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Sketch: The dance of mind, hand and heart

October 21, 2015 by philipp68

Creating is a dance between mind, hand and heart. It does not matter what we do nor how good we’re at it. The dance is always the same. I strongly believe that the key to happier work is to learn how to let this internal dance happen in a way so that mind, hand and heart all get their turn. Let’s dance Let’s have a look at today’s sketch. It shows hand, mind and heart dancing together, creating a drawing. […]

Categories: Sketch • Tags: Action, Heart, Mind, Modern Workplace, Wisdom

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Let your body learn how to dance

October 13, 2014 by philipp68

To learn anything we need to let our body do the steps, without our critical mind interfering all the time. The rational mind is great for setting goals, but learning always happens in the body. Introduction This summer, on the ferry back to Athens, I finished The Inner Game of Tennis by W.Timothy Gallwey. One of the best books I’ve ever read and I don’t even play tennis. The inner game is what takes place in our mind What fascinated me was […]

Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Action, Mind, Mindfulness

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Let your life be your message!

Your Life is your Message

July 25, 2013 by philipp68

How dreams are important, but solely focusing on the fruits of your dreams will make you unhappy.

Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Action, Attitude, Bhagavad Gita, Mind, Wisdom

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Finding the Being in the Doing

February 13, 2013 by philipp68

One of the secrets to our wellbeing is to find the balance between being and doing. To be ourselves, to connect to the things that make us happy, we need to learn to simply be. Cleaning out a busy schedule or taking a long vacation will help, but ultimately we will need to find the being in the doing. How we got busy The natural state of an infant is to be. There is nothing to do, no expectations to […]

Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Action, Being, Bhagavad Gita, Doing, Emotion, Karma

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Losing and finding paradise

November 5, 2012 by philipp68

Everything we experience triggers an emotional reaction. When something feels bad our mind tends to fabricate a complicated story, telling us what object or person to blame for the bad feeling. Emotions are important guides we should carefully listen to. What we tend to forget is that the story our mind fabricates is dependent on what we believe, our current emotional state and cultural background. In many situations it is our mind that is creating most of the drama, when […]

Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Action, Bhagavad Gita, Illusion, Mind

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Dear Robots: It’s time to take your helmets off

August 25, 2012 by philipp68

Many years ago my father gave me the book “The Star Diaries” by Stanislaw Lem. The book is a collection of the incredible voyages of space traveller Ijon Tichy. It was one of my first science fiction novels. I loved it. The eleventh voyage is a parable of living in a country, where everybody upholds the official ideology no one actually believes in. Having grown up in the “Peoples Republic of Poland” Lem knew, what he was talking about. As […]

Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Action, Bhagavad Gita, Illusion, Modern Workplace

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The meeting room: an opportunity to learn and teach

August 1, 2012 by philipp68

Participating in meetings or steering boards of a larger cooperation or committee can be a source of frustration and anger. The leaders on the board are disappointed because their expectations are not met and the experts are frustrated because the leaders don’t seem to understand most of the things they are trying to explain. Truth is, most difficult problems can only be solved with the help of both strong leaders and brilliant experts. It’s time for both sides to learn […]

Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Action, Experts, Leaders, Meetings, Modern Workplace, Teaching

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The Bhagavad Gita Part 3: The Art of Action

July 4, 2012 by philipp68

The last post ended with the mental image of the “battlefield of life”. On one side the strong army of negativity, on the other the fighters for positivity. We in the middle, afraid that we might loose the battle, that things could turn out even worse than they feel at the moment. The drawing above represents the moment the battle starts. A moment on the journey of life, hesitating to take the next step. Looking back, remembering past experiences, constructing […]

Categories: Bhagavad Gita, Life & Work • Tags: Action, Bhagavad Gita, Body, Compassion, Decision, Heart, Wisdom

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The Bhagavad Gita Part 2: What types of Actions exist?

June 25, 2012 by philipp68

To understand how to take difficult decisions and engage in all type of actions with a positive attitude, we first have to understand what the Gita means by action. My reflections are primarily based on notes I took during a reading of the Bhagavad Gita by Andrea Boni. I scribbled, abstracted, combined Andrea’s passionate words with my thoughts and experiences. Thank you so much, Andrea! The Gita is a poetic text. I apologize if during my attempt to apply its […]

Categories: Bhagavad Gita, Life & Work • Tags: Action, Bhagavad Gita, Decision

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The Bhagavad Gita Part 1: Facing a difficult Decision?

June 12, 2012 by philipp68

This is the first of a series of posts, where I would like to explore how an ancient text like the Bhagavad Gita can help us taking overdue decisions and engaging in action. I use the example of decision making, because in life and at work we often hesitate to take decisions, especially if a decisions leads to actions we would like to avoid. We act a little bit like Arjuna, the hero of the Gita, in the opening of […]

Categories: Bhagavad Gita, Life & Work • Tags: Action, Bhagavad Gita, Body, Decision, Dharma, Heart, Intuition, Mind, Wisdom

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