The Stress Window

a new window conceptWhen we are stressed, our window to the world can be full of bricks, in the worst case, all we see is a plain wall. The good news is, you don’t have to be Jackie Chan (or Guy Kawasaki) to fight back your clear vision. Omar Al Rashid Bey wrote in the year 1912(!):

“You enter the room – and out of nothing evolves appearance, movement and design, body, character, strength, effectiveness, development, life in endless abundance and endless changes; from your feelings – the world.

Soon this room will appear to you large or small, high or low, light or dark, hot or cold, beautiful or ugly, or in any aspects desirable or undesirable to your senses, and every gradation between these opposites of your feelings. The ground on which you stand is under you, the ceiling you see above you, the portal through which you have entered is behind you, before you, giving wide views, the open bow, the closed wall here is to your left and that’s the right side of the room.

These are descriptions, judgments that seem indisputable – but when someone stands in front of you, he claims, the side that you refer to as the right one, is suddenly the left one for him and he says, the wall that you call the left , is now his right one. Judgments can not both be true: they are contradictory, are opposites that exclude each other, they cancel each other out.

Here happens the miracle that something with a specific attribute is used simultaneously with the opposite of the term. Who of the judges is right at the end? No one – or, if you want both. The wall is both right and left, also none of the two, neither left nor right.”

(from the German book “Das hohe Ziel der Erkenntnis”)

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Balloon glowing

balloon glowingSome people glow in the dark. Some even lift off…

Recently at a party a guy asked me: “Who are you?” My name is Chris. “Have you ever been to London?” Yes, I have been there several times. (He was shocked!) “Last time I was in London” he went on “we really did scare the English party people! We were four and went to a club and drank six liters of Vodka!!!”

My brain was calculating and searching for the added value in the content of his story. Maybe you already guessed it, he had some more valuable stories to share. Being a good listener, I mindfully followed his adventures through London, Munich and St. Moritz. After a while, he had my compassion for looking for happiness and peace in all the “wrong” places (glasses).

At one point, he reminded me of a balloon. Filled with lots of hot gas, floating over ground. Rising up into higher spheres but without much control. Up and down is easy to manage as long as you have enough gas (drinx) left. Where you finally will land, is written in the cosmic winds.

With two feet on the ground, navigation through life is much easier. Use all your sharp senses and be a proud pilot! You might not glow in the dark but you can be a great guiding light for others. Namaste

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The quality of Sleep


It’s all about quality. The quality of life, love, friends and family. Quantity can make you feel tired, left alone and useless.

How would you connect stress with sleep? My personal life experience is, I can sleep for 10 hours and still feel like a smashed tomato or be totally refreshed after a 15 minutes Power-Nap. What makes the difference?

Our brains are a bit like computers, we have energy saving modes like standby (that’s when you wait in this endless customer support hotline), hibernation (you try to sleep but your brain still takes a backup of today), sleep mode (your brain finally shuts off after you got a blue screen) and dreaming (only for humans, unless you are HAL 9000).

When we enter the supermarket, most of us have a tag cloud in our heads: milk, bread, tomatoes, beer, juice, water, potato chips… We are lost until we start to focus and set priorities. If you want to relax and increase the quality of your life, a good sleep is a great foundation. Power-Naps and Sleep-Ins by ZEN-MEN might be great tools for you. Happy relaxing and Bonne nuit!

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