Beach day☀

In the jungle, the mighty jungle✿✿✿

✧welcome to the jungle✧

DIY: Regular Tee turned Cropped Muscle Tee

      So lately I've been getting back into my DIY kick, and now that Spring is finally here, I've been really feeling muscle tees. They're just so comfy yet the silhouette and cut still keeps it looking stylish! This is a pretty basic DIY, and only requires three things: a shirt, a pair of scissors, and a steady hand. It just makes for an easy casual everyday shirt or workout/lazing around shirt which is probably what i'll use this one for. I'm just a sucker for the pink tie-dye and bold lettering so I just couldn't not play around with this shirt!

                            

^^Ignore my lovely polka dot PJ shorts!

Afternoon Dream

Jhené Aiko - "My Afternoon Dream"

Happy birthday to the lovely Jhene Aiko!! She released a new song/video today called "Afternoon Dream" <3 Love it. Perfect chillout music to get me through finals week.

Gravity

Without discussing any of the details surrounding who is performing, where they are performing, etc., I'd just like to take a moment to truly appreciate the spectacular art that is this dance piece. I honestly get chills every time I watch this video and cannot get enough of it. I love when you can truly feel the raw emotions central to a piece of choreography. My favorite part is at about 1:10 where she reaches up for the stars but is stopped by her partner and advocates through her dance her emotions and frustration of feeling held down by gravity. An absolutely incredible work of visual art that makes me miss dancing so so much and really inspires me to get back into dancing on the regular again <3

Let it go

“If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.” 

~Ajahn Chah

As do most college students my age, I am currently feeling tugged in all different directions with no one to tell me exactly what to do. And, granted, it's as it should be since I am an adult now. But lately, all the stress and problems have been piling up, and I've been bottling it up and feeling overworked and worried over it all. For some reason, when my anxiety is at its peak, I tend to google search my problems hoping internet people will have all the answers. Usually it's just a bunch of other people freaking out about the same thing too, but, luckily, I stumbled upon this very interesting article that got me thinking. 40 ways to let go and feel less pain 

I realized that for the most part all my "big" problems that seem to raise my anxiety and make me feel suffocated with issues are all things I simply have no control over or that I actually do have control over them but I just never came to terms with the fact because I was stressing out about it in the first place. So, in short, I've learned to just box all of those issues up and just throw them away in the "Doesn't Matter" box. For some reason it always takes just a comforting blurb from a friend or a random inspirational self-help article to really kickstart your mind into realizing that the answer lay within you the whole time, and that everything is never as bad as you make it out to be. Positive thinking will always lead the way into a brighter future. 

So next time an issue comes up and starts to bring you down, ask yourself these questions:

• Does it really have any drastic negative affect on your life today?
• Has it helped me become who I am today for better or for worse?
• Are you just worrying about a possible negative outcome for things that haven't even occurred yet?
• Is there something you can do to move past it? If you don't have any control over it, there is nothing to worry about. It is what it is. Let go of the issue and go out there and live your life!

Oh! And if you need to cry it out. By all means, go ahead. Studies show that crying it out actually can help release negative chemicals from your body. 

Stay positive! No matter how much darkness may cloud your mind, just remember, the sun will always shine again. :)