Anyone suffering from health problems will, depending on their symptoms, consult a doctor or alternative practitioner or take medication – in the hope of a cure. Consulting a specialist can certainly be sensible. However, the question is often overlooked: Can’t the individual make a significant contribution to health through their own activity – for themselves or for others? In spiritual discipline, this question of one’s own activity plays a central role.
At the end of this week, Heinz Grill is invited to speak at an event in Belgium on this topic. The last event in Belgium was a great success. Those in attendance not only received theoretical knowledge, but much valuable inspiration for their lives. Heinz Grill radiates a vibrant spirituality, and during the talk an energy was released that permeated the entire environment. This is the case at these talks, especially when the audience is engaged and interested. We hope it will be just as successful this year.
(Photo by Selina De Maeyer)
In the run-up to the upcoming lecture, this week we are exploring the topic of how health can be actively promoted in various areas of life.
In a series of articles on the topic of “Health through specific, self-directed activity”, Heinz Grill comments on the health process: “A clear, so-called, self-activity can be recognised in most healing processes. For example, people who visited the Sun Oasis and established an active relationship to the exercises, topics and possible future-orientated work and who showed an appreciation of the presentations on offer, improved their health potential considerably and quickly.”
The core disciplines at the university in Lundo are yoga asana, concentration and meditation.
Heinz Grill performing the full bow pose (pūrna dhanurāsana). There is a wonderful atmosphere. The observer can immediately experience how the ethereal energy works and radiates.
Diet also plays a vital role in any recovery process. By consciously engaging with the food whilst preparing and eating it, one immediately draws on restorative and health-promoting forces.
What does health-promoting self-directed activity look like when it comes to water and natural phenomena, or in completely different areas of life?
After all, dysfunctional interpersonal relationships can lead to health problems. It is therefore interesting to consider how we can foster relationships that bring people together and that are uplifting.
To work in the research kitchen of Lundo for over 3,5 years, I could make a total new experience of cooking. I learned how the food becomes healingful when we take the time before cooking, to consider the people for whom the meal will be made.
We ask ourselves: which foods will support the work the guests are doing that day?
In the second step, we carefully consider the menu, its ingredients and their healing properties, which are shared with us by Heinz Grill. These considerations gives us as a cooking team an idea, how we can use this knowledge to deepen our connection with the food during preparation.
By establishing this connection with both, the people and the food, we not only expand our professional knowledge about cooking but also develop a sense of the cooked menu’s healing effect on people.