11 Jun Whistling and singing
When someone whistling a tune passes you across the street, it catches your attention. It’s like encountering something special, something precious: a breath of wind, a handful of shells. Whistling and singing arise naturally in a relaxed body!
Forgotten Landscape
When someone sings loudly on a bicycle or rides with their hands free, it smells of a forgotten landscape of our dreams. Of carefreeness and open-mindedness.
It’s something you can’t train, but something that happens to you: suddenly you’re humming a song, and it expresses exactly how you feel: lighthearted, fresh. It’s not a state you can conjure up, but you can create the terrain in which it can arise: if you can calm your worries, accept your uncertainties, if you can accept the ‘now’.
No weight
It’s not that there are no worries anymore, but the worries carry no weight. It’s also not that there’s no friction, but the friction doesn’t tie knots in the rope. Not everything has to go smoothly, because you can sail against the wind just as easily. ‘De StressOntknoping‘ is a method that prepares the ground for you to start singing and dancing again.
Worrying without weight
When you’re worried, you tend to overthink things, but what’s more effective is the following:
- Feel the emotion physically. It’s fear held tight in your chest. By letting go of the tightness and feeling the fear, it will disappear. Then your mind will clear, and you’ll understand the best course of action. That could even be ‘doing nothing’.
- Acknowledge and name your worries. It’s important not to magnify them with all sorts of doomsday scenarios: stay grounded in reality.
- Have faith. Not that everything will turn out fine, but that you’ll be able to handle it no matter what happens.
*This post has been automatically translated from Dutch
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