Writing
No matter where you are in life, where you come from, what you’ve experienced, who you are and who you shall become, please understand that you are beautiful and amazingly precious. It is my fervent hope that even just one essay here shall resonate with you and cause your heart to tremble. Please read this letter, and perhaps you will understand what I mean.
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2012 Essays on Castles in the Air
The Itch
Pleasure
Ego
Questions
Minimalism
Opportunities
Cultures
Perfection
Everyday is a celebration of life itself.
Go for that which lasts.
Hold on tight and it will want to fly
What is born, must die.
Throw in all your eggs.
Time is just your partner
Even fires eventually die out.
The 14 Beasts That Thwarts Us From the Higher Life
Pants-less in India
The Elements Guide to the Seven Chakras
2011 Essays on Castles in the Air
Heart Matters
Sankalpa: “I am,” rather than “I want”
Making sense of the self on any given level.
Anchoring Off Ourselves
Mood Creations: Backward Bends
“What is the worst thing that can happen to me?”
Philosophy of Hatha Yoga
We are in pieces, apart from ourselves.
The Art of Zazen
A Liberation of the Soul: The 8 Limbs of Yoga
Mokso: The Mindfulness Experience
One of these days, there will be a last.
Open Palms and Individual Liberation
A Sojourner’s Things to Bangalore, India
It Doesn’t Matter
Bitch, Please! The Modern Woman’s No-Nonsense Guide to Kicking Ass in Life
The No-Bullshit Guide to Being a Bitch
How to Be the Female James Bond
The Willingness to Die Over and Over Again
You Are Enough (and The Earnestness of Life)
We Are People, We Have Dreams
Cultivating Self-Sufficiency
To Feel Is To Live
Let’s Play a Game
How to Leave Your Home Country and Travel the World
How to Never Plan For Your Life
I Am Number 27
Tell Your Insecurities to Shut Up and 241 Truisms (A Manifesto)
Inner Resistance and The Impulse to Go
Choices That Simply Are (and Learning to Let Go)
How to Know When It’s Time To Move On
Writing Attacks, Trance Writing and the State of Semi-Consciousness
Elimination of Inundation
The Only B Word You Need to Know
Arbitrary Focus (and Identifying What Matters)
Accept Loss Forever
Experimentations In Ultra Minimalism You Can Try Today
A Post-Apocalyptic Society and How It Can Save Us
The State of Flux
Let’s Cut the Bullcrap, Shall We?
They Told Me Obsession Was a Disease
The Edge
How I Do What I Do
The Last Post You Will Ever Need to Read (A Letter to the Soul)
How to Write Like Your Life Depended On It
Why Sometimes You Just Want To Disappear
How to Be a Radical Minimalist
The 3 Stages of Self-Evolution
The Search for Meaning
What Is Selective Participation?
How to Stop Answering Email and Start Having a Life
Dusti Arab: “I Am One Motivated Bitch”
How to Completely Start Over
How to Have a Backbone
The Psychology Behind Quitting One’s Day Job
How to Mind Map Your Way to Explosive and Creative Writing
Will You Be Honest With Yourself?
How to Drop Everything and Just Go
One Can Always Hope
Sex Slaves and The Desire To Be Free
Abstractions of Our Dying Selves
34 Things to Taipei, Taiwan
Ambiguous Continuity and The Love of the Unknown
Fuck Hate and Joining the LGBTQ Community
Focus (Part 4: A Focused Conversation With Leo Babauta, Author of Focus)
Awareness: The Most Precious Kind of Freedom
Focus (Part 3: How to Pour Your Energy Into What Matters)
Focus (Part 2: Finding Focus After Getting Your Ass Kicked)
Tammy Strobel: “Start Focusing On How You Can Help Others”
The Splintered Nature of the Human Dynamic
Focus (Part 1: Eliminate, Eliminate, Eliminate!)
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About the Author
Nina Yau has been writing since the age of five. With a penchant for adventure, she completed her first international flight alone at age six to Taiwan (Republic of China) with nothing more than a small duffel bag and a stuffed kitten in tow. After completing business school and well into a standard corporate life, Nina chose to leave the 9-to-5 lifestyle in order to live a life more suited to her spirit.
Nina helps others discover the Truth within all of us through teaching Yoga and with her introspective writings at her blog Castles in the Air. She currently lives and works in Chicago.