Throughout life I’ve met quite some teachers to whom I owe a lot; but then we all do. Even when we are not aware of it we encounter people along the way who supply us with bits and pieces that shape us into who we are. Sometimes it is that one book, that one brief …
Its the very first thing we do when we arrive and very last when we leave. From our first inhalation to our last sigh out, every day, every night; every moment of our lives we breathe, one way or the other. And that is not all. When you take a moment to observe your breath, you’ll …
Do you consider yourself to be judgmental? Just be honest with yourself, while remembering there is basically nothing wrong with being judgmental. The ability to be judgmental is a natural Tool given to us to be able to distinguish good from bad; rotten from fresh, capable from incapable, worthy from unworthy. We need it to …
Ever since I started up as an entrepreneur in spiritual land in the mid nineties, I have been noticing how spirituality can be big business. Having been fortunate enough to have mostly found teachers with integrity on my path, which is not always a given, I’m a lucky camper on the spiritual market. Some might …
Over the last few month I have been writing articles and interviews for the upcoming 2-day training presented by Sara Allen in Amsterdam, May 20 and 21, on Energy Medicine for the Dying. For those of you who have never heard of Energy Medicine: Energy Medicine is a way to shift the natural energies that …
How you tune into life is how you set the tone of it ‘Be mindful of your self talk’, somebody told me this week, ‘it’s a conversation with the Universe’ Basically it means that the way you view life is the way you get life. When you’re grumpy, you get a grumpy day; when you’re …
The National Expertise Centre for Dying is a non-profit organisation. The 4 women behind the foundation, Ineke Koedam, Els den Outer, Lyda Westenbrink and Ineke van der Ouderaa, regard it as their mission to create a contribution to the quality of living for every person who is dying by giving insight in the process of …
Fortune telling may well be as old as humanity; yet as with everything else in life, it is the interpretation of it that makes all the difference. Ranging from the reading of hand-lines, to interpreting the innards of animals, tealeaves, runes stones and whatever kind of cards; the secret lies in how you read them rather than what they …
It might take while, but when I look at the accelerated speed with which we have evolved over the past 2 centuries, I hope and pray that the insight over who we really are meant to be, will coming sooner than we think; and that our children’s children will no longer be living in a …
Some of the 78 cards in the traditional way of Tarot reading have a pretty bad reputation. One of them is card number 13, which in fact as one of the only cards does not carry a title, but with the image of a skeleton leaves very little to our imagination.In our western world’s matter-oriented ways …
