Energitjuvar

Jag har börjat läsa en bok av Ingalill Roos som heter Energitjuvar. Den är väldigt jordnära och bra skriven.

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Qi Gong

I participated in a course of Qi Gong the past weekend, and I think I will continue for a long time with practising it. Qi Gong suits me to the bone. :)

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Leaving Geneva

After seven years I have now decided to leave Geneva. I will settle in Scandinavia for a few years, with my Venezuelan girlfriend Jeannette.
I would like to work in Copenhagen and have been looking for a suitable job there. In this way I would keep up my international approach, and learn a new culture and language.
Will [...]

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Jonathan’s baptème

The son of my brother was baptized to Jonathan this past weekend, in a beautiful ceremony in the old church of Stora Hammar in Höllviken, Sweden.

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Parc de la Tête d’Or

At the beginning of August I visited Lyon with my sister Anna and my nephew Filip. We stayed with the family of Filip’s father Kamel, and were shown a good part of Lyon by Filip’s uncle Chukri.

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Le Chat Noir

When a good friend moved away from Geneva, I was given her poster of Le Chat Noir. I have framed it and it now hangs in my apartment. What is the story behind the famous poster?
Well, the original Le Chat Noir (“The Black Cat”) was a famous 19th century cabaret in the (notoriously bohemian) Montmartre [...]

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BARD1

I have been asked to help to get the development of a possible marker for breast cancer underway. So I am reading up on breast cancer these days.
The gene that might be used is called BARD1 and here is its technical description:
BARD1 interacts with the N-terminal region of BRCA1. In addition to its ability to bind [...]

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“Prevention starts at home”

A good friend of mine at the UN gave me a 2006 calendar which has been hanging on the wall since a couple of months back. I thought it’s about time to check up on the background of this calendar.
The calendar is produced by UNISDR, and its cover photo is one of flooded houses south of [...]

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Fantasia 27

Yesterday we were a gang of four people that went sailing with a Fantasia 27 (a boat from Jeanneau, see this page for more info). We started at the marina La Belotte and with Frida as helmsmen (see left, and click also on the photo for more photos from the trip) we did pretty well. :-D

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Dream interpretation

Another way to tap into the messages of the bodymind is to pay attention to one’s dreams. I would like to be able to recall and transcribe my nighttime dreams.
What happens when one dreams? Different parts of the one’s bodmind are exchanging information, the content of which reachers one’s awareness as a story.
I should keep [...]

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Autohypnosis

I am getting interested in self-hypnosis, to be able to communicate in a direct fashion with my bodymind’s intelligent network. Here is a step-by-step approach I’ve found and want to personalize:

Take a seat in a comfortable chair in a quiet place. Be sure that your clothes are loose and comfortable and the temperature is not too warm or cool. 
Turn [...]

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The bodymind

As one answer to the question how mind and body relate to each other, an issue that has eluded philosophers and physicians alike over the past centuries, Candace Pert talks about the “bodymind”:
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely physicians treat the body with [...]

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Det finns mitt i skogen en oväntad glänta

Just nu klingar Tomas Tranströmers ord väldigt sanna för mig:
Det finns mitt i skogen en oväntad glänta,
som bara kan hittas av den som kommit vilse

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Emotions are at the nexus between matter and mind

Emotions. What are they and why have they come about? In her book Molecules of Emotions, Candace Pert gives some very interesting explanations based on her cross-disciplinary research on peptides and their receptors.
Each of the neural, the hormonal, the gastrointestinal, and the immune systems is set up to communicate with one another, via peptides and their reciprocal [...]

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