Do you have a problem asking for help? We are encouraged and even praised for our independence, but our nature is to be interconnected. In order to be balanced, we need to both give and receive. When we are stuck in survival mode, we either do not trust that another person can truly help us or we don't believe we are worthy of being helped. Join Mitra as she explores and examines the feelings behind our hesitance to ask for help. Listen today to learn how to replace your survivalist, fearful beliefs with healthy beliefs in order to mindfully ask and receive help.

Sometimes, our minds become frightened and make everything seem bigger than it really is. Things seem more eternal, more personal, more terrifying. We need to allow our awareness and mindful practices to help us keep things in perspective. Join Mitra as she discusses the one way of getting out of survival mode. Listen today to learn how to pause and learn to question your fearful survivalist mind.

When we notice an unhealthy pattern of behavior, sometimes reframing that behavior can be beneficial. Behaviors come directly from our thoughts. Thinking gives us an emotion, and we develop a behavior to respond to that emotion or that thought. Join Mitra as she briefly discusses how to put a mindful frame around an unwanted behavior. Listen today to learn how to pay extra attention and give importance to a behavior, and discover how to tell your mind, "Thank you for your input, but I have it handled."

When we talk about grief, we don't just mean that we are grieving the death of a loved one. We grieve anything we see value in: a job, a lover, a friendship, a relationship. When we lose something or someone, their value goes up in our awareness. The more unresolved issues we have, the harder it is to find acceptance of our loss. Join Mitra as she walks you through the five stages of grief, from denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally to acceptance. Listen today to discover that when we can accept our loss, we can create something new that brings joy to our heart.

Have you ever felt an imbalance in your energies? Have you felt stuck, too anxious, or impractical? Join Mitra as she discusses the four elements: strong and grounding Earth, energetic and passionate Fire, clear and expansive Air, and easy going, cleansing Water. Ask yourself "If I had access to any energy, what would balance me?" Listen today to discover the three steps to finding balance: being aware of the imbalance, visualizing the different energies balancing, and finally, gently asking yourself "If I had more of this energy, how would I handle this situation?"

How can we take charge of our thoughts? Our fearful thoughts not only do not serve us, most of them are not even ours! We get them from our family, from society, from the media and social media. Join Mitra as she discusses how we can control our thoughts instead of allowing our thoughts to control us. Listen today to discover how we can become mentally independent by questioning our thoughts and beliefs, and by simply asking the question “Why?”

This week's episode is a special one. It is our 100th episode! Mitra has invited the whole team from around the globe to join her in reflecting on how the podcast was originally created, how we found the name "Lights On", and our favorite episodes from the podcast. Join all of us: Mitra, creator Megan, engineer Pablo, designer Jenn, administrator extraordinaire Vicky, and writer Katie as we reconnect and reflect on our favorite moments. Thank you all so much for listening!

When we speak about love, we often try to focus on what love is. Today's podcast focuses on what love is not. Love is not meant to be about control, ownership, or even sameness. Diversity is part of our sense of attraction. More importantly, however, love is not meant to be about making someone else happy or someone else making us happy. Nobody can make anyone else happy in a sustainable way. Join Mitra as she discusses how joy can only come from within. Listen today and discover how love can allow you to be your authentic self, and how love can allow us to reach beyond ourselves, our own needs, and our own wants.

This week’s podcast features the second half of Mitra’s interview on the LUAN Podcast with Marion Cortina. Join Marion and Mitra as they discuss how suffering is the difference between expectations and reality, and how we need to have enough presence to know what we want but be flexible enough to accept something even better. When we flow with the moment, everything changes, and there is value in our little moments. Listen as Mitra opens up about her struggles with dyslexia, and how she found opportunity in being different, how she discovered that she could do it, just in a different way. Learn how to celebrate our uniqueness.

This week’s podcast is a special edition, in which The LUAN Emotional Museum’s Marion Cortina interviews Mitra for LUAN Podcast. Life is full of change and uncertainty. But why is change so difficult? We always have a choice, even though we might not see our choices. There is always a comma after our pain. We can handle this. We will get through this. Fear of the unknown can paralyze us. Join Mitra as she discusses how we can introduce little changes, starting small and taking it slow. Listen today to be reminded that we should always speak to ourselves kindly, and with compassion.