This is life!

"That’s it.
This is life!
There is nothing more to come! There is nothing to wait for!
This minute, this second is already life!

You don’t have to find your own life.
You have it from beginning on. It’s yours.
Whatever you do - even, when you are under pressure, it’s your life."

- Thomas Hertlein -

Rat race

You probably know this situation: You want to reach something in life, and you do everything you can to make it. Then one morning you wake up and realize that you are a serious burn-out case, and that you have debts to your bank too. You watch the ceiling and wonder how everything started.

A few days ago Thomas caught me in a situation where I started to go into my treadmill again. He helped me to get more aware of my personal “rat race”:

“People have troubles to come out of their burn-out syndrome. These people believe that they have to rest when they have a burn out. They believe that they have to rest, to do nothing.

"Well, they rest and they do nothing until they feel recovered. But while they are resting they create so many new debts, that as soon as they would like to start again with full powers, they find so many open things which are to be done, that they are already overtaxed again. A burn out is not going to disappear after one rest.

"It is the same with debts. If you have debts it doesn't help to pay for some months. While paying your debts you have to do everything you can do to not create more debts! To be able to do this prevention you need to be aware of where you create your debts. You have to do this while paying your old debts. In a situation like this you just have no time to rest. This is very simple.

"Imagine – there are people who take care of their bodies, of their minds, they do emotional cleanings and so on. They would be total idiots in comparison to the ones making debts, if the ones making debts would have the same results as the ones who take care and invest so much more. They prevent so much more.

"This is what we see nowadays in every area: People who are in a crisis suffer. This happens because they rested too long. They rested on kind of “credit-mentality”. They built too long on this system. They made debts over debts. And finally there is a point where it just doesn’t go further any more like this.”


Ever since a question has echoed in my mind: Am I simply a "lazy rat"? In that case I could use my laziness, and do everything I need to do the most effective way... save time, money and energy – while paying my debts efficiently.



Stefanie Huttner

Some in-spiration

Past weeks – or years – I have been dealing with space, or better said, the lack of it, in many levels and areas of my life and also in my body. Today I decided to search for inspiration from Thomas’ teachings on this matter.

“There are people with a lot of knowledge but without space to use it. Their head is so full of it that they don’t have fun anymore”, Thomas once said and continued: “Knowledge that has not been lived in your muscles and in your bones stays theory.”

He teaches: “Instead of trying to fit all the complex knowledge into our brain we can understand overall systems that function on different levels in the same way. Turning knowledge into form and physical experience.“

This lead me to ask, how to bring at least part of this information I collected in my mind and body, these feelings I observed in me, these ideas I came up with, from my head to my body, to my muscles and cells, to physical form and experience? How to change knowledge into experience? How to give my thoughts a physical form? Why do I feel I don't have space for it in my life, although I might theoretically know how to make it happen?

An echo from my brain whispered the words Thomas said to me after I told him about my first public concert. He said: “Singing is not about your first public concert and how you make it, it is about doing your breathing exercises every single day.”

My brain alarmed of information I stored there at some point of my life: In Latin, the word for breath is spiritus. From the same origin we get the words spirit, inspire and inspiration. It also implies there is something spiritual in breathing.

Could it be, that this advice from Thomas, which sounded so simple back then, carries a deeper message for me, too? Could it be that it contains an answer to my human question on how to make space? Could it be that it is an overall system I use everywhere: collecting information in different forms and not creating something out of it because there is no space for that in my life - as my in-spiration is not enough; not in my body and thus not in any other area of my life?

Could it that by focusing on my breathing I could create space? Could it be that by changing this in my body it would change also in other areas of my life?

Could it simply be that to find the inspiration, to be able to inspire, to find my spirit again – all I need to do is breathe; to come back to my body? And this would create all the space I feel I need? Just by getting thoroughly inspired... in-spired.

I thought I was looking for space. But if I am accurate, I decided to search for inspiration from Thomas’ teachings. Seems there is a possibility I found them both.

Worth to give it a try, don’t you think?

Laura Karlsson