As you might have noticed, I am in the middle of a move. It has been so hectic that I haven’t even had time to process what it might mean to me. At first I was deeply saddened, but right now I’m caught up in the rush of things, and I know that the weeks…
Category: Self-care
On Moving Home
Today, just a few reflections on what moving home means. You realise that there is only a limited number of things that you use, out og everything that you possess. It is followed by the realisation that you don’t inhabit all the spaces in your home, that you could do with a much smaller space….
Work Well Done
Today I would like to talk about doing our work well. It might sound as a little bit of a rant, but I believe performing to a high standard goes well beyond a debilitating or enslaving corporate culture that intends to yield the maximum benefit while squeezing life force from its employees. Of course, companies…
Everything you need is inside you
Some would say that having needs, and striving to satisfy those needs, is a primary motivation force for living beings. If we are alive, we need to breathe, we need to eat, we need shelter, we need somewhere appropriate to live. And these needs must be met, because they are biological, and they ensure our…
Beginner Meditation
I have learnt many things along my spiritual journey, but I can fairly say that the one which has most empowered me and the one that saved me was, and is, meditation. I have said how at many times in my life I struggled with my own inconsistency, on the one hand, and with the…
De-cluttering as a form of Self-Love
The minimalist lifestyle has become increasingly popular in recent years. With lifestyle coaches and mentors like Marie Kondo, it has come to many people’s attention a fact that, incredible as it may seem, many of us had not noticed: we are drowning in stuff. Of course she’s not the first to point her finger at…
Animals as the Perfect Tool for Self-Love
Yesterday we talked about how difficult it can be for us to love ourselves in the light of all external judgements, the judgements we impose on ourselves and how we tend to magnify our mistakes. We also mentioned some different ways through you can start learning to love yourself, seeing the beauty that is you…
Why is it so hard to love ourselves?
BECAUSE WE ARE THE REFLECTION OF OTHERS As people around us is a reflection of our own inner, mental state, we’re also the reflection of others. We pick so much shit sometimes and we are so conditioned to do it that we don’t even notice. We pick up on eople’s anger, resentment, violence, brutality. And…
On Gratitude
We might start by defining what gratitude is. Gratitude is feeling (and maybe also showing) appreciation and thankfulness for whatever it is that we receive or happens to us. Looking at some dictionary definitions, I also notice that gratitude involves wanting to reciprocate what someone has done for us, though I’m not quite sure of…
What do you do with your pain?
Each person experiencies pain or hurt in a different way. What we collectively know as pain is one of the most subjective things there are. I sometimes think that we came up with this word to have some common ground, something to talk about or share, so that others could try to “understand” what we…
Mare Stellarum 