{"id":158,"date":"2019-06-30T11:57:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T11:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pollinatorthereskonrad.wordpress.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2019-06-30T11:57:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T11:57:58","slug":"in-touch-with-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Blog post #1: In touch with well-being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8222;Get in touch with your passion and talents to steer society on a sustainable trajectory!&#8220; was the call of a workshop I had the chance to attend at Leuphana University of L\u00fcneburg last week. It was organized and facilitated by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Milena Gross (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.milenagross.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Milena Gross<\/a> who holds a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"M.Sc. in Global Sustainability Science (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leuphana.de\/en\/graduate-school\/master\/course-offerings\/global-sustainability-science.html\" target=\"_blank\">M.Sc. in Global Sustainability Science<\/a> (Leuphana University L\u00fcneburg and Arizona State University). Currently she is a trainee practitioner of the Pantarei Approach (until Nov\u201919) and trainee Tension and Trauma Releasing (TRE\u00ae) provider (until early 2020). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After two hours of mindful verbal and particularly non-verbal communication, inner listening, feeling into and re-connecting to our bodies, creativity sparking exercises, accompanied by Milena, we the participants were invited to bring our impressions, feelings, our embodied knowledge, to paper. What emerged to me, leaving my hand, were the following lines&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Deep relaxation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">calmness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Found nowhere else<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">than deep<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">inside<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">ME.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Life\u00b4s Opera<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Wind on my skin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I feel you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I am listening<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">To you and my heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">We sing the same song<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">There are no words which can express which type of feeling I currently manifest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It\u00b4s not dreaming, it\u00b4s not necessarily highly awake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It\u00b4s BEING &#8211; for simply being\u00b4s sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It\u00b4s pureness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">-sigh-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">many souls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">like many leaves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">on a tree<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">with ease we are moving<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">through space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">receptive like your roots for water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">There might be heavy rains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">remember<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">all is nourishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Life is constantly present.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While we sustainability scientists are working towards stopping the exploitation of this planet, it can occur that by doing so we come to exploit ourselves, unconsciously. Milena not only brings attention to this problem but already provides one solution with her work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I already had to notice myself that I can only provide <em>light <\/em>and <em>energy<\/em> if I <em>take care of my inner fire<\/em>. Only taking good care of myself will allow me to look after others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks Milena for bringing this to our attention. Thanks for having <em>created this space<\/em> for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;Get in touch with your passion and talents to steer society on a sustainable trajectory!&#8220; was the call of a workshop I had the chance to attend at Leuphana University of L\u00fcneburg last week. It was organized and facilitated by Milena Gross who holds a M.Sc. in Global Sustainability Science (Leuphana University L\u00fcneburg and Arizona&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/?p=158\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog post #1: In touch with well-being<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change-agent","category-inner-sustainability","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thereskonrad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}