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Small is beautiful … and creates change
A way to deal with overwhelm, inspired by Leopold Kohr This blog introduces Leopold Kohr and how his “small is beautiful” could be translated into my kind of body language I spent the last days in my home town of Salzburg. In a conversation, I learned about Leopold...
Setting visual anchors
Change and transformation in a person involve the dropping of old and building of new habits. It's a process of becoming aware of elements that you considered 'normal' to realizing you can change them if you pay attention and integrate a new way into your being. When...
6 steps to become present
Simple steps to become more present - with the goal to have all your abilities and skills available so you can use them as needed in daily life. Presence is not a goal in itself, it's a means to an end: self-empowered individuals in community. 1 Take a moment...
Easy is right #4: integrating ease
Integration and integrity are related. This is the week for integrating what you've learned about ease in the past weeks. As important as integrating what supports you is letting go again of what you don't need. Maybe you have had a few new ideas, but you don't need...
Easy is right #3: move with ease
Easy is still right, right?! After having learned a bit more about what ease means to you in a very physical way and identifying situations when you have it or when you miss it and would like to be able to access this quality, it’s time to bring the experience even...
Easy is right #2: Reality check
June is my month of ease. Just because. And it can be yours too. In last week's post, I wrote about the fact that you need to know how something feels to be able to create and grow it. You need a felt definition to make it real in your life. A negative definition will...
June’s Theme: Easy is right
My motto for this month is “Easy is right”. I will use the coming four weeks to invite more ease into my life. I can’t say that it doesn’t feel easy right now. I’ve been spending the last week in beautiful Spain where I attended a conference called Body Wisdom. (If...
Getting unstuck #2: stop explaining
Do you know this state of mind when something happens that you dislike. And then your mind goes off ranting about the situation and moves into explaining mode: ‘Of course, he’s always late. ’ ‘Why does it always have to be me who...’ ‘If only everyone on the team...
Respect your rhythm
You cannot be not in flow Last week I listened to an audio by Richard Rudd (a man of many wisdoms - you can check out what he does here). And it was about moments of activity and pause, our natural rhythm. The essence I took from the piece was that it is impossible...
What would you call it?
What do you think? Is leadership just a fancier word for taking responsibility? I've been thinking on the subject of leadership for the last couple of months after I was invited to a panel on leadership. Somehow, when I try to pin down what leadership means in terms...
Strategies as crutches to living intentionally
Recently, I got some aromatherapy oils as a gift. Now, they sit on my bathroom mirror and each morning I see them when getting ready for the day. The choices I am offered are: happy, energy & focus. I take a moment and choose what my intention of the day will be....
Creating Simplicity by Letting Go
“In life we acquire responsibilities, habits, possessions, relationships, needs, etc., much more readily than we discard them. This is part of the richness and enjoyment of life, but it is also part of the complexity of life.” Edward DeBono, Simplicity Over a...
Harvesting
Autumn is harvest season. So the question arises: When we think about achieving our goals and having a good life, the focus is usually on the doing, on the active pursuit of the goal. Even if the goals are the 'right' ones and achieve them, there is one crucial...
Letting go
Letting go is not an active effort. It’s a choice. It involves a specific attitude and intention: that of agreeing to no know what will happen. Letting go opens up an opportunity for something new to happen. Letting go means embracing your embodied reality in this...
Two numbers for a successful journey
How do I structure an effective transformation process? How much do I have to deal with the uncomfortable? Those are important questions to ask. If you want to change a situation in your life, there's no way around looking under the carpet and cleaning up.. But does...
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Being emotional and seeing the world
An observation that I have made again and again is that when someone is emotional - feeling lost, alone, sad, overly joyful, or angry - they often do not stay connected - to themselves and the world. One way how I notice this is that their eyes are avoiding to look at...
Healthy habit building
Two parameters that make building healthy habits easyier:Build on an existing habitIt doesn't work to replace habits you'd like to get rid of. There are neural pathways engrained in your brain that your system is used to using. Instead of wanting to get rid of a...
Connect with your inner strength
aka strength isn’t force Being strong doesn’t mean using force to achieve what you think you need to do. Being strong means being flexible, in flow, receptive to life. It also means holding still, at times, and tuning in to yourself and what surrounds you so you can...
Defining Presence
Presence is a beautiful state of being. It means being fully in the here and now. Yet, it can also be this vague and abstract concept when you're not in the right space. It can seem like a distant place to reach when you are stuck. It is often said that all that...
Exercise vs Embodied Practice
Everything you do, any movement you make can be 'just' an exercise or it can be an embodied practice that invites growing awareness, more choices and presence. There are a few pointers that help you identify what kind of practice you are engaging in. Especially if...
In 2019, I commit to… being less of a consumer
I am committed to practicing a balanced way of taking in and integrating what I’m taking it. And I’m not only talking about food or other consumer goods. I am mainly focusing on information - verbal, emotional, physical. I have been practicing for a good while being...
Hugging the heart
Every time you take a breath, your lungs are hugging your heart. Isn’t this a beautiful visual for what happens in your body!? The inspiration for this illustration came from Leila Stuart who has given a session on Embodied Anatomy at the online Embodiment...
Effectiveness as the body knows it is not mechanical
In the world of mechanics, there are rules. More makes more. Faster is faster. Bigger is better. The machine is running longer, and it produces more pieces. You create a faster way of doing the process, you will be able to produce more. The body is effective in a...
How you move is how you see
Continuing from last week, I’m sticking with the subject of the eyes. I just finished ‘Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshé Feldenkrais.’ Chapter 5, Man and the World, tells about Feldenkrais' encounter with Van Foerster at an event, where Van Foerster told...
Give your eyes a break
As I am a body and book nerd, I read a lot about what it means to be human. My little home library covers diverse areas from business psychology, neuroscience to old bodywork literature and stuff on systems thinking and how people connect. I can’t remember what...
P – Z
Being emotional and seeing the world
An observation that I have made again and again is that when someone is emotional - feeling lost, alone, sad, overly joyful, or angry - they often do not stay connected - to themselves and the world. One way how I notice this is that their eyes are avoiding to look at...
Healthy habit building
Two parameters that make building healthy habits easyier:Build on an existing habitIt doesn't work to replace habits you'd like to get rid of. There are neural pathways engrained in your brain that your system is used to using. Instead of wanting to get rid of a...
Connect with your inner strength
aka strength isn’t force Being strong doesn’t mean using force to achieve what you think you need to do. Being strong means being flexible, in flow, receptive to life. It also means holding still, at times, and tuning in to yourself and what surrounds you so you can...
Defining Presence
Presence is a beautiful state of being. It means being fully in the here and now. Yet, it can also be this vague and abstract concept when you're not in the right space. It can seem like a distant place to reach when you are stuck. It is often said that all that...
Exercise vs Embodied Practice
Everything you do, any movement you make can be 'just' an exercise or it can be an embodied practice that invites growing awareness, more choices and presence. There are a few pointers that help you identify what kind of practice you are engaging in. Especially if...
In 2019, I commit to… being less of a consumer
I am committed to practicing a balanced way of taking in and integrating what I’m taking it. And I’m not only talking about food or other consumer goods. I am mainly focusing on information - verbal, emotional, physical. I have been practicing for a good while being...
Hugging the heart
Every time you take a breath, your lungs are hugging your heart. Isn’t this a beautiful visual for what happens in your body!? The inspiration for this illustration came from Leila Stuart who has given a session on Embodied Anatomy at the online Embodiment...
Effectiveness as the body knows it is not mechanical
In the world of mechanics, there are rules. More makes more. Faster is faster. Bigger is better. The machine is running longer, and it produces more pieces. You create a faster way of doing the process, you will be able to produce more. The body is effective in a...
How you move is how you see
Continuing from last week, I’m sticking with the subject of the eyes. I just finished ‘Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshé Feldenkrais.’ Chapter 5, Man and the World, tells about Feldenkrais' encounter with Van Foerster at an event, where Van Foerster told...
Give your eyes a break
As I am a body and book nerd, I read a lot about what it means to be human. My little home library covers diverse areas from business psychology, neuroscience to old bodywork literature and stuff on systems thinking and how people connect. I can’t remember what...