Mind & Soul

It’s a matter of life and death! – We say these words when danger is near and we fear to die if the wrong decision is made. But listen closely, what do we really say here? – That death is the end of life, that it seems to destroy life to never return again, that life is the opposite of death. Is this a scientific fact? Is this reported to us by ancient wisdom schools? Is this what we perceive?

In this mini-series of 3 blog posts we’re exploring this question in depth and will have an hopefully satisfactory answer to these questions at the end.

Let’s start with some science: Energy is never going away, a fact that quantum physics has given us, it only goes through transformation from one state into the other. Life is energy in motion, i.e. the physical body is created out of cell tissues and nourishment, provided by the mother’s cells, and deliver to the placenta via the blood stream. The embryo has the ability to transform this matter into its own body cells. They’re not appearing or disappearing out of thin air, right? These cells are being replaced frequently throughout a lifetime of a body. They are the product of the food and oxygen the body is provided with, which it uses to form new cells: just another act of transforming energy. And when this body dies the same cells are being transformed to dust and earth or ashes in case of cremation, giving back nourishment for other life forms like plants as a building block for new growth, therefore going through another state of transformation.

The start of a new year is always great to reflect on our own goals and dreams and to set an intention for change. But how do we get out of old behaviour and adopt a new way of living? Is it enough to have a new years resolution and raise our glass on New Year’s Eve to exclamate the newly set goal? Is this how we create change? In my own experience and by observing others this has hardly ever worked.

If there’s something bothering you and you’re longing for a change, i.e. a change of diet, letting go of undesirable habits like smoking, drinking, sleeping in… We have seen this all being proclaimed at 12am on the 31st of December by many people and some even got up the next day and made a start but hardly ever anyone lasted longer than January on that course. 

It’s great to aspire to do something else in the New Year and to change the direction of the old path.

So, how do we come to new beginnings? It all starts with an intention rather than a resolution. What is the difference between an intention and a resolution?