The symbolism behind Ganesha got me interested while walking past this statue today. I wondered why it has the head of an elephant. Apparently Ganesha’s dad, Shiva, shopped his previous head off, because he was in the way but he did not realize it was his son. So when he realized he found the body of his […]
Inside your head there is this eternal chess game, that you could play until you get wrinkles and become old. It might be more useful to realize that you are not your feelings and thoughts. When we identify less with the mind we can start living the life we want no matter what thoughts and […]
Surrendering to the “I am” Aren’t you like the water in the river?Holding onto water doesn’t make senseand pushing water away neitherAll that can be done is to surrender to this river called lifeAll the coming and goings……embrace them with awareness… this is you I wrote this poem a year ago in Rishikesh while watching […]
Inspired by yoga philosophy I realized again that being present here and now is the point of everything. I wrote something about this from the viewpoint of a yoga pose called reversed warrior: The reversed warrior of happiness: He is the one who realizes again and again that life is not aboutthe waves of happiness […]
People who travel “outside” can call themselves nomads. As a psychologist I see some subcategories, there is the inner nomad and the outer nomad. Somebody who accepts themselves fully including all kind of experiences within and without themselves I would call an inner nomad. My supervisor, a psychotherapist called Joep, joked about the name of my […]