Viterbo, October 12th 2025
Hello Friend,
In spite of being a proud member of the holistic/spiritual/woo-woo coaching world — as you might have gathered by now, I’m heartily holistic, uncompromisingly spiritual, and woo-woo as all hell 😄 — I’m still a very practical person, and I’m fully involved in all aspects of this physical dimension.
I often describe my work and my style as down-to-earth spirituality, and one of the most interesting things for me, is to look for that special point in time and space where spirit meets the earth, where the invisible energies meet the visible matter of our day-to-day life.
Winged Horses, Tarquinia, Etruscan Museum, 4th Century BC, photo taken by me yesterday
That very point is often the exact place where our freedom is created or destroyed. The invisible, yet hugely powerful energy of our thoughts and emotions will shape the reality we live in. It can create infinite spaces and narrow prisons alike.
When we’re on the other side, between our lives on earth, we know all of this perfectly, but then we agree to have most of our memory and understanding temporarily erased, and to come back here, and play this game over and over again, with that huge handicap, and learn from it.
But even though the handicap is thought to become less and less crippling with every new life lived and lessons learnt, my view on all of this is, that no matter the amount of hardship and hard knocks we signed up for, when we got our ticket for this virtual reality trip, it’s perfectly ok to speed up the process a little bit by trying to understand one or two things about the mechanics of it.
That’s why, as the practical coach that I am, I always want to have people’s rational mind on board, to gain it as an ally, so it agrees to not being too much of an obstacle, before we can dive into all the more ‘out-there’ stuff.
I keep educating myself on the human brain. Do you know that your brain is an amazing antenna that’s able to code and decode way more than we usually think?
But this is for another day.
Lately I came across this beautiful metaphor from the Mayan wisdom:
they say that our mind is like a horse carriage. If we know where we want to go, and how to drive it, we just give the sign, and our horses start walking and pulling the carriage towards our destination. The horses are our thoughts, our beliefs, our knowing, our feelings.
The problem is that we often don’t know how to drive, and our horses will escape and run wild. So we have to get off the carriage, try and catch the escaped horse, hopefully bring it back to the carriage, only to find that in the meantime, the other horse has escaped and can’t be found anymore. And so, if we’re trying to reach anything while constantly chasing our wild horses, we’re not likely to go far.
I want your horses to know the path, I want them eager and faithful and powerful and happy.
So how do you keep your horses happy?
🐴 First of all, you give them plenty of fresh vegetables and fresh water. Don’t laugh, I’m very serious! 😊 One of the best things you can do for your brain, is to keep it nourished with fresh, unprocessed, natural food and good quality water!
🐴 Second, you give them blinkers! You want to keep them away from all those empty distractions out there and those fake, shrill things that make them run wild.
🐴 Third, you make them feel safe and loved. They need to be heard and reassured. Mind your words and your tone, when talking to them. Tell them that they can fly.
The reason I’m writing this today, is that there’s such a crazy amount of information, help, self-help, thousands of modalities available online, both free and paid, that it’s almost impossible to know where to start looking, when we need to shift something in our lives.
The first and best place to start is inside yourself. It’s not about bringing more stuff into the stables, it’s about cleaning out the dung. I promise, your stables are paved with precious stones that you weren’t yet able to see 💎
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