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Burning desire

By: Ulrich Sollmann
17-12-2013
intercultural, nonverbal communication, psychology, science, society
Burning desire

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves”

Federico Garcia Lorca

The burning desire is radically human. It mirrors the intensive inner energy, which is so to say the utmost emotional need to be expressed. It has to be expressed, whatever intensitiy you will feel.

To be quiet about it means in this sense not to express this desire not at all. to be quiet means to resist to it`s inner dynamics and rhythm. To be quiet means to reduce your life, your vitality, the respect you can have for yourself.

This burning desire keeps us going, keeps us moving out into the world. This burning desire carries and supports our emotions, our inner life. This burning desire structures our mind, our brain, which accompanies us to find orientation.

This burning desire is the essence of our awareness. Awareness of the world around me, the awareness of myself and the awareness of the others around me wo give sense to my life.

Overwhelming, blind discipline, steady and rigid rationality as well as fighting (self-) control are enemies of this burning desire.

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Shi Mingde, the Chinese Ambassador in Germany, on development, trust, justice, innovation and the people

By: Ulrich Sollmann
11-12-2013
intercultural, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shi Mingde, the Chinese Ambassador in Germany, on development, trust, justice, innovation and the people

Yesterday I visited the German-Chinese Economical Day 2013 in Cologne which was organised by the Deutsch-Chinesische Wirtschaftsvereinigung e.V. The opening was presented by the Chinese Ambassador in Germany Shi Mingde.

He talked about the possible consequences which will follow the big reforms in China. Among other aspects he pointed out the importance of the economical development and the importance of the “market principle”.

At the same time, and this I will keep in my mind, he pointed out …………..

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Life is……

By: Ulrich Sollmann
01-12-2013
intercultural, society

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

Life is….

a self-experiment under conditions of life.

So enjoy, be careful and be sure that this Experiment will touch you deeply inside, even if you want to escape or avoide. 😉

 

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Twitter: My Ego is your profit

By: Ulrich Sollmann
26-11-2013
intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

 

 

 
 

 

Twitter: My Ego is your profit

Many of us, millions of us, join social networks. I want to relate for example to Twitter.  Of course there is a need, a benefit to communicate via Twitter. At the same time twitter is so fast that most of the messages and posts just appear and before you realize it, they are gone and followed by many others. Faster and faster.

And yet millions of us have joined Twitter and post several times a day (not really realizing that a single post just is like a grain of sand in the desert. Blown away by the wind.

At the same time Twitter ………

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Be aware of the people around you

By: Ulrich Sollmann
25-11-2013
intercultural, nonverbal communication, science, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be aware of the people around you

….so that you will find out by yourself:

People do often change, but mostly they don`t talk about it.

So, if you are aware pick up the chance to listen to the resonance in yourself. And meet again with this Person. What will happen then? Enjoy!

 

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Self-optimizing surgery

By: Ulrich Sollmann
18-11-2013
Body language, intercultural, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Self-optimizing surgery

In South-Corea, and not only there, a booming plastic-surgery-industry is to be found. More than twenty percent of the women had picked up the chance to change their bodily, facial expression by this surgery.

In comparison to this, only five percent of the women in the US do this.

Millions of South-Corean people watched the film “Two hundred pounds”. The main protagonist changes her appearance by plastic-surgery. So one could say one main aspect which characterizes the Corean popculture is the whish of self-optimizing. More and more young women want to look like the dancers of the popstar Psy or Kim Tae-Hee. Her face very often is the model for an operation.

So if looking at these women after surgery which person are you aware of? In whose eyes do you look? How does it feel do look into your friend`s eyes and realize the facial expression of some Popstar? Is it yours? that of your friend? Whom are you Aware of? And how do you feel with this Person?

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It`s music that matters

By: Ulrich Sollmann
14-11-2013
intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

It`s music that matters

Music is emotion. In all cultures. In all times. And in eternity. There is no culture without Music. Science proofs that music connected with dance is one of the oldest ways for passing on knowledge.

Music can heal. Music can open doors of peoples`souls.

And perhaps our early experiences of music leave a mark that we only understand much later: at the age 50 or so. It`s the continuity between music and the sounds of the everyday environment. And this starts with the first song one hears, the first song one sings. Perhaps it’s all down to the influence of those sound effects on the first records that one heard in his life.

If you want to get to know more, just have a look here.

http://www.interlude.hk/front/six-songs-of-me-just-why-music-matters-so-much-to-us/

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Growing lovesickness in Europe and China

By: Ulrich Sollmann
12-11-2013
intercultural, psychology, science, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Growing lovesickness in Europe and China

More and more young people, around the age of 27 to 35 moan about lovesickness. Of course everybody knows that this feeling is a part of life. But it is also part of life that after some time of moaning people find a new partner with whom they relate.

The fact I talk about is relevant in so far as more and more of those people also complain about the shortness of their relationships. This means a love relationship lasts not so long as it did before. The people in Germany therefore already talk about “Generation lovesickness”.

Of course there are many reasons for this development in society and yet one can say that the speed, fragmentation and the essential change of the work is one main reason for that. People live in a spiral of always getting faster, higher, richer and so on. There is no ……..

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Burning desire

By: Ulrich Sollmann
05-11-2013
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

 

 
 

 

Burning desire

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
Federico García Lorca

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Rich people just care less

By: Ulrich Sollmann
02-11-2013
intercultural, News, nonverbal communication, psychology, science, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rich people just care less

Did you ever think about some social or human consequences of loving to earn money and to get rich?

Did you ever think about what will (perhaps if you don`t care) happen if you get rich and still believe you wouldl stay the same?

There might be one when you will realize this:

Turning a blind eye. Giving someone the cold shoulder. Looking down on people. Seeing right through them.

These metaphors for condescending or dismissive behavior are more than just descriptive. They suggest, to a surprisingly accurate extent, the social distance between those with greater power and those with less — a distance that goes beyond the realm of interpersonal interactions and may exacerbate the soaring inequality in the United States.

A growing body of recent research shows….

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