{"id":27166,"date":"2025-05-23T08:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T08:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:05:51","slug":"wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishing or Wanting &#8211; the Subtle Difference."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xgf6yVdxvQc?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"430\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<article>\n<h1>Do You Want \u2013 or Do You Just Wish?<\/h1>\n<h2>Between Longing and Determination<\/h2>\n<p>\n Sometimes it&#8217;s easy to wish for something.<br \/>\n A different life, new possibilities, inner peace.<br \/>\n Wishes often appear like small lights on the horizon.<br \/>\n They warm us, give us hope, show directions.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n But a wish alone doesn&#8217;t carry a decision within it.<br \/>\n Wishing is gentle, dreamy, non-committal.<br \/>\n It allows us to hope without really acting.\n  <\/p>\n<h2>What Constitutes Real Wanting?<\/h2>\n<p>\n Wanting is different.<br \/>\n Wanting is a quiet yes.<br \/>\n Not a loud resolution, not a dramatic departure \u2013 but an inner movement that is clear.<br \/>\n When you truly want, you enter into a relationship with what you long for.<br \/>\n You are ready to risk something for it.<br \/>\n Ready to even fail, perhaps.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n Wanting requires courage.<br \/>\n Not the courage to be perfect \u2013 but the courage to be honest:<br \/>\n with yourself and with what you truly seek.\n  <\/p>\n<h2>Recognizing the Fine Line<\/h2>\n<p>\n Sometimes a wish remains just a wish,<br \/>\n because we sense that we&#8217;re not ready yet.<br \/>\n And that&#8217;s okay.<br \/>\n Not every longing has to lead to a decision.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n But sometimes only fear stands in our way.<br \/>\n The fear of the new, the unknown.<br \/>\n And sometimes we hide our actual wanting behind wishing,<br \/>\n because it seems easier to dwell in dreaming than in moving.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n The art lies in being honest with yourself.<br \/>\n To sense: Am I still in the wish?<br \/>\n Or has what lives within me already spoken a quiet yes?\n  <\/p>\n<h2>Your Next Step<\/h2>\n<p>\n It&#8217;s not about pressuring yourself.<br \/>\n Not about judging yourself if you&#8217;re still wishing.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n It&#8217;s about becoming attentive.<br \/>\n Asking yourself:<br \/>\n Do you really want \u2013 or do you just wish?\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n And perhaps&#8230;<br \/>\n this one question is enough to set something in motion.<br \/>\n Very quietly.<br \/>\n At your own pace entirely.\n  <\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do You Want \u2013 or Do You Just Wish? Between Longing and Determination Sometimes it&#8217;s easy to wish for something. A different life, new possibilities, inner peace. Wishes often appear like small lights on the horizon. They warm us, give us hope, show directions. But a wish alone doesn&#8217;t carry a decision within it. Wishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1530],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-27166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peripheral-thoughts","tag-peripheral-thoughts"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wishing or Wanting - What the Subtle Difference Tells You.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wishing or Wanting \u2013 sounds similar, but means something completely different. Discover in this post how the subtle difference influences your actions, your clarity of goals, and your self-understanding. An invitation to honest self-reflection.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wishing or Wanting - What the Subtle Difference Tells You.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wishing or Wanting \u2013 sounds similar, but means something completely different. Discover in this post how the subtle difference influences your actions, your clarity of goals, and your self-understanding. An invitation to honest self-reflection.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"EMDR Ger\u00e4t REMSTIM 3000 gegen Stress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-23T08:05:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/remstim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Randgedanken-3-Wollen-Cover-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Thomas Buhl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Thomas Buhl\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Thomas Buhl\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7d000ba8e69d9f556f812d26f45c3f07\"},\"headline\":\"Wishing or Wanting &#8211; the Subtle Difference.\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-23T08:05:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":300,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/Randgedanken-3-Wollen-Cover-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Peripheral thoughts\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Peripheral thoughts\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\\\/\",\"name\":\"Wishing or Wanting - What the Subtle Difference Tells You.\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/Randgedanken-3-Wollen-Cover-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-23T08:05:51+00:00\",\"description\":\"Wishing or Wanting \u2013 sounds similar, but means something completely different. Discover in this post how the subtle difference influences your actions, your clarity of goals, and your self-understanding. An invitation to honest self-reflection.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/Randgedanken-3-Wollen-Cover-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/Randgedanken-3-Wollen-Cover-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1440,\"caption\":\"W\u00fcnschen oder Wollen, Der feine Unterschied.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Wishing or Wanting &#8211; the Subtle Difference.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"EMDR Ger\u00e4t REMSTIM 3000 gegen Stress\",\"description\":\"Wie wir schnell Entspannung finden.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"EMDR Ger\u00e4t REMSTIM 3000 gegen Stress\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/06\\\/REMSTIM-Logo-mit-Untertitel_orange-e1340382850185.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/06\\\/REMSTIM-Logo-mit-Untertitel_orange-e1340382850185.png\",\"width\":304,\"height\":80,\"caption\":\"EMDR Ger\u00e4t REMSTIM 3000 gegen Stress\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7d000ba8e69d9f556f812d26f45c3f07\",\"name\":\"Thomas Buhl\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/remstim.com\\\/en\\\/author\\\/wp_admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Wishing or Wanting - What the Subtle Difference Tells You.","description":"Wishing or Wanting \u2013 sounds similar, but means something completely different. Discover in this post how the subtle difference influences your actions, your clarity of goals, and your self-understanding. An invitation to honest self-reflection.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Wishing or Wanting - What the Subtle Difference Tells You.","og_description":"Wishing or Wanting \u2013 sounds similar, but means something completely different. Discover in this post how the subtle difference influences your actions, your clarity of goals, and your self-understanding. An invitation to honest self-reflection.","og_url":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/","og_site_name":"EMDR Ger\u00e4t REMSTIM 3000 gegen Stress","article_published_time":"2025-05-23T08:05:51+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1440,"url":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Randgedanken-3-Wollen-Cover-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Thomas Buhl","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Thomas Buhl","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/"},"author":{"name":"Thomas Buhl","@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/7d000ba8e69d9f556f812d26f45c3f07"},"headline":"Wishing or Wanting &#8211; the Subtle Difference.","datePublished":"2025-05-23T08:05:51+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/"},"wordCount":300,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Randgedanken-3-Wollen-Cover-scaled.jpg","keywords":["Peripheral thoughts"],"articleSection":["Peripheral thoughts"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/","url":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/","name":"Wishing or Wanting - What the Subtle Difference Tells You.","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Randgedanken-3-Wollen-Cover-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2025-05-23T08:05:51+00:00","description":"Wishing or Wanting \u2013 sounds similar, but means something completely different. Discover in this post how the subtle difference influences your actions, your clarity of goals, and your self-understanding. An invitation to honest self-reflection.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Randgedanken-3-Wollen-Cover-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Randgedanken-3-Wollen-Cover-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1440,"caption":"W\u00fcnschen oder Wollen, Der feine Unterschied."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wishing-or-wanting-the-subtle-difference\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Startseite","item":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Wishing or Wanting &#8211; the Subtle Difference."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/","name":"EMDR Ger\u00e4t REMSTIM 3000 gegen Stress","description":"Wie wir schnell Entspannung finden.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/#organization","name":"EMDR Ger\u00e4t REMSTIM 3000 gegen Stress","url":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/REMSTIM-Logo-mit-Untertitel_orange-e1340382850185.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/REMSTIM-Logo-mit-Untertitel_orange-e1340382850185.png","width":304,"height":80,"caption":"EMDR Ger\u00e4t REMSTIM 3000 gegen Stress"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/7d000ba8e69d9f556f812d26f45c3f07","name":"Thomas Buhl","url":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/author\/wp_admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remstim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}