• 2016.10.15 learn and teach
• 2016.08.22 source of thought
• 2016.12.10 settling nomad
• 2020.05.25 basis loon

Concepts become inadequate.

Break them

and with the shards puzzle something more beautiful & functional together.

• 2020.04.18 gewoon grond

Some foods taste bitter, some taste sweet, some taste salty, some taste spicy, etc... Some tastes you like very much, some not so much or not at all.

I do not eat as much bitter things as I am not used to do so. It seems more effortless/easy/fulfilling to consume something sweet instead of something bitter. I am not used to eat bitter as much, as eating something sweet.

But all sorts of tastes can be cultivated, can be liked, appreciated.

As a child I did not like the taste of Brussels Sprouts, later on my life I did. My appreciation for different kinds of tastes grew.

When you look at experiences in the form of different tastes instead of good or bad. Then you create the opportunity to move into the "bad", into a different taste. It is no longer a bad thing, it is just a different taste, one you not yet have cultivated appreciation for. When you are able to enjoy/appreciate more tastes then your are able to move more between these cultivated tastes. Your movement, your dance, has grown more complex, more rich.

In that way you can glimpse that indeed everything is "Love". That all there is has the potential to be enjoyed. It might be just a matter of changing your perspective, seeing that all can be liked, by welcoming the unappreciated, by moving into the uncomfortable, to start tasting the undiscovered, unappreciated, tastes. And when you do, you move more complex, more rich, more joyfully.

Now, many years later, I recognise that in those moments I am seeing without any labels attached to anything. I am just seeing form, without any mental labeling or remembering. In the past I was not able to see this process this way. As I was filled up with believes that prevented to see with serving eyes.

This whole process, of coming back to my self, I found scary. Mainly because for most of my life I believed I was broken somehow, there was something wrong with my head. A very easy story to believe, as the whole world around me, including high educated doctors and all, only speak about it in this way. I believed this story, so all internal epilepsy triggered movements (physical, mental, ...) had a rather negative emotional response. Not necessarily because epilepsy is a bad thing, but because of how I mindlessly adopted a view from my outside world to look at epilepsy. It is a view, a way of looking, that triggers negative emotions.

Whether epilepsy is a good or a bad thing is no longer a sensical question to ask. Epilepsy seemed to happened to me, without my conscious will. There is no point in looking at it as a bad thing. Especially because there is seemingly no choice to have an epileptic moment or not. It's being served anyhow. The only thing to do is to change my perspective, to widen my field of thoughts, so I could see this epilepsy with different eyes, in a more serving way.

Maybe, this epilepsy aids me, maybe it is a guiding mechanism, maybe doctors don't really know what they are doing.

There is always a grander story, a story to be told that shines a light on a much bigger context, with more love, more empowerment,

• 2018.08.02 emotion for you

In case of conflict for example, you are verbally offended by a person, undesired or so called negative or bad, emotions rise up. It is common for us to feel the emotion and react mindlessly because of that towards the object of our experience. It's the pointing finger. The finger that points towards an object outside of us, making it the responsible of our emotion. We concluded that this object is the reason of this undesired emotion. And it is. Because every time this object is experienced we feel the same emotion. When this object, this person, would not be experienced, this emotion would most likely not arise. So it is easy to conclude that the object is the reason of our emotional response.

But it is also true that the same object experienced by another person can generate different emotion. One might feel offended by an object of his experience whilst another person might laugh about it. Two people can have a different emotional response whilst experiencing a similar situation, a similar object. Objects of experience have the capacity to trigger emotion inside us. We could say that the quality of this triggered emotion is depended on how we look at that object. Or how we attach believes on to that object.

Emotion comes into play when object and perception meet. To make it more clear, the emotional response reflects the quality of a relationship. The relationship between your viewing and the object of your experience. The quality of this relationship, the color so to speak, comes forth out the quality of your viewing and the quality of the object.

It takes two to generate a quality of emotion, the quality of your viewing and the quality of the object of your experience.

You can spend a lifetime tinkering with the objects of your experience. Trying to change them in order to have a desired emotional response. Or you can change your perception, your believes of that object, not changing any object of your experience.

In the past I was confused about this. I thought that my emotional response is a statement on how bad or good the object of my experience was. That the worse I feel about an object, indeed how bad this object really is. I did not see that the emotion is a reflection of a relationship. The relationship between my viewing and the object of my experience. So what I did was pasting the quality of my emotion not on to this relationship but straight onto the object of my experience. The only way for me to feel better is then to flee from the object, or to attack it or somehow manipulated it in a way it makes me feel better.

• 2018.08.27 epilepsy
• 2016.01.01 change your view instead

An object is not hot nor cold, there is only hotter than and colder than. To state an object is hot, it is more so a statement that you are perceiving an object hotter than your own body temperature. You can only feel a flow of cold or hot towards the body because of the difference between A your body and B the object. Maybe it is even impossible to feel heat that is as warm as your own body. Anyhow, there is a movement, a movement to create equilibrium in the heat difference between A and B. What is experienced that heat flowing towards A or the cold flowing towards B. It is the movement that generates (experience).

• 2016.01.01 move
• 2016.12.10 settling nomad

It is easy, for most, to like sweet food. My relationship towards sugary foods is of a loving kind. It is shaped this way both because of my taste preferences and because of the thing I am tasting. If I do not like sweet, then my relationship towards sweet foods will be of another kind. The form, the colour, of a relationship seems to be influenced by both.

What happens if, for some reason, only bitter foods happen in front of me. I have the tendency to love sweet, not bitter. My relationship towards bitter foods is not so loving as it is to sweet. I do not like bitter at all. Still life, at times, presents bitter.

You can choose to endure and avoid the bitter, never really changing the form of the relationship into something more loving. The food has to change, the food is undesired.

Or you can choose once to change your belief about bitter into something more desired. To change your taste and in doing so adopting a new and more broad taste pallet, in doing so you will more and more appreciate and maybe even love bitter. This change also creates a contrast that intensifies/redefines the sweet even more.

Only to say that you have the capacity to love it all.

• 2017.02.07 all is perfect

I would like to see clearly at the abstract, the small, the underlying, the simple, the stuff that is and has been in front of me all my life. To see and to question. To become somehow independent in my seeing, with the only teacher, my experiences.

It is like we build assumptions on assumptions and interpretations on interpretations. We build a society, a world, a reality with them. But we do not check if the underlying assumptions or the first assumption we ever made or accepted still serves us. It is easy to keep building upon the old structure, it is easy to keep going in a certain direction with the momentum gathered by years. It has served us. But when those assumptions no longer serve, then reality will start knocking on your door, it will start to feel heavy, or it even starts to scream. It is a matter on how willing you are to change, how sensitive you are, how keen you are to listen, how capable you are in letting go of assumptions that do not serve you anymore. For it determines how hard reality slaps you in the face before you change your ways.

Because you will listen, eventually.

• 2016.10.15 daring to learn
• 2017.02.08 you will listen
• 2016.08.06 comfort from within
• 2016.07.15 joyful baby
• 2016.07.15 backwards

• 2016.07.15 joyful baby
• 2016.07.15 backwards
• 2016.10.15 turn it around
• 2016.08.06 comfort from within
• 2017.02.08 to see again from the start

All is seen as Perfect

So why all this to talk about perfect? Well, the concept of perfect is not something that stands on it's own.

First of, things just are. You might judge them, label them, perceive them, as this or that. But that is just your view. A thing is this and that for one person and not for another. Things just are. just as you.

So something to be perfect, is more so your relation towards the thing that makes your view of it perfect or not. And to see something as perfect is to see a thing as the best you can perceive of. You can not see it better in any way.

So the perfect part, of All is perfect, has to do much more with you. Your internal world, your eyes.

The above has more to do with the approach of "perfect", now let's talk more about the concept of "perfect"

Let's presume the statement "all is perfect" is true, but you can not see it.

Let's tune the concept of "perfect". [Waterdrop rolls down][throwing dice] It is more so to see perfect as logical, as in; there is no other way. It is to see a thing within it's context. And to see that whatever the thing does within the context is bound to the context.

The dice itself will always roll perfectly, as in, there is no other way it could not roll, as in it can not all of a sudden start flying, disappearing. It behaves like it should, maybe not as how you desire it. Maybe you wanted to throw a 6 and dice showed a 4. But it behaves as it should as it always has been observed, and it is being perfect in that. The thing is perfect as it is and stand separated from the fact if you can see this or not. It has not a thing to do with how you see it, it will remain what it is.

Your views are changing all the time and to claim a thing perfect in this moment and space, does not make it perfect to you necessarily in another moment or space. Thus there is your judgement on how a thing is perfect or not, and there is the thing itself that is already perfect. Because it exists, it is being experienced, it is here. It behaves like it does. It would be to have a drop of water falling upwards, or to see the dice roll back towards your hand. It would be to experience something that can not be. And even then, if the most unexplainable thing happens, it is perfect.

You can see it as a pointing to your ignorance. It is a more serving way, as it is a trigger to become more, to see more, to cultivate eyes that see more perfect.

A thing will always behave perfectly within it's context. There is always context around a thing. A thing can not be without a context. Thus A thing is already behaving perfectly on it's own. To see it as imperfect is to see your ignorance, a lesser perspective, a lack of understanding, a lack of a more expanded, a more all inclusive, view on All.

Having the eyes willing to see that All is Perfect makes for a mind eager to ever expand to expand your views each time they conflict with your experiences. To get to a stage where your mind sees with less and less conflict. That you see what is in the most beautiful and serving way.

A thing can not be without the existence of another thing

• 2017.02.08 relationship
• 2016.08.14 endlessness

To become your ever changing believes, to become ever changing, to be it. To close the loop, to change form as direct and free as possible.

To tell a story that will make it the last story you will ever need. A story that sets you free from other stories. A story to makes all other stories only there to be enjoyed, not to be needed. But still to see that it remains just another story. Another accumulation of points of views, another rigid web of believes. But one that most likely grands you a start to ever change your most serving and beautiful perspective. One that enables you and start evolving in a different way. A point has been reached, it is time, we are ready.

It just when there are these times when a undesired event happens. You are partly mostly ignorant about the whole perspective of this event. It is easy for the mind to come up with story, one that is similar to the many that went before, one that does not feel so good.

You can change the story, while still being in ignorance of what is really happening. A story that makes you feel better-good. It does not take much to realise that the event did not change, only you additude/story/belief towards it. Knowing there is always a better story, a more grant, a more loving, a more exciting one.

To see that every time and again, it is possible to change yourself so any external event makes you feel good/better/great. To see that the story you tell yourself is just a tool, the belief told is just a stepping stone, to move yourself more into a more desirable state. To realise, after time and repetition, that you have outgrown these tools, that you no more need a story. You do not need to convince yourself. Because you just know, by experience, that every time and again, there is a perspective, there is a point of view, that makes you feel better. With that their is a granded/wider and more simple belief you then cultivate. The belief that all is good.

You took of the side wheels of your bike and for the first time you do not need aid. Whatever calamity comes your way, you now, deep down, that it is ok, you know that there is a perspective/story about this event that makes you feel good. But you do not need the story anymore, you just place yourself in that state without the use of a tool-aid-stepping stone. You become independend in how you feel because you start to believe because you have outgrown the stories.

To come to a point where, just as a child does not need it's bedtime story anymore, you do not need a story anymore. You still enjoy them as you please and you see them for what they are. But you are not dependent on them anymore. You are free from them. Because you have outgrown them. The middle man, the story, is no longer needed. Your belief has taken over. A belief unshakable, molded by your own conscious choice of stories.

• 2016.10.11 a story it remains
• 2016.10.11 infinite stories

That a thought/belief, never questioned, never changed, never refreshed is as an object that lost momentum. It needs more energy to bring it back alive. Like a worn cold diesel engine. The purpose to bring it back in motion, even if it is to move it out of your mind.

Only to see that it is not really the thought or the belief that is rusted. It is more so your additude/relationship towards it. Because how I see it all there is are relationships. And a healthy relationship is a relationship that can move, that can dance, that can search, that can grow, that can let go, that can create distances, and that can come intimately close. You are the orchestrator of relationships.

• 2016.10.15 learn and teach
• 2016.09.02 stagnation rots
• 2017.02.08 to see again from the start

I listen/receive because it enables me to alter my own understanding/self. To question/test my own believes, to shape/mold/tweak them, to be more anchored in them or to release/let go of them. Listening is Learning to receive/integrate more effectively/efficiency.

Both are growth.

• 2016.10.15 daring to learn
• 2016.08.22 source of thought
• 2016.12.10 settling nomad
• 2020.04.23 possession
• 2020.05.25 basis loon

Can you become more capable of extracting more and more of what serves you. Can you become more sensitive in seeing that what hardly appears to be there. Can you see it through the noise? Can you become so skilled in finding nourishment that you can find it in where it seemingly lacks. Can you become relentless in trying, every time and again, to choose and see only the greater, the beauty, the functional, regardless on what thoughts may say?

• 2016.09.02 see through the noise

conscious or unconscious. It seems automatic and effortless to breath.

There might have been a point in evolution where it took effort/focus/concentration/trial/error to come to the next step. The step that forces you, guides you, directs you, in to consciously breath out. (...)

What if all the tension in the world, with the undesired effects of our collective doing, can be seen as an in breath. A breathing in of Earth that is finding it's capacity is reached. The lungs are tense and soon can not breath in any more. We are guided to come up with something else.

• 2016.01.01 let go just breathe

• 2016.01.01 welcome back discomfort
• 2017.05.28 bare feet

Instead, just let all be and consume/focus/interact with what you do desire and what does serve you.

Like picking fruit.

• 2016.06.24 picking fruit

An event, it happened, a certain story is told and one feels bad. Another story is told and one feels better about the same event. Another story is told and one feels different again. The event stays the same, only your story about it changes.

To realize time and again that there is always a different story. A story more sad, a story more fun, a story more this, a story more that. There are infinite story to be told. But the event stays the same.

As practice goes on, one binds more and more suiting stories to different kind of events. Stories that feel great, feel loving, feel warm, feel empowering. Stories of your choice/creation. You are free to choose/create.

To realize that there is always another story, always, that shine a brighter and warmer light upon any event.

• 2016.10.28 outgrowing the story
• 2016.10.11 a story it remains

• 2016.01.01 consuming believes

• 2016.10.15 extracting more

• 2016.10.15 daring to learn

• 2016.08.29 losing

• 2016.08.15 animal skill
• 2016.08.29 like flexing muscle

• 2016.08.29 to read behind the lines

You are being fed, all the time.

• 2016.08.29 packaging

I love to dream of a world where simplicity rules. Where the complexity is inside us. Because we have the power to automate behaviours. To focus upon a behaviour and shape it, till it's automatic once again. There is no more effort involved into the things you conquered, only maintanance. I choose to have the complexity conquered inside of me rendering the outside world more enjoyable.

water is the anti pole of all other It behaves the mover

if you could let go of assumptions, of believes, of how things ought to be. If you dare to disown and to be empty. Then Nature will direct you. It shall move you beyond your imagination. Evolution

I'm the generator and the consumer

It seemed normal to me to state that a thing is hot or is cold. But I find it to be a false statement. Because a thing is experienced differently by different beings. I could find a thing to be very hot, while it is only warm for another person. Thus stating that a thing is hot, is in a sense wrong saying. It makes no sense to realise that the things just are and to keep using language in a way that states the opposite. It seem more serving for my language to reflect my insights and believes. To say that I experience a thing in a certain way. I know that most statements are always coming from the point of view of that person, unless stated otherwise. But still. I find it more serving to communicate correctly, or at least to be reminded. It seems to me that there is most purpose into saying a thing a certain way, for the world around you to interpret it the way you really mean it.

• 2016.08.26 movement generates
• 2016.08.25 speaking from experience

That for me, to express more truth goes hand in hand with transforming more of myself. Transforming for example the vulnerability where you think you place yourself in when speaking from your own experience. To see the beautify and the bravery in vulnerability. Because in a sense it is the most invulnerable statement you can make to the outside world. To place yourself completely in vulnerability and knowing that you are ok. It can be a statement of bravery, of faith, of power and the more you do it, like many things, the more you become used to it. The more you speak from your own experience, the more you let truth out in the world. The more truth seeps through the minds of people, the more the world finds harmony.

• 2016.08.25 language reflect insight

How in this way I can distances myself even more from thoughts. To see it as another flow of input, a stream of energy, similar as air, light or sound. And when it's seen as that, how you see thought, how you handle thought, changes.

WIP

A thought comes to you. It serves you. It is something given. It has emerged inside you by dynamics/forces you are only to explain through symbols. The thought came to you, honour it. Do not claim it as yours, because you do not even know where it came from, how it came to be. If you do claim it, whatever that materialises from that thought, you will also claim. This will attach you, bind you, with it. You'll be less free.

Do nurture a thought, give it attention, let it grow, but do not claim it as yours.

Protect it if necessary. Find the right time to seed it, to share it, to materialise it, to take action from it, to place it into the world. Be a caretaker for your thoughts, especially the ones that want to see daylight.

Ever increasing resolution

It has emerged inside you by dynamics/forces you are only to explain through symbols.
Not much different as referring to the thunder-god for the thunder. As long as your mind can file it and the mind is content with this filing.

Ownership

Beside is there really such a thing as owning a thing. Or is that nothing more then a man made agreement.

• 2016.10.15 learn and teach
• 2016.12.10 settling nomad
• 2020.04.23 possession
• 2020.05.25 basis loon

• 2016.08.15 independent animals
• 2016.08.15 helping kitten
• 2016.08.29 losing

• 2016.08.15 independent animals
• 2016.08.15 animal skill

• 2016.08.15 animal skill
• 2016.06.24 earth
• 2016.08.15 helping kitten

• 2017.02.07 all is perfect

How we nurture by our actions. Whether it is doing a thing, thinking about a thing, focussing upon a thing, laughing with a thing, ...
That one can become aware of where he is directing his nurturing power.
That all things will grow in one way or another when they are nurtured. That nurturing comes in many and unexpected forms.
That in a sense you are always in a state of nurturing.
That one can become very aware of what he nurtures.
That anything you do nurtures some thing.
That one becomes more selective on what he nurtures.
That one chooses that he does not want to nurture a thing no more.
That one can let things just be, without the need of doing something with it.
That one realises that a thing can not survive without nourishment.
That it can be more helpful to nurture something new and to nurture the old no more.
(That one only needs to fight when the unserving thing has been nurtured to much.
That one starts to see that it is a beautiful dynamic. As a thing that serves no more shouts more. And as it shouts more it draws more attention. If one nurtures it grows and transforms and can shouts more.)
That the act of fighting a thing that does not serve, can also be nurishment and hold potential and transformation for that thing.
That resistance is also nurturing.
That many things fight for their existence.
That many things fear their end.
That that very fear can enforce a thing to grow and transform.
That fear can be seen as a potent fuel to move out of the fear.
That one can look at fear in a more beautiful way.
That fear is your ally, if you choose it to be.

• 2016.08.14 nurturing idea
• 2016.06.24 picking fruit

note: maybe use the word 'feed' instead of 'nurturing'?

• 2016.08.14 nurture what you choose

I wish to tap more into the potential of my body and in doing so making it ever more comfortable with it’s surroundings. It is not a quest to search for the boundaries and to break limits, but more so a path of curiosity and belief that the body can become ever more capable.

To introduce the discomfort, just a little, so I am still able to welcome it. To sense and find that balance between my own comfort and the welcomed discomfort. To be on that edge, where discomfort can transform into comfort.

To feel the body with a finer sense. To be acquainted with it’s vague boundaries of comfort. To listen ever more attentively and to guide it over that edge. That edge where discomfort and comfort meet.

To welcome back the cold, the dark and the rain, not only to see that it is just that, but to see the gift they bring. If I would like to connect a story to it, I would choose a story of potential, of exhilaration, of growth, not one of misery and discomfort. A part of me wants to go there, wants to be exposed, gently, feelingly and with one step at the time.

• 2016.07.15 joyful baby
• 2017.02.08 you will listen
• 2017.02.08 to see again from the start
• 2016.07.15 backwards
• 2017.06.08 comfort from within

A man sees, that with exceptional rainfall, the water overflows his pond. It is a natural behavior, but in his mind it is not desired. All there is, is for him to notice that undesired behaviour and adopt the system accordingly. To make a change in the design so the so called undesired behaviour does not presents itself anymore.

We, humans, have introduced many systems in which we partake every day. Let’s take the money system for example. When we pay at the grocery store for our vegetables it would be regarded as good/normal behaviour. When an armed gang robs a bank it is judged as unwanted/unnatural/bad behaviour/event. Still it is a natural flow of money, whether one likes it or not. It is one of the many behaviours, flows, expressions that our money system allows.

The so called unwanted behaviours are our direct feedback and impulse to make change. But we seem to mostly attack the unwanted behaviour and prevent ourselves to act and make change. This is waste mental energy and makes the thinker feel negative emotions. Also the system does not change and therefor the unwanted behaviours are still able to show up. It's a vicious circle that builds up momentum. But it's genius as even the most unmotivated, ignorant and insensitive will build up a vast array of negative emotions that will overflow a threshold eventually and force action. Thou shall listen.

The more the man's pond stays with it's old design, the more impact and influence that undesired overflowing of the pond will cause. His vegetables next to the pond might get rotten because of the excess of water. It is a matter of sensitivity to interpret reality and take action. To see what is really going on and to introduce a change before the undesired behaviour causes to much unwanted effects. The longer one waits to make change the harder reality will shout back at you. The overflowing water might rot his vegetables and eventually destroy all his crop. If an event/behaviour would be unnatural it could not happen. All we experience is natural, it is logical for a gang to rob a bank, for us to build nuclear reactors, for us to kill each other, for us to have cancers, for all the so called shit that is happening. It is natural, it is normal, it is logical. There is no other way to look at it without fighting with the environment or with your own perception of how things ought to be. What we get is the logical and natural outcomes of the systems we have put in place. All the things we doom to see as bad should be owned by us.

There is less room or rather need for blame, it is wasted energy by now. It is a stagnating action as we are getting nowhere. It has pushed us away from old behaviours. In that sense it was very useful to blame. Now there is more room and need for recreation, reinventing. Because we understand the way Nature really does it. Learning and adopting all the time. If something has purpose and it functions, great use it, if it no longer does, or it crosses some threshold, then adopt it, tinker with it, be creative and change it or let it go, leave it behind. Sometimes the most serving and loving thing to do is to say goodbye. There is also beauty to be found in that. You are creativeness, your are just that, like anything else alive, We learn, We are creative, We grow, We make our reality.

There is no such thing as unnatural. It would define a behaviour, an event, a thing, that can not be, should not be, is not desired, or is unwanted.

We got so many things backwards and I try to get my head around it why. Because it clearly brings tensions and negativity as it just does not work. Why do we have this way of thinking. Where did it come from? Could it be that the seed for it has been planted many many centuries ago. And that with one global basic but backwards understanding many other backwards understandings derived from it?

If so I my best guess would be that it came from the idea (ref. Ishmael Book) that we initially thought that the world belongs to man, instead of man belongs to the world. Or that we start to do more out of Love instead out of Fear?

• 2016.07.15 joyful baby
• 2017.02.08 you will listen
• 2016.10.15 turn it around
• 2016.08.06 comfort from within
• 2017.02.08 to see again from the start

The beautiful thing is that we often enforce her to be like that. Most parents do it consciously or unconsciously. On a level she is already changing the reality around her just by the way she is. Changing the world around her from inside out. That is what She is already practicing. When she is laughing, unconditionally, without reason so it seems. What happens is that the reality around her smiles back. We, the parents and friends, respond to Lise’s smiles and joy by smiling back. She feels joy inside, she shows it, and her reality shows it back to her. Like a giant mirror. Powerful learning for a baby.

During my life this dynamic got lost. But I would like to get back to it. I would like to be joyful and because of that doing the things I do with joy. Not doing things to yield a joy out of it. Like joy is something that only can be accumulated from the outside world and stored inside of me. Making it in a relentless journey in doing things to accumulate joy to feel good. But when I look at Her, it seems that I might have it backwards once again. Because that joy springs from inside her. It does not come solely from the interaction with the world around Her. She has got it right from the start, she maybe does not get it but she is doing it, being it.

• 2016.08.06 comfort from within
• 2017.02.08 you will listen
• 2017.02.08 to see again from the start
• 2016.07.15 backwards
• 2016.10.15 turn it around

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you]]> https://writings.minck.be/s/writings/2016.06.24-earth https://writings.minck.be/s/writings/2016.06.24-earth Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:36:54 GMT We all come from this earth. We all live our lives generation after generation on this planet. We often refer to our planet as mother earth because she is the one that made it possible for us to happen. We and everything else on this planet came forth out of her. Without her we would not be here. If one day all but us would disappear from the face of the planet we would not be able to continue to live. We need her, in many ways she fulfills a role as a mother to us. She supports all, gives so much, and if you let her she does it with abundance. She is really taking care of us. More than that, we just can not live without her, we are depended of her.

• 2016.08.15 independent animals
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To visit my mind, seeing all the thoughts that come to me. To pick up a thought as it comes along and enjoy it. It is that simple. I have many thoughts but I only consume those of my choice, the others I let just be.

To visit the world, looking around and see what is happening. To pick an event of your choice and take part in it. It is that simple. There are many events but I only take part in those of my choice, the others I let just be.

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When I play piano I also have the impression that I need to tune something inside myself for it to flow. To think strongly about “the task at hand” is not going to aid me and let my best creations flow out of me.

There are just moments when it just flows, as in a moment, out of the blue, that creativity bypasses the thinking part. It’s like you are enjoying yourself, playing yourself. The joy is in the moment, in the motion from one note to another, to hear a pattern that is familiar, that heals, that moves and loosens things inside.

The question I have now if it is a matter of getting it or a matter of receiving it. I’m not sure but maybe it is both. It is getting it, by opening the door to it, being able to receive it, by getting more balanced in the head. And it is receiving, because once you are open to receive, it is a given, without own effort.

• 2016.05.28 handeling my thoughts

When I slowly came out of meditation I felt good, still, calm, serene, gentle, patient, a mix I experienced before. I started to have thoughts and was able to let them in and let them go. I observed it and it clicked, the way I was handling my thoughts. It felt good. The idea that thoughts are a tool and that I do not use them very well, felt true. Many quality thoughts came in. It came back to me to let thoughts come in, see them, and let them go. It is without effort. What I usually do is see them, when they come in out of the blue, and start pushing them away when they are bad. When I get an positive emotional response from them, I tend to use the original incoming out of the blue thought as a starting point to create more thoughts. When I have a question or a problem to be answered I formulate it in my head and the flow of thought stops for a while because I stumble upon a problem, a block, a stop, a halt, because I do not know the solution. So I used to force my way through without knowing I was forcing anything. I try and see to come up with ideas or solutions out of my own effort. Because you “want” the problem to be solved, you “want” to get to the solution so you get your reward. But you do not have to do anything, just let the thought go when you bump upon a block in the flow, leave it. “Yeah but I want it to be solved bla bla bla….” Indeed you “want”. Have patient, have faith, let it go. And by doing so you create an emptiness you do not fill up with your forced thoughts. When the emptiness remains the thought can simmer. And when there is space a new thought can fill it in.

(I do had one time this feel/idea that there where different types of thoughts. It is hard to distinguish at first but there are.)

Anyway when I did this, and got this flow again, I started to smile. It was nice to have that flow, that harmony, that “correct” way of handling my thoughts, this trust like it is all going to be just great. This relief of putting the burden of coming up with all the answers away from your own self. From my perspective and knowing it feels like “external” input, those out of the blue thoughts. When my perspective and knowledge will grow bigger I might have a different view on this.

• 2016.05.31 opening the door

Because you are confused, the worry is not what you think it is. The worry is your guidance. As for any emotion.

If you worry or are stuck in any undesired emotion you most likely are confused why these emotions come to you and why you think they are undesired. The thing is you already know perfectly how to deal with these emotions, you where never left on your own with this. You might think so, but your not. In fact you are already having the perfect behavior on some level to manage this. You might just need a reminder.

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The difficulty is that you might believe that your strong negative emotional response is a measurement of how negative the object of your experience is. But an object is not this or that, you see the object as this or that. When you paste the quality of your emotional response onto the object you are very convinced that the object of your experience is the source, the reason, of the emotion you are feeling. You are leaving out your own view in this story. The object of your experience in combination with your way of seeing it, is determining your emotional response. Your own perspective is the very thing you can always change. You do not need to try and change the objects of your experience, just go within, adjust your view instead, change your own mental concept you have wrapped around a thing.

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When you step with your bare feet on a pointy rock, the interaction between the rock and your foot brings you hurt. The unpleasant feeling that arises from this kind of interaction asks for your attention. It motivates you to change your ways. You might shift your weight, you might bend your knee. Whatever you do, you'll move, in this case literally, in a different way. You changed your way, and with it the painful interaction fades.

A person calls you something you do not like to hear, and an uncomfortable emotion arises. There is a chance that the emotion triggers some thoughts. These thoughts, coloured by this emotion, makes you feel the emotion even more. As the emotion becomes stronger it brings out even more thoughts of that quality. Your thoughts and emotions are playing ping-pong. You seem not to go anywhere where you want to go with this.

You know how to deal with this. You are being guided just as with your physical body. You know how to deal with these unpleasant sensations. But somehow you act with the emotional body in a different way as with the physical one. But you know how to coop with this. You do not need to learn anything. Do as you do when walking bare feet. Do as you do when gripping your arm.

There is a rock
There is an object of experience

You step on it with a certain movement
You look at it with a certain perspective

There is an interaction between your foot and the rock
There is an interaction between your perspective and the object of your experience.

This results in a physical unpleasant feeling.
This results in an emotional unpleasant feeling.

You are encouraged to change the way of your foot.
You are encouraged to change the way of your mind.

You move your foot, a movement that brings relief.
You move your perspective, a movement that brings relief.

It is easy,
you where doing this already.

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The process is similar to your breathing. There is no fear involved in letting the air in your lungs go. You are not panicking every time you move the air out of your lungs. When your lungs are empty, you do not worry about the inhale to come.

This breathing is a fearless movement of welcoming and letting go. This movement makes for a healthy you.

The air moves in and out of your lungs. The blood flows through your heart. It flows, it comes and goes continuously. The heart does not hold on to blood, neither do your lungs hold on to the air. It welcomes and let's go. If they would halt this movement, your body would be in trouble.

What if more aspects of you would enjoy this movement, this coming and going. What about all other things that come and go through you. Things you might not let go so easily like some of your thoughts, your feelings, people, relations? Anything you can experience.

Breath, let it move in and out your lungs, in and out of your life, your head, your heart. Just breathe.

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Move your body,

Move your heart,

Move all that is you,

Just move!

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Your mind can protest, because this guy is really like this and that situation is really like that. Old habits, but you know better. You can not play this game anymore. It becomes heavy and you see what you are doing to yourself. You see that it does not make sense to keep looking through old views.

It takes a letting go, letting go of listening to your dictating mind. It takes a trust, trusting that you do not need your mind to fill in a thought. It can be scary when you give up your convictions that used to bring such a strong emotional response. It can even feel as doing the wrong thing, it can feel as falling, as loosing grip on things. It means that those believes have been stagnant for too long, they have served you in the past, be thankful if you wish. But now it is time to let them go and welcome something new. Something that feels better.

• 2016.01.01 consuming believes

To introduce discomfort, just a little, enabling myself to still welcome it, to relax in it. To sense and find that balance between my own comfort and the welcomed discomfort. To be on that edge, where discomfort can transform into comfort.

To feel the body with a finer sense. To be acquainted with it’s vague boundaries of comfort. To listen ever more attentively and to guide yourself over that edge. That edge where discomfort and comfort meet.

To welcome back the cold, the dark and the rain, not only to see that it is just that, but to see the gift they bring. If I would like to connect a story to it, I would choose a story of potential, of exhilaration, of growth, not one of misery and discomfort. A part of me wants to go there, wants to be exposed, gently, feelingly and with one step at the time.

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