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What am I doing now?

Updated: 17th Dec from Pattaya

Slowing Down & coming back to me

  • Past 45 days were super fast for me -> Diwali, wedding preparations, 4 fun wedding days, getting sick, Admin work (passport renewal, marriage certificate, locker, etc), Jain's wedding.

  • Back to my core values of living with nature, watching sunsets, helping the world

 

 

Artist awakening & Wonderfruit

  • Last 3 days, we were at Wonderfruit. I found my tribe @ unconditional space! From painting flags, ecstatic dances, incense painting, tarrot reading, flag ceremony - all showing me artist path.

  • Wonderfruit - such beautiful activities & looking at so many creative people was a joy. I wanna go to more art festivals like this. Suara is the other festival in Bali in July-2025 I am planning to go next.

  • I realized I don't like the night raves but the day energy - ice bath, game workshop, ecstatic dance, deep journey, tarot cards, painting with colors, incense, making flags on how you see time, sundowner ritual. Night is the time I am a little scared of while day is my tribe!

 

 

Tarot cards / Vulnerability cards / Fortune Stick box

  • I am so intrigued with the ideas of Tarot cards as a tool to make people believe in themselves.

  • Similarly with the fortune stick box. I want to create these phrases which I want to write on these bamboo sticks. 

  • Same goes with Vulnerability cards - these are the cards to help people know each other on deeper levels on whats happening. When I meet my friends in a wedding - I want to play it with them rather than leg pulling each other.

  • I want to make a draft version of both / one of them before 12th Feb and want to test them at Daval's wedding.

 

 

What am I reading these days?​

  • Derek Siver's Music & your people - he just drops gold. It's closest I've come to a religion. One by one I keep on flipping through Siver's book to remind myself I'm an artist.

  • King Warrior Magician Lover - This is based on Jung's lecture series on different parts in child and how they take form when he becomes a man. Very similar to IFS ~ parts of mine. Intrigued to read more - Using Google's Notebook LM and listening to podcasts of different parts & chapters.

  • The Artist Way - The morning pages concept in this book is so so similar to what I am doing with WhatsHappening. It talks about artist's deeper journey. Something I just embarked onto recently. Very excited to read and then journal after each chapter.
     

 

Going deep into our partnership

  • Both Me & Han are growing deeper together. Helping each other in gaining full confidence - tracing every thought / feeling to its core to find out why we felt that way and being there for the other person unconditionally. Most of the times in that process -> finding our own paths to grow when hard emotions come.

  • Just today she helped me leave the bed at 7 - something a shadow part in me has been avoiding to do since past 2 months. I went to rooftop, did some mini dance while watching the moon fade away in sunlight and I'm so so glad I woke up supporting the part in me that want this change.

 

 

Excited about going to Pai

  • We're in Chiang Mai (2 days) & Pai (20 days) - really excited to let the artist in me come out with some paintings, nature adventure, cooking, watching sunrise & sunsets,

     

 

Writing & Sharing

  • Sharing this journey of mine with you beautiful people, hoping it helps brew up some thought / feeling w.r.t whats happening in you & deepen my tribe.

  • Starting a newsletter on WhatsHappening to me. What all I felt, what all I was amazed to find, anything new I did, IFS journey, etc. Short content -> More around living life.

 

 

Project Prime (WhatsHappening Phase 2)

  • Prime is all about helping humans be their prime self. I just got the domain - https://primeself.foundation

  • Next few days are to go deep into building https://WhatsHappening.ai

  • I've been brewing this idea since many years and I wish to complete phase 2 of the same. Full architecture of the same. From Logo to Branding colors to Complete UI-UX & tech infra. From exploring React Native expo framework to first time working with supabase, LLMs & local first mobile + web app - I'm excited.

  • WhatsHappening came from my deep curiosity on "how do we talk to ourselves"? It's an audio journaling tool that auto categorises your memories based on your life projects (or how Riley had her islands). It is like an auto-save feature to all the games you are playing in life. An amazing listener friend who you talk to & it's his job to auto categorise whatever you were saying into specific projects / islands / tags alongside asking you some open ended question. Making second brain but much easier!

 

 

Ecstatic Dance playlist

  • At wonderfruit, I met a lot of artists who play the music I love - deep house music. I want to check out the music of these artists and make a spotify playlist for my ecstatic dance set. I am very curious about how music is produced too. Starting with curating the songs & feeling the music I love to understanding more about it.

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