Today, I arrived back home. I took a part in a four-day Phyllis Krystal Training Program, Session 2, which was held in Munich, Germany. Four days in a row, 8 hours (with breaks) of listening to Phyllis and actively participating in exercises. Now I am tired. And happy at the same time. Why? I will write more about it in my next posts. Take care, Helena ...

What on earth do I mean by that? I am talking about one’s innate character, about personality traits like being a perfectionist or the tendency to feel deep emotions to name a few. Or let’s take their opposites – the ability to be quick at work, the tendency to feel only shallow emotions and stay calm in tense situations. One cannot change his or her innate character, all we can do is take good care of ourselves. And how can we do that? First by learning to accept and love oneself just the way one is. And then by choosing the right lifestyle according to one’s personality traits. For...

Over the last years I have gradually developed the habit of saying thanks. I start in the morning. I say thanks for all the good things that happened the day before and also for the »things« that are there all the time – being happily married, having found my vocation as a writer etc. This is a part of my morning meditation called maypole exercise, which is one of the basic exercises of the Phyllis Krystal method. I do this every morning, which sets a thankful atmosphere in me for the whole day. It is one thing to say thanks for the good things, but what about the bad ones? I am grateful for the...

This is another blog on dream interpretation. May I point out again that I only interpret the impressive dreams or the reoccurring ones. I dream almost every day, thus in my opinion it would be pointless to try to interpret every insignificant dream. I might even overdo it and get obsessed with dream interpretation. That is why I have set myself the limitation of interpreting only certain dreams. On the contrary a person who rarely remembers a dream in the morning would not need this limitation of course. May I warn you that you should consult your psychiatrist first, before you start any kind of dream...

Last week I had a somewhat weird but also an inspiring dream. A friend of mine appeared in it. We were running away from a flood. I spotted a pile of sand and said to him: »Let’s climb up this pile and then we are saved.« He said: »Oh, I don’t feel like climbing. It’s too strenuous. I will go around the pile.« I looked back at the threatening flood and decided to save my ass instead of trying to persuade him to take the hard way. It was one of those situations in dreams that are hard to explain, but you know what you have to do and it is the only way out. I knew there was no time...