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I am wondering whether your last week might have been as turbulent as mine.

Apparently we had some solar flares class X (spaceweather.com) and to me it seems that those strong eruptions tend to impact us directly especially if we are highly sensitive. 

Take good care of yourself if that is the case!

I would like to share with you my insights and feelings around the magic of money and giving and receiving. I am also giving away five free sessions for coaching, healing or constellation work for people how have subscribed to my newsletter. 

Somehow money tends to be a curious topic in our world. As I have had the privilege to grow up with different cultures, I observed how different the mindset was when it came to money.

In one culture people freely shared with each other how much they earned. People from that culture had grown up in rural but strong communities and giving and receiving was quite balanced.

In another culture talking about your salary would have...

How have you been over the past weeks?

I had a moment of synchronicity this week. As I opened the quarterly magazine from my health insurance I read the headline "The power of music". It then continued to say: " Music is medicine for the soul - but also for the body. Music therapy takes advantage of that and uses it to help people with physical as well as psychological illnesses." 

Last week I wrote my blog and newsletter about "The magic of music". Even health insurances are starting to realise that there are many different ways to heal... 

Have you maybe taken any small steps or used the "the magic or power of music" by now? 

Speaking of small... Do you remember how small you were when you started this life cycle? 

If we ever question how much we can grow on any level and in all areas in our lives then we just have to remember how much we have grown from one tiny cell to a fully grown human.

I am still a curious child and a life long...

Some of us are experiencing the winter and others are going into the spring. 

Isn't that in itself magical? 

Yesterday I put up some Christmas decoration while watching the landscape outside turning into a winter wonderland. 

I have always loved the winter season. Many people struggle with the lack of daylight and more rainy, cold and grey days. 

It simply shows how much we enjoy the warmth of the sun and the light. 

For me however, there is something magical about those dark days when candles are lit, blankets finally get used and cups of tea or hot chocolate are being enjoyed.

Of course we can grab a good book that will add some cozy flair to such moments. 

Or we can simply listen to relaxing music, put our feet up and breathe. 

Music can change how we feel. It can make us feel more relaxed, present or happy. 

Certain music however can also cause more dissonance in us.

This seems to be connected to different frequencies. Increasingly we will...

I would like to share with you a bit more about the magic of healthy boundaries. 

You might wonder how healthy boundaries can have anything to do with magic? 

Let me elaborate here a little. Many things in my life changed for the better once I had clear boundaries in place. 

When you are able to say "no" to a situation or a person, it will open up a space where you can create more magic for yourself and ultimately others.

I have to admit though that it was at times a turbulent journey to learn how to set healthy boundaries. 

Let me briefly share an example.

The short version: After my dog and I had been attacked for the third time by the same dog and I had ended up with a torn jacket and bite marks on my arm I really had enough. 

I was so angry that I filed a police report, which for me was a very big step to take. My anger was not irrational or abusive. My anger was a very clear emotion that was saying: "Enough of allowing others to harm me...

I would like to share with you a bit more about the magic of one small step.  

Life never ceases to surprise me. Sometimes those surprises bring a lot of challenges and other times they are magical. 

Some challenges can lead to magic further down the road. 

What do I do when I come across challenging situations in my life?

I like to keep it simple. One of my favourite resources is a very simple but powerful question that is rooted in Gestalt Therapy: "What is the smallest possible step that I can take now?" 

As crazy as it might sound but more or less immediately, almost magically, the energy changes and possibilities open up or ideas appear.

It is a matter of first of all accepting that I am somehow stuck and maybe even feel overwhelmed with a situation. This is a very crucial step especially on any healing journey or when you are going through challenges.

If you can name it you can tame it.

Through that acceptance you start opening another door, which is...

Can we find the courage to change career paths and trust that "re-birth" is always possible?

We do not need to physically die and be re-born again to experience a new life, a new family, a new career path etc. We can choose to start something new or follow our neglected passion in any moment in time. 

This week I had the opportunity to talk to 10th graders at a career forum. My career path has not been a linear one and continues to change. I am humbled by teachers and facilitators that I have trained with and they were still sharing their wisdom at age 98, late 80ies and late 70ies. 

When we are young we try to figure out what we want to do in life, which courses to choose, what university to go to. My generation would have done the "sensible thing" and studied something that is "solid", you know what I mean. Very few would have gone into the arts or drama or similar. 

Today's youth is different. While many don't know what courses or studies to choose and are still...

Learning to access "infinite possibilities"..., re-learning to trust our "gut feeling" (= intuition) and creating from "no mind"...

Recently I watched an interview about "fear and courage" with Gerald Hüther, a neuroscientist who emphasises the need for a natural development of a child's innate potential as well as creation of new schools. He explained how "fear does not need courage but it needs trust".

Let us explore more about how fear overshadows our innate feelings of trust and how we create with "no thoughts and no mind" when we trust. 

I am sure you have heard that "thoughts create reality". 

Do you know though that "no thoughts" also create reality? Research in quantum physics has shown us that the observer influences the behaviour of the particle. Therefore mere observation creates reality. We can debate now whether mere observation also contains thoughts or not. 

What about the 95% of our behaviour that is based on unconscious thoughts? Well, we...

Do you know that our sun is getting hotter and that in some hundreds of millions of years our Earth will disappear? I know it is a long time away and we don’t have to think about it in our lifetime. Yet, it made me wonder what would happen if Earth was going to be extinct now.

Our planet is an incredibly rich planet in terms of diversity and species. The tiniest ant walks on our Earth as well as the biggest elephants.

A long time ago dinosaurs inhabited our planet. They were extinct. Maybe they had to be extinct in order for our human species to settle here? Imagine what our lives would look like if we had a T-rex roaming through the streets!

For a long time my world was so small that I couldn’t have possibly believed that life existed beyond Earth’s borders. When I visited the science museum in London it hit me as I looked at the pictures from the Hubble telescope: the vastness of the universe. It is infinite.

How could I have possibly believed...

My heartfelt intention is to co-create a new world, no matter how small that might be within the vastness of the universe. We start our own journey with one cell and yet a fully grown human exists of 30 - 40 trillion cells. Amazing isn't it? 

Throughout that co-creative process I would like to give impulses and food for thought. The more we ask questions and the more we become aware of how our current and "old world" works the more will we be able to do things differently in our "new world". Maybe you don't want a new world. Maybe you are absolutely happy with what your current world looks like and that's fine too. 

If you are more like me, somebody who wants to co-create and share a more compassionate and balanced world with the current and next generations, then you might enjoy different impulses, questions and a new level of awareness and consciousness. It might lead you to co-create your own new world. Who knows? 

Maybe this article might give you...

Over the past weeks I had the opportunities to realise how far I have come on my own healing and "feeling whole" journey. By no means was it an easy ride, on the contrary, but it was well worth it! I am sure more is to (over)come and we never know what lies ahead of us. However, there comes a moment in life when clarity (head) and courage (heart) guide us in co-creative collaboration. 

Where would our world be without determined as well as creative visionaries? Richard Branson left school at age 17 with dyslexia. Steve Jobs quit university and spent a lot of his time in his garage. Maybe you or your children have visions or ideas that others feel are too far fetched? Don't give up on them! The world needs new fresh visions and ideas. 

Here I would like to also remind you of a nice exercise especially with your child: replace the word "stubborn" with "determined", replace "bossy" with "leadership skills", replace "daydreamer" with "creative mind" etc. Google pays...