Less is more Spring is a time of new beginnings, nature is awakening. The power of the sun increases and melts the snow of winter. More than 2000 years ago, Ayurveda developed a medical analogy based on this observation of nature: the accumulated Kapha „liquefies“ and floods our body. Time for elimination! The cleansing procedures are [...]
There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi No time? Acceleration has become second nature to humans, says British psychologist Guy Claxton. Our constant feeling of lack of time arises from a discrepancy between what we want in our lives and what we can realistically have. To reduce this, [...]
New ways of understanding anxiety „If I no longer have anxiety, I can organise my own life again, look for a new job and open up to a new partner“. I heard this sentence this week from a forty-year-old client, Ms H., who came to my practice with a psychiatric diagnosis of „generalised anxiety disorder“ and recurring panic attacks. [...]
Karuna करुणा (Sanskrit) means compassion. Unfortunately, it is an increasingly watered-down term, comparable to mindfulness. More and more people are talking and writing about it, but not practising it. With far-reaching consequences for ourselves and our society. How can the development of compassion heal us personally and universally? -- Even after two years, the corona pandemic still dominates the global [...]
