices, hugs, connecting with people I love, nourishing my creativity and: the beauty and the joy that is still there, too.

Some days ago during a walk I suddenly had this image in my mind that grew into a poem and even though it might not be perfect yet I feel like I wanna share it:

Inmidst the biting grey
Of winter days, the chills
Which news are sending
Down my spine, the ubiquitous
Images of madmen
There’s suddenly this image
Flaring up from deep inside
Unfurling its petals
Softly, beaming with de-light:
The flower of joy
That I won’t let anybody take
Away from me, that blooms
Inmidst that bunch of other feelings
And there is one thing
I can tell you: I will be careful
To not let anybody
Cut its head

What is laying the grounds for and nourishing your Flower of Joy?

I am Chrischa: Artist, Poet and Embodiment coach. I work at the intersection of Creativity, Embodiment (practices that work with and foster the body-mind-connection) and inner transformation.

Through my classes, workshops and 1:1 coaching, I help women to feel more at home in their body, more connected and alive, to give space to their creativity and to dare to be and express themselves in all their wonderful facets.

https://chrischavenus.de

The website is in German but I´ve offers for English speakers, too.
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