The tricky part is to find out what you really want. It’s only when the ego (the thinking mind), formed by learning and conventions, is peeled off that you find what you intuitively feel and want. The best way I know to find out is to simply feel in a moment of a ‘peeled’ state of mind. Trust your self, it will tell you through your intuition or your gut feeling. The sanskrit word for meditation is ‘to be free of measurement’. It is to open up to whatever comes to you without labeling it, nor yourself. It is not judgmental. It is unconventional.
Explore, open up to change, and feel if you get good energizing feelings, or bad ones. If you regularly allow yourself a silent centering moment, like in meditation, (by sitting down during your walk in the woods or doing yoga) those signals from your self will be clearer throughout the whole day. In order to explore yourself and find out what is really good for you, you have to open up to change, because things will always change, on a cellular level and in the universe, change never stops (more on change in yesterdays blog).
I had goals and plans. All inherited from parents, society and conventions. Things we are supposed to do (and very much supposed to buy). But then life happened, that I didn’t plan. My life plans became obsolete in a second with a phone call from a doctor. All those years of planing and for what? Today I don’t make plans, I only choose a direction. I try not to see any goals, or figure out how. I believe my mind is far too limited to see all the options. Instead I try to feel what would give me the most peaceful and happy direction. What feels right! If I know my direction it’s easy to know what to do in hectic moments.
My direction is to be kind and love. To all and everything, to myself and others. Partly because it’s healthy. Partly because it is the most beautiful decoration of the life I’m living. To stay in the right direction I need to do my practice, the one we teach at Olive. If I can be just that, kind and loving, more today than yesterday, more tomorrow than today, I’m content. This direction took me to places I could never have figured out by making plans and goals. It took me to Olive Retreat. It took me to friends. To more love I knew I could feel. To all our fantastic clients and work-partners.
Thank you!
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Naturopaths who deeply believe Natural Immunity is still the best, and therefore we work in defense of it.
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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