Seven is a magical number. There are seven colours in the rainbow and seven notes in the musical scale. Seven days in a week and in each major moon phase. In the Vedas, the number seven is associated with Agni, the Hindu God of Fire, who has seven tongues that symbolise flames, and seven wives, mothers, and sisters. The Hippocratic tradition of medicine identifies seven rules of illness in the body, claiming that acute illnesses last 7, 14, or 21 days. In China, seven determines the stages of female life. In ancient Egypt, there were seven paths to heaven. And there are, of course, the seven days of creation and the seven deadly sins in Christianity.
Personally, when it comes to numerology, I am a 3-6-9 girl. I use these numbers for everything in my life – from practical manifestations to simple daily activities – 3 pinches of salt, 6 repetitions of sun salutations, 9 cycles of breath. But at present, the number seven has become significant for me. Mainly because it represents a real-life experience. It’s been seven months since I came back to the UK after my travels. Seven months of hibernation, reflection and introspection. Seven months of really going inwards – showing up for myself, rather than publicly to others, validating inwardly rather than seeking external validation – the inevitable consequence of modern content generation. Seven is also the number of completion and this is why I am writing this blog post. I have come to the end of another life cycle, and I am ready to step into the next one with a new perspective gained through almost two years of living my dream.
When I left the UK in 2024, I was stepping into a new life and it seemed like it will be a continuum – travelling, teaching, discovering. It was during my travels that the Limitless Living Experiment was born – a new concept, an organic progression and an expression of my experiences. However, this was not something that just came out of nowhere – I was consciously examining myself, reflecting, learning and experimenting for decades. In fact, I have spent the last 10 years actively choosing practices, books and teachers who could guide me on this path. Learning and practicing kriya yoga, for example, was a big part of my experiment, as was getting rid of most of my possessions and buying a one-way ticket to India. Travelling gave me confidence to lean into my intuition for all my needs and decisions. And whilst I started with a ‘dream of travelling the world forever’, it was exercising of my trust in life that, in retrospect, was the main purpose behind the experiment.
I admit, when I initially left the UK, I was feeling fed up and burned out. There was a part of me that never wanted to come back. A part that was desperate for a new beginning, new location, new people and experiences. But as I began to tune into my intuition, I realised that it was not the places I was seeking after all, although the Maldives blew me away. It was the journey itself – deeper, into myself. Ironically, I had to leave the comfortable familiarity of what I called ‘home’ behind to discover the new possibilities within. And then another irony – I had to stop moving to fully absorb the changes that were happening to me.
It was nothing but pure manifestation and intuition that brought me back to Europe and eventually back to the UK. The availability of resources and sheer abundance of possibilities that exist in every single moment never cease to amaze me. It is that limitless nature of reality that our conditioned perception veils from us. Yet it is right here. The Limitless Living Experiment is a way to explore the tools that lift the veil. Meditation, Kriya yoga, lifestyle changes, breath awareness, movement, dance. Using all the five senses as aiders in withdrawing from them. Creating a tunnel that removes the sense perception noise. A deep knowing that everything is an expression of life’s flow. Trusting. Subtracting. Letting go.
Twelve years ago (another significant number for me), I vowed to live authentically, to forego the opinions of others in exchange for insights brought by my own experiences. Twelve years ago, I realised the staggering depth of my conditioning. The rigidity of someone who was conditioned to seek approval of others, just to like themselves. Twelve years since I’ve learned that everyone’s conditioned just the same.
Approving of myself. In every thought and action. This is the unintentional theme that came to the forefront in the last 7 months. It is a very appropriate one because self-judgement comes easily to me. I was criticized, judged and shamed for most of my childhood and adolescence. Sometimes I even wonder how I managed to have any dreams at all. But perhaps it is because of the tough conditioning that I had to consistently use my imagination and cultivate determination to solve my predicament. Not a straight line, for sure.
I spent 10 years of my adult life acting out the reality I’ve imagined for myself as a desperate child. I manifested everything I wished for on the nights I prayed to the moon amongst ruins of the country I never felt I belonged to, ached for in the moments I felt rejected and unloved. Another 10 years absorbing the consequences. And the last 10 years learning to manifest intentionally – not from a place of unsatisfaction but from a quiet, limitless emptiness within.
Now the word manifestation has taken a different meaning. There is lightness and playfulness about it. A concrete knowing that it is all an experience - not the end result, and certainly not the representation of true reality. Everything is impermanent and subject to change. To manifest is to bring something into physical form, and everything that has a solid quality about it is IMPERMANENT and SUBJECT TO CHANGE, just like the physical body. Even a rock, though seems imperishable, will either weather away by itself or will no longer be perceived due to our own impermanence. Understanding this is fundamental in relaxing our attachment to the end result. And that’s important.
When we no longer attach ourselves to an outcome, relax about the possibility of not getting exactly what we want and surrender to higher intelligence, something cool happens.
We begin to approach our manifestations with lightness, playfulness and ease. We give our trust to something infinitely more trustworthy than ourselves, and it never disappoints. Time and time again I have been shown how letting go and trusting life is the most powerful action of all. We often refer to it as ‘non-action’ because it requires us to relinquish control, to stay soft, quiet and still. Sometimes amongst chaos. Sometimes amongst discomfort and pain.
Seven. Just how significant is this number applied to my life? In my curious attempt to find out I jumped back 7 years. I realised that 7 years ago I also travelled and then came back. I spent two months living in Japan, unable to travel further into Asia due to the pandemic. I went back to the UK and relaunched my business. I began running Ayur-Yoga retreats and spent a year living and working alongside my son. Seven years on, and after almost two years of travelling and living abroad, I came back again. I spent 7 months close to my son, seeing him launch into his new life chapter.
After 7 months of inner work and reflection, I realised that I am too, standing on the edge of something new and unexplored. The deliberate space between ‘then’ and ‘now’ birthed a new perspective. The intentional stillness created a tunnel for new ideas and inspiration to enter. The time spent calming and relaxing the inner critic… Well… That was the most valuable realisation of all. Never before have I allowed myself such long period of ‘non-action’. Yet, on reflection, this was the single, most significant ‘action’ of all.
And this brings me nicely to Taoism and the concept of Wu Wei. The last seven months are the perfect example of the value of non-action, the real experiment behind all of this. The fundamental pillar of my Limitless Living philosophy. I’ve tested it. You can embody it. The single, most powerful … of all.