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It’s all perception
Recently, I discovered a German podcast (in German) called Das Leben des Brain (The Life of Brain) inspired by Monty Python’s Life of Brian. It’s an entertaining educational overview of scientific studies about how the brain functions created by the journalist Bent Freiwald. I binged myself through all episodes within a few days and here…
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Brain Confusion
The other day, I listened to a podcast about the brain and they talked about brain confusion. No, that’s not when you can’t find the car keys or remember if you bought carrots when you are in the veggie aisle of the supermarket. They made it up by copying the concept from muscle confusion. What’s…
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Healing and Brainwaves
While I’m sitting on the train from Denmark where I visited my brother and his family to Hamburg, Germany, where my parents live (and I was born and raised) and I’m looking at the Danish landscape flying by, I reflect on healing and brainwaves. My brother lives with his family outside a small city in…
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Travelling and Happiness Tank
This week was a bit chaotic because I’m travelling. I had several blog post drafts and a lot more ideas but I couldn’t get them finished. Interestingly, not because I didn’t have time. I did. But I couldn’t get myself to. Sounds like procrastination? Maybe. So, what was going on? Well, I’m writing to you…
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The Weight of the World
Recently, I met a friend. We spend a lovely evening together talking about anything and everything. One recurring theme is how annoyed my friend is at work. She has been at her workplace for a few years now and understands how the system works well. Since there are colleagues who have joined more recently, she…
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The Future We Choose
This week I covered Climate Change in the university tutorials. I read one of the recommended texts in preparation and got a quite crippling anxiety attack. Not that I’m not aware of Climate Change. Indeed, I’ve been trying to do quite a bit to reduce my Carbon footprint by composting, grocery shopping in bulk-buy shops…
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Dreams and Procrastination
So, I have a dream. Yes, I always wanted to write that Martin Luther King quote. That wasn’t my dream though. I’ve been developing a course called Introduction to Happiness Skills. My dream is to live from selling this course (and maybe others I’ll develop) and these are my reflections on procrastination. Dreams and procrastination…
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Messiness of Life
One strong happiness maker is the feeling of control – having a say in your life. However, being able to embrace the messiness of life and the uncontrollable is another strong happiness maker. Yes, exactly this paradox describes the messiness of life well. In the following, I’m unpacking four statements to explain what I mean…
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Time after Time
Last week, a friend and I were reflecting on time and I believe this is a great blog topic. Besides not having enough money, other people not really getting us and our health being challenging, lacking time seems to be one of the major reasons why we cannot be happy. Do you agree? Have you…
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Are we supposed to be Zen?
I’ve been reflecting about the connection of the parasympathetic nervous system (responsible for rest, digest and relax, sympathetic nervous system is responsible for fight or flight) and happiness. After all, most of happiness seems to be connected with relaxation. Also, positive emotions (the various forms of happy – from calm, serene to interested, joyful and…
