Beautiful people, after one of the most challenging and amazing year in human history, we are wrapping up season one.  

This episode is in honor and recognition to all the amazing guests who decided to generously share their wisdom with you and us. And it is also a big thanks to you. 

Our mission is far from accomplished and we will be back.

We wanted to say that with this first season, our idea was to help all the silent and reflective souls that cry and wonder in isolation. Because we are one of those too and believe that deep down, even when people resist it, we all are.

We wanted to create this podcast to help any/all of you realize that we are all the same: we have the same questions, the same fears, the same doubts, the same existential anguish, the same longing for connecting deeply with others...even when it doesn't seem that way and you end up twisting your mind in what feels like mad mind holes.

Thank you and we will see you soon.

Today we have a cool Spanish Latin blooded superstar, Dani.

Daniel Fernandez, a talented and successful Auckland based actor, join us to discuss what really means to embrace yourself.

He shares with us the process he had to go through to accept, embrace, like and be proud of his Spanish personality in an Anglo-Saxon culture.

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Ageing is the process of accumulating life experiences.

All, good and bad experiences, get tucked in really closely in our wrinkles (aka personality). 

The process of maturing our personality and our body can be quiet unsettling if we haven't reflect about who we really are and what life is about.

The experience of life itself keeps evolving within ourselves even when we are completely unaware of when and where a belief, a perspective, a value or even a dressing style got transformed or shifted inside of us.

Scientists, philosophers, psychologists, doctors and everyone in between have been studying the process of ageing since for ever, and there is clear stages in our lives that could be framed within a range of a certain age.

But we wanted to go beyond the strict age transformations and took the conversation to the core of this ageing process.

In this episode, we discuss how "maturing" has been hitting (or caress) us. 

We go to reflect on how much better life can actually become with time, just for the simple fact that the older you become "small things" (life itself) touches (shakes) you much, much deeper.

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Evolution...Welcome to this juicy episode of Beautiful Ghosts podcast!

We often hear people and ourselves saying things like "this never used to be this way", "before things were better", " things are getting worse".

But is it really this way? or is it that we are constantly bombarded with media messages about the catastrophes, pain and chaos that "maybe always" was out there in the world?

Of course we live in times of crazy uncertainty and any positivity about human evolution might sound almost naive.

However, some of us believe that things are actually getting better. We can only compare the things that were not possible only 5 or 10 years ago to know that there is a strong positive evolution happening too.

The media is quiet reluctant to show you the amazing things that humans are creating to make things simpler, cleaner, better, kinder, friendlier, just because it doesn't sell, it doesn't grab the twisted attention of our ego looking for negativity and separation.

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Today we have the honor to have with us one of the deepest man we know: David Sullivan. 

We discuss with David the key stress management strategies and the importance in building a strong nervous system that can be capable to cope with the challenging situations that life throws at us.

Stress is part of being human. We know that there is a positive and a negative stress.

One helps us to push beyond our own limits and the other one pushes us to limit ourselves more. 

We can see the same stressful situation from different perspectives. It will all depend on our past experiences and our default or learnt stress responses.

Regardless of how stressful a situation is, we can go through it in many different ways. We can go all nuts and experience extreme anxiety or suffocating despair, or we can get still and observe the waves of emotions as a silent and calm witness.

It will all depend in how well we have prepared our nervous system but also in our foundational beliefs.  

David Sullivan a top Feldenkrais Method practitioner who has helped thousands of people to recover from all sort of psychological and physiological conditions.

David is a testament to the fact that when we learn an alternative to our habitual pattern, the pain cycle can be broken. To learn more about David Sullivan's story and practice, go to his site www.movetoimprove.com. 

You can also get in touch with him via email [email protected] or if you lucky to be in Auckland (NZ) you should go and book a slot with him.

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This topic has bring fiery disparities between the hosts, being Mariana the only faithful advocate and practitioner of "F" swearing.

In this episode we center our attention in the gut and automatic reaction that swearing might have in people who do not like it,  almost find this type of vocabulary offensive, rude, UN-classy. 

We also the discuss with our loyal swearing female host the importance that a swearer might give to the potential loss to connect with people who find cursing almost a sin.

Recent studies have put the swearing under a different light.

There is plenty of articles out there that "apparently" probe that a person who swears regularly tends to be more honest and transparent. And Mariana agrees.

"When you're honestly expressing your emotions with powerful words, then you're going to come across as more honest," said Timothy Jay T, professor emeritus of psychology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, who has studied swearing for more than 40 years. (read full article https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/5-reasons-swearing-is-a-sign-of-intelligence-helps-manage-pain-and-more/collection_c295311b-3bf6-5055-b0dd-c0ff0b214062.html#2)

Swearing is positively correlated with extroversion and is a defining feature of a Type A personality. It is negatively correlated with conscientiousness, agreeableness, sexual anxiety, and religiosity. 

Regardless of the thesis, theories and blogs dedicated to swearing, Mariana wanted to make sure all listeners understood that the type of cursing we are talking about is the classy type. Classy swearing has a lot to do with being able to pick the right cursing word, for the right moment, to describe the exact emotion or enhance a story. 

A good swearing is a social skill, like picking the right outfit for a specific occasion.

Write to us and let us know what you truly think about swearing at [email protected]

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Today we talk about a special beautiful ghost: loving yourself, being real, being you.

How much or in which ways do you change who you really are because you think it will be on your benefit, or simply because you have an unconscious fear that if you show who you are you might lose something or someone?

Let's be honest here, we all do a bit of that. Some times is a very smart thing to do because instead of "changing" who you are, you are actually adapting to new information, or a new environment or a situation.

However, this episode is dedicated more to the parts of ourselves that we hide or not disclose completely for fear of rejection from our peers, family or work environments.

So, who are you really? What happens in your body when you are actually betraying your own nature? How often does that happen?

The "being real stuff" is very important to have a fulfilling life and becoming aware of when you are not respecting who you really are is one of the most important daily practice you should add to your "waking up" repertoire.

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Jealousy is an often overwhelming feeling of insecurity about a potential loss. The loss to lose attention, love, company or affection from someone.

Jealousy is one of those very uncomfortable and quiet destructive feelings. Jealousy usually is followed by a strong taste of betrayal, bitterness about people and a lack of confidence in the world in general. 

Humans have experienced jealousy since the beginning of the race.It does not have an expiry date so it is more than worth it to understand its causes and remedies.

Is jealousy all about our own delusional entitlement to own someone's companies and choices? How can we even actually consider to think that someone is some sort of our emotional property? 

These gut wrenching emotions really are telling us a lot about ourselves (self-worth, security and "knowiness" of who we are etc...) but also, jealousy can tell us a lot about the people we chose to share our lives with, this of course, if they seem to get a "high" from our humanness jealousy reactions.

The topic of jealousy is very entangled with trust. Trust in ourselves and in the people in our lives. 

We really believe that trust is the basic ingredient for all and any relationship. trust is what we should aim for first and for all.

A relationship without trust is already an unbroken grey seed which it is doomed to perish in the toxicity of its own soil.

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