The chakras

In a nutshell, our chakras are energy centers in our aura, i.e. the energy field that surrounds us in our material incarnation. The chakras establish the connection between the physical body of a person, the various layers of their aura and the energy channels of the universe.

The chakras connect us to the source of our life energy. And this is a primordial shamanic principle, even if the term “chakra” comes from the Far Eastern wisdom traditions of Hinduism, Tantra, yoga and Buddhism. The term comes from Sanskrit and means “circle” or “wheel”.

But chakras are also known from the Jewish Kabbalah and the Christian mystery schools. Many indigenous peoples such as the Maya and the Aztecs also worked with them. They are also known from the Tibetan Bon religion, from the Tsalgi (Cherokee) Indians in North America and even from the African Zulu.

And of course they have always existed in our culture, even if their representation was rather subtle. But if you take a closer look at the halo, it is nothing other than the radiance of the crown chakra. While a throne represents the support of the root chakra.

Shamans and energy

This means that shamans have always worked with the chakras, even if they may have done it differently than today’s yoga teachings. And of course with other terms.

The chakras are often understood as the “connection points” of the energy channels that run through the human body. They can be imagined as alternately right or left rotating subtle or energetic energy wheels or energy vortices. However, this representation is very simplified.

There are people who can actually see chakras, many can feel them and this perception is slightly different for everyone. Ultimately, energy has no fixed form anyway and can only ever be described inadequately. Entire books could be filled without having a comprehensive description.

The flow of energy within the human body and its exchange with its aura and the spiritual world is of the utmost importance. Because a person who is not properly connected to the energy of the universe will not have enough life energy available to make his way in the material world.

The seven main chakras

Root chakra (Muladhara)

Sacral chakra (Swadhisthana)

Solar plexus chakra (Manipura)

Heart chakra (Anahata)

Throat chakra (Vishuddha)

Forehead chakra / third eye (Ajna)

Crown chakra / crown chakra (Sahasrara)

More on this in the article: Chakra and chakra work in shamanism

The root chakra

The root chakra, also known as the Muladhara chakra, is the first of the seven main chakras.

It is the seat of our primal energy and it is the direct connection between us and Mother Earth, the supporting ground of our material existence. And that’s exactly what makes it so incredibly important.

The consequences of a blocked root chakra are insecurity, fear, doubt or even excessive feelings of shame and guilt. Material symptoms such as obesity, depression and illness are also often linked to this.

If the connection to the load-bearing floor is disturbed, you will not feel safe. And when you don’t feel safe, you inevitably start to cling to things or aspects of your environment. But this can never be a substitute for connecting to your own primal energy.

This feeling of insecurity will make you do things you don’t really want to do. It will make you tolerate people around you who are not good for you. It will promote and retain “toxic” compounds. It will ensure that you continue to repeat old patterns, seemingly without being able to do anything about it.

It will end up making you sick and addicted. It often leads to obesity because the body tries to compensate for the lack of energy with food. Which of course does not work. A vicious circle.

People with a disturbed connection to the root chakra often find themselves in unhealthy relationship patterns, and always in the same ones. From the relationship with the parents to the partner to the children and grandchildren.

A lack of connection to your own primal energy can have an impact professionally, or often also financially. You literally can’t get a leg on the ground. Always feels torn out, uprooted or as if on black ice. It doesn’t solve itself, you have to actively work on it. Either on your own or with professional help.

A first exercise

There is an exercise for the root chakra that you can do regularly to support the process of reconnection. Maybe you already know it, it is quite common. But still do them regularly for a while:

Sit down, relax, concentrate on your breath. Feel the air being sucked into your lungs and out again. Let yourself go, concentrate on your breath.

And when you’re ready, start putting down roots. Feel how the first tentative shoots grow out of you, into Mother Earth. Deeper and deeper, more and more branched, stronger and stronger.

Until they reach the center of the earth. Then begin to draw the energy of Mother Earth up to you with each inhalation. Absorb the energy until it fills you completely.

Do this exercise as often as possible, it will get easier each time and eventually it will become normal. You will find that you can also do them standing up and even walking. It even works perfectly in an airplane at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

What I can do for you

As valuable as this exercise is, it is usually not enough on its own. Because the blockages are so deep in your system that you need to actively work on them. And the root chakra is not everything, there are many more starting points.

In this case, I would be happy to work with you, take a look at my starter package or send me an email: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com

The soul

Explanations of the concept of the soul alone vary widely. Every belief system, every religion and, of course, every spiritual direction has its very own model of explanation. Does a human being have a soul? And if so, where does it sit and what does it look like?

You won’t find THE one truth in this article either. But let me explain how I see it.

In my understanding, “the soul” is nothing other than the spiritual being that we are. Our familiar material world is not everything, it is only a small part of the whole. Fundamentally, we are energy.

Spiritual beings in a dimension without space and time. We create our material world from this energy and incarnate in it. This means that we create a body in order to be able to act in matter.

The soul is nothing other than our energy with which we create our matter and act within it. And we do this time and time again. When our material life is over, we return to the level of energy and from there we come back. Into a new life.

Why?

The question of why we do this is a very good one. I often reply jokingly that I’ve probably lost a bet and that’s why I have to be here … 🙂 But joking aside, I think we do this to gain experience.

To develop ourselves. To experience something like duality or dense matter, which cannot exist on the purely spiritual level. I cannot answer whether we only incarnate here in this world or whether there are an infinite number of different ones. In principle, I think both are possible.

Incomplete?

But how can it be that soul parts are lost? Is that even possible? So, if the soul is the energy with which we incarnate here, then none of it can actually disappear anywhere, can it?

That is not what is meant. Basically, each of us incarnates with our full energy. Nothing is missing, everything you need is there. Always.

But in this incarnation we often find ourselves in situations very early on that make it difficult for us to use all this energy in matter. Especially when we bring skills with us that are not seen or not wanted in the environment in which we end up.

If this happens in early childhood or even before we are born, then we adapt and put the parts of our energy that we cannot use into a drawer, so to speak, and we close it.

And forget that this drawer exists or what’s in it. And this is exactly what the shaman means when he speaks of a split-off or lost part of the soul. It’s not really lost, it’s just stored away and usually forgotten.

Like a tool that you have in the cellar, but you no longer know that you have it. And you don’t seem to need it either, because you can somehow manage your things with other tools. You may feel that something is missing, but you don’t know what.

But shares that you have already brought into life can also find their way into such a drawer. Trauma is a common cause. In other words, everything that you experience but cannot process at that moment.

This can be a drastic experience such as an accident or violence. But also seemingly small things that you may not even perceive as traumatic. This can be something sudden or a situation that has been tormenting you for a long time and to which you seem to be helplessly at the mercy of.

Since people are not made to actively carry unresolved problems with them, they put them aside. In a drawer like this. Together with the part of his energy that seems to have triggered the problem. In this way, the problematic part of life is excluded and locked away.

Example

Imagine you have a car and suddenly the air conditioning stops working. Instead of having it repaired because that may not be possible at the moment, you remove it completely and store it in the cellar. You forget them there. From now on, you’ll be driving without air conditioning. It works, but you just sweat.

Not so bad, you say now. Imagine it’s the engine …

But on with the text …

The same applies to parts of ourselves that seem socially or morally undesirable. With the “dark” parts of us, with the “evil” parts. With everything that “one” does not do, does not live, does not say.

What that is always depends on the social and religious context in which we find ourselves. Classic themes include sexuality, but also money and power. These are complexes that are often suppressed, marginalized and tainted with guilt and shame. So we put them in the drawer.

Even our “normal” everyday life can cause us to store parts of ourselves. Job, children, school, money, everyday life itself, can overwhelm us to such an extent that we limit our lives to pure functioning.

The car again

Imagine it drives perfectly. But the society you live in condemns it if you move fast. People see it as bad if you are fast. So you throttle the engine so that your car only drives at 30 km/h. Now you have to live with it and at some point you forget that it could actually go 200. You’re at a big disadvantage because of it, but you no longer know that you can change that.

But what then?

So when the shaman talks about split-off or lost soul parts, he means the parts that you have in your drawers. Some have been with you all your life, others perhaps only recently.

What they have in common is that they are not gone. They are there and they want to be lived. Whether you are aware of it or not. And these parts report back to you. They do this very timidly at first, but if you ignore them they become louder.

If you’ve ever tried to ignore a small child, you’ll know what I mean. It doesn’t stop tugging at you, it just gets louder and louder and at some point it goes completely berserk.

Soul parts do this too. They pull, they scream and if you don’t listen, you get sick. This can be classic depression or burnout, or it can be physical illnesses.

It could be tinnitus, it could be a cold every two months, it could be a migraine or stomach ache, it could be cancer. And this increases the longer you ignore it.

Addictions, from nicotine and alcohol to hard drugs and adrenaline, can also be desperate cries from your stored parts. Or you suffer for long periods of time without being able to pinpoint exactly what it is. There is always a latent feeling of dissatisfaction, of being uprooted, of not belonging.

And time and again we find ourselves in situations that aggravate our symptoms, make us feel powerless and helpless, overwhelm us emotionally and seem to be stimulated from outside. Without being able to see a solution.

In this context, we speak of “triggers”. Triggers that seem to come from outside and repeatedly put their finger in precisely those of our wounds that hurt the most.

Effects

In addition to the illnesses already mentioned, “stored” soul parts can also cause other things. They are able to prevent stable partnerships or even any form of partnership.

They are able to prevent us from having children, they are able to put us in financially hopeless situations. They are capable of making our lives so miserable that we are dissatisfied even in outwardly perfect situations.

They prevent us from being happy, they prevent us from feeling joy. They ensure that we always feel homeless and uprooted. They rush us, they torment us, they lead us into the role of victim.

And what they all have in common is that we generally have no idea why we are so miserable while everyone else is happy.

Example

You have locked away a part of yourself, which ultimately means that you cannot enter into a satisfying partnership. You could accept that, of course, but life will seemingly keep nudging you in the nose that you’re missing something.

You will always get into trouble, always see that others seem to be doing better. You will always find yourself in situations that make you suffer terribly. Until you recognize the issue and solve it at the root.

It’s exactly the same with money, power, sexuality, self-determination, etc.

What to do?

As hopeless as it may all seem to you, there is a way out. You just can’t see it yourself. You may know that there are such things as locked away parts of you because you have read my article up to this point. But you can’t see them yourself and you certainly can’t release them.

Your whole system will rebel if you try. Because there was a reason why you locked her away. There are huge fears in between that will prevent you from simply bringing out your parts and living them again.

This is exactly where you can start. It’s about going back to the cause. Wherever this may be, it often leads very far into the past. Sometimes even into your past lives, very often into your ancestral line and almost always into your childhood.

Fears that can split off parts of the soul are often passed down through generations. In such cases, you put the parts of yourself that don’t fit in the drawer before you give birth. So you don’t know them at all.

And if you try to get to it, the patterns of your ancestors from countless generations will turn against you. But it can be solved, you just have to go deep enough and get to the root of the problem.

The goal of the human being is to be fully incarnated. Only then can you be truly happy and healthy in the long term. The aim is to find and reintegrate all these split-off parts piece by piece.

Not so bad

This all sounds terribly dramatic, but in practice it is not. Of course, it sometimes takes overcoming and courage to tackle the very topics that scare you the most. But there is no courage without fear.

I always say: “Behind the greatest fear, lies the coolest path”

What will happen to me then?

Do I have to give away all my money, do I have to leave my family, quit my job, walk the Camino de Santiago or will everyone laugh at me?

Such fears seem to stand in the way of your path. Especially when you are responsible for other people. For your family or your company.

I can reassure you. You will certainly jump over your shadow at one point or another and those around you won’t think everything you do is super great if you go down one path.

But at the end of the day, there is nothing better you can do for your children or your employees than to come into your own power. This is the only way you can accompany them into their power. You don’t have to give away your money or leave your family. Unless you want to.

The process

Of course, this doesn’t work overnight. This is a process that is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter, that can sometimes be painful, but that also brings a lot of joy. And at the end of it, there is a person who can live their soul potential fully and freely.

However long your personal journey may be, it starts with the first step. With the realization that there is a way and with the decision to set off, even without being able to see the destination yet.

Questions, or are you ready to go? Then write to me: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com or take the first step directly with the starter package.

The great fear

That is indeed very common and starts within the family. What does the partner think? Do they think I’m stupid? Do they still take me seriously? Can they relate to it? He or she might be more rationally inclined, can’t relate to such things, or doesn’t want to.

Then you finally dare to talk about it, and the first crooked grin comes from your partner – and suddenly you’re the little girl or boy who has never been taken seriously. The child with the ‘vivid imagination,’ the child who always causes trouble and never gets anything right, or the child who always sat on the sidelines.

This is a very real problem and often leads to spiritual people hiding and bending for years or decades. Until they can’t anymore.

A story

The protagonist of the story is entirely fictional; she is a mix of many of my clients who have experienced similar things. Women and men.

Petra, 41 years old, married, mother of two children, lives and works in her hometown at the savings bank. Deputy branch manager, pretty much everyone in the town knows her. The children go to elementary school, she is on the parents’ council, and in several clubs. That’s just how it is when you have lived there your whole life.

It’s going well for her, you might think. But that’s not the case. Because she bends over backwards not to stand out.

It started about 10 years ago. At first, it was ‘just’ a mild depression, nothing dramatic, she managed it inconspicuously. A short therapy, a bit of ‘sick leave,’ no one noticed. Maybe no one wanted to notice, as people don’t like to deal with such things.

Now she functions again, anyway. She has to at the savings bank too, because the customers there are quite conservative and there’s a lot of gossip.

But something is fermenting inside her that is almost eating her up. There’s something there. She discovered this after the therapy. When she was looking for what she was really missing. There was such a pulling inside her, such a burning, as if a part of her had developed a life of its own. Very difficult to describe and not to talk about anyway.

She started doing yoga back then and then ended up in this meditation circle. There she met people who were really spiritual. For the first time in her life, she felt understood and seen.

And she has slowly figured out what she is missing. She has realized that she also perceives more than most other people. That she can see really deeply, at soul level. That she simply knows things that others don’t know. That she can lay her hands on them and actually make a difference.

Not only with their own children, but also with complete strangers. Recognizing that did her good. But it also made her lonely. Apart from this small circle of spiritual people, she couldn’t talk to anyone about it.

At some point she told her husband and he was really understanding. At least on the surface. He just didn’t take them seriously. It was a bit uncomfortable for him. What are people supposed to say? The topic was quickly taken off the table again.

She’d better not talk about it so much, he suggested. She has her circle, so she is allowed to go there once a week. But it’s better not to tell anyone. Maybe take a week’s vacation, get back to normal. Topic closed.

Now she’s sitting there and she realizes that she can’t do it anymore. She realizes that the part of her that wants to live now is open, big and free! But what should the neighbors think?

And your customers at the savings bank? Your boss? The other moms at school? None of this is possible …

And if it does?

Until one of her spiritual companions told her that it was possible after all. Because there is no other way. You can’t spend your whole life suppressing the biggest and strongest part of you just because you think someone doesn’t want you to.

Well, of course you can, but it will first torture you and then kill you. Literally. Cancer, for example, is predominantly based on the suppression of one’s own parts. Depression anyway.

So what did she do, Petra? She plucked up all her courage and started talking openly about the fact that she is a healer. First with other mothers, then in clubs and then at work.

Phew … tough stuff … she thought

And what happened? Nothing! Sure, a few people looked at you funny, but so do they if you drive the wrong car, like cats instead of dogs or dogs instead of cats, or dress your kids in clothes that are too colorful.

But that was the most dramatic thing that happened to her. On the contrary, she received an incredible number of positive reactions and often even “oh you too, I can also do xyz … I’ve also been to the shaman … do you know healer abc from the neighboring village?” and so on.

Even the customers at the savings bank talk to her about it. Not to call them stupid, but because they are looking for advice and help or simply want to share their own spiritual experiences.

And her husband now accepts it too. He was just uncomfortable at first, he’s only human and a graduate engineer, so he’s more of a guy with facts and figures. But that is no longer an issue for him. He just has a healer for a wife. Nobody really cares these days.

Well, what do the neighbors think?

Mostly nothing at all. At least not about you. They have their own topics to think about.

This fear of being rejected, ridiculed, perhaps even punished goes back a long way. Think back to your childhood. Were you taken seriously? Or were you that child with the “vivid imagination”?

Were you allowed to be as you were, or were you expected to function? That you “adapt”? That you shut up?

And then go back even further. How did your parents grow up, like your grandparents? Were children taken seriously back then? Spiritual children even? Sometimes there are ancestral patterns behind them that go back tens of generations. And you stand there and suffer from these patterns, even though it’s not necessary.

Now, as an adult, you are no longer dependent on someone liking you. It’s just the old pattern inside you that’s still crying out for love. Time to change that, what do you think?

Because when you do, you’ll realize that there are a lot of people out there who love you just the way you are, precisely BECAUSE of who you are. And spiritual abilities are much more widespread than you think anyway.

At the time, I was amazed at how many shamans there were. Like sand by the sea. Look at how many meditation circles there are, how many offers, how many healers. The moment you appear in all your power, you will realize that you are not alone at all.

So, what are you waiting for? Show yourself! Now! The world is waiting for you.

I have accompanied countless people on this journey. Once these patterns of obstruction are released within you, you will realize how much energy you have been holding back. And you’ll notice that this is definitely not an issue for your neighbors, nor for your partner.

Write to me right now and let’s get going: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com

Your favorite shaman

It sounds tempting. Are you really in love with someone, but they don’t pay any attention to you? Or does he just want friendship? You could run up and down the walls, but he or she just doesn’t want anything from you? A love spell would be just the thing, at least it sounds like a great solution, is that possible?

Questions upon questions. But first things first, because there is some confusion. Not only with love spells, but generally with regard to applied magic.

Is that generally possible?

A clear yes. It is definitely possible to use “black” magic to influence people, even against their will, and make them do things they would not otherwise do.

But why then a “yes” and not a “no”? Because it’s not as easy as it sounds. Using black magic in such a way that someone actually acts against their actual will is not something that can be done with a spell or a magic potion. Not even with the famous “evil eye”.

This requires immense energy, a lot of time and of course you have to have the skills to do it. It’s like a duel. You have to fight it out man against man or woman against woman until you have defeated your opponent. Or he you.

Anyone who has ever tried to magically influence a person will have quickly realized how incredibly exhausting it is. Because even if the person is unaware of it, their system will fight back. And nobody can promise you that you have more power than your opponent.

Black magic against humans is therefore a very strenuous process that takes a lot of time and the outcome is highly uncertain. Of course, you can also hire someone to do this for you. But it will cost a lot of money and certainly won’t give you any guarantee that the campaign will succeed.

It’s a bit like hiring a contract killer. First you have to find one, then you have to be able to trust him (who trusts a contract killer?) and then he has to be successful.

Do you even want that?

Back to the love spell. Now you might be so desperate that you’ll go to the trouble or pay someone a lot of money to put up with it.

The spell is started and it actually works. Your dream partner is interested in you, maybe you can even catch them. And then you are with a person who is under a spell that they cannot escape.

Let that sink in. Feel deep into it. Is that what you want?

Do you want to bind a person to you against their will? Is that your idea of love or partnership? You are with someone who may neither like nor respect you. With someone who follows a compulsion and acts like a puppet. As long as the spell works. But it won’t do this forever unless you keep renewing it. For the rest of your life. What happens to your children if you have any? What energy do they take for their lives? Think it through to the end.

By the way, these are exactly the questions I ask when someone wants me to do a love spell. Most of the time, the request is then a thing of the past anyway, because on closer inspection, the use of such magic is pure bullshit. This leads to nothing but coercion and suffering. On both sides. So if you’re planning to ask me: No, I don’t do that!

But I am happy to work with you on the reasons for your despair. There is often something completely different and much deeper behind it.

Types of such spells

Word or symbol magic

A very common type of magic is word magic or symbol magic. This also includes sigil magic, which I have already written about several times, for example here: https://spirit-online.de/sigillenmagie-eine-kurzanleitung.html

Words and symbols are powerful signs that can have an enormous impact. This does not mean a “magic spell” ala Harry Potter, it takes more than just a spell. But words are very powerful and even more so when they are sent into the universe packaged in symbols.

This makes it possible to influence relationships, processes, energy, projects and indeed people. But there is a very fine line between clean magic that benefits those involved and black magic that deliberately harms someone.

And be careful! It will always work. So think very carefully beforehand about what you want to achieve and what you don’t want to achieve. As a layman, it’s best to keep your hands off them before you burn them.

Love potion

It’s quite simple in novels. All you have to do is give your victim a love potion and you’re good to go. Apart from the fact that it’s difficult to get hold of toad slime, fire salamander warts or unicorn powder these days, that’s nonsense. Love potion doesn’t work unless there’s a lot of alcohol in it, but that’s a whole other story.

Magic items

This is a variant of black magic that is particularly perfidious. It is sometimes even used unconsciously, although the effect does not always have to be particularly strong.

This technique works via gifts. Yes, that’s right, presents. Someone gives you a present. This could be for a birthday or any other occasion. Ideally, you’ll be happy about it because it might be a nice or useful gift.

Maybe something you put in your living room or an object of daily use. And this is how the “magician” establishes a connection to you. Which basically happens with all gifts. It connects you with each other. Which is also nice.

Only not if the other person is a magician who wants to force you to do something. In this case, he will immediately use this connection to manipulate you. You don’t realize it at first, but the gifts (there will always be several) start to annoy you or make you feel bad.

You’ll realize that you don’t actually want them. But you can’t get rid of them either … If you’re thinking about the super cool vase from your mother-in-law that you can’t banish, you might not be thinking completely wrong. Just think about it more carefully …

Incidentally, this is often used to gain control over your children, sometimes by relatives, sometimes by companies. They call it marketing, but what is it really?

Are you affected?

Are you afraid of being affected by such a spell? This does not have to be a love spell in particular, any other form of manipulation is also conceivable.

But let’s stick to the example. How do you realize that you are the victim of a love spell? Do you realize that?

A resounding yes. You will definitely notice it, but perhaps not immediately. It’s as if you’re carrying your own personal black storm cloud around with you. You are with someone, but being together feels like playing with a bomb where you don’t know where the detonator is.

There is a fear in the room, a darkness, a compulsion. You will have stomach pains, you will feel ill. You won’t be happy. Now, of course, this can also be the case without a spell, so you have to be careful. Your own unconscious issues, beliefs and behavioral patterns can also put you in such a situation. Some people have spent half their lives walking in the wrong direction of their own accord.

As a layperson, it is difficult to recognize the difference between your own issues and external action. If you are unsure, ask me. I can see that, that’s my job.

What you can do

The good news is that you can break such a spell. Maybe not yourself, if you are the victim of it. But it works. I can do that for you.

Even if it is your own (unconscious) issues that have put you in your situation, they can be resolved. This sometimes takes a bit of effort and time, but it’s worth it for you.

Do you have any questions or do you feel affected? Then write to me: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com

Your favorite shaman

Basically, a belief is an assumption about ourselves, other people or contexts. These assumptions are based on life experiences, opinions of important reference persons, news or they come from the cultural context.

This is not fundamentally bad, we humans actually need it to find our way in the world and to filter the information we receive. Without beliefs, we would simply be overwhelmed by the abundance of perceptions because we would have to re-evaluate all information from scratch again and again.

Beliefs work in the subconscious and filter all our perceptions even before we become aware of them. In this way, we already make assumptions before we have consciously dealt with a topic.

Everyone does that, has to do that to be able to function.

As long as the result of this filter is positive for us, nothing needs to be changed. It becomes difficult with blocking beliefs that prevent us from making the necessary changes to ourselves and our behavior.

Why don’t I know anything about it?

The really nasty thing about beliefs is that you know nothing about them. Blocking beliefs are like programs on your computer that you have neither installed nor want to have there. They are on and working in the background without you noticing them.

At the end of the day, the whole operating system does nothing else, but the blocking beliefs are the parts of the software that keep giving undesirable results or crashing the computer altogether.

This can be malware, but also programs that originally did something useful but are no longer suitable for today’s use. Because they are outdated or you now have completely different goals.

This is how beliefs work. You didn’t consciously acquire them, but unconsciously adopted them. In childhood or even before you were born, from your ancestral line.

And since then they’ve been working inside you without you realizing it, they automatically start up again and again and practically trip you up.

What do beliefs do

They ensure that you react to certain questions, tasks and problems in the same unproductive way over and over again, as if automatically. Life has a task for you and you keep delivering the same, completely undesirable result. You can’t seem to help yourself.

Or someone says something and you fly off the handle. Over and over again. Without you being able to prevent it at that moment.

You want to get ahead professionally, but no matter how you do it, you always end up at the bottom. And looking back, you can’t find any reason for it.

Or you only ever get as far as a certain point professionally/financially and then you inevitably fail. Without you being able to find the reason for it.

Blocking beliefs seem to confirm themselves over and over again. They ensure that we make decisions during change processes that lead to failure and then confirm this with a resounding “I told you so”, “it always goes wrong”.

Examples of blocking beliefs

There are an extremely large number of them and they often exist several times in different gradations and nuances. Also in several levels one behind the other. And they are often much more subtle than the examples I list below. Therefore, this should only serve as food for thought and illustrate the sheer number and variety of possible blocking beliefs.

It has always been like this

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

An Indian knows no pain

All or nothing

It is more blessed to give than to receive

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

No pain, no gain

Life is not a bed of roses

Idleness is the beginning of all vices

That should have been started a long time ago

You just have to get through it

Nothing comes from nothing

Order is a must

A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do

Everything was better in the old days

I don’t want to get rich, but …

All that glitters is not gold

First work, then pleasure

Money does not make you happy

You’re still too young for that

You get nothing for free in life

That has never worked for me

Love hurts

That’s way too dangerous

There must be a catch

The good Lord sees everything

Money corrupts character

Pride comes before a fall

I can’t afford it

I’m too old for this crap

Money makes the world go round

Today is not my day

You don’t understand that yet

Better poor and happy than rich and sick

One does not talk about money

One must suffer to be beautiful

There is truth behind some of these beliefs, not all of them are completely wrong or always blocking. The important thing here is to deal with it consciously. You can also consciously use a belief that you are aware of.

How do I resolve something like this

Basically, it sounds easy: you have to become aware of them. A belief can only work if it does so in secret. If you are aware of it, you can consciously take countermeasures. Because you can also consciously change conscious thoughts. But you don’t know anything about the unconscious thoughts …

In practice, it is not quite so easy to track them down; toxic beliefs are often intertwined on several levels and of course you first have to realize that there is one behind them at all. If you could recognize them so easily, you wouldn’t have any.

We absorb many of them with our mother’s milk, so to speak. If everyone around you is convinced of a certain fact, follows a certain pattern of thought and behavior, then you won’t even think to question it. Especially if they are your parents.

For example, if you are born into a family that has been making ends meet for generations through hard work and a lot of sweat, you will initially adopt the underlying beliefs. And then think and act just like your family. With exactly the same result.

If you live in an academic family or in a very wealthy business family, you will automatically adopt completely different patterns. And don’t question them for a long time because they are normal for you.

As long as things are going well for you, this is not necessary. That only comes when you realize that you are not 100% in your life. When you realize that you are living the life that others have set for you. Or when you realize that you are living patterns that are harming you, making you ill or simply don’t suit you (anymore).

Then you should look for patterns that you might be following even though they don’t make sense to you. The best way to do this is with outside help, because we don’t see the issues ourselves, we have so-called “blind spots”.

On this path you will realize that some of your thought patterns are so old that we have to track them down deep in your ancestral line and release them. Others are more recent, but just as persistent.

It’s a process that takes time, but it’s worth it. Because with every blocking belief that you uncover, you come one step closer to yourself and your life.

You virtually remove all the unwanted programs from your operating system and leave only those that you want and can consciously control.

Any questions? Get in touch via email: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com

Your favorite shaman

What is a nature being / nature spirit?

From a shamanic point of view, we are spiritual beings who have created a material world in order to incarnate in it. In other words, having an energetically dense, material body. There are many theories and opinions as to why we do this. My favorite assumption is that we want to gather experiences here that are not possible on a spiritual level.

A nature being is a spiritual being that is not incarnated in our extremely dense body, but is one level higher, so to speak. Not quite as dense, not a solid body, but still very close to our world.

Close enough to be there, to be noticed and sometimes to take action. Close enough to be a mediator, a helper, an advisor. But also a learner, because spiritual beings can and want to learn from us humans. Acting purposefully in the matter, for example.

A nature being is a spiritual being that appears to you in a form that can be attributed to nature. In contrast to a house spirit, for example, which is more likely to be located in a household or a family.

A nature spirit can be a goblin as well as a plant or animal spirit, an elf or a giant. Basically, the manifestation of a spiritual being is just that: a manifestation. On a spiritual level, there is neither time nor space and therefore no forms of appearance.

But we humans live in a material world and here we need a form to be able to imagine an entity. Very few of us can handle a pure form of energy. Shamanism therefore works with the manifestations of the entities.

How do you find them and work with them?

The shaman has a very basic method of making contact with spiritual beings of all kinds. The shamanic journey. Also known as a drum or trance journey. In such a journey, he specifically seeks contact with certain entities or asks questions to see who comes to answer them.

He is often accompanied by his spirit animals. Incidentally, they are not natural beings, but personal helpers. Even if they appear in animal form.

But the shamanic journey is not the only way to make contact with nature spirits. This often happens “on the side” in everyday life, especially in areas where there are many of them. Ireland is right up there, but so are Iceland, Scotland and regions with lots of nature and fewer people in general.

They can also be contacted in meditation and there are countless rituals for this. Certain times such as the Rauhnächte or other stations in the annual cycle are also particularly suitable. In the end, each person finds his or her own access to the beings that are in his or her vicinity.

Working with them depends a little bit on who you are and who they are. Nature beings are not always well-disposed towards us humans and they are certainly not always equally helpful. But neither are your neighbors and you deal with the Spirits in a similar way to your neighbors.

You are polite, introduce yourself, give before you ask for something and if someone doesn’t like you, you leave them alone. Ask for permission before you set up a ritual place somewhere or begin to work shamanically.

Ask permission before removing plants or parts of plants, before building, tearing down or altering anything. Especially with power plants such as elderberry, it is better to ask three times too often than once too little.

Assume that all of nature is animated. Even stones are natural beings. Try talking to them once, you’ll be amazed.

What natural beings are there?

Now it’s getting extensive. There were and are an incredible number of manifestations of spiritual beings and, of course, of natural beings. Each culture knows slightly different entities than the neighboring culture. Much has not been handed down and much has been summarized.

At the end of the day, you have no choice but to make your own experiences. But I would like to explain a few terms here because they are often used and are useful for an initial categorization.

Deva / plant deva / plant spirit

A plant deva is the spiritual being behind a plant, the soul of the plant, so to speak. Just as we humans incarnate as spiritual beings here in the material world, spiritual beings also incarnate as plants.

The reason for this is that you can communicate with plants on a spiritual level just as you can with people and animals. Incidentally, the word Deva comes from Sanskrit and means something like the shining ones, the radiant ones.

And so the plant devas were and are repeatedly described as radiant beings of light, sometimes also somewhat teasingly as little flower elves or forest fairies. But this is always just an idea, because spiritual beings in themselves have no physical appearance. Or, in the case of plants, the appearance of the plant as it stands before us.

Many people who collect medicinal herbs or harvest plants make contact with the plant spirit beforehand. They ask for permission and advice on how much they can take without causing too much damage to the plant. You can also gain valuable information about them by talking to a plant deva.

Herbalists often get their knowledge directly from the plants and not so much from books. This ranges from the use of certain herbs for certain diseases to detailed information on harvesting, preparation and dosage.

Sometimes well-meaning devas even actively help us. Whenever the exact herbs that we actually need shortly afterwards appear in our garden, seemingly of their own accord, because they are needed to heal an ailment.

This is why it is also not advisable to fight “weeds” too vehemently in your own garden. It’s better to communicate with them first or at least look up their effect and find out what they want to tell us. Perhaps afterwards we will be quite glad that they came to us.

Kites

Dragons are mythical creatures and come in various forms. While dragons in the Christian world are fire-breathing, sulphur-smelling and demonic creatures that are fought against, in Asia they are delicate beings of luck.

In a shamanic context, they often resemble demonic and evil dragons, but their character is more helpful to all those who are willing to accept their help. They are sometimes divided into the elements, so there are fire, water, air and earth dragons.

Elemental spirits

We speak of an elemental spirit or elemental being when a spirit helper is assigned to one of the four elements fire, water, earth or air. The term elemental being is therefore more of an umbrella term or serves to categorize.

Earth spirits include trolls, mountain men, elves, fairies, dwarves and gnomes. The water spirits include mermen, water women, nymphs, mermaids and mermaids.

Air spirits can be wind and storm, fire spirits can be found in fire. Both have forms that can rarely be described.

Elves

Elves are familiar from Norse mythology and Disney films. Although the image of the elves in the latter is very misleading. They are by no means little fluttering creatures that get into trouble with a squeaky voice.

Rather, they are powerful spirits who are not always well-disposed towards humans and are also known in Germany, England and other western countries in addition to Nordic mythology.

There are different types of elves, besides the bright and friendly light elves who are often described as benevolent and kind-hearted, there are the dark elves who live underground and appear rather dwarf-like.

The royal elves are a special genus, whose appearance most closely resembles that of the elves in “The Lord of the Rings”.

Faune

Fauns are known from Greek mythology and are also called satyrs. They are forest gods and are often described as having pointed ears, goat tails and curved noses. Incidentally, Pan, with his goat’s feet and horns, is a faun.

Fairies

Fairies are certainly among the best-known natural creatures. They appear in countless mythologies and in the most diverse contexts. Unlike in classic fairy tales, fairies are very powerful beings. Not, as with the elves, little Disney fluttering creatures in the shape of girls.

Fairies are very large beings who live for a very long time and have very great magical abilities. They may or may not be well-disposed towards people. The benevolent fairies help people in need, usually appear in the form of beautiful women and can fulfill wishes.

Evil fairies, on the other hand, can cause great harm and are masters at deceiving people and getting them into situations they can hardly get out of on their own.

Anyone who encounters a fairy on a shamanic journey or in everyday life should always be respectful and polite. A disgruntled fairy can be very unpleasant.

Goblin

The term goblin is mainly known in English-speaking countries, especially in Sussex. They are also called puck or pook. Goblins are quite similar to European goblins.

Goblin

Goblins can be found in the mythologies of countless cultures. They are often tied to a particular house or to the people who live there. They like to get up to mischief and behave like poltergeists. They can change their shape.

As annoying as they are at times, they protect the house and their humans. Their jokes never cause serious damage. Goblins are good-natured and funny roommates who are much more powerful than they appear at first glance.

Nymphs

Nymphs are mainly found in Greek and Roman mythology. They are nature spirits that appear in female form and are usually young and beautiful. As nature spirits, they are mainly found at springs, streams and rivers, but also in the mountains and on trees.

Almost everywhere where nature is intact and where it is quiet. They are generally well-disposed towards humans, but they should never be underestimated just because they appear in the form of a little girl. The prosperity of a place often depends on the prosperity of the resident nymph. If it dies or goes away, the place dies too.

Trolls

Trolls are mountain giants, known from Scandinavian mythology. Trolls embody the raw forces of nature and are correspondingly unpredictable.

Later, the actual trolls mixed with other creatures such as dwarves, goblins, fairies and elves. Which has made the troll more of an umbrella term. They are often depicted as ugly or misshapen, sometimes with only four fingers per hand.

They appear in countless legends and myths, but also appear during shamanic journeys.

Dwarves

Dwarves are usually described as small, often misshapen, human-like creatures. In most cases, the body proportions are not right, arms are too long, legs too short or stomach or head too big.

They are skilled craftsmen and can make many a magical item. They like to live far away from sunlight, underground or in dense forests. In the sunlight they petrify, some rocks could also be petrified dwarfs.

Gnome

The gnome is an elemental being that is assigned to the element earth. Gnomes are often described as small and human-like. They are often located in mountainous regions. They are a bit like goblins or dwarves.

They are often regarded as guardians of great treasures, to which they sometimes grant access to selected people. Which is not good for these people if they become too greedy. Male gnomes are often described as ugly, while the women can be very pretty and occasionally seduce people.

Forest spirits

Forest spirit is a collective term for all creatures that can be found in a forest. Admittedly, this term is somewhat vague, because a forest contains almost all beings that can be found outside a forest, from plant beings (devas) to fairies, elves and dwarves to animal beings. Nevertheless, such a forest has a very special energy, which is why shamanic workers are always drawn there (and because of the peace and quiet, of course).

Norns

The Norns (nornir in old Norse) are female beings in Norse mythology who descend from gods or dwarves and determine the fate of humans. According to tradition, the Norns live at the root of the world ash tree Yggdrasil, at the source of Urd, the source of the fate of all people.

Originally there was probably only one Norne called Urd, but later three of them are mentioned by name: Urd (fate), Verdandi (the becoming) and Skuld (guilt), they thus correspond to the trinity that runs through many cultures, mythologies and religions, or they correspond to past, present and future.

The Norns are often called upon in matters of fate, during trance journeys or special rituals.

Leprechauns

The term leprechaun comes from Irish mythology and in Ireland they are as numerous as they are – for the sighted – real. Leprechauns are elemental creatures and are most comparable to goblins.

They are generally friendly and also seek closeness to people. They like to be noticed and are very helpful. They support personal development, give advice and want to learn from people.

Especially how to create things, because this ability fascinates them, but they lack it. Of course, this is also due to the lack of material form. If you get involved with Ireland and open your mind, you will soon come into contact with entire leprechaun families.

What do I mean by that?

Go for it! Read everything you can find about nature beings, but you can only make real contact with them on a spiritual level. The journey there is worthwhile, because there is an incredible amount to learn from them.

If you have any questions, would like to be accompanied or need help with a specific being, please write me an email or use the contact form.

People react to what you ARE not to what you WANT.

Why do the human processes in your company thrive or fail?

How committed are your people to working for you (or against you)?

Which employees can you find and which can you keep?

How much micromanagement do you have to do and what does that do to your company?

How do you decide whether your customers follow your marketing strategy or not?

What is the reason for your suppliers’ behavior?

What does the success of your business depend on?

And how does all this relate to YOUR energy? With what you really are behind your material appearance? With your “higher self”, your “soul”? However you choose the terminology, the principle is important. To understand and implement it.

Energy?

Energy? Not tangible, what is that supposed to be? After all, a business is based on facts, on markets and on every employee simply doing what they are supposed to do. It has always been like that and it will always be like that.

This is also true, but only half the truth. Let me try to explain what I mean:

To understand how this world works, you could take a step back for a test. Matter – and all matter – is created from energy plus an idea. If the energy is compressed accordingly, it becomes matter.

And this includes all connections that arise in the material world. We humans are created from this energy, everything we do, think and even our emotions arise from it.

And therefore also what we “are”. Our charisma, our actions, our entire being is created from energy. And so we interact with it all day long and when we interact with customers, employees, partners, etc., we interact with and about energy.

People react to energy. Exclusively!

People react to the energy of other people. People react to what you ARE not to what you WANT.

Contexts

If you keep that in mind, it becomes clearer. Your business is also energy. And if you have created it, it is YOUR energy. That’s the way it is. Including your employees.

Of course, your employees are also energy, as are your customers. But they are in your company, in the overarching energy field that you have created and that you hold every second with your own life energy.

If your energy is clear, you are clear because you follow the movements from your center, your company is also clear. Then your employees are clear and so are your customers. Then everything is fine, then it runs. If the figures are right, of course.

But if your energy is not clear because you are unconsciously bending, not drawing on your full being, because your energy is distracted or partially blocked. Because unconscious patterns are at work in you, then your company is not clear either.

Admittedly, for you as a “seasoned” entrepreneur, the theory that your company depends on your energy is difficult to accept. You have learned to act on the basis of facts. And as I wrote above, that is correct. But that’s only half the battle.

Basically

Employees do not work for companies or goals. People work for people. And for sense. This also comes from people. Even if they don’t realize it, everyone gives their performance to support a person and thus their energy.

If your employees don’t work for visions, ideas, your business and certainly not for their salary, but for you and your energy … then the energy becomes very powerful.

Because it is your energy that influences your people positively or negatively. Who guides them and gives them meaning, a path. It is your energy that makes them do what they do. If you understand this, if you are absolutely aware of your SELF and if you use them … they will follow you everywhere. Employees, customers and suppliers alike.

From the field

The following examples are taken from my own work, but I have changed the names, companies and facts so that no one will recognize or be recognized.

Example 1

Small craft business with just a few employees. The problem was that employees had to be dismissed time and again because they were dishonest, cheated somewhere or even stole money.

Again and again, these were people who “crashed”, alcohol was often involved or other addictions. Time and again, the founder himself had to return to day-to-day business because he had to let someone go again.

And it didn’t happen just once, it happened again and again over the years. It was a real struggle. The owner of the business was a thoroughly honest and very hard-working man with a heart that seemed far too big.

He himself came from a difficult background, always fought his way through, always had to be hard on himself. He simply would not have survived otherwise.

He has built up the company and it is not doing badly. He has loyal regular customers and can almost choose who he works for. Everything would actually be great if it weren’t for the ongoing problem with dishonest employees.

He has tried a lot. Outsource the recruiting, do it yourself, let people try out, trust them, monitor them and so on. No matter what he did, it always led to the same result.

Until we looked at the issue together and then he, the owner, had this huge fight on his hands. The one he has always had to lead, not only to the outside world but especially against himself.

There was all this toughness, these demands on yourself, this “I’ll take on the whole world”. This always struggling alone, this “not being able to trust anyone”, from his childhood.

Something like that reflects the universe. If you have a fight inside you, you also have it on the outside and, if things go badly, in your company. The universe couldn’t help but constantly mirror this struggle to him.

Until we have worked on it and ended the struggle within it. Since then, the problem has gone away. Since then, he has not had to dismiss anyone. Because they work with him instead of fighting against him.

Example 2

Medium-sized company, more technical sector, 250 employees, owner-managed. Built up by the boss himself over many decades. He started the business back then because it had somehow presented itself and because he saw a need. And because he wanted to.

And the need was not only there then, it is still there now. The business itself is doing well, with a lot of regular customers and enough new customers to keep the company at the same size.

But the company is not quite running smoothly. Sales have been stagnating for years, nothing is moving. The boss has tried everything, advertising agencies, social media, YouTube, management consultants and so on. But it’s like thick porridge, nothing is progressing. The company is holding up, economically healthy but there is no progress.

The boss came to me about something completely different, a health issue. But that’s how we came across him, his life energy and his visions in life. And to his business. That just doesn’t want to grow anymore.

He couldn’t really answer the question of why he wanted to grow. Businesses are growing. But why his? Why does he lead it?

And that’s when it “clicked”. There was no more vision. There was no longer a strong “why” behind it. There was no energy left in it from his side. Not like before, when he really WANTED the company.

Now he doesn’t really want it anymore. And that has an effect, because without his energy, no matter how good his employees are, no matter how many advertisements the advertising company places, no matter how much a management consultant restructures, the company will no longer grow. Because it has grown through HIS life energy.

If this is gone, the company stagnates or even goes under. In extreme cases.

The solution in his case was the pure realization of the connection between the owner’s vital energy and the success of the company. The fact that he realized this alone showed him that it was time to retire. He finally sold the company because he couldn’t see a way to muster enough enthusiasm and energy after our work.

The company still exists today and is growing again under the new owners. And the boss also re-founded the company after we had developed a completely new vision together. A completely different industry and again very successful right from the start and with his full energy behind it!

What does such a job look like?

It’s basically about who you are. So who you really are, behind all the patterns and masks you have put on to function.

It’s about what you want to use your life energy for, where you really want to invest it. And that’s not always where you think you have to look. It’s about how you bring YOUR real energy back into the world. With the former power and your entire BEING behind it.

Often enough, we follow other people’s plans and ideas for decades and don’t even realize it. Because we are still successful. But there inevitably comes a point when we can no longer bend any further. Or what is missing.

And you can see that in your business. Because that depends on your life energy. Always.

In such cases in particular, there are topics that almost always play a role. Your ancestors, or rather the thought and behavior patterns you have inherited from them, are at the forefront. I have developed my own method of ancestor clearing for this purpose. A mixture of systemic work (NOT family constellations) and shamanic techniques.

Your childhood will almost certainly be an issue too, whether it was great or not. The first years of life in particular are formative and always completely unconscious. And, of course, a person develops over the course of their life. And then the original plan no longer fits and a new one is needed. Perhaps one that you haven’t even dared to see yet.

Go for it!

“Daring” is a good term at this point. You “dared” to set up or take over a company back then. Do you now dare to fathom the deepest foundation of yourself?

If so, let’s go. Even – and especially – when you can’t yet see the way.

Wikipedia states, among other things: “In a religious context, the word “life in abundance” refers to a fulfilled, ethically oriented, essentially contented life”

Everything is somehow very flexible, not clearly defined. What are these “ethnic principles” supposed to be and who defines them? But a religious context is never quite so clear. In addition, religions like to consider only partial aspects of abundance and ignore or even exclude others. You are supposed to follow nicely and not really be in abundance. Religion would no longer be needed.

Perhaps the term “essentially satisfied” is the best way to define it. But is someone who is satisfied also in abundance? Always? Hard to say.

Maybe you can define abundance as having everything you need at your disposal. Both materially and spiritually. Whatever you need right now, it is available or can be procured under your own steam.

Abundance is basic trust

This requires a basic trust in the way the universe works and in yourself. Basic trust is also a term that is often used in the wrong context. This refers to the absolute confidence that you can always get what you really need, no matter what. Because you are aware of your creative energy and can use it purposefully.

Because if you can do that, you are almost automatically in abundance. For example, if you need a material good, perhaps a car. And if you are able to provide yourself with the means to do so without having to bend or rely on others, then you are in abundance.

If, after a stroke of fate, you are able to pick yourself up again under your own steam, come to terms with your experiences and regain your zest for life. Then you are in abundance.

If you trust that even in a deep valley you will rise again under your own steam, then you are in abundance. If you don’t worry about the future because you bring all your energy into the world constructively in the here and now, then you are in abundance.

The examples already show that there is not just one type of abundance.

Different types of abundance

Financial / material

One form of abundance that is negated in most religious contexts is financial abundance. This is fundamentally important, if you are hungry or have no roof over your head, you will rarely claim to live in abundance.

However, the level of material abundance you need to be satisfied depends entirely on you. Some people need more, others less. This also changes over the course of a lifetime. Often upwards, because as prosperity increases, so do demands. But sometimes also downwards.

But does a lot of wealth also mean a lot of financial abundance? You might think so, but experience shows otherwise. The more money you have, for example, the more responsibility that comes with it.

This can be a great thing for one person because they like to take responsibility and also like to act materially in the world. But there are people for whom this is too much, who don’t want to be so responsible or for whom too much matter tends to get on their nerves.

One example is people who make large inheritances or win the lottery. Sometimes these people lose everything again or even develop massive health problems. Because the burden of prosperity weighs them down. Behind this are often deep ancestral issues that can and must be resolved.

You are in financial abundance when you have the right amount of financial resources or can obtain them at any time without being dependent on the favor of others.

Joy of life / satisfaction

How can it be defined, is it completely subjective? Hardly any two people are alike in their needs for a life of joy. And satisfaction is another matter.

Are you really satisfied from the bottom of your heart? Or are you satisfied because “you can be satisfied with what you have”? Can you adapt your standard of living to what you need? Or do you have to adapt what you need to what you have?

Even in difficult situations, are you aware that you can bring yourself back to the joy of life through your own efforts? If you still have confidence in yourself and the course of events even in the greatest darkness, then you are in abundance.

Health

If you are ill, no matter how much material abundance you have, you are still not in abundance.

But what does sick mean?

Often it is natural, inherited / adopted or artificially created fears that seem to make you ill. There’s this saying that you’re not healthy, you just haven’t been examined thoroughly enough.

In addition, from a spiritual point of view, illnesses are indications of energetic imbalances. So if you want to stay or become healthy, this path leads via the level of energy. Only then is material healing possible at all.

So here too, abundance is achieved by recognizing and resolving mental and energetic imbalances and only in a second step through material healing. If you are aware of this and can take active action, you are in abundance.

What stops you from being in abundance

I have already mentioned a few aspects above. Very often, deep and ancient beliefs, thought and behavior patterns stand in our way. We don’t even notice them because they are so naturally anchored in our system that they go unnoticed.

Like in a cult. You don’t realize what she’s doing to you until it becomes too much and you drop out. After that, you can’t believe you’ve ever been inside.

Often these patterns have been passed down for generations, sometimes they are based on traumatic experiences or unprocessed experiences. Not infrequently, this leads us to believe that a life of deprivation is “normal”. Because that’s how it’s been for generations. And anyone who breaks out of this pattern is often seen as abnormal, rebellious, megalomaniac or simply crazy. The famous black sheep of the family.

There are beliefs behind it like

“Everyone else has to be well before I can be happy”

“Can I feel better if others suffer?”

“Money stinks, is evil, causes damage, destroys character, etc … “

“It is more blessed to give than to receive”

“I earn my bread by the sweat of my brow / with honest work”

“A camel is more likely to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to go to heaven … “

“Others are even worse off than me”

I could go on for pages and pages with this list, and these are just the most obvious patterns, behind which there are further layers of beliefs like onion skins.

Your first step

If you can say from the bottom of your heart: “Yes, I am absolutely in the fullness”, then you don’t need to read any further. Then you wouldn’t have read this far … Because something in you resonates with the topic.

And you can feel this resonance. Maybe you can’t grasp them or put them into words. Maybe you find it hard to let them in because your life is obviously great. Others are worse off than you. Sure, you’ll always find someone who’s worse off. But what do you want to use as a guide? Above or below?

If there is still a “sting” somewhere inside you that tells you that something is wrong. Or if you think you’re happy, but still have a whole list of wishes unfulfilled. Or if you’re doing well now, but you don’t know what you’ll do “in old age”.

In short, if there is even the slightest doubt, listen to it! And if there is something big and screaming that tells you that you are not at all in the fullness, then listen to it more than ever. This is not megalomania, this is your LIFE.

Let it be there, this doubt, listen to it, look at it. Listen to the screaming, don’t push it away. Realize that you can and are allowed to change your situation. Always. THIS is your first step into abundance.

For all further steps, please contact me, that’s my job, I can do that.

And yet the idea of a new world is not without its appeal – who hasn’t already imagined it? Other people, other contexts, a perfect world in which everyone likes everyone else, perhaps a world without money or with lots of money, one with pink unicorns perhaps …

Maybe the famous “heart business” that you founded because it feels so cozy. But which makes no profit because the world out there takes no notice of it. A new one is clearly needed. Or the ascent into the fifth dimension. That would be something, wouldn’t it?

The new world is being wildly awaited. First, of course, people still have to wake up. But when that happens … finally …

But … if you want to create a new world, are you capable of acting at all? Basically, you need a basis from which you can create something. This is not possible if you are floating freely in space and have no floor under your feet.

An example

The following example is by no means unusual in my daily practice. The name and details have changed, but the principle is the same.

Marianne came to me with a huge heartfelt wish. She has always been very spiritual, she has always been “highly sensitive”. It can perceive energies that most people have no idea about. She’s really good at it.

But that didn’t help her much in life, rather the opposite. For a long time, she was the plaything of her fellow human beings. A narcissistic mother, a father who couldn’t compensate and siblings who saw her as an outlet for their own aggression. They still do that.

It was no different later on in my job and especially in my relationship. Narcissistic partners and bosses, always at the lower end of the income scale, always just about managing. Good-hearted Marianne, but rather on the losing side in life. Nevertheless, she always took care of everyone. For people and animals.

She always had to fight, but she only had one great heartfelt wish: a world full of peace and energy. A new world. One in which people have contact with themselves and with the spiritual level. A world without human and animal suffering. Especially without animal suffering. And without money, because she has no good experience with it.

She feels the painful longing for this world physically, sometimes it almost wants to tear her apart. If only people would finally wake up! For a long time, she talked herself out of her life “I’m fine”, but she’s actually just desperate.

A pious wish

The brave new world, a pious and understandable wish. But like every wish, it leads to dependency. Because the moment you depend on someone else to do something, you depend on them to do it. No matter how dear, meaningful or important the wish may be, you may still be entitled to its fulfillment. You will always have to wait for the other person to realize this, become active and fulfill it for you.

How likely is it that someone will do this? That the rest of humanity is doing this? How likely is it that everyone else will suddenly change their lives in your favor?

I think we know the answer. So what to do? Give up?

A metaphor

Imagine that the people out there are playing a game that you don’t like. You want them to play a different game, but they don’t listen to you. Because they really like their game and can’t imagine playing any other. And if another one, then certainly not yours. And – NO – they don’t realize that their game is stupid.

They won’t listen to someone who isn’t even in the game anyway. You are not in their group, you are outside it. Nobody listens to you. Why should they? You wouldn’t do it if you were one of the players. After all, you want to play your game and not his.

Now you can get upset about it, but nobody cares. Except for yourself, it’s destroying you.

But what if you played along first? Their game. What everyone plays. Yes, exactly the one where you’ve been pushed and shoved around since you were a child. Like a game piece. Passively at the mercy of the players.

But wait! That’s exactly the point. Passive as a figure? No, playing is different. That’s active, you’re not the character, you’re a player. What would that be like? What if you could learn the rules and actively play along?

This would have several advantages. On the one hand, you would get to know the lives of these people and find out what they actually find so great about the game. Perhaps your contempt for her game would turn into understanding. Maybe they’re not evil at all … ?

And secondly, you would be part of the group. And the better you play, the more respected you become and the more they will listen to you.

You do this until you have mastered the game and then, when you know the game, you can start to change the rules or develop a new game. And then people will follow you. Because you have shown them that you know what you are doing and that you are a part of them. Because you have built up your own power to act that you can use. Without having to make a wish.

In real life

In real life, it is often the very people outside the players who think a new world makes sense. Who have access to another dimension. Often these are the spiritual ones, the healers, the shamans etc …

Take me as an example. I have access to other dimensions, that is the basis of my work. I can see people, recognize connections, see spiritual beings, work with them. But that’s no use to me if I’m not heard. If nobody takes me seriously. If I’m one of those “weirdos” who live on the margins of society and don’t play along.

One of those people who want to live without money, who make themselves small, who don’t “achieve” anything. Then nobody sees me and I can understand that. Would I see one of these? Put yourself mentally on the other side.

That’s why I invested a lot of energy in learning the game. To learn how to become visible, how to earn, invest, hold and increase money. I learned how power works, how companies work, how investments work, even how to make a career. I invested energy and landed on my nose a few times. Lost laps, learned in the process. Until I started winning.

Now I’m being seen, I’m being interviewed, invited onto television. Now I have a website, social media channels and so on.

I am an entrepreneur, an investor, I am one of them. People listen to me and they come to me with their issues. And from this position, I can now start to change the rules of the game. Together with the people. Which, by the way, are not as reprehensible as they look from “below”. Quite the opposite.

From this position, I can actually create a whole new world. Where necessary. Because playing along has had another effect. Namely, the realization that much of what I used to see as “bad” or “reprehensible” is by no means so. I just lacked insight into the context.

It wasn’t the game that was stupid, I just didn’t know the rules. As if I had played chess, but without rooks and knights. And then I found the game stupid instead of learning it properly.

This can also give rise to a certain spiritual arrogance. You start to despise the game that you don’t understand BECAUSE you don’t understand it.

This creates people who despise money because they don’t understand money. Who despise power because they do not understand power. Who despise success because they don’t understand success. Who despise the material, three-dimensional world because they do not understand the world. And who sell their contempt as moral superiority. They then wonder why nobody likes them…

Only those who play can win

It may be that we have actually incarnated here to create a new world or to improve the existing one. But we can only do this once we have understood the existing world and can cope with it.

I always ask jokingly: “What do you want in the fifth dimension if you can’t cope in the third?”

What can you do?

It all starts with the decision to finally learn the others’ game and actively play along. If this gives you massive doubts and fears, if the thought of being successful, rich, famous makes you want to vomit, if the word “career” makes you want to run away … then you should look there.

The coolest way always lies behind the greatest fear!

Of course, there are plenty of thought and behavioral patterns, ancestral issues, blockages, beliefs and whatever else stands in your way. But there are people like me who can help you to overcome this thoroughly.

They can help you get into the game, learn the rules, get started and play. They can help you to take a strong and secure position in life from which you can develop and implement your vision.

What are you waiting for?

My comparison between money and life energy always leads to heated discussions because the term life energy can be interpreted in so many different ways. The core message is then often lost in the minutiae of terminology.

Therefore, a new approach, below with examples and an exercise that you can also do as a layman.

The river

So let’s try a different metaphor. With a river. Imagine that your life energy and therefore your overall financial situation is a stream of water.

What does it look like for you? Is it a brook, a river, a stream? Does it flow fast, over rocky rapids or rather leisurely? Does it drive something, a mill or a power station? Do ships even sail on them?

Is there enough water or not enough? Does the stream even dry up occasionally or does it flood everything? Does it branch out, is it fed and if so, from where? And last but not least: Do you have it under control or is it overrunning you?

An exercise

Perhaps this idea is so new to you that you have no idea whatsoever. Let’s try a little exercise.

Make yourself comfortable, sit down or lie down. Just as you like it, it doesn’t need a certain posture. Make sure you have some peace and quiet, that at least the children don’t barge in or your partner.

And then close your eyes. Breathe in and out calmly, at your own pace. Just pay attention to your breath for a few seconds.

If there are noises around you, welcome them. Each of these will only bring you deeper into a pleasant state of relaxation. Like in a meditation.

And now imagine you are sitting on the banks of your river of money and life energy.

Focus your attention on this flow. If you can see inner images, look at him. If not, listen to the sounds your river makes. Pay attention to whether you can smell him or feel something physically. Is it getting warmer or colder? Is something vibrating?

Or do you just know it’s there? Everything is allowed, you will get your very own access to it.

And when you perceive your river, find out whether it is large or small, carries a lot of water or little. Whether it runs straight or in curves, whether it flows quickly or slowly. Whether it drives mills or power stations, carries ships or is dammed up. Or whether it is possibly polluted, whether it is clear or cloudy, whether there is a lot of life in it or less.

Do this for as long as you can or until you have gathered enough impressions and then slowly turn your attention back to your surroundings. This way, you will safely return to the reality of your life.

Are you smarter now?

Did you get an idea of your flow of life energy? If not, don’t panic. Especially if you are not yet familiar with such exercises, it may take a few attempts before you get the hang of it. Even with practice, it makes sense to repeat them regularly, because your flow changes over time.

If you’ve noticed your flow, think for a few bars about whether that might fit with your perception of your financial situation …

What can go wrong … and how it should be

Such a river can naturally be powerful and large and flow calmly. Congratulations. In that case, you’re probably not even reading this article, because then you don’t have an issue with your finances. But you’re reading this article, so what could possibly go wrong with a river like this?

Inflow and outflow

The ideal is balance in the entire universe – no matter what it is about. Because that’s what it strives for, always. If your inflow and outflow are in balance, you have already reached this point.

Then exactly as much flows in as flows out. It doesn’t matter how big the stream is in terms of pure survival. A trickle does the same as a strong current.

Trickle or flow?

But the trickle is much more vulnerable. Leave it to dry for a while and it will dry out. In winter it freezes over in no time and then what? It also becomes difficult if you want to operate a grinder with it. The rivulet can’t do that, you need a real river.

Imagine you want to build a power station. There has to be a lot of water flowing, summer and winter. And as evenly as possible.

Branches and tributaries

Could it be that your river is losing something somewhere? Is something branching off, not flowing where it should or even seeping away somewhere?

Or something is flowing into your river somewhere, perhaps something you don’t want there. Waste water perhaps?

Traffic jam

Or is it building up somewhere without you having caused it? Has a beaver built a dam somewhere that puts you out of step? Maybe something flooded and destroyed somewhere?

Do you even see everything?

THAT is one of the really big things in life. Do you even see all your electricity? Or do you only notice the trickle of water next to it? Do you think the electricity isn’t even yours?

An example from life

It was a long time ago, back then I was still an employee in the laboratories of Stadtwerke München. It must have been 25 years ago now, but I still remember this one colleague well. She did almost all the instrumental analysis on her own.

She was the one with the really expensive equipment, with complex analysis procedures and she really knew her job. She was also “only” a lab technician, but she had more specialist knowledge than the engineers. And they didn’t deny her that at all. Whenever analytical questions arose, people turned to her.

Of course, that didn’t help her much; she earned just as badly as everyone else in the public sector. Promotion is only possible according to seniority. Even back then, you couldn’t really live on that little salary.

And she really wanted to get away from there, wanted a job where she would be better paid. Much better. At least she wanted it somehow … but somehow she didn’t want it either. And that’s where her river came into play.

Even back then, I perceived it as a powerful current, to stick with our metaphor. She was a role model, had a wealth of knowledge and knew her stuff. But she herself could only see the small stream.

And that’s exactly how she behaved in her job search. She didn’t even apply for the jobs that matched her qualifications. The doubts were too great; she herself could not even imagine applying for an engineering position. She only saw the small stream, not the mighty river that was actually there.

And so, in the whole time until I left there myself, she made repeated attempts to improve herself. But it never worked out because she either didn’t dare to apply or because she backed out. According to the motto “I can’t do that” … yes, of course she could have.

What she would have needed then would have been a companion who would have shown her the great, powerful flow of her life energy. This would not only have brought her appreciation, but would have immediately quintupled her salary!

Your idea

And now imagine that you also have such a stream inside you, but only see the trickle. Imagine you have a river that you could navigate with a boat, but you struggle on foot through the reeds because you can’t see the size of the river.

Imagine if you could do a completely different job long ago. Much better paid and with more appreciation. One that you don’t even know about now, or that you ignore because you don’t know your power. And no, no one will carry it after you, you have to take it yourself. Like the ship on the river. You don’t get it for free, you have to take it and drive off.

Imagine you don’t apply the principle in the naturally rather modest context of an employment relationship, but as an investor, self-employed person or entrepreneur.

Imagine that this current within you helps you to generate millions.

Can’t you? Why not you of all people? Others just do it and they are just incarnated souls like you and me. With very similar prerequisites. None of them were born with the ship. Not even those who have inherited. Not that one. They just don’t notice it straight away.

Quite often it fails because of your own imagination. We humans tend to only implement what we can imagine. If you grow up in an environment where a normal white-collar job at the lower end of the income scale is normal, you will end up there yourself.

Maybe one step higher if you had parents who wanted you to have it better than them.

The likelihood that you will pursue a career on your own initiative or become self-employed and set up a company is low at first. Because you lack the imagination.

You know the stream and can expand it to a small river in your imagination. But that you could one day become the Danube … no, others can do that, but you?

The truth is: you already ARE the Danube. They just don’t see it yet.

What to do now?

The most important step for you after the above exercise is to reflect on how you perceive your flow, how it relates to your financial situation and whether that’s really all there is to it.

Take as much time as you need, or get in touch with me. I am the one who sees what you don’t see. Even hidden rivers. And I am the one who will help you to take the ship once you have recognized the current. And to build the power plant.