Check your social media, your contacts list maybe even your phone book - most of us have over a hundred contacts in EACH, yeah?
Now, check within that, how many people you THINK you are close to.
And now FROM that, see how many people you can be totally, uncaringly, just be your true self - vulnerable without the worry of being judged?
AND FROM THAT, see if you have actually been in touch with them, other than through text messages?! Via any platforms? How long has it been since you spoke to them?
THAT, my friends, is the difference between being “In contact” and being “connected”.
There is a whole section of people that will counter this by saying best friends can be miles apart yet be close to heart. Yes, my dear friends, all good in philosophy but really if you won’t share, if you won’t care, how will your friend know you were ready to help or that you needed help?!
Being connected means, being open, being carefree, saying what you want, listening to what is being said, and knowing, no matter what, if need be, you both are there for each other. Regardless of how you may be related.
By texting ”Hi” or a “Happy Birthday” doesn’t mean you are connected. It just means you are in touch. In contact. Period.
Pick up the phone. TALK! Ask them how they’ve been, and share with them, how you’ve been!
Forget your Ego, your Importance, your Status, your Position... forget everything and JUST BE YOU.
And whoever is still standing next to you... is the one you have a connection with!
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Sweta Shah Sakhpara is a pranic energy therapist and a pranic psychotherapist. She also teaches mindfulness and meditation to kids, adults and families. When she is not doing any of the above, she actively practices being a mindful parent to two kids.
Having learned and practiced pranic healing for ~fifteen years, Sweta has been blessed with the trust of many clients for ailments as simple as a headache to complex ones like Tourette’s syndrome, from depression and anxiety to finding ways to embrace the idea of a new normal with a child being diagnosed on the spectrum. You could read more about her HERE.
