New Zealand Weekly Update #35

Last updated on Juni 25, 2023

19th of June until 25th of June 2023

Approximate reading time: 8 minutes

Lets get it started

8 am in the morning. Coffee. Breakfast. And background music. And an exciting hike ahead. What could be a better start than that? Well, maybe some friends around, a dog barking and sun. Sun. No sun in Wanaka since ages! Inversion everywhere. No blue sky. Just gray and sad. And this inversion might stay a little longer. So the option to escape from it? Go for a hike. Go up. And get some sun. And in the meantime, some updates, thoughts and moments from New Zealand 🙂

4.30 pm sunday afternoon. What a great day! Back from the hike. The first one I did not finished since it started to rain and we had to turn around, just 1.5km before we arrived at the hut. Pretty annoying. Pretty shitty. And still pretty nice, since we went back to Wanaka and guys! Sun! Blue Sky! Wanaka is back on track! And it was just beautiful to sit by the lake, to have a coffee, some nice and intense talks. Sun, coffee, company – incredients to be happy.
Meg hut hike itself is a very nice one as well, even though you don’t see any lakes, but heaps of mountains. And it is partly steep and due to the rain it was also very muddy and slippery from time to time. But we managed it. With good talks about books, art, tattoos and about our inner child as well – deep talk sunday.

Escape the inversion

As you know, I work from Tuesday to Saturday. And I am off on sundays and mondays. So I went to another hike on monday, this time without Lea or anyone else, since most of the people had to work. Plan for this time: Little Criffel Track. Which is just 20 minutes away from Wanaka, located in the Pisa conservation area, next to the Cardrona Road. And of course it was cloudy and cold that morning. And I was afraid of that it will be like that all day long. First steps are across a farmland. Passing by lots of sheep. And then? Crossing the river 🙂 And I wanted to keep my hiking shoes dry – so off the shoes, on the Croques and go for cold. BBBrrrr that wa a refreshing start into the morning fellas! And Croques don’t have heaps of grip as well, so take care to not slip (I did not slip this time 😉 ). And then all the way up. Step by step into the inversion, into the clouds, into the nature. And after abut 45 minutes: sun. Blue Sky. A View! And what a view! Mountains around me, clouds below me, sun and sky above me. And silence. Total silence. Not even the sound of the wind was present. Nothing. Just incredible. And peaceful. Energetic.
With this energy I have made my way up to the top of Little Criffel, which is more exposed and windy. And I had a short break, sat down, and enjoyed the view and the area. While hiking, I ask myself sometimes why. Why hiking Why sweating? Why heart pumping all the time? Why heavily breathing? Well, because of those moments at the peak. Those moments while you look around and pause for a while. Because of the reward.

Power of attraction

Have you ever heard about the law of attraction? Have you ever wondered, that if you are in a kind of suffering situation, msot of the times you can’t see the positive? That you have the feeling that you even attract more negative? And on the other handside, if you are happy, if you are full of positive emotions and thoughts, that you attract even more positive things and act like kinda magnetic for your surrpunding area? The law of attraction is a philosophy suggesting that positive thoughts bring positive results into a person’s life, while negative thoughts bring negative outcomes. It is based on the belief that thoughts are a form of energy and that positive energy attracts success in all areas of life, including health, finances, and relationships. There are different ideas of laws of attraction, e.g. like attracts like, hate attracts hate, nature abhors a vacuum. The last one suggests that removing negative things from your life can make space for more positive things to take their place. It is based on the notion that it is impossible to have a completely empty space in your mind and in your life. Since something will always fill this space, it is important to fill that space with positivity, proponents of this philosophy say.
But how can we use the law(s) of attraction? How can we use this idea of energy, attraction and physics in real life? Well, quite easy and still quite difficult to realise sometimes, depending on our situation, on our past and on our environment.
Be grateful. Visualize your dreams. Look for positive things in every single situation and experience (also in the bad ones). Try to itentify negative thoughts and change those patterns. Reframe and reflect negative experiences in a different, more grateful way.

Let me give you an example, which I barely shared before. Since it is a quite personal one.
My relationshsip to my biological mother is not the best. It does not even really exist anymore. Since things happend in the past which forced me to distance myself from her. And since some of those experiences I started to feel this I this anger, this rage, this hatred. And those negative feelings have developed. Manifested. And have crept into my everyday life. So this negative aura was part of my daily life. And I assumed this is part of me. Part of my past. And that it will be a part of my future. But it affected my way of thinking. Sometimes also my way of dealing with difficult situations. And so I was this kind of negative attracting magnet myself. Without even realizing.
Long story short. I have changed my point of view regarding my past. Regarding my story. Regarding my feelings and emotions. My former point of view was always full of reproaches. And full of „you are responsible for all the bad in my life“. „How dare you?“ And I was full of bad energy and just not able to see the good things out of those experiences. Bad attracts bad.

So I started to discover the positive things out of bad those bad moments and challenging experiences. I started to be grateful for things, that would not have happend without the past. Without the struggle. I started to be grateful for positive moments and experiences, that happened maybe just because of all the bad. I started to change my pattern of thinking. I started to think about, that everyone has to deal with problems, challenges and their own past. And maybe they are just not able to see or realise that. And so they act in a bad way even though they don’t want to act like that. And finally, and I hope you don’t get me wrong, I started to be grateful for the difficult past and the non-existing relationship to my biological mother. Since it has formed me. It made me part of who I am. And it helped me to stay positive. Grateful. And to be able to attract the good. The positive. The special. And to get rid of all the bad energy and vibes due to unnecessary anger. And from that moment on, these past experiences, memories and thoughts lost their bad power and negative influence. All the negative energy disappeared. And what to say? This is an interesting and quite scary feeling as well. Because it makes you more relaxed and gives you a more peaceful point of view back to bad moments.
But it can also work the way round. If you focus on the bad moments, on the problems, on the challenges and on all the „why always me“, then you might attract even more bad and upset moments. Since you carry around this kind of negative aura. You spread it. And people will feel this. And you will just recognize even more problems. And to get out of this circle is pretty exhausting and needs a lot of energy.
Don’t get me wrong, sometimes life is just a shitshow for a period of time. It is full of „what the fuck“ moments. Full of „I can not do this anymore“. Full of „Fuck off, I am done now, I give up“ moments.
But it is also full of suprising and amazing moments, people and experiences. And full of good, positive and energizing things around us.
Of course there are moments and times where we struggle. Where we want to give up. Where we just want to sit down and cry. And we can and should to this. For a couple of moments. Because those moments deserve our attention.
And afterwards? Go on, move on and try to find the positive learning out of those moments and experiences. Because there will be always something positive out of every single bad situation. And if you see it, it will help you to attract even more positive and good things.
Of course the law of attraction does not mean that you just have to believe in the good and will receive good. That would be way too easy 🙂 . Of course you have to take action, effort and time to achieve and receive. But it all starts with a thought, an idea, a small step. A positive mindset. And then? It goes on, step by step. Piece by piece. If you keep going…

What else to say?

As you know, being an optician was never really a passion for me. I just finished my apprenticeship and went to university. And even optics became never a really important part of and for me. And it still is not really exciting or special for me. But since I work with OCULA, I enjoy it from time to time. Becauce we have a great team, most of the customers are great and interested. And from time to time it is still challenging and new. There has never been a day when I thought „I’m absolutely not up for work“. Thanks to a good team 🙂
See you next week folks, have a great time, keep smiling and stay positive. And attract the good.

Your DingyInternational
Felix