The nice thing about traveling is that you can do it in 3 dimensions. The first dimension is the preparation. This is the Kingdom of the Expectations: planning the road and the places to visit, the stops, reading travel guides, etc. The second dimension is the actual journey: this is the Kingdom of the Experiences: being on te road, seeing places, meeting people. Sometimes there is a certain disappointment when the kingdom of the Experiences does not match with the kingdom of the Expectations. These two dimensions are finite. The last dimension is infinite: it lasts forever: this is the Kingdom of the Memories, when we lingering back about the past experiences.
Brain science has found that the impressions of the here and now, as well as the reconstruction
of the past and the creation of the future takes place in the same area in our brain: the hypocampus.
For the journey to Brunnsvik, which I am now preparing, I live in the Kingdom of the Expectations as well as in the Kingdom of the Memories. i have made a similar journey 3 years ago, in the summer of 2007. Then it was a 5 days retreat in Brunnsvik, followed by a 4 days practicum for Mindfulness Trainers in Jarno. Our teachers then were Melissa Blacker and Florence Melo-Meyers. On my desk I still have a souvenir from this retreat: a wooden airplane with a propeller with solar cells: as soon as the sun starts shining the little propeller starts spinning, like the windmills of my mind. on the wings are the autographs of Melissa and Florence. They gave me wings.
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