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Q: I was intrigued by some of the content of your session this morning, particularly when you talked about your walk, where you went from a mindset of "think, think, think" and "work, work, work" to something very different. Can you explain more?
That transformation came after I completed my diploma thesis. It was an intense phase of working, where I had little space for myself. Originally, I had huge plans after my studies like, "I'll go to the Himalayas, or the Rocky Mountains, or the Andes," but I didn't have time to organize anything. I ended up packing a very small bag and started to walk in Germany. I only had a plan for the first three days, because there was a place I had been in my youth with my parents, and I thought, "That's a nice place to start." There is a place in the very south of Germany and I had intense memories of that place. I thought I would like to end up there.
When I started walking, I realized how long it took for me to calm down, certainly a whole week. All sorts of things came to mind - music, songs, inner voices. I thought of my diploma thesis. Was there something I had done wrong? Because I was walking and I was on my own, I could observe and allow everything to be as silly as it seemed.
This story is from the April 2022 edition of Heartfulness eMagazine.
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