In the old days a farmer or seafarer would look up at the Sky and predict what type of weather it would be in two days time. These days we look at our phones instead of out of the window to check if we need an umbrella. Navigation systems in cars tell us which way …
Life has a habit of bringing us these day-to-day challenges. Next to the big stuff, we also get the small irritations between partners or petty power struggles at the office; parents, children, businesspartners… Any relationship really has its own bumps in the road and even small pebbles can cause big impact on our functioning together; …
Normally I switch off television or radio commercials, but the other day I accidentally fell into the message of a big Dutch supermarket chain urging people to: Buy more so it will be cheaper. So what they say is: Spend more money so it will cost you less. Which of course is ridiculous. What they …
Recently I had the joY of participating in the Energy Medicine for Women course delivered in Rotterdam by Prune Harris. In my energy counseling Facebook group I regularly share one of the many youtube video’s of Prune demonstrating simple yet effective self-supportive energy medicine techniques; all aimed to help regulate the 24/7 energy flows and …
Some people look at me with disbelief when I tell them how I much love the season of Autumn. Where others might feel sorry to see the leaves starting to fall and the summer season leave; I love to feel the wind clear the dusty dryness and see the rain nourish nature and clean the …
A very synchronistic gift came my way last week . One of those ‘coincidences’ that happen for a reason. It was September 17th. I had appropriately written my Dutchbuzz blog for the 18th of September, about ‘Prinsjesdag‘, the traditional every third Tuesday of September public address of the Dutch government announcing its plans for the coming …
Hardly no one needs reminding what day it is today. 9/11 is branded in our memories as the day the world changed. You would think, after the thousands of years and generations humanity spent evolving; we would have learned to live a little bit more at peace with each other ; but instead division and …
In the old days – and by those I mean the days that we were all still living without the help of multinationals, stock markets or pharmaceutical industries- when we travelled; we did that basically to explore ourselves through exploring the world. On a personal level the aim was to observe other ways of …
I watched a program last night on Dutch television that brought me to tears. It was about children who get specialized education because they have what is seen as a learning disorder. They either are dyslectic or have problems calculating numbers or in general find it hard to transfer knowledge from paper to their cognitive …
Can you imagine yourself doing absolutely nothing for 5 full minutes? I thought it would be a nice challenge for you to try out. Especially women seem to suffer from the always-doing-something affliction, scouting things that still need to be done. Men apparently have a nothing box that they can go to with a ‘gone …
