About AURELIS – Blog
[To get this in your email, RSS…, click here.] AURELIS is about respecting the total human being in the mental domain. This includes conscious as well as non-conscious processing. Modern science is making huge progress in the latter domain, showing its immense influence on how – as total beings – we feel, think, act, decide… Read the full article…
A ‘sorry’ from the leader
A heartfelt ‘sorry’ is above all a sign of respect for others and for oneself. We will not discuss a direct personal fault of the leader him/herself. We will rather talk about a fault committed within any given organisation(al context) that justifies a ‘sorry’. It might have been a structural fault in the past. Popping-up Read the full article…
Being Kind
You are kind. You make people feel good. OK. This way they may have more opportunity to be kind to themselves. Why not? Pay attention though. And of course, pay attention to the attention itself because too much attention may stop all kinds of things that can only be themselves when allowed to flow freely. Read the full article…
Depth Makes the Teacher
Okay. I immediately ask myself whom I am actually writing this for. It is striking that people, if they start listening to someone who wants to gain a better ‘understanding’ of something, tend to some kind of expectation where that ‘someone’ should fit in. Would C.G. Jung talk about an archetype? He probably would. Different Read the full article…
Leaders are People Who Inspire Other People
Be careful with ‘quick and dirty motivation’ instead of thorough inspiration. Being thrown does not equal flying. According to ‘positive thinking’, the following is simple: the right mental attitude is a positive attitude. How to attain this? Well, by a positive attitude. This principle seems to imply that everyone who does not think positively must Read the full article…
Behold the Crystal Ball
We go back in time a few centuries (it’s not necessary, but it happens to work well now). Imagine yourself sitting in a tent at a fair At the front of your tent, there’s a sign that indicates you have ‘the gift’. Nice 😊. Everything in the tent is as it should be. Semi blackout Read the full article…
Growth, Compassion, Love
With capitals, for it is about the total person, including a vast universe of unconscious processing. It’s all together a familiar, yet tremendous domain. [see first: ‘Landscape of Empathy’] . Please especially look at the image there before your read this present text. Dedicated lexicon: Growth: developing qualitative mental patterns at subconceptual level, of which Read the full article…
Brace Yourself, then Go for It
Dear reader, if you really believe in something, then I would so much like you to go for it. Of course this doesn’t mean that you would otherwise be worth less. Everybody may lead a life that is agreeable to live and doesn’t demand much more than, well, to live it. Nice! But IF there Read the full article…
From Placebo to Insight
… there should be a gentle slope. Not a downfall. (This text is not about what concretely is or is not a placebo.) Gentle slope – principle Many people do depend on their placebo, like a kind of crutch. To abruptly take this crutch away can have negative results: people fall and break another leg. Read the full article…
Using AURELIS = ‘Dangerous’?
For many people, the ‘deeper self’ is quite unknown territory. Could it be ‘dangerous’ to deal with this field? To be more specific: could one become mentally confused because of this or, in an extreme case, can it even encourage a surge of psychosis? The intake of 15 grams of aspirin (one and a half Read the full article…
Difference between Motivation and Manipulation
Motivation originates in the heart of the motivated. All the rest is manipulation. The human psyche is not a box of building blocks. On the contrary. It is a hugely complex ‘organ’ that is, in addition, constantly moving. We are only partly aware of this. That explains why it sometimes resembles a box of building Read the full article…