Just before X-Mas people go MAD, don’t they?<\/p>\n
I’m not saying that everyone else is mad and I’m cool or that this time of the year doesn’t affect me at all, nope, I’m not an exception to the rule…\u00a0 Although, it’s actually meant to be a time full of love, happiness, nearness to family & friends, joyous celebrations, sunshiny giving & receiving, and peace…. \u00a0 in our western society it’s rather defined by the opposite: stress and ‘duties’, forced shopping sprees, the necessity of ‘having to do… having to buy…’, everyone is going nuts due to time pressure and obligations, stuff that ‘has to be’ finished before X-Mas and the New Year…<\/p>\n
As my mind has been going pretty insane over the last couple of days, I decided to read a lot, to take a step back, a deep breath, beam myself out of\u00a0 all the madness and in a way ‘forcing’ myself to get in touch with my heart & soul, to find stillness in the noise.<\/strong> We all can do that at any stage, it’s suuuuper hard but SO incredibly important. Life is such an amazing gift, way to precious to waste days, energy, and time with negative emotions. It’s all in our power!<\/p>\n Saying all that, I would like to quote my very favourite author: <\/a>Eckhart Tolle, one of the most inspiring writers and spiritual teacher of our times.<\/a> Eckhart Tolle is also the author of\u00a0 “The Power of Now”<\/em><\/strong>, to me, T H E\u00a0 most powerful book\u00a0 e v e r \u00a0 \u00a0 – \u00a0 \u00a0 oh yeah, if you haven’t read it yet, how bout getting it 4\u00a0 y o u r s e l f\u00a0 as X-Mas presie \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 !<\/p>\n “The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don’t use it at all.\u00a0 It uses you.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n or another one by Eckhart Tolle:<\/p>\n “Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind-dominance”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”<\/em> Check out another recent quote that I used of Bob<\/a> here<\/em> and cruize through all previous blogs in my category\u00a0 “<\/em>Soulwave<\/em>“<\/strong><\/a>, \u00a0 there’s lot’s of beautiful photos & food-4-thought \ud83d\ude42 !<\/p>\n In this spirit:\u00a0 Breathe & calm down the mind… Just before X-Mas people go MAD, don’t they? I’m not saying that everyone else is mad and I’m cool or that this time of the year doesn’t affect me at all, nope, I’m not an exception to the rule…\u00a0 Although, it’s actually meant to be a time full of love, happiness, nearness to family & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1039],"tags":[1540,1147,1592,1595,1541,1320,537,1040,1913,1593,416],"class_list":["post-7478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soulwave","tag-bob","tag-christmas","tag-eckhart","tag-heart","tag-marley","tag-now","tag-power","tag-soul","tag-soulwave","tag-tolle","tag-x-mas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7490,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions\/7490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt’s a bit awkward to use the verb\u00a0 ‘forcing’\u00a0 and\u00a0 ‘into stillness’\u00a0 in the same sentence, I agree.\u00a0 Though, when times are stressful, it’s really hard to actually take that action of\u00a0 ‘pausing the noise’\u00a0 or in other words: ‘slowing down and pausing the mind’.<\/p>\n
\n“Good-old BOB” (Marley)<\/strong><\/a>, had realized the incredible importance of mastering our minds as well. Bob was a highly wise man and I always like to quote lyrics from his songs:<\/p>\n
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\nAlways stoked about ur feedback guys,
\nGxx<\/p>\n
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