Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
wentsch.me
example, take five breaths, inhaling and exhaling a little more fully than usual. This is both energizing and relaxing, activating first the sympathetic system and then the parasympathetic one, back and forth, in a gentle rhythm. Notice how you feel when you’re done. That combination of aliveness and centeredness is the essence of the peak performa
... See moreRick Hanson • Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Take turns stimulating the sympathetic (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS)
Font seen on poster for Stimmen Festival Burghof Lörrach
“At the same time, art cannot be understood in terms of purpose. As the sculptor Charles Ray has said, art is “for absolutely nothing.” To make, or experience, art is to enter a kind of free zone; it slows us down, places us in some epistemological estuary, takes us into the wild. We make art from our flaws, fragilities, perversities, from our need
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If you don’t know what your goals are, you’ll only achieve them by accident.
“The more you forget yourself in love or in work for the sake of a cause to serve or a person to love, is the very extent you will become happy.” -Viktor Frankl
Jude Star • The Paradox of Pursuing Happiness: Insights From Existential Psychology
Before you start reading a new book, take out a blank sheet of paper. Write down the basic scaffolding of everything that you already know about the book or its subject—make a rough mind map, if you will. Then you read a chapter or two.
