Stability can be supportive — or sedative.
The question is not what helps you cope, but what helps you stand.
Whenever new concepts, new paths, or new models appear, the reactions are predictable.
Not because people have analysed them — but because the same reflexes activate every time.
The MAP model and Active Wating do not tell you to stop everything that gives you calm, stability, or peace.
They ask something far more uncomfortable:
Have these stabilising practices actually moved you anywhere?
Call them whatever you want — meditation, routines, rituals, methods, frameworks.
The question is not whether you should stop.
The question is whether they have brought you into a state where you can:
- make decisions without fear,
- stand behind those decisions,
- carry their consequences,
- and remain internally stable while doing so.
Or do these practices simply help you endure a life that is expected of you?
In business.
In relationships.
In social environments.
If your practices have brought you to a point where you can say,
“Come what may — I stand.”
then you don’t need this concept.
You are already where others are trying to arrive.
But what we consistently observe is something else:
People are not guided toward insight.
They are kept on track.
Let me give you a concrete example.
Earlier in my career, I watched employees sacrifice themselves for companies — arranging childcare, relying on grandparents, bending their private lives — just to keep operations running.
At the end of the month, those same people stood in front of me during shift planning, holding pay slips that showed a bonus of 17 euros net.
Try justifying that as a leader.
Especially when you sit in leadership seminars where you are taught communication acrobatics — how to “keep people aligned”, how to “hold motivation”, how to “maintain engagement”.
At some point, it becomes absurd.
You can communicate as kindly, magnetically, and strategically as you want.
Eventually, words must be followed by actions.
And people feel the gap.
They rarely confront it — because they are dependent on their jobs.
But they know.
They know that devotion is spoken about — and exploitation is lived.
This is not an isolated case.
This is system behaviour.
And it doesn’t stop at business.
What we see in daily life is a mirror of society as a whole.
This is not about blaming leaders, politicians, doctors, or institutions.
This system exists because we participate in it.
Across cultures, languages, and belief systems, the pattern is the same.
Different vocabulary. Same mechanics.
Whenever mainstream concepts are rolled out through large infrastructures, the same causal chains appear.
The same outcomes.
The same fractures.
And here comes the uncomfortable truth:
You can meditate as much as you want.
Tomorrow, you still have to return to the system.
You cannot meditate your way out of structural reality.
This is not a critique of meditation.
Meditate if you want.
But don’t confuse stabilisation with transformation.
We have seen this pattern before.
Years ago, it was claimed that giving every child a tablet would increase intelligence.
It failed.
Now, with AI — a tool that could actually expand cognitive capacity — the same voices demand restriction and prohibition.
The same people.
The same certainty.
The same lack of understanding.
As we say in Germany:
They do not know what they are doing.