How can travelling to a country encourage peace and development?

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It is my personal wish when travelling to a country to contribute to positive and peaceful development, which is perhaps something you also share? In this context, through an invitation from Heinz Grill to travel to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, I was given the opportunity to learn about, study and contribute to new, practical and forward-looking perspectives. Read More …

Logic and principles of health XIII –
Insight opens the sealed lock of illness

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Based on an esoteric evaluation, all illnesses arise from a disorder in the astral body. What is the astral body? In its simplest form it could be described as the cosmic body, which corresponds with the main planets in the solar system. For this reason, anthroposophical medicine uses metal therapy, which can be applied in an appropriate way for certain processes of harmonisation or building up. Lymph stasis is characterised, for example, by disorders in the flow of movement that can be associated with mercury. Read More …

Logic and principles of health XII –
Insult and projection cause illness

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An illness always involves the physical body. Even phenomena such as depression or anxiety disorders arise through being physically existence. Although a panic attack or a depressive-reactive-mood is largely reflected in the psyche, these are motivated from the physical. There are the most subtle metabolic processes, which may originate in the abdominal organs, and move up to the brain through a displacement of transmitter functions and cause very specific psychological phenomena. The body is therefore the primary instance that, through its own very individually existing reality, produces a certain illness scenario. Read More …

Logic and principles of health XI –
Soul-spiritual development does not proceed according to mechanistic criteria

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If a person wants to observe development in connection with spirituality in coherent forms, this must not stay with one-sided enquiry, that only concerns the material plane and its detailed analyses. Every individual wants to discover and realise suitable steps forward in his or her personal development, also others and the world as a whole wants to come into a productive progressivity. Read More …

Logic and principles of health X –
Illness is not really people’s enemy

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In all life situations, particularly at times of illness, it would be very beneficial if both patient and therapist could succeed in developing a very clear, body-free and thus a ‘sattva’ consciousness, in the way that has been presented in the last article. Is illness people’s actual enemy, or aren’t  all sorts of complications a result of the adverse, unredeemed and exhausting states of consciousness of those who are ill, or not only of those who are ill, but even their friends, relatives and lastly the therapists treating them? Read More …

Logic and principles of health IX

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Exercises that lead to a growing consciousness, mental stability and ultimately favourable development, always require concrete and logical mental pictures. What does the word ‘concrete’ actually mean? It means something like ‘graphic’ or expressed in a different way, ‘sufficiently comprehensible for perception and judgement’. Both the therapist and the patient must strive for this careful logic and mental picturing. When this engagement happens directly in mutual relationship between a healer and a person in need, the sattva element, with its light, purifying effect, can occur most easily. Read More …

Yoga teacher – a profession of the future

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The most recent teacher training courses, lasting three years with 1200 teaching hours, have produced very good yoga teachers. The aim is not only that these trained individuals are able to lead a few exercises, but beyond this that they can respond soundly and accurately to questions concerning the development of the body, soul and spirit. In this sense, the vocation of yoga teaching is not a trivial affair that goes alongside the usual worldly professions. Read More …

Logic and principles of health VIII – Lethargy, activity and awareness must be correctly positioned in a person

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The three determinants of being in nature and human existence, which according to the ancient sankhya philosophy are called sattva, rajas and tamas, can be found in the human body. When these three forces, which can be analogously translated as purity, restlessness and lethargy, are in a favourable relationship, there is generally good mental-physical well-being. Lethargy should, in the best sense of the word, provide rest and recuperation. Read More …

Logic and principles of health VII – The three designations of being in nature

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The so-called Shankhya philosophy from the East, uses a very practical terminology to subdivide the various manifestations of human existence and nature into three different limbs. These are the so-called guna, the qualities of existence, and they are called sattva, rajas and tamas. All visible phenomena and subsequently all human actions can be identified according to this threefold articulation. Read More …

Logic and the Principles of Health II –
Spending time in nature is healthy

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After a successful hike in the mountains or around a lake, people almost always feel refreshed and reenergised. While stressful work situations, with their many intellectual exertions, exhaust the nervous system and the autonomic system, the quiet tread of the steps on an alpine pasture and the natural, airy, enveloping atmosphere at the height of the mountains provide a feeling of being taken in and of relaxed protection. Read More …