Little by little I am back on track, but still not yet there. I feel overwhelmed, especially because I have to catch up with the Digital Connections webinars and this is stressing me a bit. I am astonished how much the Christmas holidays affected my daily routine, I have the impression that I have to build it up again. I find myself a bit lazy sometimes, and it is the first time, since I started. Anyhow, I like this part of the Masterkey system: we are all requested to look everywhere for kindness this week and to be kind as well. This”exercise”made me realize that we literally live in a world full of kindness! I really got emotional, sometimes, even in the street. I opened my eyes and my hearth to kindness and I felt reassured, because I saw it everywhere. I liked a lot also the fact that I searched actively for situations where I may be of service. As a mother, I do a lot of things for the family, that everyone takes for granted. I think that many can relate to that. I would like now that this gets noticed, not for an Ego thing nor to get special gratitude by the family members, but because it is nice to have eyes wide open on good and nice things, to appreciate them. It can be a minor thing as a big one.

I noticed kindness in children: again, they are masters also in that! The more I progress in this course, the more I understand that we have all to become like kids again to rediscover the beauty of life, of joy, of kindness, of living in the present, of having big dreams…I personally learn a lot from them. When I teach yoga to children in the school, I am often exhausted after the class, but I am always full of impressions and of sweetness. This is really a wonderful job. So fulfilling and so different from the job I had before, as an official in the European Institutions…When they see me arrive in the school, they run towards me and they hug me-a real group hug-, making it impossible for me to move. How nice is that? I enjoy each and every moment with them. We laugh a lot and they have always original and creative ideas. How comes that as adults we become such closed and sometimes sad persons? There is a lot of work to do to come back to such a beautiful state, which is our natural state…I remember a song that we chant often after practicing yoga (the mantra chanting is called Nada yoga and is a part of yoga that is not so well known in the West), it says: “From joy I came, for joy I live, in blissful joy I melt again”. When we sing that and we repeat it, I feel that it is the Truth and I always get emotional. Let’s repeat this mantra again and again in our head, let’s sing it, let’s live it! Be kindness, be joy.