How about taking the day off?
by philipp68
A short conversation between body and consciousness
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Body, Consciousness, Doing, Intuition, Memory, Mind
Tag: Body
Sketch: The immune system rocks
by philipp68
These last couple of days I have been at home, drinking a lot of tea, sleeping long hours and slowly getting better from a bad cold. Browsing through my notebook I decided to post the following sketch, showing the deeper layers of our body. Thank you immune system, for helping me and kindly telling that virus to find shelter somewhere else. In the meantime, let’s discuss similarities between the inner and the outer world to continue the series I started two weeks […]
Sketch: How many likes
by philipp68
While I was doing this sketch, trying to show that the senses connect our inner and outer worlds, I realized how the addiction to be popular on Facebook is similar to the way our mind likes or dislikes everything it experiences. How we learn Our mind is this incredible apparatus that translates what we sense into what we know. The rational brain learns about the world by categorizing, memorizing and naming sense patterns. Our inner life is packed with words […]
Categories: Sketch • Tags: Attachment, Body, Ego, Mind, Senses
Sketch: The inner and the outer life
by philipp68
More sketching, less writing It’s been almost 6 months since the last post. I was struggling to finish what I have been working on, probably because what I wanted to say was not clear in my head. It felt as if every time I sat down to write a couple of sentences, I would miss the point and get lost. Somehow I was trying to say too much, without knowing what I really wanted to communicate. So instead of writing […]
Sketchnote: Amy Cuddy on how your body shapes who you are
by philipp68
We all experience moments of insecurity: A job interview, standing in front of a large group of strangers, teaching our first Yoga class. Often this insecurity shows in our body language, our state of mind affecting our posture. What if we could affect the way we feel by acting out a power pose for a couple of minutes, helping us preparing for a stressful, social showdown? In her TED talk “Your body language shapes who you are” Amy Cuddy explains […]
Categories: Sketchnotes • Tags: Body, Mind, Sketchnote
The Bhagavad Gita Part 3: The Art of Action
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
The Bhagavad Gita Part 1: Facing a difficult Decision?
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
Balanced Action 