In a way, the last month was a milestone for me: It has been a year since I started writing my blog (my first post was on the 12th October of 2009). The idea of having a dedicated web site matured and has already been realized to some degree. This is after one year of posting the blog on other web sites (like: e-blogger,  healthyplace.com, social.realmentalhealthsite.com, experienceproject.com). These are the two reasons why I have decided to give you some feedback about my forty or so posts. I thought it might be interesting to see which posts were most “popular”. Below is a table of 10 posts...

Dr. Tsultrim Kalsang, the Traditional Tibetan Medicine Doctor that I consulted in person in 2009 and later (he is mentioned in my self help book to be published in 2011), has this September promised to write a testimonial for my book in December this year. My first thought was: “Time is relative. Or at least perceived in a totally different way on the southern slopes of Himalayas, where dr. Kalsang works and lives as a Tibetan in India, accompanying His Holiness the Dalai Lama.” Actually even my life started to slow down after having given notice at my ex-job in 2008. I have the luxury to observe...

Autumn is taking its toll on my sensitive brain. Cannot blog. Searching for soul peace in the woods.

Last year I noticed that writing my book tires me. I got headaches and some kind of weird tiredness while writing the first version of the book from October 2008 to December 2009. This kind of tiredness I also got after weekend seminars of various personal growth approaches. It should not have come as a surprise, since writing therapy is a personal growth approach too. When we write about our past — distant or recent — we in a way go through all those painful experiences once more. This is good for us in the long run, for we will be able to overcome the pain our memories bring us sooner, if we...

In my previous blog I wrote about the importance of self-observation. Nonetheless sometimes we are in denial. We get the usual symptoms, but we think we are all-right. This is the time when people who live with us can help. It is very helpful if we live with at least one person we can trust. Thus this person can tell us that we are behaving in an unusual way. I read often on different internet sites that the people we live with do not understand us. Sometimes this can be true. However sometimes we can get this feeling because we are in denial. Thus our goal could be to learn to differentiate between...