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Active Kreative PerspectivesOtto GatterniggThe Long Journey Home: Finding Freedom, Healing, and Purpose with Otto GatterniggIn this profound episode of Active Kreative Perspectives, Valerie sits down with Otto Gatternigg, a mentor, educator, and spiritual guide whose life has been a testament to transformation, resilience, and the search for inner freedom.Otto shares his heroic journey—from burnout and crisis in Austria to his spiritual rebirth in Southeast Asia, where he discovered the true essence of home within himself. His experiences of personal struggle, teaching across cultures, and supporting mental health in a shifting global landscape offer a deeply re...
2025-02-1040 min
Zen SammichZen Sammich #114 | It All Starts With ListeningFrom Austria to Cambodia and banking to Buddhism, Otto Gatternigg discusses burnout, making life-altering pivots in your 40s, and finding inner peace.We also discuss the importance of mental health maintenance, and finding someone you can talk with and confide in.Visit his website at https://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/Zen Sammich needs your support!We are listener supported. You can support here through Red Circle, or find out other ways to support the show by going to zensammich.com. Even just a one-time donation of $5 is greatly appreciated.
2023-05-0717 min
One World in a New World - Apocalyptic Chats PodcastOne World in a New World with Otto Gatternigg - Founder, Foundation for HumanityOne World in a New World with Otto Gatternigg - Founder, Foundation for Humanity
Curiosity leads us to new knowledge. For Otto, professionally, it took him from Vienna an banking to woodworking and interior design, to Cambodia and creating a non-profit.
Otto was a highly sensitive child, remembering being able to perceive the authenticity/energy of people he met with his parents during their walks on the streets in Austria. He says his grandmother was instrumental in helping him learn how to use his sensitivity.
He shares that this gift isn't really welcome...
2023-02-031h 27
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityExplore popping up new jobs. Focus on services offers independent possibilities to make a living.Part IIRecycling starts with the long-term use of products, avoiding throwing, wasting away. Fixing, repairing makes sense. And creates jobs & services not to underestimate! The quality of time is perfectly right to make more work available. To make repairing services accessible and in marketing visible. Past times impressions aren't valid anymore when repairing jobs provided last straws for humans who can't find any other way to make a kind of living.This episode is also available as a blog post: https://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/explore-popping-up-new-jobs-focus-on-services-offers-independent-possibilities-to-make-a-living/
2022-02-1213 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityExplore popping up new jobs. Focus on services offers independent possibilities to make a living.Part IExplore popping up new jobs. Focus on services offers fresh possibilities to make a living. If can’t find the right one for you, are not sure how to move on, take it into your own hands. Do what works for you and try something new.This episode is also available as a blog post: https://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/tell-openly-and-share-generously-how-you-feel-talk-about-your-desires-fears-and-vulnerability-2/
2022-02-0913 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityTell openly, and share generously how you feel. Talk about your desires, fears, and vulnerability.Your genuine intentions are going to fall on fertile ground at the perfect timing. There’re many newly awakened human minds of high value, of active listening skills out there, eager to provide a compassionate response and deep understanding.We're in times when mental health issues are on a global rise like never faced before. Don't give looping thoughts of anxieties, fear, or a desperate outlook on how our world feels any chance. We'll get over, master it. Best in ways of unity, patience, love, and understanding for each other as one human race powerful populating this pl...
2022-01-2410 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityCreating the world from the inside out.I’ve spent the time between the years and the beginning of 2022 consciously taking time off. Intentionally away from the corporate outside world and offline from the daily online global village.My days were created, filled with activities that nurtured my soul and calmed my mind. For example, gardening, grounding with the hands deep in the soil, planting, organic fertilizing, watering, and arranging new green members for the terrace garden.This episode is also available as a blog post: https://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/creating-the-world-from-the-inside-out/
2022-01-1211 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityWishes, reflective thoughts, and shared insights around Christmas 2021.How are you feeling and sleeping during these days where we’re unstoppable approaching the year’s event of peace, love, family, and togetherness?My feelings and reflections on the passing year are full of mixed emotions, a kind of rollercoaster in an endless loop of ups of personal achievements and inner growth but down spins due to the external world factors. Where there was an exit in the past a global bushfire of insecurities and the loss of trust has taken a harsh position.This episode is also available as a blog...
2021-12-2008 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityGet rid of the fear to follow your inner calling.Our values, aspects of life, faces of leaders, and societies have changed in their manifesto since the beginning of 2020. We are facing the biggest shift mankind has seen so far for ages.Increasingly more humans wish to escape crowded cities due to feeling lonely and isolated from nature. Rent, land & estate prices, energy, and living costs overall are skyrocketing. What was lost has to be made up at any price right now. But how?
2021-11-2409 min
Love your stressLove your stress Ep #13 with Otto - Mindset of Overcoming burnoutStress & burnout. Rephrasing a quote from Otto F. Gatternigg: "There are many steps towards healing and mostly it is changing the mindset towards the stress."
This is already Ep 13 of the "Love your stress" podcast with our guest Ott. In this episode, we focus on providing the listeners with deep and powerful insights on how to detect and overcome burnout, manage and befriend stress.
Otto is a passionate & full-time Mental Happiness & Inner Health advocate. He has overcome and healed from burnout and found his path to...
2021-11-1537 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityTrust the inner compass, tap into your intuition.Once we experience to start thinking unconventional, to seeing things or situations the other way around new experience and different perspectives, lead to refreshed insights of outsight.We are most of the time on a conventional thinking mode, used to by everyday life, shaped patterns and personal habits. Acceptance and appreciation towards an intuitive feeling without conscious reasoning attract extrasensory perception. Are building an invisible bridge to the subconscious mind.
2021-10-2605 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityLeave the pressure of too high expectations, feelings of guilt, and harsh judgment on yourself aside.It’s never too early or late to regain your joy of life, to live in peace of mind.We all know self-triggering thoughts of “I need to be perfect in everything but I'm not sure being good enough. I've to be strict and bold disciplined to reach the best outcome to make a good impression, being accepted, liked by others, and recognized as successful."This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/10/18/leave-the-pressure-of-too-high-expectations-feelings-of-guilt-and-harsh-judgment-on-yourself-aside/
2021-10-1807 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityAuthenticity is the key. To let go of what you feel isn’t your sincere self.Ask yourself what do I really desire, wish for in my life?Create the reality you want to see, implement a deeply convinced desire to commit for others. The actions you take and the flow you achieve determine your path. Commit to a vision.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/10/08/authenticity-is-the-key-to-let-go-of-what-you-feel-isnt-your-sincere-self/
2021-10-0804 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityGratitude starts with being thankful for what we have. And the genuine commitment towards others, by giving back and paying forward.We tend to think, to plan happiness and fulfillment ahead. The more you have, own the happier you are is widely common wishful thinking. A pursue that chains life and loads pressure on our shoulders. A burden we don’t feel in the absence of planning contentment upfront while for others the hunt and seek to find satisfaction goes on.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/10/01/gratitude-starts-with-being-thankful-for-what-we-have-and-the-genuine-commitment-towards-others-by-giving-back-and-paying-forward/Background Music - Beautiful Life - Ramol
2021-10-0107 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityTake your true passion and let it out. Define, develop your personal finding story.Imagine, visualize you wake up and something is different, feels very unusual on one of these mornings. When you’re thinking too much and get done little.But this particular morning tastes unusual. More like a re-birth of an inner event turning out of the purple-blue. A voice from inside the head is knocking on the door of your consciousness to trying open the gate to what you want to achieve, wish to make out of your life.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/09/19/take-your-true-passion-and-let-it-out-define-develop-your-personal-finding-story/...
2021-09-1907 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityLess is moreIs more is more not valid anymore? Expired value?We do hear this less is more statement frequently. Does own "a lot of money" and endlessly gaining material goods and wealth turn you into a happier human?This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/08/26/less-is-more/Background Music - Beautiful Life - Ramol
2021-09-1004 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityRaise your standard, care, and look more up to yourself.Change of perception and an engaged approach to new subjects, career goals or to overcome life situations will enhance your creative & critical thinking skills, inner strength, resilience, and personal growth. Who cares but you!This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/09/07/raise-your-standard-care-and-look-more-up-to-yourself/Background Music - Beautiful Life - Ramol
2021-09-0707 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityChange got potential, offers insights emerging to the surface. And the consciousness of new sources to be discovered.It’s always the right timing to define our lives by whom we are and stand for but not what we have or possess.Let’s choose goodness and kindness before enslaving ourselves to material things that capture our full intention and undivided energy.When realizing that life isn’t just me but us you implement a stepping stone to set yourself free to gaining happiness and personal freedom. Our lives are defined by the things we do and stand for, and most of all by what we do for others. No life is uniform or like a...
2021-08-3104 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityOur world is in transition. Grab this opportunity.Invent possibilities in new ways of thinking & living your life.Focus on yourself, make your own thing come true. If you’re CEO, a member of the globally fast-rising entrepreneurs’ family, or employed but ready for a change. Maybe relaunching your brand?Times are ideal to act and think ahead.Don’t wait for advice coming out of the blue to examine which ways to head successfully. Manifest your energy, activate your imagination and you’ll attract the things seeking.This episode is also available as a blog post: ht...
2021-08-2306 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityLet the children play. And us adults too.Activate, connect and engage with the creative and playful part of your brain.Start to play, it’s healthy nutrients for your mental happiness and inner health. And quality time well deserved and spent while increasing your entire wellbeing.To keep the inner child alive is a life enhancer not to be unrecognized or missed, a gift worth being grateful for. The best part is, it’s not belated and you’re never too old to explore finding playfulness again.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/08/16/let-the-children-play-and-us-adults-too/B...
2021-08-1606 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityPersonal culture. Never too late to work on.Grow a tree. Be conscious of where the oxygen you need to breathe is coming from. And who inhales the used air by changing it to make your inhales refreshing ones.Give more than you expect to receive, do it unconditionally. You’ll be surprised what valuable situations and things coming back to you when the least expected. No one ever became poor by giving but by stinginess, jealousy, envy plus a lack of interest in other’s heavy life circumstancesThis episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/08/03/personal-culture-never-too-late-to-work-on/Ba...
2021-08-0305 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityBelieve in your destination in life. Develop courage.In quietness and trust, you find your strength.How many times we’ve found ourselves desperate in situations where there seemed to be no way out. And no helping hand insight. How did we react, respond to these trigger moments? By overcoming our fear and insecurities due to acting with inner bravery delivered with courage.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/07/26/believe-in-your-destination-in-life-develop-courage/Background Music - Beautiful Life - Ramol
2021-07-2607 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityBe your own. Soul food.Arrange a date, connect with your inner self.“Fall in love with an idea. Go for, make it come alive. Stay true to yourself and your chosen path.”Work on it like you’re building a house, brick by brick, floor by floor will guide you to your inner destination of happiness and fulfilment of mind & soul.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/07/19/be-your-own-soul-food/Background Music - Beautiful Life - Ramol
2021-07-1904 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanitySuccess is more and more defined on how to handle changes in the fastest adaptable ways.Engaging and involving in the changes, to embrace yet unknown experience.Thinking all the time doesn’t stand for living the moment but keeps one occupied. It’s magic when you’re opening up and paying attention to your senses instead of a scheduled mindset that always keeps you busy.Doing things like you’ve done them forever & a day might keep you going but not evolving to a higher level. It’s like playing tennis with the same partner for a while. You’ll need a stronger contrast, a force to become better, faster, and more res...
2021-07-1504 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityTake happy little breaks from your creativity.They always start with peace of mind.And help you to enhance your constructive and critical thinking skills to lead you right back to your inner house of creativity and inspiration.Take initiative. Give away control at times.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/07/06/take-happy-little-breaks-from-your-creativity/
2021-07-0706 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For Humanity“Let’s go somewhere no one has gone before.” – David BowieI’ve taken some time off the previous weekend. Love to cook and gave a terrace BBQ for close friends, the loyal company of loved ones I find inspiring and trustworthy. We’ve enjoyed, spent precious moments all together, gratefully for the shared leisure time and inspiring exchange of thoughts. Engaged, openly shared insights, conversation from the heart & mind regarding life, and faith in oneself. Especially in uneasy times. Happiness doubles when shared and makes everything a bit easier to take. A genuine smile and laughter are the shortest connections between humans.This episode is also available as a...
2021-06-2908 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityHow do you perceive yourself?Have you felt happy and inner balanced right after waking up this morning?Ready to dive in the flow every new dawn, day might bring like jumping in a pool of refreshing spring water without chloride added but a big smile upon your face instead?This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/06/25/how-do-you-perceive-yourself/
2021-06-2509 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityCommitment. Devotion. Determination. Manifestation. Achievement. Accomplishment.See the potential of your commitment but avoid being content.Contentment got a lot to do with simmering in the comfort zone without making any progress. Realize the reason why doing or going for something that means a lot and makes perfect sense for you. If you don’t want to do something necessary but then have jumped over your own shadow and finally did it, these are the moments when you grow, feel great. And have achieved something bigger than your ego agreed.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.co...
2021-06-2206 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityLongevity„Be a creator, invent instead of consuming, copying ready-made recipes.“This will provide and deliver more joy, meaningful vitality, and unlimited energy. And keeps you mentally in tuneMove, be active. We were not made for sitting only. Stand up from your desk frequently, take a few steps. Try to work standing up as well to support your blood circulation, your spine, and the freshness of thoughts. Elevators are an invitation to retire at an earlier age, take the steps instead if possible.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://ment...
2021-06-1309 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityYou free yourself by finding yourself. Don’t play hide & seek with you and you, the so-called "I"Play seek and find yourself instead.
You are what you think and do. There’s nothing you can hold on to, everything is in the flow of change and impermanence.
We need to raise our consciousness and energy levels as a global society. To wake up from the illusion and unhealthy beliefs. Delete, reset, let go.
Thinking in solutions and possibilities but not in difficulties and obstacles obscured by fear and uncertainty will ease your life. And makes work more inspiring, interesting, and meaningful. And yourself more attractive, engaging, uplifting towards others.
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2021-06-0408 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityYou free yourself by finding yourself. Don’t play hide & seek with you and you, the so-called „I“.Play seek and find yourself instead.You are what you think and do. There’s nothing you can hold on to, everything is in the flow of change and impermanence.We need to raise our consciousness and energy levels as a global society. To wake up from the illusion and unhealthy beliefs. Delete, reset, let go.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/09/13/you-free-yourself-by-finding-yourself-dont-play-hide-seek-with-you-and-you-the-so-called-i/Background Music - Beautiful Life - Ramol
2021-06-0408 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityTo establish something important.Well, there’s somehow we had to break it down and build it up again."No need to pick up the pieces. Create, invent innovative new ones, your very personal masterpieces."People are taking their power back, are going to be more unified than ever. The future is calling now for a stepping stone in the name of the consciousness of mankind.What is and what was. Accept the wind of change, be on and part of the way, your very own track.This episode is also available as...
2021-05-2507 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityFifty Ways to Live your Fifties. The man who woke up to the human he was.A century divided by two equals 50. The Romans, their Centurions, masters over a hundred soldiers must have known about the importance of the number 100. A hundred brave men building innovative roads in times at peace. Each of them stood for a cent, a single hundred part of the whole, entire troop.Turning fifty is a major changing step in the life of many humans. Ever been invited to a Happy Birthday 50 party? Maybe celebrate your very own event? Memorizing, writing long lists, printing colored invitations saying: „Fifty – So What?“ Sending to all friends and companions met, have crosse...
2021-05-1308 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityAging, getting old starts in the brain. Our body attentively listens in loyalty and follows his master’s voice.Certain humans seem to keep forever young in their aura, inspired in their brains, and fulfilled in their hearts. Others are looking and behaving like withering old men/women proudly retired from tired as a burden of life.Aging got a lot to do with discipline, the outlook on the meaning, inspiration, and purpose of life. Lived day by day. The very personal mindmap, an inner mileage counter what and when to make thoughts and things turn to truth. Into solid reality according to one's personal agenda, desires, and goals.This episode...
2021-05-0408 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityDon’t judge, forgive and be open to yourself.Your worst enemy can be your mindset, your very own mind trap of limiting yourself.“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” – Alan Watts*Clear up negative thoughts and minus energy. Manifest new, positive, fresh tasty ones instead. Trust your feelings, your intuition. Listen attentively to your inner voice, switch on DC, direct current and go for regained person...
2021-04-1504 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityDon’t get locked up in yourself.You are not alone.We are all in this together, increasingly feeling the impact of a long-lasting hard-to-handle global pandemic. It's like going through an undiscovered kind of virgin path of life. A new dawn of global social awakening and increased personal competence as our reaction. A new orientation, fresh perspective of walkable ways are hopefully going to provide answers to finding personal freedom, inner peace, and mental happiness again.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/08/11/dont-get-locked-up-in-yourself/Background Music - Beautiful...
2021-04-0804 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityMoving forward. Time to leaving twilight comfort zones behind.Be aware of what no longer serves you. Time to close certain chapters. Leave them behind, lessons picked up along the road and implemented. Move on and write new exciting ones.Don't look back but mind and use your gained vast knowledge wisely. Look ahead. Forward and up. No fears attached. Expand your consciousness by engaging and embracing things and topics you are not experienced with.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/09/13/moving-forward-time-to-leaving-twilight-comfort-zones-behind/Background Music - Beautiful Life - Ramol
2021-04-0602 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityTake back the rudder of your life.Cut out all the confusion, distraction and mindboggling voices stressed out from seemingly everywhereHey, be you and only you.You deserve it as this is your very life. And a basic human right.Give your life back to whom it belongs.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/09/13/take-back-the-rudder-of-your-life/Background Music - Beautiful Life - Ramol
2021-03-2902 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityHuman competence. Salt of the earth.Be yourself. Do you have a choice?Shine a light for others and grow in your human-to-human competence though.We consciously choose what to do and how to act to our close ones, children, friends, and others. All of us are facing new life circumstances and are driving undiscovered roads to the unknown.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/09/13/human-competence-salt-of-the-earth/Background Music - Beautiful Life - Ramol
2021-03-0503 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityEvery day is a new dawn.The power of morning glory is a new daily awakening. Watching the sunrise like a golden-red fireball rising on the horizon is reason enough to get out of bed.The early bird catches the worm, the first cockcrow sets the mood for the day. The early riser jogger watches the wonder of a sunrise like the birth of a new planet. The fresh energy of an early morning walk gives power, inner balance, and optimism for the entire day. Provides a boost for our good mental & physical health and immune system.This episode is also...
2021-02-1904 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityLife is all about people. Us, the humans.The electricity of a human's heartbeat can be measured with a sensitive power meter at a distance of up to 1.5 meters.It's well known that the first seconds we are meeting someone new are crucial. If we like or dislike each other manifests in a moment of breath in, breath out. It's the field of energies that are harmonizing or distract from one another.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/08/26/life-is-all-about-people-us-the-humans/Background Music - Beautiful Life - Ramol
2021-01-1404 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For Humanity747.Bon Voyage.Farewell to the Queen of the Skies.A seemingly never-fading love affair high above the clouds comes to an end. The "Jumbo Jet with a hump" isn't economically anymore. It's 4 Royce Royce engines are in charge of too much Kerosene to take its passengers non-stop around the globe.From its virgin flight operated in September 1968 and then as a mass passenger carrier from February 1969 on this aircraft full of grace operated 51 years as a safe & solid ambassador of the skies. Used for cargo it opened new ways of heavy loading due to the possibility to open "the nose".This episode is also...
2020-12-2104 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityFriends.Relationships.LoveSome people you meet for a season but some you meet for a reason.Friendship can start when stop expecting, wanting something from the other.If you have a single genuine friend in your life you are gifted, privileged, and blessed. Genuine friendships have to overcome challenges, need proof. Latest then we realize what to expect, what the stripped situation of this friendship looks like. It takes some time to fully understand, to "see, read & trust" someone to can call him/her a friend.This episode is also available as a blog post: http...
2020-12-1604 min
mental happiness & inner health - Foundation For HumanityAbout Time"Time. There are questions. I need more time, father." -- Rutger Hauer in "Blade Runner"After good health time is our biggest asset. It is limited and can't be extended or refilled once used up. The Romans used to say: "Carpe Diem." Use your time wisely. Cherish the day.This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mentalhappiness-innerhealth.com/2021/08/26/about-time/Background Music - Beautiful Life - Ramol
2020-12-1206 min