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  You read and hear everywhere: Life is Change, and Change is Life. I know, I heard and read it too… But am I the only one that has trouble accepting, and being happy, with change? I don’t think so. I see a lot of people holding on to the past, holding on to...

“Stress is not caused by external circumstances, but rather by internal ideas.” Alex Mather. I read this author a lot, and I agree with what he is saying here. Stress is caused by internal ideas…. Hmmm, I don’t know if you dare say this to someone who is completely...

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become” Carl Jung. Often people get very upset when you only even suggest, that what happened to them, does not need to determine how they feel. People blame. People keep repeating what happened to them. People keep...

I think we all know: the ongoing dialogues in our heads, the one-sided dialogues, as the other party is not present, the non-stop reliving past events, the creating of worst-case scenarios. The list of mind traffic is endless, and tiresome. And what’s the outcome?...

What kind of question is that, some of you may ask … I get it. But… Have you ever considered the possibility that you are a slave to your clutter, to all of your stuff? Having so much stuff is exhausting. It’s running you down. It’s eating away all of your energy....

Spring has arrived. Nature awakens, birds start singing early in the morning, we see the fresh greens, spring flowers, blossoms, … All is smiling at us. All feels fresh and alive. But are we smiling? Are we feeling alive? Do we feel new energy flowing? Do we wake up...

When I was practicing my morning meditation*, I heard these beautiful words: I remove any expectations that I have about today. I let them go. I move out of my own way. That is exactly what we are doing when we set these high expectations. We are in our own way. We...

Where do we still find absolute silence? When do we, consciously, seek silence? Why are we so afraid of silence, of being confronted with ourselves? Everywhere around us, there is always noise, there is always auditive, and other, input. And even when there is...

Last week* I talked about my falling down and breaking one of my vertebrae, so you can imagine the joy I felt this morning, when I could put on my socks, for the very first time, all by myself again. 🙂 It’s mind blowing what we all take for granted. Me too, even...

Whenever my boys used to come home from school, and complain about, a teacher having behaved in a very power-abusing way, or having experienced an unfairness, I always said to them: “Remember the way you feel now, as a lesson, so that, you yourself, never become like...