Masterclass Mindfulness

Open pathways to a richer life and true fulfillment through intuitive awareness and self-exploration. Feel empowered by Ber Raeymaekers’s Mindfulness Session. The practice of mindfulness offers dynamic, life-changing tools to help deal with stress, anxiety, negative thinking, and emotional patterns. Benefit from an insightful introduction to the key concepts and scientific research that underpins mindfulness today, and how this relates to a healthier and more balanced way of life.

Transcript

My name is Fer,

I'm originally from Belgium and I've been in hotel business for 17 years myself.

I've been working all over the world in very beautiful places.

I was working with Rocco Forte hotels and Oren Express was one of my hotels.

I've been also working as a PA,

As a personal assistant of the president,

One of the presidents in Africa.

And this was five years ago when I was in hotel business,

But I didn't feel fulfilled.

I didn't know who I was or I didn't know what my purpose was and I felt always some unrest,

Not being at ease.

And so five years ago I started to go to Thailand and I ended up in a monastery myself and that's how everything got involved.

But what I would like you to do,

That we also practice today,

So what I would like to do if you're comfortable,

You can put your notes and your pen beside you and you can seat in a comfortable seat and I will guide you to some exercise and just notice what it does to you.

Because I can talk a lot about this practice,

Which I will do,

But first of all,

Maybe you're still wandering around,

You know,

Like what you're doing this afternoon or what you've been doing this morning,

But I would like you to invite you to arrive,

To land,

As we call it.

So if you're sitting comfortable,

I will guide you in this and just try the exercise and just see how it goes and notice it and see this time,

This hour that we have as a well-being for yourself.

It's not for someone else you're doing,

It's for yourself.

So spending time with your own mind and being with yourself.

So what I would suggest is that you sit comfortably.

Maybe you would like to adjust your posture a little bit,

Maybe you're sitting on a chair or.

.

.

But if you're sitting on a chair,

I would invite you to sit with a straight back,

You know,

And it will allow you to breathe in.

The abdomen area will be more relaxed,

Right?

Because it's,

You know,

Just comfortable.

Maybe you feel your sit bones on the chair.

Maybe you feel your feet on the floor.

And I would like to invite you just to go to a little scan through your body.

Maybe you feel areas of tightness and consciously relax them.

If you're comfortable,

You can close your eyes.

But if you're not comfortable,

You can always gaze at a point in front of you.

And just sitting,

You don't have to do anything.

What I would like you to do is just to go with your awareness towards your thoughts in this moment.

You know,

The suggestion would be that you're just witnessing your own thoughts in this moment.

There's no need to change your thoughts or want them to push them away.

Just noticing your own thoughts in this moment.

As you would sit on the side of the river,

Just noticing your own thoughts.

And then I would like you to invite you to move that attention towards your emotions.

Maybe you feel a little bit more excitement today because you don't know what's going on or you feel happy,

Sad.

And again,

The invitation there is just to notice your own emotions.

Just witnessing those emotions.

Maybe you feel happiness or anger or boredness.

There's no reason to push them away.

You're just noticing.

And then you can move your attention towards the body,

Noticing.

Is there any area that you're noticing in particular?

Maybe you feel tightness in your shoulders or your lower back.

Anything what you can notice then.

Again,

There's no reason to change those feelings.

Again it's just being a witness of your own body.

And then I would like you to invite you to move the attention towards the breath.

Maybe you feel the most area of your breathing towards the nose.

Noticing the nostrils where with each in-breath and out-breath the air is coming in and out.

Or maybe you feel the breath more present towards the chest.

Noticing how the chest is going up and down.

But what I would like you to do is to go with the awareness towards the stomach area.

And maybe you're noticing that the belly is rising and falling.

And again the invitation is just to be witness of your own breathing in this moment.

There's no need to change the breath.

You're just sitting and noticing.

And if thoughts would come or emotions would arise just noticing the distraction,

Allowing yourself to come back to the rising and falling of the belly.

Just being with your own breath in this moment.

Thoughts will come.

Noticing those thoughts.

Making the choice to go towards the belly.

Rising and falling.

Spending awareness that you're sitting here.

Noticing or knowing that you're breathing.

Maybe you can feel again your sit bones on the chair or the mat.

Maybe you're picking up some noises.

But this time with the awareness of your own breath.

And whenever you're ready you can open your eyes.

So welcome from my heart to yours.

Welcome.

So maybe you've been noticing that this little short space that I created.

Maybe you notice something and maybe you can because we're you know I see that we're quite a lot of people.

Maybe it's a good you know maybe you can just write down for yourself what did you notice you know.

How was the breath?

Is there any thoughts that you've been noticing?

And if you'd like to share something then you can always put in the chat box.

If you have any questions during the session I would suggest that you write them down and then afterwards I will have an open question and answer and then you write it down in the chat box.

And I would say you on the end where you have some time to do this.

But if you have questions in the meantime you can write them down.

So as I was saying you know I've been in hotel business myself and I can imagine this time you know uncertainty these days is very particular in the world.

We never experience something like this in the world and I can assure you know I can imagine that it's been very challenging at times.

You know if I notice or if I remember well then I've been aware that the hotels in the Maldives has been closed for a certain time period.

We don't know really or we don't we do you know life is uncertain.

What I can tell you is that in life everything is uncertain.

We don't know anything was going to happen next moment.

The only moment that we know is the moment where I'm sitting here now and talking to you and the past is gone and the future you don't know.

But what you can do is making this time as an opportunity because if you see the word crisis it's very particular.

But if you look up the words crisis in China then you will see it crisis has two meanings.

Crisis means you know anxiety or fear or worry.

But at the same time it means also opportunity.

And maybe you can write down for yourself something you know what opportunities you could have in this moment of time for yourself.

You know I think it's a great time to work on yourself or you know develop your own mind because anyway the world is completely in lockdown.

So just maybe you want to take a few moments to write down for you.

You know in this time period you know what are the things that you've been dealing with you know and reflect you know what you can do in this time period to you know to invest some time in your own well-being.

Maybe you can take some few seconds and you can write it down and just reflect within yourself.

You know.

You know just have a reflection on that you know what you could do in this time period where the world is inviting you to stop.

Where you can be you know maybe you want to take the commitment to you know to be with yourself or to do some yoga practice in the daytime when you're at home.

Maybe you want to write a journal.

You know a few things that you can do for yourself.

You know how you can be kind towards yourself.

So take a few moments of that to write this down for yourself.

On the other side I'm just going to give you a short explanation of mindfulness.

So as I was saying I was being you know this hotel business for 17 years running around and as I know you know you work in a very beautiful property or you know you're related with a beautiful property but you know that it's not always a pleasure.

You're running around like you know for the comfort of the guests you know and we have a tendency to forget ourselves right because you're always busy to serving breakfast or lunch or cleaning the garden or doing the laundry of that person.

But there's never a moment where are you you know where you have the moment towards to look after yourself and I think it's a great opportunity these days to do so.

So as I was explaining I was being in hotels for 17 years and I noticed that I was running around you know and I was living a life with somebody else and not really living my life you know what makes me happy.

So maybe again you could write down for yourself you know what makes you happy.

What makes you truly happy and have a short reflection on what makes you happy.

But you know when you write this down for you you know what makes you happy.

You could also notice what it does to the body.

When you find any sensations in the body more present when you think about what makes you really happy in life.

And at the same time you could reflect what makes you sad and also have a wonder within your own body and your own mind.

What could you know what makes you sad.

So mindfulness is about seeing things as they are right.

So we don't put the things extra but we're just noticing we are aware and we are creating this awareness right.

And it's because you're creating those awareness you can make a choice.

A lot of people unfortunately are not aware anymore these days so we're just having this tendency to run on automatic pilots you know who knows the scenario where you get in the hotel and you grab a coffee and same time you're talking to someone and at the same time you're on your phone right.

So you're not present because your attention is divided by the coffee the person you talk to and the phone.

So mindfulness would help us to be back in this moment you know the only moment that we have is this moment.

The past is gone and the future we don't know.

So what I would like to do is another exercise and that you can experience yourself what it does.

For this one if you're comfortable or more comfortable to lay down you can lay down if you want to sit you can sit whatever makes you more comfortable.

Maybe you just want to lay down on your sofa or the bed just noticing and I'm going to instruct you and it will take us 15 minutes.

So I just want to ask you that you know puts everything away and the phones are switched off and there's no space to get really disturbed and if you're living with someone that also you can inform that person that for 15 minutes I'm going to ask your time to be completely with yourself.

So what I would like you to do if you sit or lie down whatever makes comfortable again you will sit you make yourself comfortable.

What is again the straight back it's much better if you have a straight back then for the breathing and if you're sitting down you can put your right hand on top on your left hand and the thumbs with each other.

Then if you're comfortable you can close your eyes and if you're not comfortable with it you're more than happy to gaze your side in front of you.

Again you're sitting you're noticing that you're sitting sit bones.

What I would like you to do is to go straight to your breathing where you feel it more present towards the nose or your chest or your belly just noticing again your own breath in this moment just being aware of breath coming in and breath going out.

There's no need to do anything.

What I would like you to do now is to go with your awareness so as you would have a torch of attention you go to your left foot in this moment.

So what you do is you bring your torch of attention towards your left foot there's no need to wiggle that left foot there's no need to look for something in your left foot just noticing your left foot in this moment.

Maybe you feel the sensation of the left foot touching the floor maybe you feel your toes of your left foot and again the invitation is just to be with your left foot in this moment there's no need to look for something and if you notice that there's nothing then just register within yourself that there is nothing.

If the mind starts to wonder what will happen you just notice this direction and go back to your left foot moving your torch of attention to your left knee anything that you can notice your left knee so you're moving the torch of attention from your left foot upwards to your left knee in this moment.

There's no need to look for something just noticing your left knee in this moment and if the mind starts to wander again you just notice this direction and you go back to your awareness with your torch of attention you go to your left knee.

No need to look for something particularly in your left knee just being aware of your left knee then you can move the attention to your left hip maybe you noticing your left hip so you're moving your attention from your left knee towards your left hip noticing maybe sitting or clothing that you're noticing warmth,

Tingling anything what you can notice there again you don't need to look for something you just notice as I said in the beginning you are witness of your own left hip in this moment and if the mind starts to wander which it will do just noticing the wandering now you have a choice to go back with your awareness to your left hip then you can move awareness from your left hip you go to your right foot anything what you can notice there on your right foot maybe you feel the toes or your sole touching the ground of your right foot maybe if you're seated in a cross-legged position you will feel the pressure of the right foot on the mat again you don't need to look for something you just noticing what's there in this moment right foot maybe you feel your little toes your big toe if the mind starts to wander which it will do you just noticing the wandering having that awareness that you go to your right foot again shifting your awareness to your right knee so you go from your right foot to your right knee moving your tension that towards you have from your right foot goes to the right knee anything you notice there just noticing your right knee in this moment you don't have to do anything you don't need to look for something you just noticing your right knee in this moment and if the mind starts to wander which is normal noticing the wandering and coming back to the right knee if you don't feel anything in your right knee you take a note not feeling anything to my right knee moving the awareness to your right hip so you going with the torch of attention from your right knee towards your right hip noticing your right hip maybe you feel your sitting or clothing or anything what you can notice in your right hip in this moment if you feel distraction or irritation just noticing irritation you don't have to be involved with it again you just witness of your right hip in this moment noticing your right hip when the mind starts to wander noticing also your wandering and making the choice to go back to your right hip now you can shift your awareness to your left leg so you move the torch of awareness and you bring it to your left leg foot to your knee and your hip the whole left leg you aware of your whole left leg in this moment then you can move your awareness to your right leg the whole of the right leg your foot knee and hip of your right leg in this moment noticing your own leg what is there that you notice and if the mind won't resolve which is normal just noticing the wandering and you come back to your right leg now you can move the awareness towards the chest noticing the chest maybe you sitting or lying just noticing your own chest maybe you notice that your chest is going up and down you don't have to anticipate the breathing you just noticing in your own witness of your chest and if the mind won't resolve you notice the wandering and come back to the direct experience of your chest in this moment there is no need to look for something there is no need to anticipate the breathing of the chest you just noticing your own chest and then you can move the torch of awareness or attention towards your shoulders noticing the shoulders maybe you feel some tightness or just noticing there is no need to feel something in particular or wanting to feel something you just noticing your own shoulders in this moment maybe you feel a difference between left and right being your own witness of your shoulders if the mind starts to wander which is normal noticing the wandering and you come back to the direct experience of your shoulders shifting your awareness towards the back maybe you feel the pressure of your chair towards the back or you feel some tightness clothing anything what you can feel in your back maybe you feel your lower back or noticing your own lower back or your back and if you don't feel anything you just notice nothing I just feel nothing there no need to look for something in your back area just being with what is in this moment shifting awareness to your arms maybe you feel your arms noticing your own arms upper arm lower arm just noticing your own body anything you can notice there maybe you feel your hands your fingers maybe you feel even your fingertips of your hands again there is no need to look for something you just noticing being your own witness of your hands and if you have attention to move those hands just noticing that you have attention to move there is no need to look for something just noticing shifting the awareness to your head maybe if you are lying down on a mat or your bed or your sofa you will noticing maybe that your head is touching the mat the pressure of the head that's supporting just noticing your own head noticing your chin moving the awareness to torch of awareness towards the mount your nose maybe you can notice how the air is coming in and out at the nostrils you don't have to anticipate the breathing you just noticing being witness shifting awareness to your eyes your eyebrows front of your head maybe you never noticed your front of the head your ears the crown of your head just noticing and if distractions are coming noticing of the distractions and you come back to the direct experience of the head shifting awareness your awareness again to your breathing towards the belly if you are possible otherwise to the chest noticing the rising and falling expanding that awareness that you are lying or sitting here not just sitting but knowing that you are sitting or lying and breathing and knowing that you are alive and breathing just notice being fully aware of your own body that is sitting or lying here and being aware of your own breath breath coming out breath going in and you can start to move your feet again your hands maybe you want to stretch your upper body or you want to make yourself small whatever feels comfortable stretch yourself out you want to stand up you can stand up whatever feels you comfortable when you are ready you can open your eyes maybe you want to drink a glass of water or you want to sip your tea and what I would like you to do is if you are comfortable you can write a few things down in the chat box how was it for you we have been 15 minutes doing the practice how was it to be guided anything that you noticed and I am happy to see the comments anything that you notice or you want to share I am just reading that somebody is calm and completely present is there anything that you would like to share with me then we can have a sort of interaction I would be happy to read your experiences how was it was it the first time you did it or did you before in the past just take a moment to share with me what you have been noticing how was it what did you notice somebody saying that here she feels good and relaxed is a word that I am seeing what else what did you notice there is no wrong no right here so any experience is good just want to you took me back to the 10 days of vipassana beautiful inside meditation vipassana very beautiful anything else you notice just noticing the attention is more refined more peaceful allowing yourself to have a check in you know just share it you know there is no right no wrong here anything you can feel you know you can feel frustration but you can also feel peacefulness you know there is no I never promised you to feel peaceful so just notice how it is with you and maybe also you can write it down for yourself somebody is telling me that he or she feels the senses awaken so what I would like you to do is I want to write it down just write it down for yourself you know how you feel and maybe you didn't this you know you didn't feel this experience why because you were you were you were you know busy in your heads all the time what's going to happen or what's been happening but it allows you to come back in this moment and I'm more than happy to share if you're interested I'm more than happy to to share something or I will you know with faff faff I will I will maybe I will put something together I'm also recording this just this talk so you know he will share this with you so you can always go back to this to this practice if you feel a moment where you can eat it so just notice for yourself how you're feeling in this moment maybe you feel a little bit different than we all started right so what I suggest is you know I would like to take a lot of time for with you I want to spend some time with you and I just want to be open to any questions you know is there anything you would like to share or you would like to share from your heart you know just you know anything you know what are you know my biggest question to all of you is how are you guys you know how is life you know and just share with me and maybe you would like to have some tips and tricks how you can deal these days with what's going on being in a lockdown is not being you know it can be very challenging at times also for myself you know I I know just my own mind you know I'm going to the fridge more often you know I don't know if you noticed but the mind is very likes to be entertained Netflix is booming right because we like to keep the mind busy just noticing with yourself you know what you've been doing lately you know I noticed with myself I've been running through my fridge and I'm looking at my phone more than I would look at my girlfriend so just notice your own mind and then you can write your question to me and then I read it and so and then we can have an interaction I like to connect you know it's not about you know I'm just sharing my practice I'm not Buddha not yet I'm practicing so somebody's asking me how can we stop the overthinking as sometimes we get anxious about something that's not happened right so first of all I'm sorry but we cannot stop the overthinking that's a good thing already we cannot stop the overthinking and mindfulness or meditation will not allow you or teach you to stop the thing or the overthink but what we can do is by practicing meditation what we can do is we can notice the thinking we noticing the thinking because sometimes you're thinking about ice cream and then from ice cream you go to my best friend's wedding and for my best friend's wedding we go to Italy and then from Italy we go to Venice and from Venice we go to pasta and this is the how the mind works right I don't know if you notice so and what we tend to do is to go in this spiral of thoughts especially negative thoughts we have to spiral right so what we can do is with meditation we practice our own awareness and it's about the awareness that we can notice and then we can make the choice right oh I'm thinking when I was in the monastery the people would say to me like when you're thinking you just name it you say thinking thinking thinking and you go back to the breathing right so when we can noticing I think if you're already noticing that you're overthinking I think it's a great thing because that's your where and just noticing and then you just name it you can you know label it we call it and we label it and then we say oh I'm thinking and the breath can help us to go back to the rising and falling of the belly so I hope that answered your question you know we always have these scenarios you know this I call this you know this monkey mind you know going you know this is gonna happen I'm gonna lose my job and when I'm gonna lose my job and oh my god and this and this and that and before you know 70,

000 monkeys are in the heads already so you don't have to put the monkeys away or like you cannot be here the monkey needs to become your friend almost you say to the monkey you know what I'm gonna give you something that you can practice bananas for example and then we can use the breath so I keep the monkey busy and then the monkey will calm down so I hope that answered your question a little bit somebody's asking me besides breathing exercises what else can we do to calm excited well the one day exercise that we did now it's a very powerful exercise that's why I wanted to give this to you you know when you feel extremely excited then I please you know just over and over you know do this exercise and feel the body and it's not always the need to calm excited right you just already when you accept that you're anxious that's already something that would help you to calm it down you know acceptance is a great thing you know and just allow yourself to feel this in the body I'm sure if you feel excited then the chest will go back and forward and you feel it you know I call this a dinosaur everybody of us has a dinosaur it doesn't matter from where you are and the dinosaur can be small or big but the dinosaur is moving right I invite you to get to know your own dinosaur and sometimes when I feel anxious I would say to the people around me I would say you know what I feel my dinosaur is getting anxious it starts to wiggle this is what I do my dinosaur starts to wiggle okay and then I ask myself the question what do I need can be a glass of water or I do to do the scanning or breath meditation so we can do a lot of things right something like coloring is also very nice you know coloring or writing right so this is something but first of all you can also be just with being anxious you know there's nothing wrong anxious will come in your life it's not gonna be the first time I hope that answered your question how long should we do practice or meditation for beginners well for me is it's very important you know that you get a good teacher right and I mean that you know there's a lot of books out there and I'm more than happy to show you you know some books of my teachers but you know try to you know to be with somebody that you feel aligned or embodied with right you know there's a lot of stuff out there and you know I for me what helped me a lot is going back to the source you know and meditation come from Lord Buddha you know Buddha was the one who who puts a you know meditation you know it was somebody who just practiced and shared so somewhat you know somebody that you trust and you feel you know commitment you know and I'm happy to help you some links afterwards and I'm sure now that we're connected you know I'm giving you some tools when we finish more than happy to do so and how long you know I would start in the beginning I would start with you know just being in silence you know and being you know being breath awareness you know just being aware of the breath coming in and breath going out you know and of course again you know you can play my recording but I will give some links for myself to that you can tune in if you want if you would happy to do and have some links to help you then I'm more than happy to share so 15 minutes would be a good start right and I would also set a particular time and day you know I would say in the morning at seven o'clock I'm gonna sit down you know you know meditation is showing up for yourself you know it's it's one of my teachers always said it's about you know having the biggest appointment in in your life right it's showing up for yourself you know how much you want to show up for yourself it's maybe a question that you can write down I hope that answered your question and if you have more things then please write me how will you difference between multitasking and mindfulness well multitasking forget multitasking it cannot there cannot exist multitasking you know maybe we should introduce a word that's called single tasking right you cannot multitask it's impossible because multitasking is dividing your attention as I said you know when you're at the canteen I go back in my hotel days right I can imagine you eating in the canteen you're having your food you're looking at your phone and you're talking to your colleague about mr.

Smith's who's not getting ready for out of room because you have an early check-in check-out for example right I'm sure you're familiar with those scenarios you know housekeeping is dragging to get the clean done because a lot of other people are coming right so multitasking is not so it's I call it single tasking and we should more single tasking right but of course the human beings we can do several things at a time but you cannot do everything at the same time cannot so the difference between multitasking mindfulness is where you multitask it you have from things everything a little bit and mindfulness just being the wells you know training that that awareness muscle on one point single point it's like when you do a bread it breathing meditation you have a single point concentration which is the breath right and so I would encourage you to do one thing at a time and just notice how it is different you know maybe when you're eating this afternoon or this evening wherever you are switch up the telephone or TV and just eat and when you drink just drink you know when I was in the monastery my monk my first experience was my monk would say to me because I had an tendency to walk and drink to you know because you don't have time right you're drinking and walking together and my my monk always would say if you're drinking just sit down and you drink right and just notice you know when I take a cup of coffee or tea what I do is I take the cup I feel the heat of the cup and I'm gonna drink and I'm know that I'm gonna drink so just try with those little things you know at home you can you can practice this drawing is great cooking is great but again you know if you draw and cook you know then just draw or just cook you know not cooking like with the music on or Netflix or Zumba in the kitchen or whatever or talking to your friend on FaceTime and just cook you know when you cook just smell the vegetable smell the fish or the meat whatever you're thinking you know just feel the heat the the the taste the senses you know just smell it you know I'm sure you know in India and Maldives there's great flavor so you can you can test yours or practice your sentence your senses it's a great you know great way to to practice mindfulness when you have a direct experience you feel the the ginger you feel the ginger you smell the ginger then you're aware because you're completely present is there anyone else that likes to ask me a few things then please go ahead you know I'm here for you for you for you well-being and that's why I accepted this just beautiful invitation I can imagine it's been you know it's been or maybe you would like to say something to your colleagues you know just say I missed you or maybe that's also a great practice that you can take with you just to to to send a message to someone and and to say that you were there for them or or or that you've been grateful that they are in your life right maybe you can practice some gratitude as well that's also mindfulness in being compassionate towards yourself and towards others so if you don't have really specific questions unless you want to type and I can see it you know just ask me anything I'm going to give you some information I'm going to I'm going to share my screen with you and you can take note of this this is my website and and I'm also on Instagram I don't post a lot of Instagram but I do post I do post also messages and stuff to see where I'm going to be also this one right this is a great if you're on Spotify I show you this is a great it's a great for mantras very beautiful minute minus called and I'm sure you see this right now is a word document and there you can see my my coordinates right so you can go on my website which is like this it's not sorry it's there it's actually like this right so this is my website it's called Siddhartha.

Be and Siddhartha was the name of Buddha right so if you go on my website I'm just going to click on it and you will see this one when the chocolate runs out maybe it's a great read right so you go on my website this is my email address nai at Siddhartha.

Be and then I'm also on Instagram Siddhartha underscore be on Facebook I am as well Siddhartha.

Be right and please you know feel free to share with me and if you have questions and meditations that you would like to have or then you know just reach out you know I do this on purpose you know I think you're very important you know very important to me and that's why I accepted this call just trying to go back to where we are so yeah so is there anything that you would like to ask me or or or you know how was it you know how are you feeling now is there anything that you would like to share did you enjoyed it you know is there something that you would like to do more often how was it you know just you can share it in the box for me is there something that you would like to say to me or truly pleasure to help you I can imagine it's not always easy right and I didn't promise you that it would be more easy after this but I hope that you find a way or tool to you know to find you know to cope with it you know and to be more compassion towards yourself and others also truly pleasure and yeah I give it some more minutes so what I will do is I will share this with you know that you can have a review if you want or if you feel to if you have my website if you if you want to connect with me you can do so if you want to ask me you can do so I have also online classes but you know just feel free to reach out you know have a look at my website and just have a wonder you have some information there and yeah I'm just gonna unmute my so here I am and I want to thank you for this invitation and to think about me and I know that we've been you know we've been you know you've been following me since a few years now and I was invited beginning this year I was invited to raffles which is canceled due to the situation or COVID so I hope to be you know to come one day back to the Maldives if I you know and I'm more than happy to come along your hotel and say you know to see everybody it's very interesting to see there's nobody sharing their faces and I would love to see your faces right so if you're comfortable of course and maybe if you can turn on your cameras if you're comfortable and you're at ease as I call it and I would love to see you all if you're comfortable and that's connecting right we're human beings right here we go yes thank you so much there for yes I'm waiting I'm waiting for everybody to put their camera on and I can see how we have some nice yes yes that's that's hello and it doesn't matter how you look it doesn't matter you know the eye doesn't exist anyway so it's all it's all fake it's all labels so I'm waiting for more screens popping up I love to see the people that's what we are so good at right hello Claudia Nicole Ramos what a name beautiful so yeah I'm waiting for some other people that you can see it you know we need to see each other more and more in the eyes yes you're right the first two lights are lit up you know it's full of light fuck you know right what about the others I'm waiting for the others yeah yeah so yeah doesn't matter have some more lights here so anyway I want to thank you and I thank you for giving me this opportunity Bible if there's anything that you'd like to say you know I think it's beautiful what you've been doing putting the people together and knowing that not everybody is dealing with the same right you know sometimes you have situations where people act or react differently somebody you know I love to be in lockdown it reminds me to be back at the monastery I love it nobody's talking to me I can do just my practice so you can see it as an opportunity right and you know I hope that you take it something with you you know you don't have to be a monk I don't want you to become a monk either but just you know just take it step by step and noticing the own mind you know and get to know your own mind that's the most important thing right so thank you very much there for this session and look forward to see you soon in the Maldives and situation get normalized yeah I would love to see you I don't know is it is this everybody from the Maldives is this like all or most of the people are from Maldives no we have we have Harsh from India and and we have Harry from Singapore right and we also have a couple of our colleagues running from Dubai wow he's from Dubai I'm not who's traveling at the moment I don't know where is Jen is from right where are you logging in from Singapore I love I love Singapore I think is what I I also love the Maldives but Singapore what I like in Singapore is is the cleanest yeah it's very clean yeah it's amazing we we also have our EAM Mr.

Cameron he's online I see you Doris she's here and our security manager we have Hannah is in Africa at the moment and Millia I'm not sure are you still at the resort or you are back in your country so the group is quite diverse I really thought we'll do this virtual session right and all of us can benefit not just move in pink so for joining in thank you we shall send you we shall send you the recording and we'll also send you some important links and look forward to organize another masterclass next month so please feel free to reach out to for the subject of your choice and once there is in the multi people benefit with in person session as well yeah and also for the other people I don't know Maldives Singapore you know I you know I I'm more than happy to come along if I'm around and you know and even even I'm also I'm also more than happy to to come to the head of this and for your you know for your you know for your management yeah I remember once I went to a hotel in the Maldives I don't remember the name and the first thing what I did was I went to the morning meeting at nine o'clock and everybody was sitting there with computers and because I've been working in hotel business so I know how it goes forecast arrivals departure revenue average spent blah blah blah and all these things and the first thing what I said to them is you can all close your laptops now and we're gonna meditate for five minutes and I think we should stop and reconnect with ourselves now and then you know not every time you know but now now and then ask yourself the question you know a very good practices for example you know I see there somebody there's an umbrella with I think it's great it's with somebody I see there somebody with an umbrella and it reminds me of the weather forecast and with this one I would like to to to close maybe it's a good practice for you from now and then to ask yourself how is my my internal weather feels like right and it's a great thing also for meetings you know if you check in and you have virtual meetings just check in with with with your staff and say how is your forecast today you know and then maybe people will say oh I feel sunny right or maybe I feel cloudy or it's raining and then you know how the piece you know the people of that person is you know because we don't know we don't know so I invite you to to listen to your own forecast more often so thank you for the opportunity thank you very much I will record this and and and get in touch if you need anything you feel you know then just let me know and I'm more than happy to help you all right thank you my heart to yours all the best thank you so much thank you thank you bye bye thank you thank you so much thank you