The question “What do I really want?” arises as long as one hasn’t found one’s real purpose. Unfortunately the majority of human kind are ignorant of their purpose and suffer the consequences, like boredom, lack of passion, mediocrity, resistance, lack of meaning, burn out; the list is endless.

One can have passion for something for a while but it doesn’t necessarily mean that one has found one’s purpose. If one aspires to reac...

Today people of all walks of life are becoming more and more aware of the impact on their Here and Now their past has. The question how to free oneself from the shadows and burdens of one’s past is the beginning of an opening for a profound possibility: the possibility to let go of the past.

One’s past lives in one’s memory. It has nothing to do with the present moment. Technically a human being should be free to call on the pa...

As human beings we go through life experiencing. There are endless experiences we can have. Even in one experience there can be limitless variations. Reason for that is, that an experience in itself is neutral. There is no good, bad, painful, joyful, light, heavy, … We are the ones colouring the experience. We dedicate value to our experience. We compare it, we judge it, we label it, we categorise it, ...

This explains why one...

It’s a funny thing, time. We never seem to have enough of it and we have become masters in measuring time all ‘the time’. We use hundreds of expressions that are time related: ‘Time flies when you’re having fun’, ‘Good things take time’, ‘Being ahead of time’… and there are quite some artists that use it as a song theme: ‘Times like these’ (Foo Fighters), ‘Time after Time’ (Cyndi Lauper), ‘Time’ (Pink Floyd)…

We can experience...

Throughout the years, I had to hear several times: you are too much, you are too energetic, too loud, too dominant, too intense, too present, …

I came to think that this was wrong. That I was wrong. That I had to dim down.

One of the underlying beliefs that got created out of that was that I needed to be with someone that would balance me out. Someone who was more calm, who could slow me down somewhat. I met some amazing beings...

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to do ballet. I don’t know why. That’s not a question that is relevant at that age. When I ask my 4 year old why she wants something, her reply is mostly: ‘Because I want to’.

And that might be the most inspiring answer ever. Wanting something because you want to. Not because it has a purpose, because it is expected of you, because you are supposed to… just because you want to.

Either way, back t...

Who has shadows and who not?
 

Everyone has shadows. Shadow building starts at a very early stage in our childhood. Every incident that happened to us and we were not able to fully meet this challenge became a shadow. When tough things happen to us human beings (neglect, loss, punishment, threat, blackmail, etc.) likelihood is high that our brain switches into survival mode, which means our capacity to be present and aware shut...

No one can be truly happy if one’s life is not authentic. Authentic means that it is truly yours, coming from your source. Therefore not from your parents, your teachers, the movies, from social or traditional conditioning, but from YOU, from your core, your essence.

Education is not authentic

Still today education fails to give our children what they would need in order to find their own truth, values and authenticity. Society...

Psssst, come here, I’ll tell you a secret…

I am not really that bold, that courageous, that dauntless.

Or at least… that is what my fears tell me. There is that fear that I am too old to engage in a new challenge or adventure, the fear that people are not interested in what I have to say, the fear that I may hurt myself and the fear that I will not be good enough. And these are only some. They are quite a big community, my fears...