16. Postcoronalia – COVID complications
July 4, 2020 Daily Total Cases worldwide 209.028 11.182.576 Deaths worldwide 5.170 528.372 Today is the 4th of July On a rally at Mount Rushmore, with perplexity on four stony presidential faces in the background, the US president couldn’t care less for the people who seem to adore him and take pride in Read the full article…
Depression Relief – Read&Do
This is the foreword to my book ‘Depression Relief’ that you can find on Amazon (see menu). Pandemic of depression An increasing number of people are being diagnosed with depression worldwide. There is more to this than just some wrought statistics. There is much suffering at the deepest level, which is what depression basically stands Read the full article…
15. Mind the Denial
More and more, I wonder why it is so very, very hard for many to see the mind in what is happening with corona worldwide. June 30, 2020 Why? In view of the possible collapse of the world economy and devastation of the health of millions, we should cherish every straw of possible relief. Conceptually, Read the full article…
14. Motivation Without Anxiety in Corona Times
Motivation may be the single most crucial factor in the whole COVID story. Yet it doesn’t get the attention it deserves. June 27, 2020 Cases worldwide Daily: 176.568 – Total: 10.075.115 Deaths worldwide Daily: 4.891 – Total: 500.624 [There are a few links in this text towards other blog posts by me. You Read the full article…
13. Winter of COVID
Second Wave Corona? One big or several smaller ones? While we don’t know what is to happen, we can search for arguments. June 25, 2020 Quoting Andrea Ammon Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 21 May 2020: “It’s not a question of if there will be a renewed surge but “when Read the full article…
12. Where o Where Is the Virus in Europe?
Summer is dawning. The sun knows it all over Europe, as do the people who seem to live in a full post-corona era. So do many individuals in the US. What can we expect? June 23, 2020 Cases worldwide [from Worldometers] Daily: 138.975 – Total: 9.189.875 Deaths worldwide Daily: 3.880 – Total: 473.484 Did the Read the full article…
Whirlpool of Disease
A whirlpool is a state in which much energy comes together, leading to a non-natural flow. A new order is created at the expense of the surroundings. This is probably central to most ‘disease.’ Life is a search for equilibrium. In the midst of a universe that searches for entropy (disorder), life is but a Read the full article…
11. Summer of Covid
June 13, 2020 It’s almost summer in Europe. COVID-19 seems to be a recent nightmare. Glad it’s over. But it isn’t, of course. There are several ways in which it isn’t over: A second wave will probably hit Europe and the US in the autumn. It may be even much worse, given the Read the full article…
Strongmen Manipulate
A strongman is strong because others are weaker. A leader is strong because others are strong. An Open Leader has Inner Strength. The opposite of an Open Leader. A manipulator is never a leader. A leader does not need to manipulate. Instead, he leads. A ‘strongman’ – what’s in a name – usually sees himself Read the full article…
Is Social Nocebo Real?
Can culturally engrained convictions have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of many individuals? About placebo A person can have a placebo effect all by himself by being convinced that something is helpful, but by itself, it is not helpful at all. This way, for instance, a sugar pill can be a ‘painkiller.’ Read the full article…
10. Corona Risk
June 6, 2020 Today we have these coronavirus curves, worldwide: This is not positive. On the 2nd of May (see ‘ Worst Case COVID’), I was appalled by the linear curve of caseload until then. Today, it’s still linear! The number of deaths per day is slowing down a bit, but not substantially over the Read the full article…
The Source of Discrimination
Whether the discrimination is oriented towards another gender, race, handicap, religious orientation, mental disease, or simply people with a different attitude, it always starts with the discrimination of one’s deeper self. The desire to be on the right side This may be the deepest layer, and it is a positive layer. It is the desire Read the full article…
Is Violence OK?
Without a glorification of violence, being realistic may eventually diminish the need for it. Not running away from violence Running away from violence is, in real-world, sometimes conducive to precisely what one is running away from. As with many things, this is related to gentle-strong-weak-hard. [see: “Weak, Hard, Strong, Gentle“]. It may attract people who Read the full article…
Dictatoriality
= personally imposing things that others have to follow without overt questioning and without prior general consent. At the national level, this can also be accomplished in a democracy. In the past, dictatorial regimes have grown out of democracies more than once. To the dictator, it’s just one more step. And more Dictatoriality can be Read the full article…
All Lives Matter
Black lives too As a matter of fact All lives matter because ‘to matter’ is what life is about. More to the point: it is what life is. If something doesn’t matter by itself, then it’s not life. If something is alive, then it matters, at least to itself. This is another way of saying Read the full article…
Motivating ‘Us’
Again and again, people stick together in the formation of ‘us’ that gets its identity from not being ‘them.’ Can we not all together become ‘us’? At any level People find an ‘us’ at many levels. The ‘us’ generally comes with a ‘them.’ For instance, it may be highly valued to be patriotic and, in Read the full article…
Hurt
You may have recently lost someone you felt for. As I did. Sure it hurts a lot. It damn well does. It’s not part of a statistic. Before you know it, it makes one angry at life. It makes one feel like in a depression. Something happens at soul level. It’s like proceeding and something Read the full article…