Mental health doesn`t occur randomly!

We all have the ability to learn how to navigate our mind successfully!

The neurosciences of the 21st century teach us that behind centuries-old spiritual wisdom and philosophies lies above all else one thing: a big deal of truth. The art of shaping your own mind and thus your own life happily and successfully can actually be learned. Our brain, our nervous system and our immune system are constantly changing according to our attitude to life. If this is new to you, please read this sentence again. For many, this information transforms the fundamental truth about how we and our consciousness evolve.

Scans of the human brain show how it develops to our own advantage under meditation and mindfulness exercises and how chronic stress blocks certain areas of our brain and thus makes certain abilities inaccessible to us.

This knowledge is also starting to catch on in the western world, and large companies and their managers have been hiring mental coaches since quite a while now to have a positive impact on their businesses, themselves and their employees. Arranging mindfulness exercises and awareness training for generally better interaction and more efficient collaborations. The business world is slowly beginning to understand that the more conscious the approach, the better the outcome. Ultimately, this means increased productivity, which many managing directors and CEOs have previously sought to achieve through external pressure or extrinsic motivation. In other words, through tight deadlines and tempting commission systems.

The realization that nothing is as beneficial for work performance as fostering the intrinsic motivation of employees raised the question of how to achieve intrinsic motivation from the outside. The answer to this question initially came as a shock to many, through genuine attention and care. Our inner motivation is triggered by the fact that we have the chance to realize our innermost, to do something we believe in and in which we recognize a meaning. And to feel heard, seen and understood as a result. The trend towards a more conscious life is also slowly taking hold in our society, with books such as Michael A. Singer's “The untethered soul: the journey beyond yourself!” becoming global bestsellers and being recommended by TV stars such as Oprah Winfrey and super athletes like Tom Brady. A change that was almost unimaginable 25 years ago when I embarked on my journey of self-discovery. The trend for body awareness is also on the rise, with many of us paying more attention to our diet and regular exercise. Yoga, breathwork and meditation courses are often fully booked instead of being held with just two or three participants. Nevertheless, far too many individuals are still denied the deeply fullfilling experience of successful inner work. Either because chronic stress has already taken over the consciousness to such an extent that yoga and meditation courses are perceived more as an acute lifeline than as a conscious tool for change. Or because too little background information and too little knowledge is provided to actually help clients achieve sustainable change. Contexts are often not sufficiently explained or not presented in a comprehensible enough way. A chronically stressed mind does not exactly have the patience to learn the lessons of stillness and conscious being. We are still too used to wanting quick results without long and broad explanations.This opens the door to dishonest promises of healing and cutesy slogans of performers who understand themselves as little as the craft they want to teach. Demand is still determining the market.

Mental health, healing and transformation take time and real honest attention. The willingness to learn and to look at yourself again and again. Even from perspectives that seem unfavorable. “No mud, no lotus” is the title of a book by the mindfulness trainer Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who made it his life's work to make the basics of Buddhist teachings easily accessible to a Western audience. We have allowed ourselves far too little time for mindfulness, time for ourselves, time for authenticity and truth, partly out of fear of the same, but also partly out of a simple social habit. We can and we should definitely change this, for our own good. After all, as Einstein so aptly put it: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” And where has this behavior got us? As a society and as individuals? If we dare to take a closer look at ourselves and the world, many of us will discover a lot of mud and hardly any lotus flowers. Bringing this mud to bloom means true transformation and inner healing.

We live in a time in which we have both the methods for transformation and the scientific evidence that they work.

Our individual happiness, and probably world peace, now depends solely on our application of them.

I am happy to accompany you on your inner journey, let's dive into the mud together to finally truly blossom.

Love, Peace und Namasté!

Anja