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Be the chessboard!

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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 […]

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Surrendering to who you are

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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 […]

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Do you want to live as No-mad or a Yes-mad?

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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 […]