Attachment to outcome, a true story on self-fullflilling prophesy, a 3 minutes and 3 second listen to

I once heard a story that came from a 200 year old little booklet , holding records of  real life court cases from the 18th century. The particular story I am going to tell you about, always stayed with me as it so pointedly shows how following predictions made by others – rather than your own sound judgement and free will –  can become an awkward self fulfilling prophesy.

Here’s how it goes:

Somewhere in the seventeen hundreds a young man of reasonable wealthy means goes to a fortuneteller. The fortuneteller tells him his life will be full of pleasures and he will never lack money; however ,….he will die at the age of 32.

Now remember this is a true story based on a true court case.

At first the young man is a little taken aback by the prediction he will die in his early thirties, but according to the court case records, he decides to make the best of the years he has left. Bearing the fortunetellers prediction in mind; he decides to thoroughly enjoy and indulge himself the pleasures of life. And so he does indeed. But then he turns 32 in excellent state of health. No one has challenged him to a duel; all around him everything seems peaceful and quiet; except for the fact he is in severe debt.

Thinking he was  only to live to be 32 years of age the young man spent all his resources And since spending all his own money went a bit quicker than he expected; he also borrowed quite substantial amounts from others; knowing….or should I say thinking….death would be his ally in escaping his debts.

Here’s where the court case comes in. The young man was arrested and imprisoned. In the court case records he explains his misadventures.

The morale of this story it seems to me is to never be guided by what others predict will happen to you, as that has potentially disastrous consequences. Follow your own gut feeling instead, rather than be lured into the temptation that promises you miracles. We all get our challenges, in spite of what other people predict will happen.

The 18th century court case story reminds me a little of our 21st century commercials; where we are promised flawless lives as long as we use the products advertised. Just as with the  young man; they are only temptations that will make you spend your money, rather than invest your own sound judgment.

O and by the way, the prediction came through all the way. After using his lifetime to spend all his money; the young man died at the age of 32; in prison. He hung himself.

The card that goes with this is card number XVI The Tower. People often shy away from this card as in our material world it seems to depict doom and failure; having to give up the riches in life and the hopes of Fate. One of these I will…..

Looked upon from a spiritual point of view however this card from the third row of 7 cards mirroring the prerogatives of the spiritual world; is about letting go of old convictions and patterns that hamper your true destiny in life.  “Come out of the ivory tower” so to speak

To learn more about its meaning, click the card.

The abridged version of this blog, as published below, was written and recorded for ‘Dutchbuzz’, the radioprogram for Internationals on The Hague FM, every Tuesday evening in season from 8 till 9 p.m.

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Don’t Offer the Good Biscuits; Abridged version of the spoken end-of-the-program-blog of June 11 2019 for Dutchbuzz; the radio broadcast for Internationals on The Hague FM, every Tuesday from 9-10 when in season.

a 3 minute listen to.

In the world around me I see a lot of angry people. Angry at their governments for taking down perfectly healthy trees to feed the bio mass ovens. Angry about animals in the bio-industry being maltreated. Angry at the present president of the United States, – the one whose name we do not mention.  Angry at multinationals being exempt from paying taxes; while other workers- who earn far less than multinational CEO’s –  are being mauled between the millstones of the Dutch tax system.

And all of this is true! All angry people have every right to be! There is loads of injustice in the world! There are a great many inconsistencies in how things are divided. It is true people who pay mandatory health care premiums die or remain ill because the Dutch healthcare system denies them the care they are entitled to. And again the CEO’s of these insurance companies have million plus yearly salaries. Why? Because they are good at squeezing money out of the system they are part of; rather than good for the people they should be serving. It is all true! And yes the present president of the United States is a blatant liar and totally unfit to rule that office. Future historians and investigators will find he committed more than the just now visible crimes against humanity to serve his own interest and that of the billionaire people in his vicinity; the rich who apparently never have enough.

There’s also local injustice. Politicians lying through their teeth during election-time. Deals behind closed doors. Decisions by civil servants ruining other peoples lives; simply because they can.  All of that happening in your own city; a place where one would expect things to be just; a place that should  be just.

The thing though about targeting the negative is that it tends to take up the place of the positive.  Of course one should object against injustice. Beware however of getting stuck. Remember to also pay attention to the things going right. It is much healthier to put the main focus on the good things of life.   Positivity preserves and multiplies the radiant energies. Put the bad happenings in perspective by approaching them with a good sense of humor like the sign someone held up during the recent state visit in England of you know who;  saying : ‘Dear Queen, don’t offer him the good biscuits’

When we emanate the negative; we attract the negative.  Emanate the positive and attract the positive. This Universal law applies to everything.

So my humble take on this is:

• Humor the negative things
• Understand the Injustice without allowing it to take you Hostage
• Make the Difference
• Be The Change
• Live to Be Grateful
• Evolve into a life changing human being

While there are plenty of Nan Yar-Who Am I cards that fit the bill connected to the subject of replacing the negative with the positive (basically all cards really) I ‘happened’ (do these things really happen by accident?) to bump into a lovely practice presented by Prune Harris; one of the teachers I highly value in Energy Medicine.

This 7 minute meditation helps release emotions that no longer serve you

Wishing you loads of positive vibes and energy

Ingrid

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The human body is the vehicle or mindfulness, empathy and willpower.
When we are less comfortable with our bodies; these energies are less comfortable with us.

Today’s Body Language of Energy blog;’ highlights the 5 minute daily Energy Routine, designed by Energy Medicine pioneer Donna Eden; who shares the principles of this knowledge already  for many many  years.

We’ll see two people demonstrating the daily routine; Donna Eden herself and Prune Harris.  Observe, Compare, use them alternately; whatever way feels best for you.
Even when you know the routine through and through; it’s nice to do it under guidance and go with the flow.

When you are more comfortable with your body; your body is more comfortable to contribute something for a better world.

What the Donna Eden 5 minute daily energy routine will do for you:

• Give the energy systems of your body a head start.
  By tapping certain acupressure points on the body, the energies are given a ‘kick-start’  (1 minute)
• Ensures the energies are crossed over.
  Similar to the left hemisphere of the brain guarding the right half of the body and the right hemisphere of the brain guarding the left half of the body; the energies used in daily life are crossed over as well.
  At times however the overwhelming amount of information and impressions we receive on a daily basis, can be stalled out of self protection. This means the energies turn homo lateral (run in the same direction) and in a proverbial sense raise the white flag.
  A simple marching-technique put them ‘straight’ in cross-over position.   (30 seconds)
• Balances the energy-circulation system.
  The energy pathways of your body both nourish and are nourished by each other.  A for instance stress full situation can cause the stress-support-meridian to draw more energy  from the other meridians.
  By balancing this system of give and take, every organ in the body is given a chance to function optimally.
• Protects you against absorbing negative energy.
  On a daily basis we receive many more impressions than we register.  Some of these impressions however do not go by unnoticed in the sense that they leave an imprint on our energies. A negative remark, an unpleasant message or something that keeps coming back in your life and makes you weary.  A simple ‘zip-up’ exercise (taking only a few seconds) prevents negative energy from crawling under your skin.
• Support and increase your emotional and physical resilience
• Help tone down degenerative processes
• Support your well being throughout the day.
  

Enough said, let’s go and do something….:) :

The 5 minute Daily Energy Routine presented by Donna Eden

The Daily Energy Routine with extra’s presented by Prune Harris

Ingrid

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A friend of mine who celebrated Christmas in England worded it exactly right. In the text message she sent me around midnight of Christmas day she wrote:

“I’m like an enormous beached whale. Finally alone on top of my bed with a scalding hot cup of tea”

Then she continued by sending me pictures of what her family and she had been preparing and eating. It all looked straight out of  Christmas Cooking Glossy.

It supported some thoughts I have been having already for a good number of years. I hardly dare voicing them though. There’s a penalty on being negative about the way we celebrate Christmas. Social media, Christmas specials on television as well as most Hollywood movies, all tell us how merry we should be. Even my own children say I’m a party pooper, when I voice how the way we indulge ourselves when celebrating Christmas in our culture is way over the top and filled with a high degree of decadence.

We’re supposed to be celebrating the birth of someone who allegedly saved humanity and repay that by over-consuming, while most people in the world , including an embarrassing number living right under our consumer-society-noses can’t even afford a nourishing meal.

Another friend posted an interesting hypothesis on this behavior, which said:

“The Problem With Society Isn’t Greed. Greed Is a Symptom of a Deep Need Going Unfulfilled”

Now we have it! Apparently the world isn’t as perfect yet as we thought it was. The post came from a non profit- organisation that goes by the name of films for action. It advocates change in the way we view and treat our world and co-worlders. Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks the way commercials and television shows cheat us out of a clear understanding of what the world truly needs.

It is our human right to be informed properly about the state of our world.  Hollywood Movies don’t do that! They give us an illusionary view of what life is like. Television commercials  don’t do that either! They only aim to make us think a certain way to increase the profits of the companies who finance them.  And is what they advertise really what we lack?

My 2 cents? Use 2018 to explore what it is that truly lacks in this our world. Which deep need is going unfulfilled?  Not just in the world but also in all of our individual lives. I grant everyone a Christmas celebration again in 2018 for sure; but not without having thought about what lacks in this world first.

In that context, I wish you a positive, prosperous, content and insightful 2018.

Ingrid Schippers, January 16, 2018

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The spoken version of this blog, features as end note on  ‘Dutchbuzz’, the radio hour for Internationals every Tuesday ( with the exception of summer and Christmas recess) from 10 to 11 pm on ‘Den Haag FM and can be found in the Programme Archive of  the Dutchbuzz podcasts, dated January 16th 2018

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Do you have that sometimes when you find an old diary and read something you totally forgot about and yet what you wrote tells you that in a way you understood more of life and what goes on in it than you do now? ‘Forgotten Wisdom” so to speak. Things you used to abide by but have now totally sunk into oblivion..?

When you live among the trees day by day, it is hard to see them change and all the more easy to get distracted by animals passing by, rainstorms threatening your comfort zone or greedy societies chopping down your existance. What I mean to say by this metaphor, is that we sometimes loose track of what we started off wanting to do with our lives because we get distracted by  so many outside world things happening to it.

In a way that is a good thing. We happen to live in the outside world. Our main task on earth is to make the best of it; and to make the best of our own lives we need to make the best of what happens in our outside world as well, otherwise the two don’t match.

The problem with most of today’s outside world however is that it is so greedy. It wants to earn and preserve loads of money rather than share and live long and prosper.

I had all these contemplations pop up in my brain this morning because of a Facebook post I made 4 year ago according to  the reminder. It’s titled:

3 Changes to Get an Energy Boost

In it I talk about:

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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 exchange, that one chance encounter on a totally unexpected moment; that one  one seminar, that one saying at the inside of a restroom door, that will change your view and as a consequence change your reality.

For me there are 3 basic rules that I have derived from the roughly 3 decades of encounters , books, seminars , and sayings on toilet doors during my roller coasterride after I left the coocoo’s nest,

1: Nothing is Personal.

I owe gratitude to Camillo Villa for this wisdom, whom I met in The Hague a good 10 years ago and who now lives and works in his country of birth: Columbia and is involved in all sorts of shamanic work. (you’ll find him on Facebook)

My interpretation of what Camillo taught me about ‘Nothing is Personal’ is that the behavior of others is the behavior of others. We tend to think it is us, doing something to trigger another person’s behavior, but it’s not. The way the other behaves is due to the other, not to you or me.

In the Nan Yar – Who Am I method, this concept is reflected in ‘The Lovers”, the card reflecting all relationships. Lovers; but also parent-child, boss, employee, politician-voter anything to do with communicating with another; the number VI (6) also being the number of communication.

2: What you think , see and the way you speak about things is what shapes your reality. (What You See is What You Get)

“Thoughts turn into things” the celebrated American spiritual teacher Mike Dooley, also known as Mr. Universe calls it.

Note that that what you think, say and see, is more often than not shaped after your cultural conditioning, i.e. the way you were  taught to think,  subsequently resulting in the way you view things, in turn resulting in the way you speak about them.

Always do the reality check deep down inside to see if what you say or think is also how you feel (note the different verb) about what you were taught to believe.

The gatekeeper of the physical journey, The Illusionist or Magician, tells the story of how looking behind the veil of illusion; knowing its tricks, brings clarity on your path. Click the card for more.

3: Do not attach to outcome

Life is about what is happening now, not about what will happen tomorrow. In fact what will happen tomorrow depends on how you think now.

Once I have enough money, I will…;

Once I’m in a happy relationship I will…

Once I have good job, I will….

These outcome thoughts are not (yet) relevant. The moment to create the outcome you want is NOW,  by wanting it with every fiber of your inner being, not by wishing it to happen, instigated by forces outside of you.

To visualize what you want, put it out there in the Universe so to speak, is a good first step. But stay there; observe its development by looking inside and observe how you respond. Don’t wait for it to happen . Life is what happens while you’re making plans, the famous saying goes, so be sure leave your options open and don;t victimize yourself thinking there is nothing you can do about it.

Attachment may well be the Victims biggest enemy. Attachment to money, making yourself dependent on other people, relationships.  In your own world it is important to rely on what you have to offer, and most of all use it, rather than locking yourself up in a tower of cultivated truth or need.

Ingrid Schippers, March 18 2017

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And before you leave….draw your own Nan Yar- Who Am I card of the day on the right of this blog. Click the card and let your subconscious do the thinking…

This blog is featured as spoken end note of the Dutchbuzz edition of April 18  2017 and broadcasted  on The Hague FM from 10.00 tot 11.00 pm every Tuesday or can be heard as a closing note at the end of the Dutchbuzz podcast of  April 18 2017

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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 of thinking, “death” is particularly seen as the end of life rather than a phase of transition. This while ‘death’ can also be seen as a part of life and a link in the ongoing cycle of life and death.

Another repellent card seems to be number XVI The Tower, carrying the image of two people falling out of a stronghold. Again in our matter-oriented western world we tend to shy away from the thought of having to detach ourselves from material security when it is seen as life’s only security.

This, while wealth is in fact the only aspect of being human, that can not be taken to the other side, (whether you believe in it or not)  The only certainty we really have in life is the realization that we are spiritual beings, ‘trapped’ if you will in a physical body (symbolized by the tower).  Walking the spiritual path inevitably comes with detachment from the material aspect of life.

The Trump card of all ‘bad cards’ however might well be card number XV, The Devil; or as I have dubbed it in the Nan Yar Who Am I interpretation: The Anti force.

So lets stay with that thought for a while. Lets say the Anti force is the worst card that can appear in a reading.

After studying the meaning of the cards from an anthroposophical point of view for many years, I have reached a totally opposite conclusion and feel the anti force might in fact well be the most rewarding card in the whole deck.

If it wasn’t for the anti force people would not move on with their lives. If only hapiness is our share and everything in our lives is perfectly fine; then what is there to evolve on?
If we can sit on the couch all day long and zap television; if we can eat, drink and be merry as much as we want, if everything is already sorted out; then how do we achieve building up something that will give us the satisfaction of using our gifts to express who we are?

Already I can sense resistance in many who read this.
“O yeah sure ” I can hear them say, “You try to overcome what I have to overcome in my life; that will make you speak differently about the antiforce being a rewarding card. There is no reward in being miserable!

Well….I’m sorry, but I tend to disagree.
I have lost loved ones; have been deprived of happiness I felt was rightfully mine; I have been resentful, bitter, desperate and have at some point asked the powers that be, how much longer they wanted me to stay on this godforsaken earth. And yet, when I look back at it now; I see how much all struggle has brought me; How it has lifted me to a higher level of understanding and has made me content with what I have and who I am today; with assets much more profound than being blissfully happy and able to do all I can do and eat all I can eat all day.

And then, when I see images of people all over the world, getting up in great numbers and march in protest only a day after the inauguration of the new president of the united states; I see the same process happening.
People who are being denied their right to happiness; people who grieve over their loved ones who are being deprived of the healthcare they are entitled to; people who are resentful and bitter and wonder how much longer they can last on this godforsaken earth.

Yet see what their struggle brings. It brings them the united effort of raising their voices against injustice; against the Devil’s Trump card, something they would never have done, if all had been nice and easy.

Ingrid Schippers, 24 January 2017

To connect, send me a mail at info@energycounseling.nl,

And before you leave….draw your own Nan Yar- Who Am I card of the day on the right of this blog. Click the card and let your subconscious do the thinking…

This blog is featured as spoken end note of the Dutchbuzz edition of January 24 2017 and broadcasted  on The Hague FM from 10.00 tot 11.00 pm every Tuesday or can be heard on the Dutchbuzz podcast of  January 24 2017

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There is this famous saying of I believe of Buddhist origin, which says:

 “You suffer not because you live in the world but because the world lives in you,

I believe it means as much as that we are more inspired and directed by what happens in the world around us, than by what lives within us.

Now more than ever, this is supported by modern day communications.
During most of our waking hours, either through our cellphones, i-pads, pods, computers and whatever else or simply by watching television;  we are constantly tossed around to all corners of the world witnessing Brexit, presidential elections,terrorist attacks, beheadings, torture, at least one staged coupe also this year, false statements, governments exploiting their peoples, fellow human beings being denied a safe place to stay, and the list goes on and on and on.
Looking back at 2016, offers a wide choice of home and hand made human disaster, corruption, narcisism and materialism that can easily make you sick to the stomach.

But we don’t really want that do we? So what should we look back on during the upcoming holidays, in which we are supposed to commemorate the holy power that came to earth to save humanity, and which we celebrate by overeating and giving far too expensive presents to each other?

To those of you who feel I’m spoiling the Christmas Spirit I would like to say I’m merely highlighting a sad truth.
But then you would be right to say that we cannot make the world a better place by summing up its evil and miseries and that especially Christmas is the time of year where we should grab the chance to show eachother that amidst world wide gruesomeness, we still can find ways to be nice and kind and understanding towards each other.

I think the secret to that positive state of mind is to pierce through the veil of illussion. To remember that the one hour news bulletin is but an abridged report of what happened during 24 hours to 7 billion people, selected by money controlled media stations (yes also in the so called free western world) and cleverly made money making oriented commercials that pentetrate and manipulate our subconscious like there is no tomorrow.

The good news however  is that there is a tomorrow. It’s called 2017, a new start, a new chance, with new beginnings.

Even better news is that we all have the same potential, each in our very special ordinary way, to make this word a better place, simply by replacing polarity with morality; self-centeredness with the willingness to share and the need to own lots and lots of material goodies by the need to lead an accomplished life in the spiritual sense of the word.

It’s not that complicated, looked upon like this.

So, I wish you all lots of good times, gratifying and satisfying endeavors for 2017, and I’d say start practicing now; it might well give a peaceful and content 2016 Christmas.

One extra tip: switch off the television, computer and cell phone, even if its only for one afternoon; choose your old time favorite book from your bookcase, make yourself a punch, wrap your woolen blanket around you; read for a few hours and then go for a walk in nature and ask yourself what you would like to change for 2017.

Let’s be loving, forgiving and grateful for what we do have. Let’s be good.
Santa is coming to town.

Ingrid Schippers, December 13 2016

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And before you leave….draw your own Nan Yar- Who Am I card of the day on the right of this blog. Click the card and let your subconscious do the thinking…

This blog is featured as spoken end note of the Dutchbuzz edition of December 13 2016, broadcasted  on The Hague FM from 10.00 tot 11.00 pm or on the Dutchbuzz podcast of  December 13  2016

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In physics class in high school I learned that everything we can touch or see is made of matter;
and that everything that is made of matter is compiled of molecules;
and that molecules keep whatever it is they represent together by moving around really fast.

I also learned that the more dense something is, the slower the molecules move around;
so the molecules of the table or chair move at a different speed and have slower frequency than say the internal speed of a tree, an animal or …..a human being.

Even though I was more of a language person in school and never really mastered the arts of math and chemics, this part of physics drew my attention like nothing else.

How, my mind tried to picture, did that work? How could tiny particles be the answer to keeping something together? How did molecules circling around each other and in that way holding together a table or a chair, or a tree, a horse or me myself for that matter (pardon the pun) provide the answer to the mystery of life?

To this day, I am still not able to grasp the concept of it, but then maybe it is not my business to know…
It’s there as it is.

Fortunately the solution to ‘how to keep things together'; was created before humans came into the world, for I don’t think we could have played God here, and should be grateful the system already existed when we were born.

What a human being can learn to do however,  is to tap into the thought of consciously directing the frequency that holds our body, world and universe together.

Even Science these days recognizes that raising the frequency of something, raises its vitality, promotes its pace.
The higher the level of frequency, the higher the level of consciousness and vice versa.
The more we are present, aware and create intention; the more we are here (or there), the more we are conscious;the closer we get to where we want to be.

‘Great’ you might say, ‘but how do I do that? How do I raise my frequency?

Well first of all you get out of your lazy chair and start doing things. To be or not to be a la Shakespeare.
You start taking the initiative, as well as responsibility,  for what needs to be done to bring your life to a higher level.

Yes this is a pretty difficult assignment. Its much easier to wait for other people to live life for you and to blame other people when mistakes are made, but if you do that, you stay as stuck in the gravity of low frequency, as matter in a black hole in the Universe and not very much will happen in your life other than the same old same old.

So basically, to make your world, and your life in it, a better place, you take action and wake up to the opportunities and possibilities life offers. You go through the learning curves instead of watching other people go through theirs. It’s much like playing your own baseball match rather than watching one.

A simple thought as well as difficult, but give it some time. Test it out in some minor case studies to begin with, then move on to the bigger challenges.

I’m pretty sure you will begin to see the light

Ingrid Schippers, 14-10-2016

To connect, send me a mail at info@energycounseling.nl,

And before you leave….draw your own Nan Yar- Who Am I card of the day on the right of this blog. Click the card and let your subconscious do the thinking…

This blog is featured as spoken end note of the Dutchbuzz edition of 18 October 2016, broadcasted  on The Hague FM from 10.00 tot 11.00 pm or on the Dutchbuzz podcast of 18 October 2016

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Would you agree on the following:

To make something happen in life it is necessary to give it attention and intention.

The way something is given attention and intention determines the outcome.
When I give negative intention to something, chances are the outcome will be negative
When I give positive intention to something, chances are the outcome will be positive.

What it comes down to is:

The way we think is what gives every situation the energy to work with. In turn this energy determines the way the wind blows.

Thoughts on society for instance, create how that society is viewed, in turn converting those thoughts into what is acted out, hence turned into reality.

One of the problems of today’s world is that its inhabitants are drawn into materialized and negative energy.
I am not going to set any examples here, for I am quite sure you perceive your own, when you watch the news on television, read the paper or look around in your circles of family and friends.
This, while the secret to happiness is to think positive. Being critical and discontent creates less enjoyment in life. (Even when external conditions work against the situation, one can always stay positive. I always see Nelson Mandela a great example of survival in that context. No matter the harsh conditions he lived in, he endured, survived and manifested.)

Put like this it actually sounds quite simple, but practicing what is preached here, turns out to be a whole different matter.

So the question is:

How can I make life easier on myself and prevent myself from being dragged into the negative influences that reach me through media and personal happenings and relationships?

How can I rid my mind of negative loop-thinking, that makes me go round and round till I drop.

Even Science these days, is researching the benefits of sending positive energy to situations that need it. This is called meta-meditation,; meditating for the benefit of the world and therewith yourself.
It can also be called prayer.  Praying for the wellbeing of others or situations, sending it positive intention and love, (looking upon it with tender loving care) improves that situation. 

While there may not be direct visible result in the form of numbers or written facts; the energy that surrounds the person or situation shifts and becomes less harsh, for it is being unconditionally given with good intention. (In a few generations from now, we will be able to shift energy through pure willpower.)

“But I don’t know how to meditate” or “I wouldn’t know how to pray”.
The answer to these questions is directed by the intention of the person or group doing the meditating or praying. It can be done, but you have to want to do it first…and then do it.

While meditation doesn’t enlighten overnight,(it is not supposed to, for how would we go through the learning curve, if it came in the bat of an eye?) it does clear the mind when the inténtion to do so is set.

Basically ‘all’ meditation or prayer does, is reset the mind and turn the negative, the hopeless, the forlorn into the positive, the hopeful, the intuitive.

And while nor prayer nor meditation may be a direct and instant line to the solution of a problem; it does create space of mind  and renders the possibility to look at things from a different perspective; resets the negative and turns it into what you would want it to be.

Just a (positive) thought

Ingrid Schippers, 07-10-2016

To connect, send me a mail at info@energycounseling.nl, optionally with a phone number, so I can call you.

And before you leave….draw your own Nan Yar- Who Am I card of the day on the right of this blog. Click the card and let your subconscious do the thinking…

This blog is featured as spoken end note of the Dutchbuzz edition of 11 October 2016 and can be listened to on The Hague FM from 10.00 tot 11.00 pm or on the Dutchbuzz podcast of 11 October 2016

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While it  can seem nice, to mutter and moan openly about things one doesn’t like, there’s a catch to living in a free country and being able to say what you think. That catch being that merely complaining about something, without doing anything constructive about it, makes you a conspirator in what you are complaining about.

In short: being negative about the world you live in, generates negative energy in return.
Let me try and explain this with an example.

Suppose someone in traffic for instance lifts the middle finger at you, and you, getting angry , lift the middle finger in return. What you’re left with is two people lifting middle fingers at each other, NOT making a pretty picture in the middle of traffic.
So what can you do to change that situation?

You could smile for one.  I’ve noticed it takes people completely of guard. By reacting the opposite way of how they feel, you take away their leading role in the situation.
A friendly wave is a very effective tool in that context as well.

Now, you perhaps think I must be getting a lot of middle fingers raised at me when I’m so knowledgeable about the subject,  but here’s the interesting thing;
Ever since I began to understand that getting angry in return only creates more adversity, I hardly have any problems in traffic, or in other situations for that matter, for I’ve learned to turn away from the source of my anxiety.

There’s this ancient wisdom in the legend of the Archangel Michael fighting the Dragon. While he effectively fights the dragon, he doesnt look him in the eye while he fights him. The dragon’s anger does not become Michael’s anger. Michael fights the Dragon but doesn’t merge with its state of mind.  Instead, he stands above it.  That is a piece of wisdom with huge consequences, not to be drawn into the negativity somebody else is trying to impose on you, resisting the temptation to be drawn into other peoples feelings. It’s a challenge, but possible.

Test it once when a friend blames you for something you think differently about or when a relative, boss or teacher showers you in reproach; ask yourself: “Is this what I want to be part of?”

I predict that even merely becoming conscious of the fact you’re being lured into the story line of somebody else, will summon up a smile.

Ingrid Schippers 8 March 2016

This blog is recorded as weekly end-note of Dutchbuzz.nl, the radio program for internationals, every Tuesday on The Hague FM from 10 to 11 pm. All programs are archived at Dutchbuzz.nl.

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‘Mindfulness’ is an ancient human capacity, that was rediscovered , much like Yoga, Tai Chi, Energy Medicine and other ancient forms of healing, in the course of the 20th century.
It came back into the Western world in all sorts of new publications, courses and seminars which, fortunately I might add, resonated with many people.

It was about time The Art of Being Mindful should surface from the vaults of what makes us human; especially in this day and age, where materialism is rife, together with the tendency to measure accomplishments in money rather than the ability to care about ourselves, one and other and the world that surrounds us.

‘Mindfullness’ has been around as long as humanity.
It is an ability that resides within every human being.
As with everything else, the mechanism of mindfulness, starts to work, when opening up to the principles of it and change our ways of thinking from defining how much things ‘cost’ to what they can bring us to be grateful for.

This is exactly why it is so necessary at this point in human evolution to bring the Art of Being Mindful back to our conscious thinking and make the world a little bit of a better place.

Being mindful goes beyond the pleasantries of buying someone flowers to say thank you or sorry or commemorate a special event. Being Mindful is about communicating from the heart rather than in terms of matter; respecting the feelings of others as much as you would your own, about minding the world as much as we would our own backyards.

At the same time, it is as simple as putting garbage in a garbage-can rather than toss it out the car window or on the pavement which is there for all of us to walk on.
It is as simple as helping somebody cross a busy street;
It reflects in the simple act of taking good care of yourself, taking a few minutes in the morning to do your stretches, giving yourself the pleasure of supporting your available flow of energy throughout the day.
It is as simple as taking a break before you get too tired;
As simple as making yourself a proper meal rather than eating ‘fast food’
As simple as saying thank when you feel grateful;
As simple as taking the time to listen,when someone has something to say.
You’ll find that in exchange for what you have to offer the world gives back to you.

Mindfulness is about investing in the positive rather than the negative, about being assertive in a mindful way.
Most of all…mindfulness is unconditional;
the ability be cared for without feeling you need to deserve it first
as well as the ability to care without expecting anything in return.
That is what makes the world go around.

Ingrid Schippers, 29-02-2016

This blog is recorded as weekly end-note of Dutchbuzz.nl, the radio program for internationals, every Tuesday on The Hague FM from 10 to 11 pm. All programs are archived at Dutchbuzz.nl.

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At the risk of sounding stern straight at the beginning of the new year, I would like you to take a moment and ask yourself;

• A: If you have made any new years resolutions? If so…
• B: Which is the level of intention with which you have made these resolution? And…
• C: What is your own expectation of remaining loyal to your own vows?

Perhaps there is no real nice way of saying this.
Perhaps it is simply true that 99% of all the new years resolution are forgotten within a fortnight, or even less.

In my experience resolutions only bear fruit when they are executed on the spot.
When we place them in the future, in the year to come, it is too easy for distractions to seep in and keep us from our newly set goals.
By making them ‘now-solutions’, changing our attitude towards something in the moment we decide to choose for it; we make it effective immediately, which is what I know I need, for else it is too easy for some temptation or another to divert me.

When I, for instance, resolve to go on a diet after the weekend, I run a risk to overeat during that weekend, while I’m still ‘allowed’.
Had I made it a now-solution, rather than a resolution, I would have kept away another 2 pounds.

Resolutions also often disappear in the chatter of every day life, if not in the tendency to indulge oneself; for that might well be the problem with resolutions; the level of mindful intention with which they are made.
Lots of what we do in daily life, is based on mere programming, habit, ‘the right thing to do.’ One of those habits is to set some refreshing intentions at the beginning of a new year; yet question is, do we actually intent to make them work?

Let’s be honest. Basically we are like children. When we get a chance to escape what we experience as a difficult task, we will forward good intentions to a later date.
The thing is though, that in the end…we are not so happy with ourselves, because in the end…we get very little done; (and believe me I know this from experience.) I have three unfinished books waiting for me and yet I seem to have an incredible ability to find other things to do.
Not because I do not like writing,- I love writing- ,  yet at the same time the art of writing requires for me to expose myself; to bring up the best in me; and for some reason, it often seems a lot easier to emerge myself in a pile of old movies or books to entertain myself with or to cook a nice meal, than to implore my creative talents to surface.

So today, I got up, did my morning rituals and sat down to start writing immediately. Only after, will I go for my walk, do my shopping and think about what I want to eat.

It might be tough, I might not even be inspired enough to get something decent on paper; but I will have worked; I will have tried, which is always a source for satisfaction…

Ingrid Schippers.

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While the brain wonders and questions,
the heart knows.

This may come as a bit of a shock to some, but actually our brains are not that smart.
Our true intelligence resides in the heart.
Unfortunately many of us live in the head rather than the heart,thus sourcing their lifestyle and decision-making from calculated thinking.
What will it cost me; what do I get in exchange, meanwhile forgetting true value lies in how something feels.

This, while there are so many clues as to why living from the heart is so much healthier and even more so, so much easier.
Think about it for a moment, preferably from the heart.
Place an imaginary chair or yoga mat in the center of an imaginary heart and observe the brain.

It is the brain that is judgmental, not the heart.
It is the brain that wonders what other people will think, not the heart.
It is the brain that makes mistakes, while the heart only follows itself (and captures those moments where we confess how deep down inside we already knew)

Now pick up your imaginary chair or yoga mat and place it in the brain to observe the heart.
You already know why living from the heart is so much easier.

The heart has no boundaries.
It does not restrict itself to preconceived ideas, preoccupied fears or conditioned convictions.
It simply beats and is there for you all day long, as long as you live.
It warns you, makes you smile, supports you when you need it the most and when your heart is in love (for we do all know the heart to be the source of love) it gives you the gift of being able to love another person.

While the brain wonders and questions,
the heart knows.
The heart lives in the Now.
The heart cannot think ahead of itself or fear what will be next;
nor can it regret what happened in the past; that’s for the brain to decide.

And perhaps most importantly the heart is where our physical energies originate from;
And while the brain can feel lost, the heart keeps on beating and connects us to everything around us in this world;
While the brain divides and rules; the heart connects and supports.
While the brain can be extremely unkind to yourself, the heart never judges.
While the brain thinks in money, the heart donates in love.

We may mock ‘brainless people’ and refer to them as fools;
but I’d rather be a fool in my heart than a wizard in my brain.

To conclude: a heartwarming energy minute, presented by Donna Eden and her daughters Dondi Dahlin and Titanya Dahlin

I wish you a self-loving week

Ingrid Schippers

This blog is recorded as weekly end-note of Dutchbuzz.nl, the radio program for internationals, every Tuesday on The Hague FM from 10 to 11 pm and archived in the podcast of September 15

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The Trick is to EnjoY it.

Get the most out of your day with Energy Medicine,
modeled after the methods of Donna Eden

Try Out Body Language of EnergY session Saturday 26 September from 1.30 to 2.30  pm

Presentation of  simple techniques for all ages and all walks of life.
No previous experience required.

Program:

• The 5-minute daily routine to go with the flow
• Tracing the meridians, cleansing and energizing the body’s energy system
• Energy Tips for Daily Life, the FAQ list.

Presentation: Ingrid Schippers

Location: Hellingweg 98k Scheveningen Den Haag.

After clicking the link scroll down all the way to the bottom of the page to find the google map of the location. Contrary to the rather stubborn arrow on the google map, ‘Zee van Licht’   is located directly at the harbor, as opposed to the indicated highroad behind the apartment building.

Try out fee: 10 euro pp.
Register in advance  This is mandatory, There’s room for 12 participants.

You can register by sending a mail to: info@counseling.nl
or via the contactform

Free parking at Hellingweg
Zee van Licht can be found at the West side (beach side) of the yachting section of Scheveningen harbour

Try out session in Dutch, same day Saturday September 26,  from 12 noon to 1.pm.

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