Freedom through Movement
You can change your movement habits, no matter how old you are and what conditions you have, by starting to move more like how our bodies evolved to move.
You can change your movement habits, no matter how old you are and what conditions you have, by starting to move more like how our bodies evolved to move.
Everyone who comes to me with problems carries the solutions within. The main reason we find it difficult to solve our inner problems is that
Balance is about finding your way back to balance, again and again. The tightrope walker is constantly making small adjustments to regain balance. The more we practice balance in life, the faster and more precise our adjustments become. After a while, it starts looking easy.
No one chooses all their thoughts. We think many thousands of thoughts every day and most of them are recurrent and predictable. Recurrent thoughts leave tracks in us that make it more likely for them to recur. It is possible to break out of ingrained thought patterns by practicing observing them.
Sometimes I meet people who seem to have become stuck in the ultimate question about the meaning of life—no longer seeing the point of trying to make life better. Lack of meaning leads to lack of motivation for changing anything at all. This in turn confirms life as only routine, depression and suffering.
We live in a society of abundance unlike any in history: thousands of options for entertainment, food, and lifestyle choices every day. We rarely suffer from deficiency diseases. Instead, we are affected by welfare diseases—abundance diseases.
When I help others with personal development, we start from the idea that we can’t bring out something that isn’t already there.
Michelangelo saw the living sculpture in stone and his own achievement in removing dead weight from the true ideal that was already there, hidden beneath layers of excess stone.
Have you decided what you want to achieve in life? Then you need to take care of yourself to get all the way there.
Sleep is a fickle friend. It’s nice as long as it comes when we want it—when it stops coming despite our longing for it… uh oh.
There is a lot of talk about mental health, but what is it?
Mental health can be understood as the ability to be open, present, and engaged.