How wonderful it is to do what makes you *shine with happiness*, to forget time and space, and just enjoy being alive!
Hiking makes me that happy, and I feel an urge to share that happiness. So I am hiking for more happiness in the world! Every in-breath fills me with pure joy, and with the out-breaths I spread that energy around: through my foot-soles into mother earth, so badly in need of our care, and through the vibrating happiness in my whole being I spread it to all living organisms.
How wonderful it is to be able to move a healthy body, to fill your lungs with fresh air - and deeply enjoy it!
18 Feb 2012
17 Feb 2012
Mission Statement
Mission statement rediscovered! Even if I don't have any idea on how to fully live it, at least I have my guiding star, and it is: "I want to spread happiness around".
Actually I have had this mission statement in the back of my head for a long time. I remember when I clearly realized it for the first time, twelve years ago, biking to work in Denmark... It is so simple, but felt like a revelation! Since then I am living it in my private sphere, among family, friends and colleagues, and that already brightens up my life. However, I dream of dedicating my whole life to Spreading Happiness. The question is only: how? Dear Universe, send me some inspiration, please!
Actually I have had this mission statement in the back of my head for a long time. I remember when I clearly realized it for the first time, twelve years ago, biking to work in Denmark... It is so simple, but felt like a revelation! Since then I am living it in my private sphere, among family, friends and colleagues, and that already brightens up my life. However, I dream of dedicating my whole life to Spreading Happiness. The question is only: how? Dear Universe, send me some inspiration, please!
16 Feb 2012
Signs
Ask for guidance, and you will get it. But it often comes in unexpected ways. You have to be very open and receptive. Perhaps you should even consider everything that enters your personal space a sign...
By doing that, you activate your senses and your imagination, you broaden your view: there are infinitely more possibilities than you think, and you might be very surprised!
Be patient. Ask for guidance, and empty your mind of preconceived solutions.
(And why not re-read Coelho's The Alchemist?)
By doing that, you activate your senses and your imagination, you broaden your view: there are infinitely more possibilities than you think, and you might be very surprised!
Be patient. Ask for guidance, and empty your mind of preconceived solutions.
(And why not re-read Coelho's The Alchemist?)
15 Feb 2012
Day of Love & Care
On Valentine's Day we are spreading love all around. I send little messages full of appreciation to family and friends, I share some extra smiles with strangers passing my way. And, of course, I am giving myself some special attention: a small Japanese tea cup with soft pink camellias on the dinner table, a refined saffron soup, candles everywhere and after the shower a long, soft massage for my feet.
Of course I do these things more often than once a year, but really: shouldn't more days be days of extra love and care?
Why not proclaim the 14th of every month a Day of Love & Care? Or every Monday, a day that often has the heavy taste of unloved duties? Yes, I hereby appoint Mondays as special days!
The motto is: "Monday, caring Monday"
Of course I do these things more often than once a year, but really: shouldn't more days be days of extra love and care?
Why not proclaim the 14th of every month a Day of Love & Care? Or every Monday, a day that often has the heavy taste of unloved duties? Yes, I hereby appoint Mondays as special days!
The motto is: "Monday, caring Monday"
13 Feb 2012
Free the Thoughts
My head is buzzing with thoughts. They disrupt my sleep and leave me restless during the day. I know they do not serve any real purpose; I don't solve anything by constant thinking. Things take their course for other reasons. The buzz just makes me tense and blurs my focus.
Again, breathing helps. Deep in-breaths, and I shove together the buzzing thoughts, long out-breaths and I set them free. They fly out of my head like soap bubbles, leaving a fresh, light space behind. The more often I do this, the bigger the space, the lighter the life.
Again, breathing helps. Deep in-breaths, and I shove together the buzzing thoughts, long out-breaths and I set them free. They fly out of my head like soap bubbles, leaving a fresh, light space behind. The more often I do this, the bigger the space, the lighter the life.
12 Feb 2012
Real Meetings
It can happen anywhere. In a taxi, waiting in line at the post office, on a bench outside the public library or, as in this case, in the elegant chocolate shop.
You don't just make a comment, ask about or buy something, but a conversation develops, and an almost palpable contact with the other person. When you leave, it's with a real smile, a smile from within. The warm, truly human quality of the encounter stays as the shadow of this smile in the eyes of a stranger, who does not feel like a stranger anymore. Somehow you really reached each other.
Direct connection between people, made of genuine interest and care, is what keeps us together and our world turning - despite everything.
You don't just make a comment, ask about or buy something, but a conversation develops, and an almost palpable contact with the other person. When you leave, it's with a real smile, a smile from within. The warm, truly human quality of the encounter stays as the shadow of this smile in the eyes of a stranger, who does not feel like a stranger anymore. Somehow you really reached each other.
Direct connection between people, made of genuine interest and care, is what keeps us together and our world turning - despite everything.
11 Feb 2012
Mother and Daughter(s)
You once were a part of me, and even though the umbilical cord was cut more than twenty years ago, it somehow still feels that way. I am also a part of you - through characteristics, likes and dislikes that where passed on to you from me.
We will always have a special connection, even when one day we're not in the same dimension anymore.
The feeling we share is like a soft and warming blanket of kindness, concern and unlimited love.
My daughter(s), you are the sun(s) of my life, the oxygene I breathe and the source of infinite tenderness in my heart.
We will always have a special connection, even when one day we're not in the same dimension anymore.
The feeling we share is like a soft and warming blanket of kindness, concern and unlimited love.
My daughter(s), you are the sun(s) of my life, the oxygene I breathe and the source of infinite tenderness in my heart.
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