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 […]
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 […]
A young man covered in glitters after the Bilbao fiestas on one side and a girl who seems to be concerned with her profile pictures on facebook and whatsapp on the other side. Sitting on this bus from Bilbao towards Pamplona ,where I transfer to the starting point of the French way of the camino, […]
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 […]