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This year’s accomplishments

Christmas is approaching…. Again 🙂
Even if you may not feel connected with this celebration, it is quite difficult to ignore it. So why not to use this period of the year to train our ability of paying attention?
The holiday’s period corresponds to a special moment in this part of the world: the 21st of December is the shortest day of the year, the winter Solstice. After that, days are getting longer. It says: winter reaches its maximum pick. A new period, a new year is on the point to start!
One way to prepare, before focusing on the New Year’s Resolutions and how to keep them 😉 , is to acknowledge what you accomplished this year.

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The honesty journal

In the previous article, we talked about the importance of being honest and about a tool: the honesty journal 🙂
But how does it work, exactly, an honesty journal? Is it about saying always what we feel or what we think truthfully? Do we need to “impose” it to our friends, family and colleagues, despite social conventions and despite the risk of hurting other people’s feelings?
No! Let’s focus on the person who is the closest to us: ourselves!
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The Honesty Issue

Some weeks ago, I found an interesting article about an “honesty journal” experience, that the writer Judi Ketteler  (*) was keeping for the last 7 months. In the article, she was sharing how challenging it was to keep the intention to say the truth: answering questions about death to her 6 years old daughter, exposing frustration or dissatisfaction in relationships or more general, risking hurting people’s feelings.
I feel very close to her challenge as I’m also practicing the truth… especially to myself 🙂
Even if the topic was known to me, her article nourished my own reflection about facing our fears : the fear of hurting other people and the risk to lose them. [Read more]

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Face your fears

Are you accustomed to regularly meeting your fears? Or you organise your life in order to never be confronted with the moment you will feel insecure?
If you like the concept – and the practice – of “stepping out of your comfort zone“ you may be already aware that sometimes, we can find ourselves experiencing insecurity. On that moment, our mind can produce thousands of very good, rational and conformable justifications about the reasons to NOT step out. [Read more]

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A wonderful taste of oneness

“After working previously with many practitioners and methods for personal growth, Michelle and her Grinberg approach really stands out to me. She has a magical, playful style as she brings my awareness to an intense mix of strong emotions stored in my body and directs me towards living my life with aliveness. After each of the one hour sessions, I have always come out with a wonderful taste of oneness difficult for my mind to comprehend.” Ben, Corporate manager.

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Vitale di nuovo

“Ora che abbiamo deciso di “chiudere” la nostra collaborazione, voglio prendere un momento per richiamare alla mia mente, quanto abbiamo raggiunto insieme … Ricordo molto bene l’inizio, quando ero piuttosto disperata, triste e intorpidita: mia madre era morta di recente, mio ​​marito era in una situazione difficile e tutto ciò che sentivo era che dovevo fare questo o quello. Anche la preparazione dei biscotti di Natale era diventata un obbligo. Mi sono reso piccola, non volevo essere vista, evitavo i cambiamenti e mi comportavo in modo piuttosto duro.
Mi hai insegnato come sentire di nuovo il mio corpo, come connettere il cervello, il corpo e i sensi, come sentire tutte queste diverse sensazioni senza classificarle. Anche come sentire ed esplorare il dolore e percepire come si scioglie e come l’energia è in grado di fluire attraverso tutto il corpo.
Ero intrappolata in vecchie abitudini, ripetendo costantemente le stesse situazioni. Volevo avere il controllo, dimenticando che significa anche stare dietro i muri, rendendo tutto inflessibile e bloccato.
La tua conoscenza, capacità di enfatizzare e umorismo sono stati sempre utili. Mi hai insegnato a respirare profondamente e ad essere attenta al corpo, a sentire le sensazioni senza giudicare. Ho imparato ad abbracciare e fidarmi del mio corpo. Sono di nuovo fiduciosa, non ho più paura delle sfide, al contrario, le sto ricercando.
Ora, una volta ogni tanto, quando mi sorprendo a respirare superficialmente per un momento, sento (nella mia testa ovviamente) una voce dolce che mi dice: “respira profondamente” … ed è quello che sto continuando a fare – con un luminoso sorriso sulla mia faccia …
Voglio ringraziarti moltissimo, per avermi aiutato a diventare soddisfatta, flessibile, libera e vitale di nuovo” Cornelia, insegnante.