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Nicoleta Helén

Open to What Is

A daily Society, Culture and Personal Journals podcast
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Open to What Is

Nicoleta Helén

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Open to What Is

Nicoleta Helén

Open to What Is

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Despite common parlance, the comfort zone is not a prison or cage we need to "break out of". It get's a bad rap, but there's much about it to appreciate.
What would it be like for you to freak out with dignity? Inhabit wisdom alongside confusion? Be totally committed while welcoming spacious curiosity? In this brief embodied inquiry, we'll explore your relationship to dignity and related concept
What is your relationship with control? Do you tend to fight against unwanted parts of your experience? Does resistance move you forward or hold you back? Let this short self inquiry practice serve as a gentle invitation to get curious about yo
Getting or being 'centered', is not about inhabiting any particular form or state of mind. It is isn't a location or a destination. And at the same time, it includes all of these things. This short practice invites you to lightly investigate th
Where does your mind go in the in-between spaces?
The second we decide that one way of being is good. Then we know that means that the other ways of being, or another way of being, is bad. There's this this whole drama that unfolds. It's dualistic thinking. It's a constant unfolding. 
How do you know what you're thinking? How do you clarify what you're looking at?How do you know what you see? What it means? What you want and what you fear?
I used to think of compassion, specifically self-compassion, as weakness.Gentleness seemed flaccid. 'Be gentle': It seemed like a consolation prize to offer to someone inept and fragile. I heard it as a veiled insult.Be gentle with yourself. (.
As you hear, my voice isn't great. I'm coughing a lot, that is just going to be part of what this is. This work is not polished, I'm not polished. This is not edited. Much of it is offered without context or explanation. You might get clips and
'Goodbye' expectations...like any fairytale, I'm loathe to let you go. 
This human thing doesn't have to be such a big deal. Especially when it feels like a really big deal.
Enter into courtship with disruption.
Whenever I make certain ways of being/thinking/feeling a problem (and, by implication, elevate some ways of being/thinking/doing as superior to others) I'm acting like a ranking system. I morph into an evaluation mechanism, and divide myself up
Courage is knowingwhat's hardestforyouwhen no one's looking.It's about knowingwhere you hide.where you shut down.where you berate yourselfAnd it'staking a  small     step     forward.
How often are you living the life you want to live, the way you want to live it? How often are you waiting for permission? Take what you hear from this messy human as an invitation;To listen inward. To sense outward. And to feel less alone. 
A majorly underrated self-permission skill
Part 3 of a 4 part conversation on quitting.
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