For many people, animal communication is something that only the ‘gifted few’ can achieve. This of course is entirely untrue as we were all born with the ability to talk to and hear animals.
Holly Davis, Animal Communication With All Species
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Challenge: Communicate with the next animal you see. Then drop me a note! What have you learned?
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Manuela Zeitlhofer | Authenticity & Mental Fitness Coach
Do you associate wealth with money? I do struggle with the concept at times. Then I remind myself that I have enough. For me, it comes down to making the conscious decision to be happy in the Now. Because NOW is all we have. The past is a memory and the future is an imagination. Most of the time, I have all I NEED in the very moment I am in. It is often the WANTS that I want (!) to pursue.
To remain still and just be, let the moment be all I want – that is happiness for me. My wealth is my happiness, the feeling of being enough, and of having enough (or more than enough), right now.
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How about you? Where lies your wealth? And what are your thoughts about this week’s posts?
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Manuela Zeitlhofer | Authenticity & Mental Fitness Coach
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(photo by Anton Luzhkovsky, Unsplash)
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
Question: How does it feel for you to have few wants?
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Manuela Zeitlhofer | Authenticity & Mental Fitness Coach
(Photo: “Blissful in the Wilderness”, by Manuela Zeitlhofer, 2013)
Have you battled internal obstacles – problems that were entirely created by your way of approaching the world in your thinking and actions? – I have!
For more than a year I had been bothered by a digestive issue: There was a knot in my intestines, always in the same spot. It never went away. The intensity of the discomfort varied. I consulted my family doctor. I consulted an Ayurvedic doctor. Nothing. I researched online. – A partial breakthrough was achieved when I found a useful video how to alleviate the symptoms temporarily. But no solution appeared. I started to despair.
Then, we went on vacation and I did not drink my tap water. The discomfort was gone.
I had stumbled upon the solution. The problem – or obstacle – had been too close to me to be visible.
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Question: What is an obstacle you have come to live with, because you do not perceive there to be a way around or over it?
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Manuela Zeitlhofer | Authenticity & Mental Fitness Coach
If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t you will see obstacles.
– Wayne Dyer
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Question: What might be hidden behind the obstacles you see?
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Manuela Zeitlhofer | Authenticity & Mental Fitness Coach
Flexibility is the key to common sense and success
A battleship had been at sea on maneuvers in heavy weather for several days. The captain, who was concerned about the deteriorating conditions, stayed on the bridge so that he could keep an eye on all activities. One night, shortly after dark, [the fog was getting even thicker] the lookout on the bridge suddenly shouted, ‘A light, captain, bearing on the starboard bow.’
‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain asked.
The lookout confirmed that it was steady, which meant that the battleship was apparently on a dangerous collision course with the other ship.
The captain then called to the signalman, ‘Signal that ship: “We are on a collision course. Advise you change course 20 degrees north.”’
Back came the response from the other ship: ‘You change course 20 degrees south.’
Annoyed at the arrogance of the response, the captain said, ‘Send: “I am a captain, change course 20 degrees north.”’
‘I am a seaman second class,’ came the reply, ‘you had still better change course 20 degrees south.’
By this time, the captain was furious. He shouted, ‘Send: “I am a battleship. Change course 20 degrees north.”’
Back came the flashing light: ‘I am a lighthouse.’
The captain changed course. (Tales for Coaching, 133)
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Questions:
What cannot be moved? What CAN be moved? – Answer (?)
What represents the ‘fog’ for you? How could you lift this fog? – Answer (?)
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Manuela Zeitlhofer | Authenticity & Mental Fitness Coach
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Manuela Zeitlhofer | Mental Fitness Coach
So often, people feel that they are not in charge of their own lives, that their lives are determined by circumstance, duties and habits.
Victor Frankl is said to have shared a thought-provoking perspective:
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl
What are your thoughts on that? Please drop me a note.
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