Friday, November 27, 2020

Sounds of the autumn.

The seasons in Thailand are different from, for example, Europe. Here we have the rainy season and the dry season. The dry season is divided into a cool and a hot period. And that actually brings three istead of four seasons; the rainy season (June-October), the cool dry season (November-February) and the hot dry season (March-May). And yet you can also find spring, summer, autumn and winter in those three.

Yesterday, autumn and the cool dry season, as every day I walked blissfully in the forest again. I try to change tracks many times with Kadhow. Yesterday it was at a place in Chiang Mai that feels great for me. The energy feels wonderful there. The sound of crispy leaves with every step he and I take.

Kadhow stopped and looked around. I followed his lead. Total silence or not. No not at all. A gentle breeze, beautiful colors, tremendous big leaves of teak trees and there was a sound that could be heard like rain in the forest or like a crackling wood fire. Birds singing different melodies in peace and in harmony. It was more than a beautiful meditation to be aware of the sounds of autumn.

The "rain" sound came from the tumbling dry leaves, in the sunlight, falling high from the trees to the bottom of dry predecessors, which formed a sort of drum.
Sounds from far, up close, soft and loud, from all directions around me, high and low tones, melody, harmony, a fantastic free "orchestra" that nature offered me as a kind of meditation.

It was another fantastic moment to enjoy far from a world that is running faster and faster…


Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)


Captijn Insight. Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work again.


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Friday, November 20, 2020

Pushing doesn't help your kids in the right direction. Letting them follow their inner drive is the way.

When I was 17 years old, my dad gave me as a surprise a holiday to his beloved country Austria. Believe it or not, with a 10-day bus trip from De Jong Intratours (an organization that, I just saw, is still there). In the town of Auffach in the Wildshoenau we ended up in a class hotel (Platzl) with even a disco. A combined trip with both the elderly and the young. Lots of great experiences and impressions.

When we got back home, I finally knew what I wanted to be. Coach driver. Ever changing groups and contacts, exploring the world, accountability and above all a lot of fun. The image that I had from that trip, among other things.

By the way, if I had taken that path, I certainly would have had my own travel agency (FIT, Frans International Touring Service). That name has lasted a large part of my life. All my engineering projects carried that name and I also organized ski trips to Germany, Austria and Italy with rented Ford Transit vans.

When I received an application form at my request to become a driver from a bus company, my mother tore the letter up before my eyes. There were more qualities in me and I should continue studying, she thought. And yes, I did.

Now I know that my mother (and also father), from their thinking and background, actually wanted to push me towards something else. In their eyes, a better direction. And, mind you, that was from their best intentions. They wanted to do everything they could to ensure that their children had a good future. Hats off and I'm super grateful for it too.

What they actually didn't realize was that the road to achieving a good future is much easier if you allow the inner drive, I call it the soul, to freely deal with all the specific talents that someone has in them, to take on the path of life to go.

To push is to bring someone in the direction you want. Whether that makes that person happy and brings out all of his or her talents is still the question.

I too, towards my two children, took over that push behavior a bit. It actually led to nothing. Generational difference and different views also played a role in this. As parents, you often worry too much about your children's future. You rely too little on their own qualities to allow their future to emerge. After all, they come from you and you should trust that basis.

Stopping that pushing and letting them trust their own abilities yielded surprising results. For example, after her study oriental languages ​​(Chinese) my daughter chose not to see her future in that. She left for Australia, started working with horses and started a new training as a specialist car mechanic also for the mining industry.

And for my dear son it is mainly about having fun in his work and life. Don't sit still, but tackle things and be there for others (including animals).

Daughter, son and parents are happy. After all, it is their life. A matter of letting go on the path of life that is unfolding.


Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)


Captijn Insight. Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work again.

  
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Friday, November 13, 2020

The beauty of something so "normal"

A few days ago, early in the morning, I passed a tree with Kadhow. I have walked past it many times. Nothing special, a tree. Maybe because of the position of the sun right now, I suddenly noticed the bark of the trunk. I stopped to look closely. Magnificent! An artist work in itself that has a lot to tell.

Sometimes standing still makes a, not even hidden, world visible. 





Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)


Captijn Insight. Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work again.

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Friday, November 6, 2020

Tantra… encounter life as it is meant to be

A couple of years ago one of our guests became very emotional doing, bare feet, a walking exercise in soft grass at his temporary comfort zone. At home he was not allowed to walk bare feet. Without even thinking about this first, walking in the soft grass wasn’t just a sensation for him. It filled up his whole being. He felt totally released by expanding his awareness when the grass massaged his feet and his feet massaged the grass. The connection with the earth. It was a kind of understanding the body, mind and soul connection again.

At that time he took a period time, doing a Villa-Asia program, to shake up his live a bit. A personal ‘pit-stop’. Taking a road for himself less travelled and moved beyond the confines of his well-known comfort zone at home. Inviting him to work on personal mastery and to explore and realize his true potential.

And without even knowing or adapting on the experience, his unconscious mind immediately woke up to give him this, conscious, wake-up call. A deep inner happy feeling of aliveness, soaking up life.

Back home he discussed, changed the situation and felt much more connected / rooted and happier. Where a pleasant experience can be able of…

Most of us live at such a frenetic pace that the quality of awareness has eroded. Internal and external influences - responsible for change of lifestyle, ‘protection’ barriers, body veils and armouring - make things even worse. Walking around as a kind of Russian Matryoshka doll. And though we seek in this covers or “garments” the freedom of privacy and safety, most of the time they work deep inside as a personal harness and a chain. Covering the possibility to listen to our deep inner personal requests. 

How to soak up life again? That question brings me to Tantra, which I am currently studying to get my certificate as a teacher. And please, reading this blog, understand Tantra beyond the stereotype “concept” that Tantra just is about sex. Buddhist Tantra practices most of the time have nothing to do with sexual practices. They are a divine means to enlightenment through discovering the unique identity. So, Tantra offers many different layers/options.

The word Tantra comes from the ancient Sanskrit words tanoti (which means “to expand”) and travati (which means “liberation”). This implies that you can be liberated by expanding your consciousness, your quality of awareness.

It is an adventurous journey of again discovering your senses, energy and sensations as they are meant to be. An awakening of senses (and what they are able to provoke) and energy. An interweaving of the energies of many levels of consciousness from the ordinary to the most intense. A (spiritual) path for integrating body, mind and soul connection.

Exploring this can be a revelation called fully living (again). Bringing greater sense of aliveness to your existence.

There still are ways to really ‘connect’ in a more and more disconnecting world. You only have to take a pit-stop and start with yourself. Tantra is one of the ways to encounter a free life in real connection.

Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)


Captijn Insight. Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work again.


 

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