“Así, what I have seen is that it is simple, as long as we want it to be… as long as we want to change and be well.” – Impressions about the book “Simple, isn’t it;”
When I began going to Omilos, I wasn’t well psychologically at all. It was my last throw of the dice before I had to begin taking pills, as it had been suggested by the psychologist I was seeing then. The calmness and the simplicity the people there had, was what made me sit and listen to what they had to say to me.
The observer and meditation were the first things they suggested I do.
– “Anna you are fine, but you have to change the way you see life”.
– “No, I’m not”, I would insist.
I would present to them the most tragic things I was thinking about, my wish to commit suicide so as to eventually find peace. And their reaction was always the same, calmness and simplicity in their eyes. I can’t emphasize this enough…
- “You are fine, come, let’s do a relaxation and these thoughts will go away”, they would say.
And truly, they did… I would go there feeling very dark and miserable and I would always leave lighter and much stronger, without them telling me anything special or analysing my childhood years. With a relaxation, with an observation. This made me want to put into practice what they told me, and so I began writing my observer. I discovered many things about me through this. For me, the main thing was that indeed, it all has to do with how I deal with any situation I may be experiencing. Through observation, I changed it immediately and I could see that things are simple in the end. I would do a relaxation and see the tension I had in my body and immediately manage to calm it down. So simply, with a consideration, by simply focusing…
Selfless service was the next thing that they suggested to me. To respond to the need of your fellow human being and help them. And indeed, when I began doing this, I could see that we are all tormented by the same things. And when I saw it in someone else, I could calm them down and this would calm me down at the same time. Why? Because I was also helping myself… it’s that simple. I learned, and I am still learning, with three simple things that I included in my everyday life, to be calm, to live my life, my every moment, simply because I observe myself. To understand people and their functions, to see that we are all the same, and so not be able to keep my anger and frustration with them for very long. I learned to listen to my body and its needs through relaxation. And most importantly, I found out that they were right, I am well and I am strong, but I would forget this when I went through bad situations, I would get lost and become identified with my feelings and couldn’t see it.
Every Monday, Mr Andreas is there to discuss anything that may be concerning us. I remember the first time I was there. I entered the room and I saw a man with a very strict, serious presence, whose voice, when he began talking, emanated a calmness and love… LOVE – I cannot express it in any other way – for everyone, for whatever we were saying, even for the oddest thing that came to our minds. He simply sat and listened with the same seriousness and attention to any queries we may have had. He told us what I mentioned previously and what he describes in his book, they are his speeches. He showed us how we can put the simplest things into action in our everyday lives.
I feel very lucky that this book has come out and I am very much looking forward to the second one coming out because, unfortunately, I’m not able to attend every Monday. Now I have everything in one place and always in my bag. I read it every time that an issue is concerning me, as if it reminds me of the simplicity I should have in my functions, and it brings me back to the now, it takes me out of the identification with any feeling I may have at that moment.
I have given this book to two of my friends as well, who have never been to Omilos, they haven’t even heard about what we do there, and I received two different reactions. One of my friends loved it and he also has it with him all the time:
- “What beautiful things it says, Anna! And the weird thing is that we already know about them, we just don’t do them… and here they are described simply and we can easily put them into our lives.”
The reaction of my other friend was:
- “Oh, Anna, how nicely things are said in this book and yes, they are simple to put into our lives, but on the other hand, they aren’t that simple… the title has two different meanings: ‘Simple, isn’t it?’ and also ‘Simple it is not’ “.
What I understood was the difference between my two friends was their will. My first friend already wanted and was already itching inside (before he got this book in his hands) to change, and my other friend was simply curious to read it, but she didn’t feel the need inside her to change her functions. Even so, she asked to keep it because she said she could see something different and would like to read it again some time. Así, what I have seen is that it is simple, as long as we want it to be… as long as we want to change and be well. We have become used to being in misery and complaint, and when we don’t have these, we don’t like it. It’s unknown to us in the beginning, and we try to underplay it by saying that “no, it isn’t like that, it’s normal to be mean and angry since things aren’t going well”, putting all the blame on society and the state.
When we want to change, what we come to understand is that everything is IN OUR OWN HAND and that things are simple!!
οδηγοι formula 1 2018 Chorodromena – Spiritual Healing. P., 02-11-2023
