Real Men
Right Striving
Changing Handwriting

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A real man loves. He will greet a stranger warmly at any time, because he loves the world and every person.

Love is a word before which most men freeze in fear or burst into full radiance. Yet there is a completely wrong understanding of "love". In society's view, love is the construct that a typical love romance in Hollywood represents. But love is something completely different, at least from my point of view.

I'm not talking about romantic love here. I'm talking about love for friends, for family, for the world. A real man loves these things. A real man loves his deepest friends, his family and the whole world.

A real man will warmly greet a stranger at any time because he loves the world and every person here. Why shouldn't he? Often you hear, "But people have hurt me, that's why I hate people." Just because one person has broken your trust does not mean the whole world has done so.

In such a case, a true man only loves more. Because as soon as you close yourself off from your feelings, you become cold and emotionless. Yet emotions are your driving force for life. Without emotions you will not be able to have happy relationships with people, let alone with a woman.

A real man loves the world, including good old Mother Nature.

Quote from men's literature

The Right Striving

Human striving: One takes care not to do anything that is outside of one’s strength, but also not to refrain from doing anything that is within it.

Look beyond the everyday, the momentary and set goals (ideals) which are related to a person’s highest duties, for example, wanting to develop in the sense of the given exercises in order to subsequently help and advise one’s fellow human beings all the more, even if not exactly in the very near future.

One may also summarize what has been said in: "Let all other exercises become practice". 

Eightfold Path

Kindling your Potential

This week is all about connecting completely with what you do and in so doing, kindling your potential. You can achieve this by consciously writing for 15 to 20 minutes a day during this exercise period, thereby paying attention to how you form the letters, and by observing your own abilities

Changing your handwriting

Exercise:

• Stop writing automatically and change certain characteristics in your writing.
• Find a couple of possibilities to change elements of your handwriting.
• Write a longer text using one or two variations of your handwriting.
• Write the letters meticulously and carefully.
• Observe yourself in writing the changed characters.
• Pay attention to how you form the letters you write.
• Notice the differences in your handwriting each time you do this exercise.
• Do this every day for 15 – 20 minutes.

Tips

• Try to do the exercise for at least 3 days in a row in order to experience its effect.
• Examples for possible changes:
  • a small circle instead of a dot on the i
  • connect one letter to another instead of lifting the pen
  • write specific letters bigger (or smaller) than normal
  • large or small spaces between letters
  • round instead of angular forms
  • tilt letters more forward or backward
  • write letters from a different direction, for example an S from below upwards.
• Do this without stressing yourself. Keep shoulders and mind relaxed and create the new characters as if painting them.
• Don’t force a new handwriting but slowly change what you already have.

Effect

• To consciously change your handwriting, you need to pay close attention to what you are doing.
• In this way you connect the innermost core of your being with what you do.
• By actively shaping a concept, handing it over to your hands in confidence and accompanying it right into the fingertips with your feeling, the body senses what you want and reacts appropriately.
• Your etheric body is strengthened, your connection to it is improved.
• You feel yourself and experience yourself as a whole in your everyday life.
• Your actions become a holistic experience and you strengthen your inner security.
• You become a master in your own house.

Observing your own abilities

• Can you distinguish between activities which you manage with ease and such which you find difficult?
• Can you observe your own capabilities correctly?

Write lists of activities that are easy and those that are more strenuous. In this manner you learn to observe your own need for rest and activity and so strengthen your body’s forces.