About 15 to 20 years years ago I had the immense pleasure of doing a yoga teacher training at the Kripalu Institute of Yoga and Health in Massachusetts. It was in the days back when the school was already famous and well known yet still relatively small. I treasure the good memories I have. Silence …
Over the years the theme of gratitude crossed my path in many ways. I try to remind myself to count my blessings. Yet like so many of us, I also tend to get drawn into the every day drama of life, often forgetting in that process how much I have to be grateful for. I …
Who Do You Think You Are? This is more than the question on where you come from. You might think who you are is determined by the name you were given at birth, the family you grew up in or the cultural values that you were taught; yet a whole lot of who you are, …
A dear Dutch Energy Medicine friend inspired me big time today by publishing a post from the NOS.nl national news station about five American ex presidents, Bush Jr, Bush Sr, Carter, Obama and Clinton, participating in a fundraising event for the survivors o hurricanes Harvey. Irma and Maria. For 5 American ex presidents to come …
Throughout life I’ve met quite some teachers to whom I owe a lot; but then we all do. Even when we are not aware of it we encounter people along the way who supply us with bits and pieces that shape us into who we are. Sometimes it is that one book, that one brief …
The year is 2117; the day January 17. 82-year old Luther is in his rocking chair on the porch of his self sustaining, solar pannelled house overlooking the organic vegetable garden. A few feet away his grandson Oliver sits at the picknick table . Oliver is preparing a presentation he will be giving at the …
While Fate in Life is often blamed, for Goals that go astray, The Truth might well be tougher yet in that we always may Choose our own Intentions in how we Think and Feel and Act. It’s really never Fate that mentions how we should React. So Treasure what you have in hand and …
There is this famous saying of I believe of Buddhist origin, which says: “You suffer not because you live in the world but because the world lives in you, I believe it means as much as that we are more inspired and directed by what happens in the world around us, than by what lives …
Do you recognize this? When you feel like giving yourself a treat, you go and look for it outside your regular environment? A short getaway to be away for a while? But away from what, one may wonder? Wouldn’t it be better to change your regular environment? Take a different stand towards your daily routines? …
One of the big enigmas in the way we perceive things when it concerns personal development, may well be the difference between the way we think we perceive ourselves in our own inner world as opposed to the way we think the outside world perceives us. When we are happy we literally beam happiness, with …
