Open to What Is: Recent Episodes

Nicoleta Helén

This isn’t the podcast I was supposed to create.

I had something polished and impressive in mind.

This is more interesting.

You should listen to it.

A bit of background: I’d already committed to publishing a daily podcast when I got (very, very, very) sick with Long (very, very, very long) COVID.

So, I had a choice: I could give up, or I could keep my commitment and include my constant exhaustion, fever, foggy-brain, relentless cough —and do my best.

I chose the latter.

My “best” varies quite a bit according to how well or poorly I feel on a given day.

The episodes are raw, out of order, unedited, with uneven audio quality, You’ll often hear my Pekingese, Bija barking in the background.

Sometimes I talk to myself, sometimes I talk to you. Sometimes I have no idea who I’m talking to. It’s a true potpourri.

And it’s not just overhearing me wax poetic through a stuffy nose about new insights and the insufferable discomfort of upended plans. There’s more!

In between the fragments of thought, feeling, and utter nonsense, is a timely and universal story about expectations, meaning making, dropping all agendas, and discovering what’s possible when we Open to What Is.

Tune in. Sample a few episodes.

See if you can drop all expectations and allow yourself to be surprised and delighted by something you didn’t know you were looking for.

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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.

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Reflections on my 75 Day Project Defining, Practicing and Documenting Unconditional Self Love

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Reflections on my 75 Day Project Defining, Practicing and Documenting Unconditional Self Love

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Reflections on my 75 Day Project Defining, Practicing and Documenting Unconditional Self Love

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Part 2 in Form as Metaphor conversation. This episode looks at social forms as an invitation to get off autopilot.

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Reflections on my 75 Day Project Defining, Practicing and Documenting Unconditional Self Love

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Reflections on my 75 Day Project Defining, Practicing and Documenting Unconditional Self Love

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An introduction to a journey of personal fragments engaging with and reflecting on paradox, daily practice, expectation, discomfort, and embracing the space between 'what is' and what we think 'should be'.

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Reflections on Day 1 of a 75 Day Project Defining, Practicing and Documenting Unconditional Self Love

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An offering and invitation....that started as a sound test.

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Part 1 of 2 part conversation on form as metaphor.

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Part 1 of a 4 part conversation on quitting.