The Paradox of Choice – A Woman’s Journey

It was her fear of making the wrong choice, doubt, feeling unsure, fear of regret, or even fear of guilt when things might turn out differently than expected - that was her problem.

Die Kraft des Schmerzes

Der Widerstand zum Schmerz lässt uns erstarren, genauso wie das Unterdrücken des Schmerzes. In der vollständigen Hingabe zum Schmerz werden wir nicht ertrinken sondern zum echten Leben befähigt.

Get the feeling of having all the time of the world…

Time is a rare commodity.  With the excuse of lack of time, we rush from one place to the other, try to do as much as we can within a given timeframe. Productivity and efficiency are values we seem to accept automatically as being normal and needed.  We need to organize our time, to have … Continue reading Get the feeling of having all the time of the world…

Do you know the fertile ground where your earthly being thrives?

Our earthly being is what we live every day EFFORTLESSLY. Some of the traits we might love, some costs us a lot (any addiction like helping, shopping any stuff, working, drugs, etc.), some we hide, some we would love to change, some we hate, some we have accepted and with some traits only you know what you do with them.

Please don’t try to make this earth a better place

It’s our attachment to the “good”, our fear and inability to be with our (hidden) pains that make us run from one thing to another trying to make a good life, a better life. Trying to make the lives of others better. And by running and running in avoidance to be confronted with pain and to miss out on the promised ‘good life’ we miss out on life itself.

My Vipassana Silent Retreat Experience

The technique invited me to neutrally and with equanimity observe all just as it is, not as I wish it to be, but fully as it is. No internal visualization, mantras or guiding thoughts, it had to stay mere observation the reality of the now. I learned to welcome with no resistance all I experience— the hardly bearable physical and emotional pains and the indescribable great sensation — and all that by simply observing and experiencing my inner world.

Unconscious repetition or conscious evolution ─ cutting the cord of dependency on our past

My Life, what is my life actually? Before we know when we grow older we might see that we have become more and more like our parents/caretakers. How is our life influenced by people who are perhaps not even alive anymore. What is needed to really live our own life? Do we really have one? Or is … Continue reading Unconscious repetition or conscious evolution ─ cutting the cord of dependency on our past

Life is a playground not a school

For the longest time I belonged to the group of people that think that we have to learn and to develop in life in order to live a life by own design. I could have not been more mistaken read here why....

Joy and happiness have nothing to do with each other. Read here how not knowing this sabotages your life choices.

That I lived for the longest time in limbo and dissatisfaction was because I intermingled those two words — happiness and joy — those two words have actually nothing, and I mean really nothing to do with each other. Let me share one of my biggest illusion. I thought always that joy is just a … Continue reading Joy and happiness have nothing to do with each other. Read here how not knowing this sabotages your life choices.

The gift to connect and disconnect freely

In our social, emotional and spiritual development we encounter 32 gifts and are invited to unpack them during our life. The gift of connecting and disconnecting freely determines our relationship with the duality of life. Today I love to give a small impression on how it might look like if we were fearless in the topic of … Continue reading The gift to connect and disconnect freely