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20 Most Recent Post Titles with Excerpts

A bare list of links to the last 20 blog posts with linked titles, author and date, a short excerpt, and a continue-reading link.

Self-Knowledge as a tool against war

By Antoinetta Vogels | January 18, 2012

Have you ever noticed that you enjoy having power over others? Good willing people are doing their very best to ban from the earth cruel behavior by political decision making and setting up legislations that ensure that Human Rights aren’t being infringed.  We are all horrified by the stories of atrocities. But is being horrified…

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Testimonial

By Antoinetta Vogels | January 13, 2012

“Antoinetta Vogels gentle counsel on how to restore one’s sense of self (a healthy vibrant one!) continues to empower me to be a more peaceful and accepting person. She has made sense of more chaotic moments for me with humor and compassion and I am truly grateful to work with her.” D.D., Founder of Authentic…

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Leisure Time

By Antoinetta Vogels | November 25, 2011

My husband’s Cloud Computing Conferences brings me to India. While there is internet in every hotel room and I can work wherever I go, today in Chennai, I choose to spend the morning hours by myself and “unplugged.” We used to call this sort of activity leisure time. The sound of the phrase wakes in…

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Hyper-Efficiency Disorder – Have You Got It?

By Antoinetta Vogels | November 15, 2011

Imagine with me if you will:  I am sitting here in this private little space, for 5 minutes alone with myself but I will use my time wisely planning and scheduling ahead. I will quickly write up these notes while getting a bite of lunch. The remainder of my lunch break, I’ll go grocery shopping…

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Two Dutch Holistic Psychologists … PK2 Selfmanagement!

By Antoinetta Vogels | January 11, 2011

Paul Kortman and Peter Kemperman are Dutch Holistic Psychologists who have an active practice in the environment of The Hague in the Netherlands, where they guide their clients into Self-knowledge. “Self-knowledge is a tool against dysfunction and disease” is what they stand for. In order to heal, a person needs to get insight and understanding…

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On insomnia

By Antoinetta Vogels | January 4, 2011

Do you suffer from severe or ongoing insomnia? Are you ready to consider that the ultimate cause might actually be an unhealthy ‘Sense of Self’ you developed in childhood? That turned out to be true for me. Check it out! The inability to fall asleep or stay asleep is an occasional problem for some people,…

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On Butterfly-Hunting and Insomnia

By Antoinetta Vogels | January 3, 2011

This little story is a metaphor and aims to be an illustration of a particular psycho-emotional make up: the need to achieve certain results through doing particular things which, when done with a good result generate a certain kind of feel-good-about-self  – a feeling that is experienced deep down as a ‘right to exist’ or…

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