Lebenspraxis - Life Practice

Go to 3:25 to skip the short German part.   Resources:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK9E5X4JEpE ——————————————————————  Welcome to the Lebenspraxis Podcast, hosted by Joseph Bartz. The Lebenspraxis, or life practice, is about living a life of purpose and action.  In this podcast, we talk about how we actively live and teach the Lebenspraxis.  We introduce and discuss the physical and cogniti...

Here I explain how I implement walking into my life.  If you need to be convinced about the health benefits of walking, it’s a clear sign you are not walking enough.    Ressources:    Fear of the Meditator:  https://youtu.be/syndFCP7wV0     Walking as the base of the physical practice:  https://josephbartz.de/instagram/walkingbase.html   ——————————————————————  Welcome to the Lebenspraxis Podcast,...

The Morning Routine is more than just an action that we repeat daily. It's much more a frame, which allows us to take care of ourselves. This Podcast is a deep dive into the theme, discussing different versions and ideas, what you can use this precious morning time for. Are you always using it to fulfil urgent tasks or do you allow yourself to dream as well?  * Shownotes: Why the Morning Rout...

After having discussed how to use your time in an optimal way in the last Podcast, Joseph wants to have a look on the same issue from another, more metaphorical and less rational point of view. How do can we find out what we like? How can we notice, what we are going towards and where we really want to go? ______________________________________ For full show notes and more information, please visi...

What is the value of napping? In this episode, Joseph talks about napping and how it can work as a refresher and divider of the day. Joseph also talks about how long a nap should ideally last, how to adjust the napping to your day and how come napping is underused in our society. For full show notes and more information, please visit: https://josephbartz.de/youtube/podcast15.html

Having your tools ready can save you a lot of energy and enable you to spontaneously create or follow your impulses. There is something magic about creating a clear room to be able to go into a creative chaos. Which moments are stealing your time in the daily life? How could you optimise your situation with just a bit of orderliness or automatisation? Joseph also discusses the term of "optimi...

In this first Q&A episode, Joseph answers questions from listeners on topics from the previous episodes. For full show notes and more information, please visit: https://josephbartz.de/youtube/podcast14.html

In this episode of the Lebenspraxis Podcast, Joseph talks about loneliness. A few questions he asks in this episode: How come there are so many people feeling lonely in such a connected world? Why do loneliness increase when there are more people around us? What is the role of community? Why is it so important to commit? For full show notes and more information, please visit: https://josephbartz.d...

People walking on high pace trough the city going nowhere, full calendars, a lot of extremely interesting activities, but do we feel whole? How difficult it has become, to get together and take really time for each other. In this Episode Joseph is asking for the Reasons of feeling fragmented. What does the culture of Flatrates have to do with it? Why do we quit things so fast?  For full Show notes...

In this episode Joseph is introducing and commenting on passages of the book "Stolen Focus" by Johann Hari. Talking about focus and making changes is our daily life, we are mostly forgetting the influence of our environment on our daily life. Diet books as well as digital diet manuals are mostly completely ignoring the socio-cultural surrounding of the reader. As humans we are in constan...

Joseph introduces this episode by replying to a comment on focus and inner criticism and contemplates the idea of failure as a way of steering our ship. He then dives deeper into one element of the Lebenspraxis approach: the primal stressors. You will learn what primal stressors are and how exposing yourself regularly to primal stressors can support your life. For full show notes and more informat...

Episode 10 - Practice and Family In this episode, Joseph talks about the connection of family and practice. Having a family doesn't necessarily mean not having time for your own practice anymore. Being present in the life of his children is very important to him and taught him a lot about effectiveness and good organisation, but also not to be too much concerned about his own growth. It is a...

In this episode, Joseph talks about the use of smartphones and responds to a few comments on the video "How to see how many times I activated my phone", published last week in connection to episode 7. Some questions he asks: What's the role of the smartphone in our lives? What are the consequences of having/not having a phone as a young person and as an adult? Is it radical not to h...

In this episode, Joseph dives further into the Lebenspraxis and gathers a few practical ideas on how to let go of hastiness, while taking the listener on a journey through Gilgamesh's epic, the story of the 3 little piglets and the Amazonian Jungle. Some topics you will learn about in this episode: how to apply the concept of carpe diem to our days; the consequences of hastiness and how to re...

Being busy and doing good and effective work are two completely different things. This is the subject of this episode of Lebenspraxis. Joseph questions the culture of hard-working and the positive attributes associated with it and brings up examples of why working more is not necessarily good. He also introduces the concept of Minimum Effective Dose (MED), explains why showing up is not enough, an...

In this episode, Joseph reads the email from a listener and discusses how focus and calmness are related. He talks about patience as the courage to endure; being alert and the ancient state of hunting; and the jumping harlequin mind. Joseph also raises some questions that can be related to a focus and calmness practice: Where does the sense of urgency come from? What does it mean to be a calm grow...

What are the different parts of the Lebenspraxis? If you have been to any of our seminars, you probably got in touch with the physical aspect of our work. However, this is just one element of the Lebenspraxis, an example of something to be approached as a practice. In this episode, we will focus on the big picture. On practice as an approach to life in general. Life is not a thing that happens to...

This podcast is a continuation of the second episode. Here I introduce the following 3 ideas to practice your focus: reading a book; listening to a whole music album without doing anything else; practicing SROMP. For each idea, I give suggestions on how to build up your focus ability slowly. I also talk about the importance of resting and how showing up is not enough if you are not sharp anymore....

In this episode, I talk about focus. Some of the topics I present are how to start and persist with a practice of focus, the notion of Unverführbarkeit or not being seduced by other things, and how having a clear vision is directly related to focus and clear actions. For show notes and more information please visit: https://josephbartz.de/youtube/podcast2.html

In this episode, I claim that focus and orderliness are the basis of a good practice. I talk about the importance of having a calendar and how to organize it properly and how creating a training plan can help you focus on and support your physical practice. For show notes and more information please visit: https://josephbartz.de/youtube/podcast1.html