Simplify Your Day

Who or What are You Really?

If you ask most people “Who are you?”, they will say things like “I’m Jack, I’m Joan, I’m a painter, a singer, a lawyer, a hippy, a husband, a mother, male or female”, and so on. They will identify with their name, job (title), where they live, their gender, nationality, status, and some will even identify with their possessions, but those are all just ideas, thoughts or concepts.

These are all roles you play in society, but they aren’t the essence of who you really are. What you really are isn’t that always present and never changing?

If you would change your mind, your thoughts, your opinion, your point of view, your behavior, your personality, your job, would you constantly be a different you? Of course not, all these things are just concepts and not the essence of who you really are. The real you is not fleeting, switching and isn’t bound to doing, having, location, space or time. So who are you then?

Are you your thoughts?

All the roles you play in your life are changing all the time. If you take a look at your opinions, your point of view and who you think you are from an early age until now, we can surely say they have changed overtime.

How you thought about things as a young kid, a teenager, a young adult until now are quite different, aren’t they? So your opinions and beliefs are not who you really are, because they change dramatically. Sometimes they even change from one day or one moment to the next.

They are no more than imaginary ideas, thoughts or mental constructs, so you can safely say a thought is not something you are. A thought is an abstract object, usually short-lived and can be observed.

Good or Bad Luck – Chinese Wisdom

By Klaus Crow 2 Comments

This is a traditional (short) Chinese story about good or bad luck. The insight of this story can be applied to our own lives and all of the situations we constantly find ourselves in. I hope this narrative will help you be more at ease with the challenges you face and the choices you have to make. Understand that there’s no point in thinking ahead.

Enter Chinese wisdom….

In a village in the Chinese countryside, a farmer lived with his son. Besides their hut and the land, their only possession of any value was the horse. In this way they could work the land and make ends meet in all modesty. One day the horse broke through the fence and ran away.

That evening the villagers came to visit the Chinese farmer to express their pity. “How terrible!” they said, “What about the land? Lost your horse, what an accident!”

But the farmer smiled quietly and said, “Luck or bad? Who’s to say? All I know is that the horse ran away.”
The next day the farmer and his son went back to work on the land and for some time they made the best of it. Until one day the horse came running up again. And in his wake he took a herd of ten wild horses!

That evening the villagers gathered again to offer their congratulations: “What luck! What amazing! You just own tenfold!” But the farmer smiled quietly and said, “Luck or bad? Who’s to say? All I know is that my horse is back and there are ten other horses with them.”

Let Go to Be Free of Suffering

By Klaus Crow 1 Comment

Photo by Jacub Gomez

Your suffering is a consequence of everything that is stored in your subconscious mind through all the stories you have been told and you have been telling yourself from an early age on until now. Those stories continue to build up, most of them you aren’t even aware of. They are so strong, you have no idea. They run your life.

The way to brush off these made up stories and to reprogram your subconscious mind is to let go of everything. This takes time. It’s a process.

Rewrite Your Subconscious Mind

One way to go is to write down every possible thing that comes to mind that you want to let go of and the things you think you can’t but need to let go of.

Realize that all of these things are all just concepts of the mind.

Write it down, not in any particular order, not with a plan, not to write correctly, not to serve a purpose, just write it all down. Best is to write with pen and paper. The writing down is a crucial part of the process of letting go. Each time start with. “Let go of…”

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Make no mistake, YOU cannot decide to let go, YOU don’t let go, letting go happens. It happens spontaneously in the moment. Although I use the words “Let go”, I use them to understand a concept, since we are stuck and trapped in a language, but without getting side tracked, let it go.

Here’s a start, after this make your own list and watch what happens.

Let Go

Let go of control

Let go of suffocating ideas

Let go of conditioned stories you’ve been told

Let go of conditioned stories you’ve been telling yourself

Let go of pain

Let go of fear of…

Let go of sabbotaged ideas

Let go of assumptions

Let go of presumptions

Let go of time

Let go of planning

Let go of checking Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook or email

Let go of podcasts

Let go of bluetooth

Let go of Netflix or documentaries

Let go of the mobile phone

Let go of productivity

Let go of money

Let go of how much money you should make

Let go of your parents

Let go of your brothers and sisters

Let go of Johnny and Ingrid from the past

Let go of taking things litterarlly

Let go of your image

Let go of someone else’s image

Let go of your expectations

Let go of your face

Let go of yourself

Let go of who you think you are

Instant Healing Benefits of Compassion

By Klaus Crow 6 Comments

For a lot of people the word “compassion” doesn’t really have a ring to it. “Be more compassionate” people say. That’s easy to say, but in real life it can be challenging in certain ways.

Yes, you can be compassionate with someone who is hurt, someone who has little or someone who experiences adversity.

But there are also other times to be compassionate when a person is hurting YOUR feelings, when someone is denigrating YOU, when someone is yelling at YOU, when someone is pushing YOUR buttons, and instead of feeling frustration, anger or resentment, you can actually feel true compassion towards that person.

That seems one of the hardest things there is, doesn’t it? Well maybe…