In this episodes Nicoleta chats about physical health and happiness with Deanna Hansen, the founder of Block Therapy and Fluid Isometrics from Winnipeg, Canada.

When the struggles allow us to transform our lives.

The story of an athletic therapist struggling with health problems.

How an anxiety attack led intuitively to soothing physical touch.

What is fascia system and how can we keep it healthy?

What to do when the scar tissue is blocking the oxygen and blood flow.

Why pain signals adhesions in the fascia. 

How to keep our cells correctly fed and cleaned through correct posture alignment.

Why using a bamboo block helps restoring physical health.

How lying on a bamboo block can melt fascia adhesions.

When diaphragmatic breathing improves oxygen absorption by 6 times.

Why the Block Therapy is an complementary to yoga or strenuous physical exercise and other complementary medicine treatments. 

How Block Therapy helps with chronic pain, scoliosis, digestive issues, trauma and anti-ageing.

When studies show that 84% weight loss comes through proper exhalation.

How to thrive not just survive through the practice of “blocking", a bodywork practice that is therapy, exercise and meditation all in one.


Find out more about Deanna Hansen and Block Therapy and get free resources here:

https://blocktherapy.com/

In this episode Nicoleta is doing a solo exploring how to open to happiness despite the life challenges.

Find what challenges Nicoleta faced in the past and how she managed to surrender to the present moment, transcend the pain and connect with the infinite source of inner peace.

A good guide to help you create transformation in your life is the 7 Steps of Real Transformation framework. Get your free copy here: https://the7stepsofrealtransformation.nicoletaporojanu.com

In this episodes Nicoleta chats about success and happiness with Michael Biarness, neuroscientist and author from Philadelphia, USA.

How losing his father inspired Michael to write “Redefining success. Stories, science and strategies to prioritise happiness and overcome life’s “Oh Shit” moments.

Life through the lenses of a neuroscientist focused on improving patient’s outcomes.

Interviewing dozens of people already perceived as “successful”.

Why at every 18 months we face a disruptor in life. 

How we each go through 3 to 5 life quakes.

Why it takes 4 to 5 years to overcome life quakes.

Can we prepare for hardship in life?

When the happiness equation is 50% genetics, 40% mindset and 10% circumstances. 

The power of vulnerability and its impact on real life success.

Why close relationships are the best indicator for a long and happy life.

Find more about Michael here:

michaelbiarness.com

https://www.amazon.com/Redefining-Success-Strategies-Prioritize-Happiness/dp/163730806X

And link to the researches around life disruptions referenced in the podcast:

https://www.brucefeiler.com/books-articles/life-is-in-the-transitions/

In this episode Nicoleta talks about conscious parenting and happiness with Sue DeCaro, coach and educator from South Carolina, USA.

What is conscious parenting?

What does it mean to be a good parent?

How cultural conditioning impacts our parenting.

Why we think we need to “fix” the children instead of fixing ourselves.

When transgenerational trauma gets passed through generations.

How to you connect with yourself and heal your wounds?

The result of the academic pressure on our children.

How comparison and social media shape our children’s inner worlds.

What is punishment doing to our children?

When we mistakenly see parenting as our fulfilment in life.

How to find your way back to joy and happiness as parents.

From happy parents to happy children.

In this episode Nicoleta talks about justice and happiness with Frank Ramos, lawyer from Miami, Florida, USA.

When parents inspire you to become a white collar professional. 

How hitting the rock bottom awakens you to take action and escape the darkness of depression.

When happiness is about helping others.

Following the inner calling and being of service to others beyond your job.

The joy of mentoring young lawyers and professionals around life and career. 

Answering the important question: is there justice on Earth?

What is the impact of injustice on our mental health?

How social inequality teaches us endurance and resilience.

About the disparity between the wealthy elite and the rest of the people?

Why it is not about what is happening but how we deal with it.

How having clarity around your talents and dreams can lead you to a purposeful life.

Where to find happiness in these modern times.

Find out more about Frank here:

https://www.miamimentor.com/

In this episode Nicoleta talks about the absent father and happiness with Jungian analist Susan Schwartz from Arizona, USA.

There is little literature around father’s relationship with the children.

How the absent father archetype gets passed through transgenerational trauma.

When culture shapes the relationship between daughters and fathers.

Unpacking the unconscious father/daughter relationship.

Why most women haven’t had a “present” father.

The crucial influence of father’s presence on woman’s development.

How absent fathers affect women’s physical, intellectual and spiritual development.

Fathers’ presence and women’s self-esteem.

When a woman replicates the internalised father absence in her relationships.

Can the woman act like the absent father towards herself or the others?

When the woman’s partner reenacts the absent father, too.

Why the longing, mourning and loss of a father cannot be filled from the outside.

How dreams can guide us through our losses and pain.

When therapy helps us heal and fill the space of the absent father.

 
Find out more about Susan here:

 https://susanschwartzphd.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Absent-Father-Effect-Daughters/dp/0367360853/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+absent+father&qid=1649275862&sr=8-1

In this episode Nicoleta talks about faith and happiness with pastor and podcaster Ken Primus, the author of “Threads of Enlightenment” and "The Blueprint of Faith". 

We are programmed by people that come from a place of trauma. 

Walking on the path of enlightenment in the search for meaning of life.

Getting close to burnout within the “prison” of the Christian church.

How a divorce made a pastor to leave the church.

A pastor’s inner turmoil and the innate need for truth and freedom.

From the dogma and judgement in the Western Christianity to the meditation in the Eastern Christianity.

Can you love others if you are not in love with yourself?

Why it can take you a life time to know yourself. 

When we forget that we are creators and we are designed to create.

Why principles of life are beyond religion.

How religion is a tool used by society to separate the human spirit.

The power of choice is in the space of awareness between the breaths.

When faith is the force by which this universe was created.

Find your statement your faith and let it guide you in life.

When “happiness is a beautiful expression of your relationship with your God”.

Find out more about Ken here:

https://www.amazon.com/Ken-Primus/e/B00IZXEI9S%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/threads-of-enlightenment/id1533579088

In this episode Nicoleta talks about war and happiness with Brooke Siem, author and award winning chef, also passionate mental health writer and creator of the newsletter “Happiness is a skill”, from Reno, Nevada, USA.

Why are we humans dragged into conflict and war?

Is conflict innate in us people?

How our programming leads to war and conflict.

What is conflict and war doing to our mental health?

How social media contributes to enhancing our anxieties and fears.

Is it good to follow the news and absorb what’s going on in the world?

Can we recover from this much hurt?

How can we all contribute to changing conflict and war into compassion?

What is happening with the war inside of us?

 
Connect with Brooke here:

https://www.brookesiem.com/

https://www.instagram.com/brookesiem/

In this episode Nicoleta talks about OCD and happiness with Mike Vatter, podcast host from Jacksonville, USA.

 When you get adopted and reconnect with your biological family following a DNA testing.

Does OCD run in the family?

The relationship between adoption and OCD.

The “learned” and “inherited” components of OCD.

How OCD impacts our happiness. 

Coping with obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

The importance of mindset in OCD.

Best tips from an OCD sufferer.

Find more about Mike here: 

https://ocdjacksonville.com/

https://www.stitcher.com/show/ocd-sharing-our-stories

https://www.tiktok.com/@mikevatter

In this episode Nicoleta explores the relationship between neurotechnology and happiness with Toby Pasman, neurophysiology researcher and entrepreneur from Eugene, Oregon, USA. 

Living in a small town and growing with an incessant curiosity to discover the world.

From reading to developing passion for psychology and neuroscience.

How applied neuroscience plans to bring “neuromodulation” to the masses. 

What kind of technology is neuro-modulation, neurofeedback and neurostimulation?

Why after a century EEG is being used outside of the doctor’s cabinet to check if you produce healthy brain waves?

What are the benefits of neurotraining  to our physiological and psychological functioning?

How Artificial Intelligence is used to modulate electrical and chemical activities in the brain and improve wellbeing.

Are we relying on machines to help us shift from low frequency alfa brain waves to the higher calming beta or gamma brain waves?

Can you envisage a future where masses will access brain gyms and brain neuro labs during the lunch break?

Does neurostimulation really work? Can neurostimulation boost the level of dopamine, serotonine and norepinephrine? 

Can neurofeedback resolve the cause of our problems or only offer a short term alleviation of symptoms?

Will people become dependent on neuro-modulation technology?

Are we creating happiness machines?

Shall we fear that AI will make us humans its slaves? Will AI upload our consciousness to the "cloud"? 

How psychology, spirituality and neuromodulation tolls seem to achieve the same result. 

Find more about Toby’s work here: https://roscoeswetsuitneuro.com

Try neurofeedback with a 15% discount today:
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