Since the Lord or Mrs. Holle recently dumped tons of snow over Bavaria, train riders’ nerves have been stressed even more than usual. Travelers are then advised to turn to info points or apps. Once you’ve done that, you definitely want to be picked up emotionally afterwards.
Then you’re in the right place at the state railway. The private train company, which, among other things, offers the legendary challenging Alex, who (sometimes) goes all the way to Prague, also teaches psychology. For example, you can learn something about resilience on Instagram and in the customer magazine. That’s nice of them. Well meant, at least.
The Länderbahn explains to interested followers what factors make a person resilient. A portion of “optimistic realism” is very important. In the real world of a passenger it could look like this: If you expect there to be no train and then one does and you sit on the ground for the whole journey and arrive three hours late, then that’s almost a success. You just have to have a sufficiently optimistic, realistic mindset when you enter a train station.
But the Länderbahn’s basic psychology course doesn’t end with resilience. Of course, where it is, mindfulness cannot be far away. “Wherever you are, be completely there,” this wisdom from life guru and spirituality author Eckhart Tolle is also served up. So, this is really helpful! Because when you get on a train in Bavaria, you don’t know where you’ll end up or when that will be. It is essential to live in the here and now.
The corresponding delay relaxation technique could look like this: I’m cold ass. I can feel the icy wind whistling at the bottom of my pants as I wait for a train on platform 1, and I can feel that train leaving on platform 4.
This is almost a body journey, as we know it from meditation. If you don’t actually travel from A to B with your real body, then at least travel within your own body. But please don’t fall asleep on the platform!
In the Länderbahn magazine you can also find out something about the “megatrend of connectivity”. Anyone who, in their infinite naivety, believes that this could have something to do with connecting trains, please think again. Time is certainly enough – at the next stop on the open road.