Open to What Is

About Open to What Is

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.

Publisher

Nicoleta Helén

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Nov 2022

Latest episode

11 Nov 2022

Latest episodes

14 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Nov 2022

   Dignity

   What would it be like for you to freak out with dignity? Inhabit wisdom alongside confusion? Be totally committed while welcoming spacious curiosity?

2. 

   11 Nov 2022

   Human

   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?

3. 

   9 Nov 2022

   Centering Practice

   A practice to reconnect with the centeredness of your center.

4. 

   8 Nov 2022

   Open Space

   Open Space: How do you fill it?

5. 

   8 Nov 2022

   Pretense of Accident

   A little of this, a little of that. A moment in time. A mind with no agenda. Open questions, inner conversations and old whispers about the weight of expectations.

6. 

   7 Nov 2022

   Joan Didion

   Some quotes and some riffs.

7. 

   7 Nov 2022

   Gentleness

   When you hear words like gentleness and compassion, what comes to mind?

8. 

   7 Nov 2022

   Goodbye Expectations - Part 2

   Part 2: The quiet gift of unmet expectations and foiled plans.

9. 

   6 Nov 2022

   Goodbye Expectations - Part 1

   What does it look like to let go of expectations? Why is it so hard to say 'goodbye' to all our ideas about how life is 'supposed' to go?

10. 

    6 Nov 2022

    Lighthearted Heartache

    Enter the paradox.

11. 

    5 Nov 2022

    Inconveniences Practice

    Enter into courtship with disruption.

12. 

    4 Nov 2022

    Inner Commitment: Discovering Your Resonant Lexicon

    The more I try to engage with my thoughts and feelings as content to be quantified by some omniscient ranking algorithm, the more shallow, narrow, and defended my experience of myself and of others becomes.

13. 

    2 Nov 2022

    Start Here: A Courage Warm Up

    The Beginning of Opening to What Is

14. 

    1 Nov 2022

    How To Human

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

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

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