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The Sleep: ” Three things help to bear the hardships of life: hope, sleep and laughter”. (Immanuel Kant)
He was so right, good old Kant, because sleeping badly precedes many illnesses and almost every mental illness is associated with sleep problems. For example, sleeping poorly doubles the likelihood of developing depression or addiction in the following 5 years....
Breathing – “the quality of breathing determines the quality of life”. (Paracelsus)
You may wonder why I am writing a whole blog post about something as self-evident as breathing. But as well as with other topics such as sleep and nutrition, I have become aware of how little we think about the very functions of our body that seem so self-evident to...
So what exactly do you think our society has to do with your fears?
Maybe you are wondering why I left out the fears I am constantly confronted with in my last blog? Because I think it is so important to make clear how much society causes all our fears. And what, from my point of view, can and should be done about it. My clients come...
Concept of Spiral Dynamics: What do you want more? To understand how to communicate successfully or harmoniously? Or to understand chaos in general?
My 2020 blog series (starting with Gluttony here) on the seven deadly sins has left me (and perhaps you) with the uncomfortable feeling that the behaviours that were condemnable then and are condemnable now still play a big part in our lives. And maybe you...
The Beautiful this year true to the motto: “In life, what matters is not having a good deck of cards in your hand, but playing well with bad cards.” (Robert Louis Stevenson)
My last blog in a year that has demanded a lot from all of us, after so many references to the deadly sins in life (my 2020 blog series on this starts here:) will for once focus on the beautiful and interesting things in this year. My personal list of the most...
The deadly sins – conclusion: High moral concepts are a matter of habit. (Aristotle)
Maybe when you have been reading my last blogs (the last one was The Pride) you have wondered why I am writing about the seven deadly sins. And maybe you also thought that these are not topics that are relevant to our lives today. But they are, because the reason why...
The Pride or „Even his family dislikes the arrogant one.“ (Theognis of Megara)
Now we have already arrived at the last deadly sin. It is interesting to note that this word also contains both a positive and a negative meaning in its German origin. The Old High German "Hohmuot" originally meant "noble mind" in the sense of "he was of high mettle"....
The sloth or „There is a big difference between living your life in leisure or in sloth.“ (Seneca)
What do you think, is the sloth a sin? I would have spontaneously said "no". Because I would have equated sloth with doing nothing - and that is something we need more of. But my research has shown that sloth does not mean "doing nothing" or "being lazy" in the sense...
The lust or „The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.“ (Cicero)
So this blog is about the lust. If you have read my last blogs on gluttony, envy, greed and wrath (links here: Gluttony Envy Greed Wrath), you will certainly/hopefully agree with me that these so-called "deadly sins" are still among the really undesirable qualities...
The wrath or „Those whom god wishes to destroy, he first makes angry “ (Euripides)
Do you get angry? Or do you get furious? I suppose furious. The term "wrath" or "anger" seems to have disappeared from normal usage. Hardly anyone I interviewed during the research (non-representative 😊 and only German-speaking) used "anger" in conversation. Cause for...