This weekend we hiked up la Concha, the highest mountain (1300 m) in the Marbella area. It’s so beautiful, so majestic, so hugely vast. Up there, from the top, I feel so small, so insignificant. In a good sense. It’s so relieving. At least for me it is a good feeling, like seeing the big picture. Imagine being an astronaut or a astro physicist, seeing the planets, the stars, the universe, every working day before going home to empty the mail box with the bills. Imagine seeing your life in a 137 billion year perspective. All the problems just seem so small.
Africa with its Atlas mountains is seen across the sea. Sierra Nevada 200 km away shines with its snow on the top. After walking for about 4 hours, mostly in silence, a bit of climbing in concentration, a bit of danger, mindfulness in every step, I feel detoxed. It clears my mind. Works my muscles. Energy. Prana.
We sat down on the highest mountaintop, did Pranayamas breathing in the fresh air, meditated. Time was irrelevant. I felt the healing nature of the scenery. I feel so grateful, thanks!
Back down by the embracing woods at el Refugio de Juanar, by the olive groves where they were harvesting (now is the time to buy the freshly pressed olive oil, loaded with vitamin E), I wondered why I don’t do this more often? If I did, would it still be as detoxing every time? This mediative 5 hour hike, gives birth to the deepest thoughts and conversations afterwards. Silence is the source of creativity for sure. But the conversation and communication is the productive outcome of it. Let me know if you want me to take you up there.
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Since 20+ years we have successfully been consultants in the natural health sector to support individuals and we are in particular working with entrepreneurs and professionals. Our mission is to defend natural health, the only one that really works so far. We mainly but not entirely use Eastern philosophy such as Ayurveda, TCM, Yoga, Thai chi, Falun Gong, and only honest modern science.
Everyone can heal naturally, it's what bodies and (free) minds want. Our O• Method is based on physics, chemistry and biology with emphasis on the first one as the rest often follow naturally. We divide our work in three parts: Body-Mind-Soul. To allow them all to detox and let go we work with energy (Prana, Xi, Vitality, Spirit, Pneuma or whatever you call the life force, it's the same force mentioned in ancient texts) to heal on all levels, i.e. from chronic disease, toxicity, depression and traumas using our own method, reaching 96% success rate which is unheard of by others in our sector. Would you know of anyone with that result, let us know.
Considering that we invented and dumped >120.000 (petro)chemically derived substances since 1945, of which many are very toxic, getting healthy will most likely include a good old body detox sooner or later.
My love for Ayurveda started in 1993 with Deepak Chopra and after a few turns in life I quit my job as a Nordic Brand Manager and BI strategist at the largest Nordic telecom operator and re-schooled in natural medicine. Besides Dr. Chopra I have studied Dr. Lad, Dr. Siva (Pune, India) and other prominent teachers in their field, but the real difference comes with a practiced. I added nutrition, Orthomolecular Medicine with Dr. Nielsen (USA/Spain) and herbalism.
Today we teach those whom want to continue our work and we love to dig down in etymology and the original (mainly Avestan, Pali and Sanskrit) scripts to understand the words fully and I fall in love with the concepts over and over again for every sutra. This love affair that created a few books (Amazon), presentations, essayes and many events and consultations, is still giving us Yang-Yin balance and inspiration. I guess with that we are recognizing the value of Dao De Ching 💚🌿💜
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