Bambaji and Bear Become Digital Nomads.
This year, Bear and I made the decision to become Digital Nomads.
We were invited to this lifestyle by a couple of very dear friends who have been nomading for a few years, and of course I ran my wave as it’s a big deal (a very big deal!), probably the biggest decision I’ve worked through since beginning my experiment, and I definitely respected my process on that one!
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This year, Bear and I made the decision to become Digital Nomads.
We were invited to this lifestyle by a couple of very dear friends who have been nomading for a few years, and of course I ran my wave as it’s a big deal (a very big deal!), probably the biggest decision I’ve worked through since beginning my experiment, and I definitely respected my process on that one!
I had long held the dream of getting rid of my belongings and travelling the world, so I guess I have been manifesting this experience for many years, and still I had no idea of what it would mean to truly “travel light”, and what it would mean for me to let go of so much. We took the decision of having no storage, so what little we weren’t able to store in Bear’s daughters garage, or carry with us, had to go. We were very lucky to have a landlady who does a lot of charity work and had many contacts where our stuff could be made good use of, and she gave us the opportunity of walking away from what we weren’t taking with us, we didn’t have to do a thing, other than pack what we truly wanted to keep. And this sounds easy – at least it did to me initially – and let me tell you, my nervous system had a really big journey around it! I might not have been taking everything with me, and yet I still had to go through everything – just to check.
Both Bear and I have undefined Splenic Centres
Both Bear and I have undefined Splenic Centres, and yet Bear is very good at letting things go, and for him the process was somewhat easier than I found it. And the idea of our landlady going through all of our belongings (or left-behinds) was also challenging. I had so much attachment to so much rubbish!! There were piles of things – this pile can go, this pile I am still waving on, this pile has to come with us – and always there was more than we wanted to carry.
Our first stop was not so exotic, we spent 6 weeks in the north of England, and here we took stock, we looked at what we had brought with us and there was a fairly long period of mourning as I realised what a big shift I have made, what an extraordinary journey I have embarked upon, and what a different way of life it truly is. For a while, every day brought me an image of something I had let go of, something my mind said I might still need one day, and what if, what if, what if. I had taken photos of everything that I deemed precious (including about 150 birthday/anniversary/sympathy cards!), and anything truly irreplaceable was in a safe place, just in case we desire to reclaim it one day. Nothing is truly lost, it’s just that some things are being enjoyed by other people now.
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And so, we travel with 4 hold-sized suitcases, 2 carry-ons and 2 rucksacks, and it still feels like too much. My nervous system is much calmer now, and I love the freedom of travelling lightly. Originally, we carried a lot of kitchen bits and pieces, many Airbnbs are not as well provisioned as we’d like, and then another dear friend invited us to sign up for cat-sitting, and so now we stay in other people’s lovely homes and take care of their gorgeous kitties while they are on holiday. This means we can leave a lot of our kitchen stuff behind, lightening our load even further.
And I have my laptop and I teach my classes remotely; with my Human Design work, as long as I have a Wi-Fi connection and a desk, I’m happy. We go where we are invited to go and do what feels correct for us. And if we get somewhere and it doesn’t feel right – which happens sometimes with my Undefined G – we can move on. And with each encounter we are learning to meet life honestly, we are learning more about how we are designed to meet life authentically, and we are learning more about ourselves – our differences as well as our similarities.
What a gift Human Design is on this journey called life.
What a gift Human Design is on this journey called life. It definitely helps us when things are challenging, we can look at any situation through the lens of our openness, we look at the transit and we look at who we truly know ourselves to be, always coming back to that. And it doesn’t mean that everything is always easy, we’re not exactly skipping around the planet through fields of poppies and clouds of butterflies. What it does mean is that we know who we are within whatever is happening, and that is truly what makes the difference.
“So long, so long we have ignored the beauty, we leave it to poets — but we are all the poetry. It is our beauty that is here to be expressed. We’re not here to recite by rote the poetry of the other. We’re here to offer ours.”
We wish Bambaji and Bear safe and successful journey around the globe and we are waiting for more exciting stories about their digital nomad style. Stay tuned for more! <3