What You Can ‘Learn’ from Your Symptom
People ask me this because it regularly appears in AURELIS. Actually, it’s already present within the last two letters, standing for Inner Strength. Symptom as communication ‘from deep inside’ To the degree that your symptom is psycho-somatic – as most chronic symptoms are – it’s present because deep inside yourself, something deserves attention. Something is Read the full article…
Humility
Very important and also immensely difficult. It’s an exercise that may easily last a lifetime: ‘humility of ego’. You think that you understand what it’s about and at the same time you say ‘I’. ‘I’ know better than many others what humility is. Great! Humility doesn’t know itself. (How I know this? Well…) ‘Knowing yourself’ Read the full article…
Schizophrenia (and Other Psychotic States)
Schizophrenia is not an AURELIS-indication. However, I personally think it would be a good one, helpful to schizophrenics. The absence of this indication has legal reasons: Suppose someone with an upcoming psychosis uses the indication and gets a psychotic episode… Is AURELIS to blame? At the same time I think this is (as I write Read the full article…
Cognition and Emotion: a Public-Speaker’s Combination
Human rationality has not evolved without the human emotional side. And vice versa. Of course: how could it have been otherwise? Emotional and rational Emotional brain structures have not evolved unchanged from animal ancestry towards humanity. In fact, they have evolved most of all. Even more, the ‘more ancient’ emotional structures have evolved in concordance Read the full article…
The Public-Speaking Brain towards a Better World
Brainy insights help in becoming a better public speaker as well as in getting a better message to the audience. Common brain structures You and your audience have the same kind of brain. The mere focus on this may make a speaker more comfortable being open to himself and to his audience. The former helps Read the full article…
AURELIS: the Straight Line
Straight to the goal: a synthesis of warm rationality and serious depth. Prospects: all sentient beings. At the same time: a long and winding road. The ‘straight line’ is meant to be as straight as possible. Then, life comes along with any number of constraints and (im)possibilities. One can do one’s best. That is not Read the full article…
The Public-Speaker’s Beyond Us-Them
Within the brain, ‘positive to us’ is related to ‘negative to them’. As any person, a speaker can go beyond. Us-Them is the basis of morality. [see: ‘In-Group Creates Out-Group?’] More concretely, the same hormones (oxytocin…) and related brain structures that aid in making an ‘us’ (think of a mother and her suckling baby) also Read the full article…
AURELIS and ‘Esotericism’
If it’s your intention to be open all the way, then you have to be open to all sides and not closed to some specific one. Unless it would be the of being-closed itself. This certainly is important when it’s not easy, when people tend to misunderstand, when people interpret their attachment to certain ideas Read the full article…
From ‘I’ to Caring to Social to Speaking
It’s all about ‘I’ in the public-speaking brain. And then it’s also all about caring. Existential at the start: It’s all about ‘I’ then expanding the ‘I’ to incorporate ‘them’. This is not abandoning ‘I’. It’s a process of growing of you-as-speaker: while ‘ego’ remains humble; total ‘you’ becomes fascinating. Find yourself fascinating: You stand Read the full article…
Tickling from a Distance
One may give examples from one’s own life, no? The following text is such an example. Probably each dad (and the mothers too) recognize it: tickling your kid(s) from a distance. It goes like this: you slowly let your tickle fingers travel toward a tickle spot at your child and your little sprout already starts Read the full article…
True Science
… and thus not what is often seen as such. And which in turn is being thrown in the trash by others, mainly in an effort to make oneself be seen. Science is being used and crushed for the same reasons. True science begins and ends with devotion and is devotion all the time. Firstly Read the full article…
The Art of ‘Giving’
So: giving is an art? Indeed it is. Exchanging on the other hand, is not an art. The difference between giving and exchanging is what makes it an art. This requires a subtle attention. You really expect nothing in return, or do you? “I am always giving and they only take advantage…” “A thank you Read the full article…
The Importance of ‘Certainty’
With ‘certainty’ I mean something that you can see as a kind of open surrogate for the belief in a placebo. This is to say: the action of believing in it (so the power, without the lie of it). It is a ‘certainty’ that you can basically take up yourself and that makes many things Read the full article…
AURELIS, Spoon-Fed?
No, this is not about AURELIS for babies. The question is: would it be interesting to bring AURELIS in the most palatable way? I’m thinking of something like a “now do this, then that and then again do that and hooray!” – way: No more headaches thanks to this step-by-step plan. Easily lose 8 kilograms Read the full article…
A Taste of Pain
Pain is not always easy to ‘endure’ if you necessarily want to ‘endure’ it. There are only 4 basic tastes (or 5, if you count in ‘unami’) that we can distinguish on the tongue: salty, sour, sweet and bitter. All other flavors that we taste with the tongue are somehow combinations of these 4. Makes Read the full article…
Insight is Not a Supermarket
Lots of people are kind of lost. They are searching it here and they are looking for it there and they cannot find it anywhere, so they create it themselves… based on some bits and pieces that they glue together into something that looks like a house to mentally live in. But is that house Read the full article…
AURELIS and Flower-Power, Zen, Mysticism
Flower-power The 60’s. 1967, San Francisco. ‘Summer of love’. The highlight, but at the same time, in lack of enough depth, already its downfall. Even before June 1967 it became clear to those initially involved that the ideals were not being ‘realized’ and that they were already as good as gone. It was only the Read the full article…