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Gratitude

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We are at the time of the year where daylight is precious. The light comes and goes quickly. The days are mostly cold, overcast and dreary here in the Northern Hemisphere. This time of year is one of introspection. A looking inward, and outward. A questioning about our life and how we see the world.

Past and future

This is the time of year when we reflect on the past and turn toward the future. We anticipate the light returning and with it, brighter skies and warmer days. We consider what we want for the upcoming year. The past and the future both lie before us. We look for ways to change; ourselves and circumstances. Gratitude is the spark. It can ignite the kindling in our heart and souls. It can feed the flame, turning it into an incredible bonfire of warmth. A fire that warms us and the world around us. The fuel for the fire is our thoughts; how we perceive the world around us. A spark, a bit of fuel, and our world can change dramatically. Gratitude is a feeling that spontaneously emerges from within. It can be joyful, tearful, playful and so much more. However, it is also a choice we make.

Benefits

There is much written about gratitude and its benefits. The benefits are pretty clear. Being grateful can shape your day into one of peacefulness and calm. This simple act can reduce stress, free you from anxiety, block negative emotions, help you sleep better, improve your physical health, offer hope and help you understand what truly matters to you. It can change your life.

Gratitude can change others around you too. It is as if those around you catch a bit of the flame you experience and express, and it warms them as well. One grateful thought and/or expression has the potential to change so much.

Practice

Since it has been talked about so much, we can say, “Ahhh, yes, that makes sense.” But, do we actually practice gratitude. The answer is  often between “Yes” and “No.” Some days gratitude is easy, some days forgotten completely and some days it seems impossible to find anything to be grateful for. Some days, we would rather just be grumpy and “rain on the world.” As they say in the US, it is easy “to fall off the bandwagon.” Yet the days one does practice, a change can be seen and felt. The world becomes more sparkly and vibrant. It is as though our lens to the world has been cleared of fog. Just one moment of gratitude can change your perspective. And this change in perspective seems to creep into the following days as well.

So how to make gratitude a practice? It takes a bit of effort maybe but can be fun as well. You can put notes on what you are grateful for in a bowl, on the refrigerator, use sticky notes on your mirror, create a board, write in a journal or “notes to self” on whatever is handy. You can add drawings, photos, clippings and more. Add things you find in nature, a bright leaf, stone, pinecone…

Every day, week and month can bring both new things and some of the same. It is amazing to go back and look at what you have created, a physical trail of your changing perspective and world. On difficult days, observation of past gratitude can spark the fuel in your heart once again.

Being ill and gratitude?

Can we be grateful for our own life and health? Even when we are down with “the crud” or something more serious, our cells and organs keep working for balance. Often taken for granted when we are well, we assume and expect that our body will just keep functioning as it should. Is it possible to be grateful both in health and illness for the amazing wonder of our body?

Through gratitude you may find a peaceful place within, bring joy to your life and witness the abundance in your world. Gratitude is one of the rungs on the ladder of well-being.

Sometimes we need more support.

Recently a massage therapist, a healthy and vibrant person, called one of us and said she was down with a nasty “something.” She asked to meet in a parking lot with some of the “magic water” for a hand off. That evening she wrote how grateful she was, “I’ve been taking the Recover drops since 11am and I already feel better.”

This is why Bengs exists—to offer another potential rung on the ladder of well-being.

I want that rung on my ladder

Bengs Perform blind tested

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We are so pleased with the first results of the blind test with Bengs Perform – that we are excited to share them with you.

An avid athlete already wrote a data-backed article about his positive experience on his website www.opfietsen.nl (English translation of the article to be found here). To cut a long story short: the first results of our blind test among over 20 athletes confirm these findings! How cool is that?

What stands out in the results:

  • 89% of the atletes correctly predicted which workouts were with and which were without Bengs Perform.
    A fun fact about this is that the test consisted of six workouts. So, if someone predicted one wrong, that person’s percentage of correctness went right from 100% to 66.6%. Simply because you immediately got two wrong, because they did three with and three without Bengs Perform.
  • Training sessions with Bengs Perform are perceived more positively.
  • Measured feedback from the workouts with Bengs Perform:
    • Able to lift more weight;
    • Able to do more repetitions;
    • Faster.
  • Subjective feedback on the workouts with Bengs Perform:
    • More focus and energy;
    • More strength;
    • Better coordination;
    • Feeling fitter.
  • Feedback on recovery:
    • Trained muscles feel fuller;
    • More energy after training;
    • Not fatigued;
    • No muscle soreness.

 

The blind test with Bengs Perform is ongoing, as there are athletes who entered the study later. We are grateful for the curiosity of these people, who explore the unknown with us. Thanks in part to their help, we now know even better what you have in your hands with Bengs Perform. And we are super proud of that!

Want to know what Bengs Perform does for you?

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The only way to find out is to try it out.
Be curious and be surprised.

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Healthy curiosity

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“Curiosity is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in humans and other animals.[1][2] Curiosity is heavily associated with all aspects of human development, in which derives the process of learning and desire to acquire knowledge and skill.” Source: Wikipedia

Being curious is healthy. It makes you happier, more empathetic, better performing and stronger in your relationships. But we also have a tremendous need for control. Especially now, with all the changes and uncertainties around us, we want more and more control. Understandable, yet a pity. Because the urge for control suppresses our curiosity. We are less and less open to the unknown. We prefer everything to be predictable. And therefore our healthy curiosity disappears….

The childlike curiosity

Taste, feel, sniff, look, listen… children are by nature immensely curious. Without expectations, they step into the unknown world. Every animal, flower, bite and step is a new discovery. They are amazed with each new discovery. And when one child discovers something, the other child wants it too. This is how we learn, how we grow and how we make life one big, exciting voyage of discovery.

The more we learn, the less we want to discover

The older we get, the more information is stored in our brains. Knowledge, facts, experiences…. This is useful, because it means we don’t have to discover, for example, whether we like ginger ice cream or not every day. However, because we have less to discover, we also have less need to discover. In short, our curiosity stimulus declines.

The stored knowledge in our brain is enormously dominant. For more than 95% of everything we see or experience, our brain automatically comes up with an interpretation or an explanation. If we see a coffee cup, our brain automatically fills in that it must contain coffee. For a child, such a coffee cup is still a big discovery. What will it contain? Milk, lemonade, marbles, flowers? Everything is still possible.

The adult need for explanations

Every time we see, hear, smell, taste or feel something, our brain comes up with a meaning. Objects, images, sounds and emotions no longer surprise us. Our brain is immediately ready with a meaning and a logical explanation. Only when we are aware of what our brain is doing to us do we give ourselves a little space again to be curious and to be surprised again.

We say that we know someone through and through, that a country no longer holds any secrets for us, and that the days are similar. If only we were a little kid again…. A kid who has no expectations and is fascinated by the unknown. How wonderful would it be to have a healthy curiosity again? And to fall from one surprise into another every day.

Discover a universe on 10cm2

Stimulate your curiosity. Go to the park or to the woods. Get down on your knees and look intently at a small piece of ground. Let yourself be surprised by the beauty of that mini-universe. Little plants, little grasses, little stones, little animals…. Let yourself be amazed by something so ordinary.

Stay curious about the inexplicable

We call it “healthy” curiosity for a reason. For example, the curiosity of researchers and scientists has already led to numerous new medicines and cures. However, when it comes to stories of people who have been inexplicably healed, our curiosity trigger often lets us down. We prefer to park these stories because we don’t understand them. Like a child, let’s dive into the stories of unexplained recovery. We don’t have to understand them, but we can be surprised.

Curiosity at Bengs

At Bengs, we want to be surprised and amazed every day. In doing so, we have been inspired by William Bengston (Bill). This scientist’s childlike curiosity knows no bounds. Since the 1970s he has been fascinated by phenomena he does not understand. A scientist at heart, he searches for answers and explanations for these phenomena. Yet like a child, he is not disappointed when he does not find the answers.

Knowing something is fun, but the road to it – our curiosity – is actually much more fun. By constantly being curious and looking for answers, you always come across new surprises and look at the world in a totally different way.

Stay curious

Allow yourself to be surprised again like a child. Awaken your healthy curiosity. And inspire others to become as curious as you are. Look at the world in a totally different way. Every day is a canvas that can be filled with new insights, unique experiences and special encounters.

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Want to know more about Dr. Bill Bengston’s curiosity?
Then watch this video in which he looks at unexplained phenomena with a healthy dose of skepticism and healthy curiosity.