A Deeper-Self Political Primer?
The ‘total human being’ is important not only to individual health but also to a lot of societal questions and domains. Let’s mind-game a political party that would stand for the total human being, with deep respect for the present situation as well as for a desired change towards a more open future… Are we Read the full article…
Placebo Is Not Good for You
Even if a placebo may appear to help at short term, one should always look further. For a long list of ‘placebo side effects’, click here. For an article by me on ResearchGate: [see RG: ”Placebos have many ‘side-effects’“] Placebo is generally limited to relieving symptoms, as by the way also do most regular medications Read the full article…
Leadership IS Meditation
Giving attention to the broader picture without losing the value of the concrete: meditation and leadership have much in common. Management is about getting one’s own thoughts as well as those of others clearly and efficiently together. Leadership is about letting these thoughts not get in the way of discerning the ‘broad picture.’ The main Read the full article…
Can Meditation Be Used as Therapy?
Yes… but with caution. Western medical therapies are designed to fight symptoms or disease. Some recommend the use of meditation as another element in this fight – as another kind of therapy. Yet there is a deep mismatch. The goal of meditation ultimately lies at the unconscious level. Some call it ‘enlightenment’, or ‘human growth.’ Read the full article…
Stressional Intelligence: Sensitivity Without Vulnerability
Distress can be seen as a problem of vulnerability: getting frustrated by a mismatch between ‘wanting’ and ‘not being able to’. It’s a relative problem: is there too much environmental stress for you, or are you too vulnerable? There is no objective measure in this. Too much environmental stress may be too much for almost Read the full article…
True Meditation is Warm and Friendly
To-the-core friendliness is what meditation amounts to. It is the reason for and also the practice of meditation. It is a warm and friendly invitation towards slowing down your thinking. So your thoughts themselves can get more ‘space.’ They can follow their course without being disrupted by the ‘next thought.’ Meditation is about being friendly Read the full article…
Charisma of Public Speaking
A speaker’s charisma is his being openly himself. This is also the main characteristic of leadership. In following you while speaking, the audience gets closer together. That’s a leader’s stuff. A charismatic speaker touches his audience and invites and leads them towards his vision. A speaker’s charisma thus may change someone’s life or even the Read the full article…
Transforming a Group into a Team through Open Leadership
There is much more positive energy in a team than in a mere group of people. Building a team may be your biggest key to success. It’s hard to pinpoint when a group becomes a team. Yet it’s important for any organization, even at a big scale. Is Europe a group of countries or a Read the full article…
Three Waves of Attention
Where there is life, there is attention. Where there is attention, there is life. AURELIS integrates rationality and poetry in a specific view of human being. It brings together body and mind, East and West, past, present and future. Most of all, it unifies conscious thinking and the subconscious mind as understood in modern cognitive Read the full article…
A Public Speaker’s Heart-Felt Impact
As a public speaker, you want to have an impact, ‘to change the world’? Great! You can do so from inside. So, what does this mean: ‘from inside’? It’s not what you are consciously aware of. Notably, what people are consciously aware of is only a fraction of what they are ‘unconsciously aware of’. So, Read the full article…
Three Dangers of Careless Depth
The ‘deeper’ has already led to many accidents. Look at the pitiful excesses of Catholicism. It’s just an example. But that should not be a reason to throw away the ‘deeper’. However, one ought to be particularly careful with it. As a starters, one can make a primary distinction between: BLACK – the ‘deeper’ turns Read the full article…
Is Meditation Dangerous?
Meditation can perfectly go hand in hand with warm and alive feelings. This may require some caution. Many things have been called ‘meditation.’ If you are sitting on a cushion with eyes closed, nobody knows what you are doing. It’s also difficult to talk about. Are you meditating in the way your Zen teacher intends Read the full article…
A.I. Will Be Singular
We tend to see human intelligence as what ‘intelligence’ is all about. Many humans each have intelligence. Of course, A.I. will not be bound by this. “If A.I. simulates human intelligence, is this then real intelligence, or only a simulation of intelligence?” This appears to be a merely philosophical question. It will soon be much Read the full article…
Transforming Stress into Challenge.
A challenge is something you can fight FOR. You can fight to achieve it. (Di)stress is the result of a fighting-AGAINST. Going from latter to former is a change of fight. When stress becomes negative, there is always a ‘fighting against’ involved. Some examples: A child has examination stress because it fears being punished for Read the full article…
Stress is about Deeper Meaning
Negative stress can be seen as the direct consequence of a lack of deeper meaning. Many people – including physicians – see stress as some kind of blob. To have or not to have… And then: to have it to a certain degree on a scale from nil to X. “Yesterday I had a lot Read the full article…
About Tolerance
One cannot be tolerant to something one doesn’t know. So first comes Listening. Otherwise ‘tolerance’ can be quite in-tolerant. “You must be tolerant.” is of course a paradox. Is tolerance then selective? It appears to be so. You could even define tolerance as being intolerant to intolerance. There is – at first sight – no Read the full article…
Do People Seek Negative Stress?
May stress be a major goal of ‘running the rat race’ rather than the result? According to statistics, almost everybody is ever more di-stressed, including kids and elderly people. So, it’s quite logical to look for causes. But what if stress – whether positive or negative – is ultimately the goal? Causes become means… Then Read the full article…