{"id":1661,"date":"2013-03-08T06:53:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T05:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerstinpur.de\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:20:41","slug":"rather-lived-intensively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/lieber-intensive-gelebt\/","title":{"rendered":"Rather lived intensively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1666 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-01-08-16.39.29-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2013-01-08 16.39.29\" width=\"454\" height=\"337\" \/>The meaning of the word intensive is \u201epowerful, strong\u201c - for me it is another word for \u201ewholehearted\u201c. In intense times, I experience myself as more alive than in times when I let life pass me by and only half live. When I look at Jesus, he lived intensely - for three years. He was not half there in this world, but fully there. He fasted and prayed intensively, served people intensively, celebrated intensively, cultivated friendships intensively, but also withdrew intensively.<\/p>\n<p>He probably learnt that from his father God. I have been fascinated by the story of creation for many years - my entire book SWING - Your Life in Balance deals with it. God didn't do everything at once, but did one thing intensively in one day. Just like small children, who can be completely immersed in one thing .... - something they have inherited and learnt from their Creator Father. Intensive light in the dark.intensive water. Intense plants. Intense stars. Intense animals. And intensely people. And intense peace. At the end of the week, but also at the end of every day.<\/p>\n<p>Due to our professional circumstances, we are not always able to spend an entire day just <strong><em>one<\/em><\/strong> do the thing. But it does us good when we are fully focussed on one thing when we are doing it... not with our heads and hearts elsewhere. Fully focussed on the one person we are talking to, the one calculation we are working on, the one text we are writing. And then - an intensive break. Even if it's only for a few minutes. And then the next thing intensively. It's not the intensity of things that exhausts us, but the attempt to do many things at the same time and half-heartedly. That makes us tired.<\/p>\n<p>Creating something intensively brings us into the flow and gives us strength. The breaks between intensive phases give us the opportunity to store the experience well and profitably, to recharge our batteries and then turn to the next one - with all our strength.<\/p>\n<p>I want....<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I'd rather belt out an aria at the top of my lungs than spend hours passively droning on.<\/li>\n<li>It's better to really fool around than just smile tiredly from time to time.<\/li>\n<li>A single interesting flower is better than a 0-8-15 bouquet.<\/li>\n<li>It's better to be fully present for children than only half there for hours on end.<\/li>\n<li>Better 20 minutes of intensive interval training than an hour of lax gymnastics.<\/li>\n<li>It's better to savour a scoop of walnut ice cream rather than gulp down half the dessert buffet<\/li>\n<li>Better to learn one thing properly than a dozen only half learnt.<\/li>\n<li>It's better to smell one flower intensely than to pass by dozens carelessly.<\/li>\n<li>It's better to work intensively - and then be intensively free - than to be busy non-stop.<\/li>\n<li>Better to kiss once properly than a dozen times fleetingly.<\/li>\n<li>I'd rather spend 20 minutes trampolining on the balcony than 60 minutes walking through busy streets.<\/li>\n<li>An intensive conversation is better than five hours of small talk.<\/li>\n<li>I'd rather spend 18 months building a ship with all its challenges than years of dilly-dallying.<\/li>\n<li>It's better to be thoroughly lazy than to only switch off halfway.<\/li>\n<li>It is better to have lived intensely than just to have been there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intensiv hei\u00dft von der Wortbedeutung her &#8222;kraftvoll, stark&#8220; &#8211; f\u00fcr mich ist es ein anderes Wort f\u00fcr &#8222;mit ganzem Herzen&#8220;. 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