With the sun shining bright as it did and the sky ice-blue as it was; I went to The Hague’s Scheveningen beach this weekend in spite of the freezing cold February weather. I went there to do what is called the Daily Energy Routine, a series of simple exercises designed by Energy Medicine author and …
I watched a program last night on Dutch television that brought me to tears. It was about children who get specialized education because they have what is seen as a learning disorder. They either are dyslectic or have problems calculating numbers or in general find it hard to transfer knowledge from paper to their cognitive …
Modern day society is a demanding place to live in with a lot of overwhelming things to choose from. To protect ourselves against stress, nature has provided us with a build in stress defender; an energy pathway that runs through the body and transports the flow of energy. This particular transport system goes by the …
For a number of years now I do my grocery shopping at the Firat, in the Weimarstraat in The Hague. They have lovely vegetables; many of them organic at a fair price and an absolutely fantastic butcher’s shop that also sells home made condiments. What I also love about the shop,is the fact that they …
Can you imagine yourself doing absolutely nothing for 5 full minutes? I thought it would be a nice challenge for you to try out. Especially women seem to suffer from the always-doing-something affliction, scouting things that still need to be done. Men apparently have a nothing box that they can go to with a ‘gone …
A friend of mine who celebrated Christmas in England worded it exactly right. In the text message she sent me around midnight of Christmas day she wrote: “I’m like an enormous beached whale. Finally alone on top of my bed with a scalding hot cup of tea” Then she continued by sending me pictures of …
Did you think about your resolutions for 2018? Stop smoking? Loose 20 kilo? Find a nicer job? Spent more time with your loved-ones? Write that bestseller? A few come to mind easily enough. But does it also happen? Have you reached the required result of a resolution you made at the end of 2016 by …
Call me a romantic, but it is my personal belief that ‘in the old days’, when we were living in tribes; sharing the results of the hunt, weaving baskets with each other for the same purpose; gathering berries and roots to make community meals – we were in a way better off than we are …
Do you have that sometimes when you find an old diary and read something you totally forgot about and yet what you wrote tells you that in a way you understood more of life and what goes on in it than you do now? ‘Forgotten Wisdom” so to speak. Things you used to abide by …
In a consumer’s society people have grown used to getting their demands met the moment the need occurs. When I want new jeans, I open my laptop and can have my pick from countless different models and brands. With the festive season closing in, I can do the same for my Christmas presents, mostly delivered …
