It’s time for a thought that may accompany you through the week. May you find peace with whatever happened in the past, and be aware that it is behind you. Don’t allow your thoughts to keep something alive and hurt you for something that no longer exists in the present. Or grab the bull by the horns and face what you tried to ignore for too long. Sometimes you may push yourself to forgive, but maybe you need to forgive yourself for not being able to forgive yet.
A few weeks ago, Mark and I had a discussion at one of my Daily Kind Quotes that inspired me to write this post. It was this part that triggered something in me: “we have broken us”. I thought about how the process of physical pain and healing is similar to inner pain and its healing.
After I talked to a friend recently, this quote came to mind. I could not find the original quote, just had these words in mind. So, I could not find the source either. However, the words carry a profound meaning regarding our approach to creation.
For today, I felt like sharing some inspiration. Still, too many carry guilt or anger with them—feelings that others caused in them. Remember that whatever you went through taught you a specific lesson. It caused you to develop something important in you or led you to places or people you would have missed otherwise. Whatever still haunts you, look for the positive it gave you, and recognize it as love’s way of supporting your development sustainably to reach your highest goals.
A couple of weeks ago, I discussed the negative feelings about Mondays with a friend. We were talking about why Monday is connected to something negative. My friend said it was because the relaxing stress-free weekend was over and people had to return to a job they really don’t enjoy. Of course, hanging around without appointments, sleeping long, meeting friends, or enjoying a trip somewhere is fun. But doing it for weeks, months, or years without having a task to fulfill, would that be fulfilling? We all have a purpose to fulfill. Sooner or later we would become discontent.
Recently, my husband and I spent a weekend at a SPA hotel. For me, this means I got the chance to read one of the books I started a while ago. While checking my books, I came across THE book that caused the last and most meaningful impact on my journey of self-discovery: My Sacred Self by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer.The story of how this book made me pick it is as stunning as the read. However, I saw the book and immediately flipped a few pages to a poem, I remembered. I don’t want to lose too many words but simply want to share this poem with you. It demonstrates how our impatience, arrogance, and/or desire to control destroys rather than fixes.
Broken Dreams
As children bring their broken toys with tears for us to mend. I brought my broken dreams to GOD Because He was my Friend.
But then instead of leaving Him in Peace to work alone, I hung around and tried to help With ways that were my own.
At last, I snatched them back and cried “How can You be so slow”? “My child,” He said, “What could I do? You never did let go.”
by Lauretta P. Burns
When a problem overwhelms you, hand it over to God. All you need to do is: Trust the journey.
February is a month I use for some “small stuff” which I don’t have time for once the year progresses. One part of that “small stuff” is checking on my blog in general, going through old posts, checking on links, clearing out my media (to make up data), and deleting what seems unnecessary. While doing it, I found a post I wrote 6 years ago – my jaw dropped for its timeliness. Here we go:
About three months ago, I deleted my Twitter/X account due to the behavior of the X owner. I don’t want to support his attitude, not even passive. Instead, I set up an account on BlueSky a couple of weeks ago. Please leave your handle in the comments for those of you who are on BlueSky. I’d love to follow you.
However, this was my first post:
What you don’t want Try to ignore Don’t be against it Find something to be for
Don’t feed unwanted With your energy But go for your virtues Whole-heartedly
Cease to fight Rather turn on the light
I wrote it according to the current political situation in the US. Whatever we give our attention, we feed. We provide energy and feed the object of our attention. Whether we want or don’t want that object of attention doesn’t make any difference. Therefore, feeding something we don’t even like is less beneficial. As long as we turn to the unwanted, things won’t get better.
I cannot and don’t want to ignore what is going on in the States since I am listening to or watching the news. Furthermore, I have to watch and follow associated regulatory developments due to my employed job. Also, the plans of a particular person possibly affects the EU in several ways. But that is enough for me and I decided to stay away from political and fired-up discussions or rants on social media (which is not easy anyway – I am hardly finding accounts on BlueSky that do not hit you with political posts). Instead, I will do my best to feed the good.
I won’t give a particular person the attention he so desperately seeks. I know which wolf I don’t want to feed.
In May, I am entering my 12th blogging year. That fact made me think back to the past years here on WordPress. When I started, I had no idea or imagination of what blogging would be like, so I had no real expectations. My publisher set up the first version of my blog for me to promote my book, “I’m Free.” They taught me the basics of how to post and how to gain followers. I am glad I did not know much in advance because that way, I learned even more for life.
I think there are only few people who are free of any inner chains or demons. The more I could get rid of some of my inner demons, the more I recognized them in hindsight. I don’t know whether I free myself of them during this lifetime, but it doesn’t matter. They are there to make us overcome them and develop through the experience of this overcoming.
Today, I am sharing another randomly picked page from my latest book 365 Thoughts of Healing. When we need help, we will receive it, always. The only thing to see and accept that help can be our offended mind. We don’t owe anyone anything but the fact that we help when help is needed – mutually. That is what makes us human. Personal issues are secondary and can be discussed later.
Spending the past three days outside in my boot at a Christmas market, there is an exhausting but fulfilling weekend behind me plus a lot of work in front of me. Today I am sharing another excerpt of my book 365 Thoughts of Healing. No one is immune to suffering. We all feel it in a personal, physical, or mental way. All sufferings want to tell us something. So, don’t curse it, don’t ignore it, don’t suppress it. It wants to tell and teach you something.
Have a good week peeps!
In Love and Light
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When times are busy, you often don’t have the time to deal with happenings as you should. Your emotions must wait until you find a spot in your agenda to turn to your inner being. Sometimes, you may even forget that to take care of yourself and what happened settled deep and is hard to find again. But it is there and can haunt you and surface unexpectedly. Maybe you don’t even remember, what the reason for specific feelings was.
After we lost our cat and thought of getting a new one, I thought a lot about beginnings and endings and how different people look at them. Some feel guilty about starting something new after something ended. I often observed this in relationships. My mother-in-law felt guilty about enjoying life after her husband died. She spent 23 years in depression that she caused by her conviction that she does not deserve to be happy and has to grieve for the rest of her life. She thought it was not ok to feel or show joy. That’s why on the one hand, she complained about being lonely but on the other hand, hid in her house, avoiding any company. I totally understand the shock, the missing, and all the struggles that go along with such a loss. It all needs time, and people should take their individual time. What I mean here is that some think they must bury themselves in sadness as an unwritten law.
The week when I scheduled this post, we had some turbulence at work. We were confirmed again that you get to know the people around you anew in difficult situations. However, we looked forward and tried not to let it get too close. It made me think of a post I shared a few years ago:
There are times, circumstances, or even only moments when we struggle to see some light at the end of the tunnel. But exactly then, it is all the more important to have a lamp light at hand to find the way out and fill the heart again with joy. Here are some suggestions to set nervosity, anxiety, anger, disappointment, and worries aside and regain inner warmth and power to lift us above that struggle.
Although I did not have much time when scheduling posts for this week, I don’t want to leave you without some Monday Inspiration. I decided to repost this one from December 2020 and hope it speaks as much to you as it did to me again. And just in case you wonder why there are no more posts after Wednesday, I will be off from Thursday until Easter Monday. See you again on Tuesday. Happy Easter to all of you!
Again, this week’s post was inspired by a person and her work I found on Instagram. (Yes, there is a lot more level on Instagram than this “important” self-display with posts about fingernails, new hair-dresses, pets, food, and sharing current activities). However, I saw excerpts of lectures from this amazing German woman, Vera Birkenbihl. She was a highly intelligent researcher, an inspiring speaker, and an impressive personality. She worked as a management trainer and non-fiction author. She scientifically explains what we feel as our inner struggles, even though we can’t name them, why they exist, why they are in our nature, and why we run into walls by denying them. I don’t know if her books have been translated into English, but if you google her name, you’ll find a flood of information. I saw several excerpts of her profound and humorous teachings. I don’t know if two of them were part of the same lecture, but they feel like problems and solutions.
After I saw a Reel from Eckhart Tolle on Instagram, the quote above came to my mind again. I often think if only this or that would be different, I could relax. But in the next moment, I shake my head and think again that nothing will improve just because a particular situation is over. Maybe it will be short-term, but since it is my thinking that labels a situation as difficult or challenging, the challenge is always with me.
At the time, I wrote and scheduled this post, I had a cold that made itself comfortable in my head as a sinusitis. That made concentrating a little difficult. But that’s what inspired me. I should let it flow rather than make such efforts to make my mind present an idea. What a fitting analogy to my sinusitis… I see your point, universe.
Today, I am sharing another excerpt from my latest book 365 Thoughts of Healing. Today is day 303 of the year and here we go with the corresponding page. I hope it gives you some inspiration for the day.
For today, I’d love to share another page of my latest book 365 Thoughts of Healing. Today is the 261st day of the year. So, let’s go with the according page. Have an inspired day!
Unfortunately, I had no time to prepare a Monday post as usual. So, there is no better alternative than sharing a motivational page of my latest book. Today is the 233rd day of the year, and I decided to share the according one today.
We all are aware that mental stress and worries can manifest themselves in the body in the long run. Body and mind always form a unit. The body adapts, so to speak, to the permanent call of the mind so that a new oneness is re-established.
Lately, I noticed in many parts of my life and different situations how things fall into place to lead to one particular experience, result, meeting, or insight. It made me think that everything that happens is tailored to each one’s life and life experience. Much of the information we receive feels more like a deja vu than something new.
Today we are heading towards the most eastern part of Austria (which will be a ride of about 9 hours). My sister is getting married and we will be back by Friday. So, since I won’t have time for replying to your wonderful comments in the coming 4 days, I decided not to post at all.
Seven years ago I translated for two English mediums at their sessions. I remembered this post I wrote a few weeks later and would like to share it with you again. The sessions were insightful in many ways. I learned so much and got confirmed in many things I was already convinced about. One case touched me a lot. There was a woman who was involved in a bad accident some time ago. She was close to death but survived. The accident caused massive brain injuries and she still suffers from a limited way of understanding and comprehending. She is slower in thinking and moving, and the left side of her face is still a bit paralyzed. But she has come such a long way due to her strong willpower and she is still progressing. She even started an education on the internet in order to step back into life actively. Now what hurts her so much is that her husband has turned away from her. He is only complaining and blaming her for each and every little thing. She cannot do anything right and gets screamed at all the time. She desperately tries everything to be loved by him the way he did before the accident happened.
I am happy to announce that the e-book of 365 Thoughts of Healing is available. The Kindle version is not only a preferred option for many readers but also indispensable for those who are not able to or struggling with reading a physical book. Also, since the paperback is not available on amazon.com.au and .co.jp. this problem is solved with the e-book.
More than seven years ago, I published my latest book 101 Kind Quotes. A lot happened in the past years in my private and my business life which has not left much time left for writing when even I longed to get there again. So, a new book had to be that kind of book that can be completed in a short span of time, maybe 6 months: The idea of “Thoughts of Healing”, to give the reader daily hints and inspirations, was born. I thought about 100 to 150 pages. But during the process, I noticed that a drive-thru concept does not work for me. So, I expanded it to a reference book for every day of the year. I began in January 2021, and here we are, almost 2.5 years later. The idea of a quickly completed book manifested itself in a major work. However, I see my mission as providing something that brings inspiration, help, support, healing, solace, faith, and strength, and something that supports the readers in their days. That is worth any effort! But now, let’s get to know a bit more about the book:
For this week’s Monday post, I want to share a quote from one of my favorite authors and spiritual teachers, Wayne Dyer. It is a quote from the book “Your Sacred Self”. That book found me and not the other way around. Reading it was the beginning of a big transformation process since it put so many fragments together into one piece.
While I’m still deleting and revising older posts, from time to time, I came across this one. It is a simple one of my very early blogging days. But right that made me think about how many times I have fallen into this trap since I wrote it. Not only does it apply to how I handle my little world, but also to the difficulties the whole world has been facing for the past few years. Starting with climate change, to a pandemic, to the war in Ukraine. All this affects everyone in one way or another. But we must not lose ourselves in the crisis we are facing. Only by keeping in mind how many blessings we still are granted, do we gain the strength to make it through and bring about the change that this world so desperately needs.
When I asked what to write for today, this topic came to my mind. I am not an expert on grief at all, but just someone who got confronted with it in different ways. So whatever I write here is not psychological expertise but only my thoughts on it, plus what seems to come through while writing. Please keep this in mind while reading.
Recently, I talked to a neighbor, and she told me about her little daughter being diagnosed with diabetes. She said that she is working on solely thinking of her daughter as healthy, avoiding any negative thoughts, and believing that all will be well again while this is only a temporary condition. It reminded me of a post I published more than four years ago:
Your life is going well. You are not bothering too much with tasks of occasional challenges. You are easy-going that makes you face any task just as something that needs to be done. You are not in need to keep yourself positive because you simply are.
I just stumbled over this post which I wrote a few years ago. This is still (or again) so timely when we look at the gender discussions, and the aggressions and separations we create due to COVID.
Our world is a collection of varieties. Too often, we look at them as reasons for separation. That’s human in some way since we always look at the world from our own perspective. There is basically nothing wrong with that. We need that to develop individually. But there is this other side we must not forget: We all develop individually, and therefore we need a variety that everyone gets served. It is neither right nor wrong. It simply is. And what is, exists for a reason.
We all know that body, mind, and spirit are one. One influences the other, and one can heal the other. For me, change and healing still begin within. An illness or even accidents are often manifestations of something that comes from an imbalance in our inner world. But can it be the other way around? I mean, can an imbalance be in the body first without there being an imbalance in the mind? We have the body we need, with all its subjective advantages and disadvantages – subjective because everything our body provides is a tool to bring us back to our(-)selves. So it keeps us in line with our destiny either by finding other ways due to its limitations OR by overcoming limitations or diseases.
The older I become the more it amazes me what influence time has on us and at the same time how irrelevant it is. It reminded me of a post I published about 4 years ago and thought it was the right time for a repost: Lately, I went up to the attic. I checked some furniture and came across items covered with layers of dust. Immediately I had the picture in my mind from the time those items were in use or just bought and now they looked like in a 100-year-sleep. Once favorite toys from the kids, are now stored in plastic boxes. It feels peculiar to see them again that way and at the same time remember when they were in use. But they are still the same toys.
Recently, I wrote a lot about how important it is for healing that we don’t turn away from painful feelings but face them. That, to not push them back again into a drawer but to take them out of that drawer and let them go. The reason they show up is that they are ready to leave, and the triggers in the outside world are only coming to support them surfacing.
For today I decided to pick a card from Dennis Linn’s Gateway Oracle Cards. I love those cards since they are like nailing messages to show the way out of a maze. The card I picked is “Accepting What Is”:
Lately, I have been digging into working myself through karma. There is quite a lot in motion in my life that provokes me to look back on my incarnation history. It is so amazing how many links I can draw to relationships, my own attitudes or blockages, and the karmic laws. I know this is something many are a bit scared of since they are afraid of what they could find when looking into one of the many previous lives. Yes, I was quite a bad guy but a blessing as well. As I wrote about two weeks ago, we are going through all kinds of roles in our different incarnations. We build up karma, and we solve it again. Going through hard times, and suffering from repeated disappointments, humiliation, or resentments can be an indicator that we are about to resolve a not-that-nice part from a past life.
Life is amazing. All life is amazing. All lives in all lives are amazing. Last week I touched on the great field of karma. It forces us to clean out the attic of our souls and leads us to the awareness of who we are. When we understand the principle of karma, it is not even that necessary to know the origin of blocking feelings within us or the burdening circumstances around us. Just perceiving what triggers the feelings repeatedly is the clue that we may need to experience what we once did and what we need to balance and resolve by living through the emotions we once may have caused in others. Knowing this helps to accept. Acceptance removes the resistance. We allow the pain to surface, look at it, and then let it go.
I don’t think there is anyone who has never faced challenges, whether they were self-imposed or triggered by something or someone outside – actually, they are always self-imposed, but we’ll get to that later. Also, a challenge to me does not equal a challenge to you. If I’ve ordered a meal and it’s only lukewarm when it’s served, I can make a big drama out of it, politely ask for it to be warmed up, or I can just think, “So what.” A problem is only a problem if I call it a problem. It’s subjective. So, when something is triggered in me to create the image of a problem, it always has to do with me.
A few weeks ago, I saw this quote on Carol Anne’s blog. It came at just the right time. I was questioning my emotional reaction to other people’s actions. I thought I was more detached already due to the awareness regarding the quote above. But life showed me that I still have certain expectations I have not worked out yet.
It is interesting what thoughts lead to the next one and the next one, and how they take you to solutions or insights you would never expect them to tell from the first thought. Lately, I was helping someone move into a new apartment. They moved into our closer neighborhood. While I was driving to that apartment, I was thinking of how the area had changed only within the past 5 years. Many things came to my mind that changed in general during that time, and my thoughts went 20, 30 years back. I began to think of what my life impacted, what pushed me, what directed me, what guided me, and what I myself moved (with or without the influence from outside). Even though I often think that I got stuck when emotions are surfacing which I thought I had worked out when actually, I was only successfully pushing them back.
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We are talking a lot about unveiling the ego and letting go of its destructive grip. It is much easier said than done. For years, the ego has grown as part of our own development. Of course, it depends a lot on the inner steadfastness we had in our younger years and on how much influence we let happen. Also, it depends on how long we got influenced, and at the time, the ego has gotten to grow from us feeding it with our convictions and experiences which were created through the eyes of the ego again… a pretty vicious circle, isn’t it?
There are so many wonderful peeps on this blogosphere who have always been big lights for me. These days their lights appear even brighter and bigger. Because they are those who share their strength with a grounded but at the same time, a higher perspective. They are understanding with those who do struggle during these extraordinary times. They refuse to let unnecessary negativity that others may spread influence their moods. That is the strength we need.
Two years ago, I wrote a post series “You’ve Got Me All Wrong” that already addressed this topic. But the circumstances we are in these days make the voices louder again. Why does God let violence, sadness, and incidents happen? Why doesn’t God keep us from harm? Has He left us alone in those times? Why does He allow the current situation? Why does He punish us?
As the years go by we are making so many experiences. Sometimes we don’t even notice how the experiences shape us unconsciously. Happenings in childhood, the way we were raised, the circle of our friends, opinions we create, decisions we make, and the consequences of it all which we put together individually in the mind… which actually forms how we experience what we experience and how we move on.
Everybody has their backpacks to carry. Some people are unpacking freely, every stumble, fall, burden, or point on their agenda while others don’t feel the need to bless the world with the details of their private lives. However, just because someone doesn’t invite the world into their living room doesn’t mean their backpack is empty. Not at all!
I think no one looks back at life and can say that there has never been a time when they were hurt by someone. Perhaps from the outside, it may have looked like a trifle but inside that particular person, it reached a very weak point. When more of such trifle episodes happen it becomes a wound growing wound which even becomes infected. Each tiny thing that adds to it can hurt so much more than if it had fallen on healthy ground. Even years or decades later, a single thought can trigger the memory and those hurtings can feel as if they just happened.
When you receive a shocking diagnosis you are waiting for information about how serious everything is, about the level of the disease, about the probable treatment, and most of all about the chances of surviving and healing. Mostly there are two possible reactions: Either I fall in desperation and get worked up in fear regarding “what could happen” or I look at the chances and options to support “what could happen.” What I want to happen or what I expect to happen is an inner concept, and how this inner concept looks revealed in exceptional circumstances.
Basically, when asked, everybody knows for themselves what really matters in their lives (most of all those who were already reminded through life). Taking a serious look at our lives, we distance ourselves pretty soon from luxury problems, which causes us to complain reflexively. Who cares about a closed gate standing at a red light, a rainy day, or a missed bus when you consciously think about the meaning. Those things are temporary “problems” which mostly don’t have a deeper impact on the future.
At first glance, when someone comes across a person who needs help, that someone seems to be in the stronger position, the wiser one, the more educated, or the wealthier one. The person in need seems to be weak and poor or someone who has not enough knowledge to help themselves. But is it really that way?
A few weeks ago, I was picking black currant from the two bushes in my garden. Branch by branch was done. When I worked around that bush, I noticed that there were still many berries on branches I thought I already emptied completely. This happened quite a few times. They were hidden behind leave,s and I couldn’t see them from the angle I was standing at the moment I was picking them, although I had checked under the leaves.
What is love? How can it be defined? I don’t know if we ever get its whole meaning or even an idea of it. But 1 Corinthians, chapter 13 provides a profound insight into what love can be and how we recognize if it is love we feel or only an aspect of it. It gives a direction if we act out of love and if we live in a love that is life’s elixir and our origin. Love is all we really need. That’s why we do so much to receive love. We make sacrifices, fight, murder, die. Love is a basic need we all have in common. If we have love there is no need to compensate it with anything in the world. Real true pure love makes every miracle possible. Then we have found the master key to life.
Our world is a collection of varieties. Too often we look at them as reasons for separation. That’s human in some way since we always look at the world from our own perspective. There is basically nothing wrong with that. We need that to develop individually. But there is this other side we must not forget: We all develop individually and therefore we need variety so that everyone gets served. It is neither right nor wrong, it simply is. And what is, exists for a reason.
Over here it feels like life is pulsing through each and every fiber of nature lately. Spring is visiting and the flow of energy is clearly sensible. The mood is lifted and the whole system gets a power boost. When I was on a walk today I saw the first storks arriving at their homes. What a feeling since they are one of the clearest signs of spring to me.
This Monday’s post will be a little different from the usual ones. Many of you know that I am an aromatherapist and that I am running an aromatherapy practice (next to my job as a compliance officer). That means I am working with essential oils in different kinds of ways. Here you can find a post where I explain the different ways essential oils can be used.
Lately, I have been talking to one of my best friends on the phone. We live about 6000 miles apart but that doesn’t matter since we have been friends for 37 years. We haven’t talked to each other for at least 2 1/2 years and only barely texted since both of our lives have become crazily busy. But what is most important in this world? What do we need if we lose everything? Friends! That’s what we both realized when we had some days off over the change of the year. We managed to have a 3 1/2 hour talk. But it was necessary since so much happened in both of our lives and we both needed to update each other.
This post went in a different direction than I thought when I started writing it. But as we all know, there is a reason and I will let it be as it was written in its natural flow. I am sure it will reach the people or hearts it is meant for.
On the last day of 2018, I shared some thoughts about the connection of how everything that happens leads us to the place we are today. That also means that no matter how we may feel about our lives, we have never been more experienced than we are today. We are the best versions of ourselves in this very moment.
There are setbacks, of course. We start something with enthusiasm and passion. Or something beautiful seems to open up for us. And it is demotivating to see this all falling apart although we put so much lifeblood and effort into it. But that doesn’t mean you failed. Yes, sometimes situations can repeat. Sometimes they repeat because we did not get the whole meaning. Sometimes we need to take a detour to pack something in our backpack that we need to continue our journey on the main street.
What I want to say with this: Whatever you do, whatever step you take, whatever decision you make, how you act or react, it brings you further but never back! Every experience leaves an insight. So never let anyone tell you that you failed. It is your way, not their way. Life will help you to repeat or to go deeper. It is not a punishment it is to support our growth. Even if we cannot understand the meaning or see the greater context when we are in the middle of difficult times – and perhaps we never will – there is always a greater reason behind everything that happens. And the more we follow our inner compass the faster we will get past it and will reach the end of the valley.
Believe in yourself, believe in wise guidance, and believe that in the end, all will be fine. Looking back you will be proud to look down that mountain you just climbed and see that it was worth all the effort. Every little or bigger obstacle you face and overcome will make the joy of the view bigger.
If this year throws stones at you build beautiful castles from it or solid stepstones. From the ruins of broken dreams or relationships build bridges. Nothing that exists gets lost. It only needs to be placed together in a new way. This world is in deep need of new architecture assembled from our own inner healing flames of love and the desire to make it one peaceful paradise for everyone. We are created from love and our natural being is love. Let’s let our true selves shine. The change is already happening. Let’s not get discouraged by any seeming setbacks. Let’s take each other by the hand, follow the light our hearts shine and we can never fail.
A few weeks ago I picked up one of Walsch’s books and began to read the first pages. After I read the short list of the 25 core messages to explain the main message (in the title) I stopped reading. It was so inspiring and my mind started spinning. Before I read on I want to share the flow of pictures and thoughts of some of those core messages that immediately filled me. Most of those core messages won’t appear new since we are talking about them over and over again. We all share them in our own words. Isn’t that amazing proof that we are fully aware of God’s message? If you would like to read the previous parts, you can check out here part 1,part 2, and part 3.
We are talking a lot about unveiling the ego and letting go of its destructive grip. It is much easier said than done. The ego has grown over the years as part of our own development. Of course, it depends a lot on the inner steadfastness we had in our younger years and on how much influence we let happen. Also, it depends on how long we got influenced and on the time the ego has had to grow from us feeding it with our convictions and experiences which were created through the eyes of the ego again… a pretty vicious circle, isn’t it?
Imagine sitting on the top of a mountain and looking down into the valley. High up above, you see everything from a distance, the bigger picture. You see how streets lead to each other, how small creeks are leading into a river, and how the river flows into a lake. From up there, you understand how everything works together to make it all complete and how necessary every little thing is.
Two weeks ago I shared a story about the memory function of the heart which Gregg Braden told in a workshop some years ago. While interacting with Judy I mentioned that in a different workshop, he told another extremely touching story which explains that we all have natural healing powers.
Recently, Colin of MeAndRay.com shared a wonderful link with me. It is a Ted Talk with the conductor Benjamin Zander. He is talking about the transformative power of classical music. No, this won’t become a post about classical music. What went so deep were Zander’s profound insights about life and beyond which he incorporated in his talk.“I will never say anything that couldn’t stand as the last thing I ever say.” This was the vow of a woman who survived Auschwitz. Zander told the story of that woman at the end of his talk. It is the inspiration for this post. I will try keeping this post shorter than my usual Monday posts because I want you to listen to that talk. Something wonderful will happen inside of you. Read more ›
I believe that the ego is not only the bad guy who needs to be fought. I rather think that it is a very helpful part we created over time. On one hand, it can support the path of the soul with its strong will. On the other hand, the ego can help to find out who you are and who you are not. It is a creation of the mind – your mind and your creation. That means that you have the power and can create it in each moment. It is created by thoughts and can, therefore, be controlled by the choice of your thoughts. The further away we are drifting from the true self the more power the ego has. It can show up unexpectedly although we think we already know that guy and its tricks. But in a certain situation, it appears reflexively before we even notice that we are already in its claws again. It is then to step back and see where we would end up if following its direction and what if we chose the direction of the self.
Who you are is light. That light lingers in your deepest, truest core. The amazing thing about light is,
it illuminates everything in its surrounding. So, when you shine your light
you fill yourself and then gift everyone around you. Be a beacon for your own sake and the sake of everyone.
When the energy can flow freely through the body it provides every single fiber in our body from head to toe with all it needs to be strong, happy, and healthy. Then you are in balance, healthy, and in peace. Then you don’t worry but simply take every step that is necessary to take through this journey. Then your physical being is aligned with your spiritual being. But seriously, who of us is in that state constantly?
Don’t worry, this is not going to be a post in which I ask everyone to have their heads up in the clouds and blindly love everything and everyone whether they feel like it or not. Perhaps it would prevent a lot of conflicts but I am not the type of person who offers the right cheek when I was just slapped on the left one.
The past weeks and months have not been easy. Not only for me but I noticed that there must have been a general change in the air affecting so many people around me. It appears like a big clearing to me. So many felt challenged in the way things developed, in decisions to make, in things falling apart, in happenings that opened up old gaps and let past memories and feelings rise again, in instantly changing life situations, and in much more. There were states of shock, desperation, breakdowns, and … the rise after the fall.
Sometimes it is not difficult to simply present the core message of a post but it can be a challenge to start a post to get there. Very often I start in a similar way I did before but then go a different direction – sometimes deliberately and sometimes it just happens. Isn’t it interesting that we start from the same point but end up somewhere else?
Do you remember Chiara? In August 2016 I wrote The Healing Power Withinabout her overcoming anorexia. Chiara is my son’s girlfriend which gives me lots of opportunities to talk to her. She is often found in newspapers talking about her story or sharing healthy recipes. Lately, she has been invited to talk at TEDx (Europe) about “choices” later this year. Isn’t that amazing? You can imagine that I got highly inspired and this post is a result of it.
For today, I did not have a particular topic in mind, and again I took some inspiration from my Gateway Oracle Cards.Thank you, guidance. These are the cards I picked:
When I saw the topic I thought immediately of an older post in which I shared a poem about Letting Go. Letting Go is not only releasing something that weighed heavily and kept you from living. The process itself is progress in your own development and growth. It means you have already grown bigger than the suffocating cocoon. That’s why you are ready to break its shell. Letting Go is a process of becoming!
“How can a person overcome the horrible things that often happen in our world?”
This question was asked by my friend Nicodemas, ofNicodemasPlus Three. He asked the question in a comment to my postIGNORANCE – WEAPON AND SURVIVAL TOOL: FEAR. I don’t know if I met your expectations, Nicodemas, but this is what happened to be written:
Every day, many tragedies happen: accidents, diseases are diagnosed, children die, parents die, attacks destroy innocent lives, natural disasters take lives and possessions, child abuse, torture, and much more… a lot of heartbreaking happenings. And with good cause, we ask, why does this need to happen or how can people be so cruel? I already wrote a lot about everything happening for a reason and that many good souls play the role of the victim and the offender to teach each other and the grieving people. It is important to know that to be able to step back and look at the whole situation from a higher perspective. Although it is not the topic today it is part of it.
Now how to deal with the tragedies in the world? We mostly cannot do a lot or even nothing when sad things happen. And this is the crucial point that makes us feel so helpless. But you know what? We can do something! Everything in this world is directed by energy. When something bad happens we can feel like paralyzed, aggressions against injustice can come up, or we feel resentment against the cause of the tragedy. But in aligning with the same energy that caused the tragedy we even strengthen something we don’t want. Thoughts of hatred and revenge cause strong feelings that have an amazingly powerful creative energy. On one hand, it is separating instead of uniting and it causes a counterforce on the other hand.
If we don’t want bad things to happen we need to go in the direction of good things, think good thoughts, act in kind ways, and share compassion. When we fight terror with war it causes even more, acts of violence and terror. We can only break that circle by incorporating the opposite energy. Energies of hatred and revenge nurture hatred and cause more revenge. What we need to create is balance. Again, I am coming to ignore what I don’t want. We need to ignore the need to fight back and instead turn around and look in the direction where peace and compassion reign. When sending love instead of hatred the fuel is taken out of the bad energy and the sails are set in a different direction. The more people stop reacting to the game of terror and retaliation but instead care for the victims, pray for them, or do something good as a balancing act, I swear, we can change and heal the world.
And now here I am: “How can a person overcome the horrible things that often happen in our world?”
Share compassion But don’t mix it up with pity. Feeling pity weakens. Feeling compassion strengthens. There is an easy way to approach compassion instead of pity:
Refuse to Judge When you don’t judge you are focused on what can be done and not on what was done!
Ask yourself: What can I do to raise the energy? It doesn’t matter if you cannot do something that is directly related to the current happening. You can share food, help out a neighbor, make an anonymous gift, donate clothes or money, join a charity, or simply send out love and light. Any act of kindness raises the collective energy.
We cannot change what happened but WE CAN be part of a change. This gives our lives meaning and it unites! There may always be horrible things happening caused by individuals or groups. Nevertheless, we mustn’t be discouraged but keep up a loving attitude with our eyes toward the benefit of those in need. The worse things happen the more important it is. And everyone can do that in their own little world or even in the big world. It is easier to deal with tragedies when we do something that brings balance and shows the victims and their families that they are not alone.
We have an order to live this life the best way we can and we have to do it for ourselves as well as for everyone else. Be what you want to see and you will have the power to heal yourself and bring healing! We are on a mission!
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