Most of the Real Estate, Facility Management and IT departments have a lot of focus and attention on creating alignment of the workplaces, ‘outer environment’, with the organisational strategy. But what about the ‘inner environment’ (body, mind, heart, spirit) of the people working in the built ‘outer environment’ (physical, digital, social)?
Human-centred approach
When you transform the workplace, you must also transform the workforce to the new normal. Have a human-centred approach to the workplace environment and the built environmental experience.
Change from the outside in but also from the inside out. Although signals from the outer workplace environment have an influence, it is people’s inner environment that accounts much more for their health and wellbeing.
Freely translated from Dr Bruce Lipton, we are no victims of our genes nor of the outer environment. In the body the genes are the blueprint and consciousness is the architect. What we are thinking is what we are building. We are in control of the way we respond to the environment and how we perceive the environment. We can change our environment and/or our beliefs, perception and interpretation of it. In doing so we are not a victim but a master and in control.
We are the masters of the potent capacity and architect of our inner environment of hidden consciousness, super perception, neuroplasticity, bio plasticity and even genetic plasticity. The relationship of all the pieces generates a synergetic effect in which the behaviour of the whole system is greater than and unpredictable from the sum of the parts. When the many separate scientific discoveries in these fields over the recent years are connected, the potential of the whole pushes the frontier of our understanding of being a human to the next level.
It creates a world shifting view, away from victimhood towards inner mastery and contributing to the whole. The new discoveries empower us to take back individual control (and the responsibility that goes with it) of our health and well-being, and replenish our life force and increase our resilience to the changes in our outer environment. Becoming part of the transformation you want to see around you. Changing the world means changing yourself primarily.
Health and well-being is about quality of work-life, job satisfaction, work fulfilment, belonging, happiness and the experience of positive and negative emotions. A human-centred approach is in essence about Environmental energy balancing of the INNER environment (mind, body, heart, spirit) of people with their working conditions in the OUTER environment (physical, digital, social).
“Real Estate is not only about square meters.
It’s also about behaviour, the Real State of people.
The environment ecosystem influences the ‘Real-isation’ of patterns and processes.” (René Stevens)
The design of the OUTER environment has an impact on human health and perception. Explore if the assumption that there is a correlation between time (fixed working day), location (fixed workplace) and output is valid. An evidence-based approach for systemic enhancing well-being and user experience is fundamental to design and maintain the OUTER environment. It happens that solutions for problems already exist but require a change of behaviour or culture to come into effect. Let’s rediscover our connections with others and create better places and spaces to share with them.
People are energy systems
Accommodation is not only about the right physical and digital working environment but much more about how people feel and act in their working environments. It is about their passion and commitment to their work. How they collaborate and share ideas to create together added value for the organisation and at the same time also for their own well-being, the so-called social environment. Plus their contribution to the betterment of society and the planet.
In the last decades, leading-edge science across numerous fields of research like quantum physics, consciousness, morphic resonance information network, biology, neuroscience, parapsychology, psychometry, environmental psychology, sonocytology, cymatics and the social sciences dived into very deep water and made discoveries that prove that everything consists of interconnected energy fields, that are mutable and influenceable by consciousness. Leading towards more consensus among them.
The Universe is not filled with separate objects but is a single organism of interconnected energy fields in a constant state of becoming. The scientific physics definition of a field (of frequencies) is the invisible moving forces that influence the physical world. Vibrations forms matter. By the way, this is the same definition as for the ancient word spirit.
Everybody has the potential to use the energy of sound, colour, light and other electromagnetic frequencies both physically and generated from a higher state of awareness within yourself without any physical objects. As Dr Steven A. Ross said, “What a manmade device or drug can do for your health, so can you by using the power of your imagination, faith and will.”
The human body interacts with its outer environment through electromagnetic waves. We are energy beings consisting of a human biofield and information technology we have been waiting for. The biofield is a set of inner penetrating and inner acting fields of energy and information that guide our health and well-being. Take up creatorship for your life experiences and the responsibility that comes with it.
The biofield is an organising field that consists of energy current flows that create electromagnetic fields that can be measured. It gives us information about the sense of harmony within ourselves and with our outer environment. All of the chemistry and physiology in the body is controlled by the biofield. But the consciousness or the mind is the master of the biofield. The biofield is part of our lifeforce and the bridge between the mind and the body.
“If you think that the world is only material, then you are missing a huge part of human experience.”
(Dr. Peter Fenwick)
In fact, everything is energy, and energy is shaping matter. Albert Einstein’s famous equation E=mc² tells already that on one side of the equation is energy (E) and on the other side is mass (m). He pointed also in the direction that the material realm is all energy with his quote: “The field (energy) is the sole governing agency of the particle (matter).” Energy is the force that shapes matter.
Nobel prize winner Werner Heisenberg taught us in 1931 that energy makes up 99.9999999 % of reality. Or say it in a different way the physical reality is made up of 99.9999999 % ‘no-thingness’. Matter is not a thing. There are actually no things in matter. The only reality is the vibration of energies, so-called quanta or particles being condensed forms of fluctuating energy. So matter itself is made up of fields of energy as are we humans.
There is a dance that takes place between the energy within us and the energies around us. The body, our bio-vehicle is not a thing but a process. By increasing your own energy level, by choosing more carefully thoughts, emotions, diet, company of people, information, environment, you influence which outside energy ranges resonate and therefore affect you.
Max Planck said it as follows: “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
The invisible is shaping the visible. Quantum physics define the energy field as invisible moving forces that influence the physical world. All invisible fields are measured by their effects. By the way, the same definition applies to spirituality and consciousness. So thoughts and emotions have the power to manifest into reality because they give shape and form to the way the energy field is organised.
This opens up whole new possibilities that can be applied in areas as medicine and self-regulation of our own environment and biology. It will enhance and expand the human experience more than we ever imagined possible. As humans, we have remarkable abilities that we are only beginning to fully understand and gain access to.
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” (Nobel Prize-winning Max Planck, German physicist and the father of quantum theory)
Some of the new scientific groundbreaking discoveries in Physics and Biology that lead to new belief systems and values how we relate to one another, and how we treat nature and the world around us are:
- Consciousness (energy/belief) is creating our life experiences. Reality is created by the exchange of information from the internal (mind, body, heart, spirit) to the external (physical, digital, social)— and vice versa, and communication between interconnected fields of energy. Energy has no barriers so everything in the universe is part of the same energy. That means no separation. There is no such thing as a closed system in isolation from the rest of the universe. Matter and energy are identical in nature but different in degree. Everything is connected in one field of energy. Energy is shaping matter. Information is vibration getting into form/matter.
- The space/vacuum “between” objects is full of a vast energy potential that seamlessly connects all things. Truly empty space cannot exist. There is a unifying field of energy (also referred to as Aether, Life Force, Prana, Chi, Ki, Void, The Matrix, The Field and even Spirit) that surrounds and permeates all things, as a liquid fills a cup. A physical quantity that has a property/value for each point/coordinate in space and time. Space is not empty.
- Because all matter is contained in and made of the aether, it is not innately inanimate – there is a quality of life and intelligence to all matter. The living universe. Reality behaves as a unified whole system of energy packets. The holographic nature of information in the vacuum structure, where every proton has all the information of all other protons in the universe. The information we receive from the aether makes awakening of deep intuition possible when accessed. Energy is information.
- Energy, not chemistry, is the communication system of the body, and our brain is not a repository of information but a transducer, an antenna sending and receiving information from its environment. Humans are 99.999% made up of electromagnetically charged space. Which gives us the ability to access and channel that energy at will. A shift in thinking.
- There is a bond between the smallest particles of our being, between our bodies and their outer environments, between ourselves and all of the people with whom we are in contact. We humans have extraordinary abilities that are latent within us. Size doesn’t matter.
- Resonance is the vibrational connection that exists between everything in the Universe. Enriched environments that promote sensory, motor, cognitive, and social engagement can aid neurogenesis and prevent cognitive decline by resonance. Complex-place contexts (enrichment + engagement) and positive associations can help strengthen cognitive activity and reduce stress. The brain is malleable and can generate new connections through neurogenesis. The power of resonance.
- Our human thoughts and emotions create also energy, beneficial but also detrimental to our inner environment and the outer environment. Thoughts are broadcasting and go outside our head, traverse into the biofield of other people and things, and affect them and alter them, even remotely and beyond time. Thoughts and emotions are the primary creators of our life experiences that can energize or drain your own and others’ life energy. The power of thought. Mind over matter.
- Linger effect of intention. If groups of people continuously intend in the same spot, it creates a conditioned space. It appears that the space itself holds a phantom charge of coherent energetic resonance. This implies that the Zero Point energy of empty space has shifted into a state of greater coherence. The ‘charge’ of intention may have a domino effect on its environment, causing greater quantum order in empty space, which would enhance the effectiveness of its aim. The effect is like that of a laser; when waves of the ambient Field become more ordered, an intention may ripple through it like one highly targeted bolt of light. The energy of human thought can alter its environment.
“The day that science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” (Nikola Tesla)
We cannot help but leave energetic traces of ourselves behind, as we are all emotional beings broadcasting 24/7. Connection, belonging and fairness and giving to others are deep human needs and important keys to health and well-being. When the collective energy of humanity broadcasts a shared consciousness of harmony, health and happiness, the world will reflect the same.
When a group of people, size don’t really matter, align at the same time their intentions (being a way of thinking or feeling about something that’s going to happen and anchoring their senses as if the outcome has already come to pass), it magnifies the effect. Each of us is an “element of change,” and the more people who are able to step into a space of shared consciousness of health, happiness and harmony, the closer the world will resemble that inner space.
We have a physical body with non-physical abilities.
We are energy beings (spirits) controlling a physical body through which we experience the world. Our human bio-vehicle turns out to be far better equipped than any artificial machine. The new scientific findings are pointing in the direction of rediscovering the lost and forgotten manual to awaken our extraordinary potential as humans to be used in a practical way in our daily lives. It gives knowledge and knowledge is power, another step towards self-empowerment to tap into, learn and enhance our non-physical abilities to change our health and environment. To create visible results out of the invisible. Making the intangible tangible.
Paradigm Shift
A new understanding is emerging that the old paradigm of survival, competition and separation is not sustainable anymore it is even catastrophic. Its structure and systems no longer serve and will break down and eventually fall away, allowing our true nature of connection, support, interdependence and cooperation to come forward and be enhanced. This will create a new worldview that is aligned with natural principles and a healthy, balanced and appropriate relationship with nature, Earth and all life. It will also lead to a change in the ecosystem of the inner and outer environment itself.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” (Architect Buckminster Fuller)
How to thrive in the birthing process of the “new normal” environment, the global shift in consciousness we are living in during these extreme transformational times? There is a bright future right in front of us, don’t despair because of mainstream media news. The breakdown of systems we’re experiencing in our world today is actually good news. Embrace the change and utilize its momentum to embark on an adventurous exploration journey to take control of your story into your own hands and become a co-creator of the best version of yourself and a better world.
It is through working together that we will achieve success in creating a new desired environmental eco-system. We need to continue the transformational journey before existing models are replaced with new ones. Temporary instability, chaos and crisis are required to change behaviour and go from the old to the new structure. Like the natural process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly.
We’re all entangled as energy beings, and when we collectively broadcast our thoughts, they manifest into our experience of the world. This means that simply changing those thoughts will change our world. This gives us – both as individuals and collectively – a huge responsibility of being consciously aware of the power of our thoughts and emotions. Focus on the emerging desired new model instead of the falling apart of the familiar old model.
It is up to each of us to transform ourselves in order to see and access the potential within ourselves first and eventually apply it to our outer environment. And measure our success through achievements of increasing well-being for all of life and the integrity of healthy and balanced relationships. Embracing such a transformation in the midst of circumstances that may not innately support such a shift takes courage and conviction.
Unleashing Hidden Powers
Front leader employers have to come forward showing leadership and facilitate this process of unleashing the hidden powers in their employees and by doing so not only contribute to the profits for their organisations, but to a rise in consciousness and prosperity for society as well.
“Employee wellness is still not being given much importance despite the priority on attracting and retaining the best people and achieving better productivity.”
(‘Maximizing your Business’s Value through Workplace Strategy’ by Property Directors Forum)
A growing body of research demonstrates that transparency in leadership and creating a safe space for open communication is directly linked with employee engagement, effectiveness, and trust in leadership and therefore an essential part of the social environment. This is feedforward feedback to consciously understand at a deeper level the dynamics of how to inspire and motivate people and visualize the desired outcome in the own organisation. An intellectual understanding is far from sufficient – it must be felt.
Organisations that back up their talk about health and wellbeing by significant actions create a work culture where work and personal needs are in balance. They prioritize and treat it as a business-critical skill that can be improved for a more resilient workforce. Besides providing a healthy and safe learn/work environment, personal wellbeing can also be enhanced e.g. by sense of purpose, community belonging, respect, spiritual connection, nutrition, exercise, meditation and time to recharge. Like any skill, wellbeing must be regularly practised.
Forward-thinking employers provide tailormade training and self-development tools and programs to improve the skills needed to transcend self-imposed limitations, achieve employee empowerment and individual wellbeing. Supporting people to invest in themselves and make an effort to incorporate the new scientific discoveries about interconnected, mutable and influenceable energy fields in their daily lives.
Bridging Real Estate and the Real State of Humans
The purpose of business is not only for profit but also for creating shared value. By harmonizing the 5P-goals within the framework of the Strategy Tree, the needs of the organisation and the needs of their employees, students, and clients, added value is created for all parties involved.
“In the long run, all businesses and business leaders will be judged not by their profits or their products but by their impact on humanity.” (D.J. DePree, founder of Herman Miller)
Research has proven that not the objective environmental conditions, but the subjective interpretation of it, affects the well-being and behaviour of humans. The way human beings perceive and experience the environment therefore also influences their productivity (efficiency and effectiveness).
‘Soft’ employee engagement metrics are therefore in most cases even more important than ‘hard’ cost metrics. By combining quantitative and qualitative measures for productivity, overall harmony on all levels can be created from which your organisation can benefit a lot and be an example.
In measuring the performance of the workplace strategy, this formula of ‘inner environment’ of humans (The Inner Architecture of Mind) is equally important and is the other side of the coin, which we mostly ignore in the technical field.
The environment influences how you think and feel. The human mind and body, inner environment, are not separate and distinct from their outer environment. The interaction and synergy between people and the physical, digital and social learn/work environment should be the focal point. Creating harmony by addressing both sides of the equation, the outer and the inner environment.
When understood, it can become much easier to have a clear vision of where we’re potentially headed in our technological, social and even spiritual development. This is important, for when we can visualize it, we can create it.
If we can’t visualize it, we can’t create it. Conversely, when we CAN visualize it, we CAN create it.
Making your organisation more human
Contemporary science is mostly about quantity. It has almost completely forgotten or suppressed the other side, which is related to quality and feelings. It seems as if only the quantitative side with its exact measurements is of importance. Although with a profound understanding of vibrations and harmonics, qualitative properties can also be described.
The awareness that human capital is of greater value for an organisation than the capital invested in its accommodation raises several questions.
- How to make the human ‘inner environment’ at least equally strong and valuable as the ‘outer environment’?
- How to create spirited work environments and spiritually strong organisations and employees?
- How to help people to uncover their hidden potential and to practice creativity within the organisation?
- How to encourage employees to develop an accurate and realistic sense of the impact that other people have on them and the impact that they have on others?
- How to encourage employees to use their unique skills within the organisation?
- How to boost trust and responsibility, and build teams that have more impact and decision making power?
There is a great connection between the degree of participation and the degree of motivation. In other words, employees are more motivated if they’re given the opportunity to actually participate in, at least a part of, the decisions made by the team and organisation. It helps provide the team with the feeling that the goals are achievable. If people are allowed to participate in the decision-making process, they also ensure those decisions are carried out. Ideally, the management tries to describe, along with the team, “what” the results should be. The “how” should be left as much as possible to the team to decide.
Life designs
After about 30 years of research and experimentation in the field of Real Estate, we have developed formula type problem-solving programs which can take Real Estate to a new height. The whole world is focusing on the development of the outer structure and the construction of the superficial image which is not going to last long.
“LIFE DESIGNS, from Real Estate to the Real State of Humans is the Real Deal”
In today’s business world, ‘Average’ is no longer good enough. What is average today will be below average tomorrow. What is superior today will be average tomorrow. The business world is in a continuous forward motion. If we stand still (with our existing superficial business formulas), we will be left behind.
New business formula
An organisation is change in movement. Let’s take the advantage of change. It’s the time when new business formulas need to be introduced. Besides the four major organisational resources – capital, people, technology and information, the 5th business resource real estate need to be re-invented, re-discovered and re-constructed in order to facilitate corporate spiritualism, a way of expressing more humanity.
“People are no resources, they are change-makers.” (Richard Branson)
“Spirituality in the workplace is about individuals and organisations seeing work as a spiritual path, as an opportunity to grow and to contribute to society in a meaningful way. It is about care, compassion and support of others; about integrity and people being true to themselves and others. It means individuals and organisations attempt to live their values more fully in the work they do. Spirit at work enhances the overall value of the organisation.” (International Center for Spirit at Work [ICSW])
Growing people
The business world is focusing on growing more and more profits but has completely lost the essence and the spirit behind the whole concept. Profits can be generated only by people. When we focus on growing people, profits will grow automatically. Organisations and people working in an environment where the business is on good terms with emotion, will both grow and prosper. There will be a lively link between soul and business. Both poles have to be there. Not only excel in professionalism, but also in passion. It is not just about the ratio, but also about the emotion.
Our brain is a polarized organ, consisting of left and right hemispheres. Therefore our thinking works in logic loops. The heart on the other hand is not polarized. A shift in awareness from the brain into the heart will give us better access to our intuition. To transcend this polarized dynamic and come into a unified view wherein our heart’s innate sense of connectedness is met by our mind’s ability to rationally understand the truth of this connectedness at a scientific level.
The human capacity to tune heart-brain coherence relieves stress in the body. For regeneration, health and well-being, the inner and external focus should be in harmony because in the end… it’s all about people!
Negative thoughts and beliefs of people about disharmony and unbalances in the inner and/or outer environment and the way they are interpreted can create stress for humans. Stress is an organism’s total response to environmental demands or pressures. Stress shuts down growth and maintenance, the immune system and intelligence by responding without thinking. The disharmonious design of the outer environment creates stress. There are several forms of environmental stressors and some of them are 24/7 around us.
- Geopathic Stress: generic term for natural geophysical anomalies, the seen and unseen energy patterns on earth, that in most cases are detrimental.
- Archipathic stress: by the disharmonious use of forms, shapes, proportions and/or the building material properties including their finishing.
- Technopathic stress: manmade electromagnetic smog interfering with humans natural electromagnetic system causing a negative impact on health.
- Sociopathic stress: detrimental energies generated by us humans through thoughts and emotions. Not only affecting oneself but others as well.
- Spiritpathic stress: attachments, ghosts and lost souls, psychic attacks and cords.
These stressors do not make you sick perse in short term and in low dose but put your biosystem and especially the immune system out of balance in long exposure times. It drains life energy. Being for a longer time in an outer environment with one or more stressors does not give the body an opportunity to restore balance in the inner environment and cause chronic diseases. It turns out that 90% of illness is directly connected to stress. Rehabilitation of existing spaces is a good way to provide harmonious support from the environment to the recalibration of people in stress.
Healthy business world
Our goal is to strive to take part in new business strategies which is constructive and creative for everyone involved, in order to make this ‘Business World’, a ‘Better World’ to work in. So that, we may dream of leaving behind a ‘Healthy Business World’ for those who follow.
As an organisation, dare to think big, but start small and expand incrementally. Without experimentation, innovation is impossible. Experiment and gradually find out which form and speed of implementation suit the organisation best. Have faith in the process. Like anything new, it takes a bit of trial and error before you get it right, but the payoff is worth it.
If you have a common goal, please feel free to contact us. We would be privileged to develop a tailor-made program for your organisation.