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“Denn wer begehrt, der fürchtet auch. Und wer in Furcht lebt, ist für mich nicht frei.” (Horaz) – Ein Faktenblog zum Thema Angst.
Um die Stichhaltigkeit dieses Ausspruches von Horaz übre Furcht und Freiheit zu überprüfen, habe ich eine ganze Menge Fakten zusammengetragen. Welche Begriffe rund um die Angst haben welche konkrete Bedeutung? Emotionen und Gefühle Bei der Suche nach den Ursprüngen...
“All diseases begin in the gut” Hippocrates says – is this also true for anxiety?
The last two blogs on this topic were about you and your organs. Today it's about the gut and all the players that are often considered not to belong to you - your microbiome. The three-way connection of gut - brain - microbiome The gut - a long underestimated organ...
How hormones drive anxiety and what you can do to stop it.
Did you know that the word hormones comes from the Greek (from horman) and means "to drive, to move"? I think that fits perfectly, because hormones and neurotransmitters actually play a decisive role in the process of anxiety. I wrote about their brain circuitry in...
The way fear enters your brain and how you can get it out again.
Why do I find this topic particularly important today? Considering the countless anxiety disorders, I continually find an almost incalculable amount of interesting facts on this topic. And this despite the fact that I write about it from time to time, e.g. here, I...
What our fear has to do with #allesdichtmachen.
Certainly, the #allesdichtmachen campaign has affected everyone. And that includes me. The strongest reaction on my part was not triggered by the action, but by the reactions to it. They horrified me and made me afraid. My personal background ... As you may know, I...
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...