Hermien Vos

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  • I intend to feel great

        For so long I have been chasing things like being a good person, being healthy, being happy, being successful, making money, having a career. But those things don’t matter any more. Yes, I love having most of the above, but I am no longer striving to have them. All I want is to…

  • On avoiding snowballs and finding light switches

        What I have noticed this week is that with the gaining of focus there is the development of momentum. This is amazing when I am feeling great and it is awkward when I am feeling not so great, but it works both ways. You know how it works. One minute you’re feeling great…

  • Wouldn’t it be great…

        I used to be a very good focuser. True, I focused on the wrong thing, but still I was a very good focuser. By default, we focus on what is active within us, for me that was pain, lots of pain. Giving my attention to what was hurting me, what had hurt me,…

  • What do you see?

        What if the way you see the world is exactly what it is: the way YOU see the world? What if your brain filters only that which resonates with you? Last week, a friend posted on Facebook a picture of a lounge with the question where she was. To me it just was…

  • Creating a heart map

      I thought I had worked through being bullied, I did, until last week. I was bullied between the ages of 8 and 11. The low point: being thrown at with dog turds by several kids. One of them was my best friend. She was, she really was, in the periods that she didn’t bully…

  • A fresh start

        Today, I am turning 41. Again it has been an amazing year, full of leaps and shifts, and so very different than I imagined it to be. Somehow, in retrospect, every year comes with a theme. Where the previous year was centered around healing, physically, emotionally and spiritually, this last year was all…

  • Let’s go fuzzy – the art of intention-setting

        We live in a society where success is equalled with the ability to set and meet big goals. So for years, I set goals, and very hard tried to meet them. That has proven to be an interesting be it not very effective experiment. Focusing on a goal is like looking through a…

  • Staring at my garden

        If you have ever taken a meditation class, you probably will have heard the instructor say that you should picture your thoughts as clouds that float in and out of your consciousness. My first instructor was young and probably rather inexperienced and she did not quite explain the goal of meditation or dismantle…

  • Mind the gap!

          I have been wanting to use this title for a long time. If you have ever been to London and taken the subway, you will have heard a deep voice speak these words every time the doors open. How cool is it to be reminded of one of life’s greatest lessons on…

  • We’re going on a bear hunt

        “We’re going on a bear hunt, We’re going to catch a big one, What a beautiful day, We’re not scared. Oh oh! A cave, A narrow, gloomy cave. We can’t go over it, We can’t go under it, We’ve got to go throught it! Tiptoe, tiptoe, tiptoe.”   This is a verse from…