Welcome to the 100th episode on The Happiness Project podcast. Well, today’s episode is more around managing Stress and anxiety with Shirley Billson. And we would all agree about how anxiety has kind of been a part of our daily lives. So how do we manage our stress? How do we take some control of our lives in this chaos and uncertainty? I am so sure that you have so many questions – like I mentioned earlier, feel free to get in touch with me. Let’s start a conversation! Most people experience stress and anxiety from time to time. Stress is any demand placed on your brain or physical body. People can report feeling stressed when multiple competing demands are placed on them. The feeling of being stressed can be triggered by an event that makes you feel frustrated or nervous. Anxiety is a feeling of fear, worry, or unease. It can be a reaction to stress, or it can occur in people who are unable to identify significant stressors in their life. Stress and anxiety are not always bad. In the short term, they can help you overcome a challenge or dangerous situation.  However, if stress and anxiety begin interfering with your daily life, it may indicate a more serious issue. If you are avoiding situations due to irrational fears, constantly worrying, or experiencing severe anxiety about a traumatic event weeks after it happened, it may be time to seek help. Learning to cope with stress can require some trial and error. What works for your best friend might not work for you.  It’s important to build your own stress reduction toolkit so that you have more than one strategy to implement when stress kicks in. • Relaxation breathing: The single best thing you can do when under stress is to engage in deep breathing. Practice this strategy when you’re calm so that you know how to use it when you’re under pressure. Inhale for a count of four, hold for four, and exhale for four. Repeat.  • Practice mindfulness: Sure, there’s an app for that, but the best way to practice mindfulness is to disconnect from your digital world and reconnect with your natural world for a specific period of time each day. Take a walk outside and use the opportunity to notice your surroundings using all of your senses.  • Get moving: Daily exercise releases feel-good chemicals in your brain. Making exercise a daily habit can buffer you from negative reactions to stressful events.  • Keep a journal: Writing down your best and worst of the day helps you sort through the obstacles and focus on what went right. It’s normal to experience ups and downs on any given day.  • Get creative: There’s a reason adult coloring books are so popular – they work. Whether you’re drawing, coloring, writing poetry, or throwing paint on a wall, engaging in a creative hobby gives your mind a chance to relax.  • Crank up the tunes: Listening to slow, relaxing music decreases your stress response (just as fast-paced music pumps you up for a run).  Listen to the entire episode here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/1IBee8pkbfxMTF34w8e3FY?si=r-oqZhLxQZG8IOaXGvD45Q&dl_branch=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

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Ep #100 Managing Stress and Anxiety with Shirley Billson

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of trauma work with clients who didn’t realize they even had any trauma. Most people come to me struggling with anxiety, a relationship, or questioning their career, but pretty soon, we start talking about deeper things. The old pains and past hurts that were never fully healed. Those wounds which seem to elude words are blocked, trapped in the subconscious. “I don’t know why I feel so upset,” while you cry over something seemingly trivial. “This isn’t really a big deal, I know that, but I don’t know why I can’t get over it…” “I have no idea why I get so angry and upset every time he says that to me, it shouldn’t matter,” but it clearly does, a lot. And there’s no logic to it other than… it’s reminding you of a past trauma. Trauma gets stored in the body like a DVD stuck on pause, ready to be “played” again whenever something in the present moment, our current life, reminds us in some way of the pain of the past. Why? Because trauma is not stored in the brain like other memory. It doesn’t get filed away into our filing cabinet of autobiographical facts of our life. Instead, it is stored in the body, as emotion, tension, or pain because of our “emotional brain,” or Autonomic Nervous System. Animals shake when they experience trauma or anxiety. Think of a dog who’s been in a fight with another dog: Once the fight is over, both dogs will shake to calm their nervous systems and quiet the fight, flight, or freeze response. This enables them to move on without the physical memory of the situation. Humans, however, don’t naturally do this. Instead we carry our stress, anxiety, and trauma around with us every day and use food and other addictive behaviors to soothe ourselves and quiet the emotional discomfort. There’s nothing wrong with turning to food or other means to soothe yourself, but typically habitual behaviors provide a short-term solution, and you’ll continue to feel the discomfort until you release the memory from your body. We have a tendency to look for the quick fix, but there’s no six-hour healing elixir that can magically erase the pain and discomfort from old wounds. Healing takes time. Give yourself time to fill your emotional tool-kit and understand that healing is a journey—one that lasts a lifetime. Of course, practice makes the journey easier, but there is no perfection. There will be times when you fall back on old patterns and behaviours, when that happens reach into your emotional tool-kit and take what you need. You are equipped. You can do this. Now, let’s hear all about it from the very expert Phil Lee who takes us through the journey of unblocking trauma. Listen to the entire episode here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/4hthb4gsGHBcIIapfjdae4?si=Wf4uyKb-SiGv8CSsRu_xcg&dl_branch=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #99 Unblocking Trauma from past experiences with Phil Lee

Hello and welcome back to the 98th on THP podcast. I hope you’ll are taking enough time for yourself throughout the week – just by yourself! It’s important. I hope you’re not being hard on yourself because you deserve all the love and compassion that you go around pouring on other people. We often set standards for ourselves that are too high because society expects us to be perfect. We forget that everybody has flaws, even the people we perceive to be perfect. But who decides what is perfect? Who sets the standards we feel we need to live up to? Self-acceptance, self-love, and self-compassion are essential for our overall health and happiness. These attributes affect not only our mental and emotional health but also our physical health in very real and concrete ways.  While it may sound “out there” or “woo-woo”, when we don’t accept ourselves fully, we are ever so subtly cutting ourselves off from the life force energy that gives and sustains life. It happens on a very subtle level, but over time this disconnection from the full potential of life force connection can manifest with concrete health issues. Think of it another way. When there are parts of ourselves that we don’t accept, we are literally warring with ourselves internally. And when both parties in that war are actually parts of you, guess who loses, regardless of the outcome? We all have flaws – that’s what makes us human. Everybody makes mistakes – that is the only way we can learn and grow. Accepting our flaws and forgiving ourselves for mistakes, or put another way, reconciling all those conflicting parts in us is crucial to our health and happiness, and to generally achieving our greatest potential as humans. Self love is a practice, its is something you learn and implement into your everyday life. A few things that I feel like should be considered and known when it comes to self love: You are the main focus – It all starts with you and ends with you. You’re going to be with yourself for eternity. Which means, you want to operate from a place of self-loving, rather than self-loathing. You care for yourself the most – Nobody is interested in you – your well-being, health, safety, happiness, and existence – more than you. No one knows better than you, what makes you happy, or what hurts you most. No one thinks of you, or exists ready for your rescue, support or comfort. No one can make better choices for you, or give you a better opinion of what you need to do – other than yourself. No one is here for your spiritual growth – but you. You are the only person that can bring yourself up, or down – You determine your attitude, the way you react, and your outlook day to day. This way, if you love yourself, you will be mindful of the way you feel and how you feel it. What would your life be like if you loved yourself unconditionally? Take a moment to think about it. Would you live in accordance with your values? Would you feel totally comfortable in your mind and body? Would you hold compassion for yourself when you made mistakes? Would you believe, undoubtedly, that you are a good person? Would you rely on others to validate and accept you? Would you overextend yourself to please others, or would you honour your needs and politely decline? Would you feel confident in accepting a request, knowing that you would be helping others solely out of love for them? Would you feel good about yourself, either way, no matter what you chose? Listen to the entire episode here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/4CM768USayYpQw5k5HxOpU?si=y4rsLQ_UQw6MPd3bLDPdBA&dl_branch=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #98 - Mirror, Mirror, Show me 'ME' with Cheron Griffin

Helloo guys! How have you’ll been? What’s happening? How’s the week coming along? You are not listening to the 97th episode on THP podcast. I am just overwhelmed thinking of how close I am going to complete about a 100 episodes very soon. I have been occupied this week with the workshops for the course that I am studying off lately. It’s called the ABT course and ahh – it’s incredibly amazing! I love how this course is helping me unfold and uncover so much about living a conscious life. And as and how time goes by, I will definitely share some wonderful stuff with you’ll. Well, I am sharing the highlights of my conversation with Kevin Monroe and the amazing concept of making every moment extra-ordinary. He also holds these amazing webinars on Gratitude almost every month and it’s a sheer joy to be a part of it! Whether gratitude journaling is working for you or not, we can all take our gratitude practice one step further by moving from the page to the real world. By embracing gratitude as a verb we advance from recognizing gratitude to practicing gratitude. You may have a completely different version of extraordinary, and that’s what’s so perfect. How to live an extraordinary life entirely up to you—it’s your life, after all. The action itself isn’t as important as the intent behind it. As long as your intent is to make something in your world just a little better, to learn something just a little deeper, to try something you’re just a little curious about, it’s foolproof. You could institute pizza Saturdays or travel the world, saving endangered species. Both are extraordinary. I remember when someone would mention the words "extraordinary life," the entire thought seemed only for the rich and famous. The idea seemed unreachable and only pertained to the lucky few. My self-talk would be jabbering in my mind saying "as if that's ever going to happen to someone like me." What I didn't understand was that the greatest obstacle I had to overcome wasn't to suddenly win the lottery, but to actually start showing up to live my life with just a little bit of extra. The next time you find yourself feeling stuck in an ordinary life; try out at least one of these simple steps to put into place. Just that tiny bit of "extra" goes a long way and before you know it, you'll be expanding your world and inspiring not only yourself, but those around you to do the same. Extraordinary living is contagious....pass it on.Listen to the entire episode here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Ci4WqZs4oFoGL8vEAqtBw?si=_e0hDY0kTUWXZU71NJzIeQ&dl_branch=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #97 - Living just a little extra with Kevin Monroe

There’s an interesting aspect to the feeling of being stuck. Many people who report that they’re feeling overwhelmed, confused or stuck in a rut are—in many cases—quite talented, intelligent and ambitious. If you do not know how to precisely tackle the issue, breaking free from feeling stuck in life can be really difficult. The harder you try to get out of it, the more you’re getting stuck. That’s the big problem with being stuck in a rut. It gradually weakens your strength to get unstuck. The situation is comparable to the attempt of breaking free from quicksand. The more you struggle, the deeper you’ll get in it. But if you do know that the only way out of quicksand is to stop panicking, to lie on your back and to drag your feet out, the obstacle can be overcome. The same holds true for feeling stuck in life. If you’re thinking really hard about your situation, you’ll find yourself walking around in a circle. It will get you nowhere. But like a comic figure that keeps walking around in circles, you’ll only create an ever deeper (mental) groove. There’s no point in overthinking the problem. In fact, continuously pondering about the problem will only get you deeper into the groove. It doesn’t matter so much what obstacle is blocking your progress. What matters is that you learn to move forward despite being confronted with challenges. You have all the power you need to take the necessary steps to break out of the rut. However, every fibre of your body must be willing to effect this change. Breaking free from whatever holding you back is always a choice. Take this choice and learn to gain more control over your feelings, thoughts, and behaviours. Well, I am sharing the highlight of my episode with Kenny harper who is on a mission to change mindsets and lives. Kenny is on a mission to inspire and empower people to live a purposeful life. Kenny Harper began his journey rocking stages as a musician and after realising he realised he had the talents but not the business knowledge, he reinvented himself and became a devoted student of business growth strategies. Now as an accomplished certified advisor, Kenny is on a mission to inspire and empower those with the attitude, expertise and drive to amplify their business by sharing proven strategies and effective systems So tune into the episode and take a step closer towards shifting your mindset so you can shift your life! If you want to listen to the entire episode – I have mentioned the link in the show notes so you can dive deeper into the concept of mindset! Hope you’ll enjoy the episode. I will see you next week, until then take care and stay safe. Listen to the entire episode here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Tbwvo4S3wAVpV0Tseu7N7?si=oLAiIsYSSL-qQlSKuzRG_g&dl_branch=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #96 - Experience a Mindset Shift

I don’t cuss. Usually. Not that I never have, but I just choose to find other words to express my anger or disappointment ... words that I make up like, “Aw friggilish!” or I’ll just growl, “Grrrr” when something gets my goat. There is one word, though, that can ruin relationships. It’s a curse word of sorts. Its name is Fear. Fear in relationships is the “F” word that has split more marriages, aborted many a relationship before its time and has kept more lovers sleeping back to back than the flu virus. We all face fear from time to time. It’s a natural reaction to the unknown. The problems happen, though, when we choose to operate in fear instead of courage. You’ve likely heard one of my favorite inspirational quotes, “Courage isn’t the absence of fear; it’s choosing to act in spite of it.” This couldn’t be truer in relationships. We’ve all been hurt in one relationship or another.. so we tend to protect ourselves from being hurt in the same way ever again. In order to accomplish this goal, we put up walls, make self-fulfilling prophecies and shut others out. This, as you can see, causes major problems in intimate relationships. I’m not going to give you a 5-step process for getting rid of fear. It’s not that easy, and truth be told, we’ve probably all read those blogs. However, if you want to have healthy relationships, and not struggle all the time with fear in relationships, you have to be willing to take risks. You have to be willing to courageously tackle your fears. What if you get hurt? Well, my friend, that is the risk you take when you choose to love. Love is risky! It offers no guarantees. Maybe you will be hurt (again). But what if you’re not? “Wouldn’t you have rather have loved and lost than not to have loved at all?” the great British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson asks. The point is that if you want to experience deeper levels of intimacy (the gift of knowing and being known), you are going to have to jump in! Now, I’m not advocating for you to throw away common sense! There are times when you need to be cautious and/or walk away. So in this episode, I am sharing the highlights of the conversation with Jackhym and Natasha who focuses on choosing love over fear. Look, it is true that life becomes a momentous journey when you decide to choose love over fear in everything you do, and I mean everything. There is a sensation that arises within us when we realize that fear is a construction of a mind manipulated by negativity. The reality is, fear only smothers us, entraps us, and withholds us from our greatest capability: to love and involve love in everything we do or say. There is a light inside each and every one of us that shines in the essence of our dreams, with love as the intention - for ourselves, for the world around us, and for living life to the fullest. The importance of finding that light, cherishing it, seeking it out, and embracing it is a step toward choosing love over fear. So tune into the episode now and if you wish to hear the entire episode – the link is mentioned in the episode. Hope you’ll decide to choose love over fear and let love be the driving force of your intention. Listen to the entire episode now - https://open.spotify.com/episode/1L62eyd1hDmBwjXCpxZB67?si=f-Di-B8aTs-Nek1oUwJxpA&dl_branch=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #95 Love over Fear, always

I have been terribly sick for the past 10 days but I finally feel so much better now. Guess, I have a tendency to shut down and take some space to recover, rejuvenate and repair my body. And in this journey, if there’s something that I have learnt, time and again – is that if you do not listen to the signs of your body, it will literally make you sick enough for you to pay attention to things that REALLY need your attention. And I think that’s exactly what happened with me. My body needed some rest and some time to heal and come back even stronger and resilient. Pain comes in so many different forms. Often people try to hide from it, hoping that it will go away or that they can cover it up with medication. But ignoring your body just makes it try harder to get your attention—your body is asking for your help. Many of us are now coming to understand that physical symptoms and illness often begin first in the emotional and mental bodies. We are not just a physical body. We each have an aura of subtle bodies including the etheric, mental, emotional, astral and causal. Trauma or inherited cellular memory can also result in less than optimal functioning of the meridians of chi or prana flowing through the body. Reiki and other modalities that work with the energy field can have lasting healing results when the energies causing illness are gently unblocked. Shamanic techniques, which have been the traditional form of physical and psychic healing for thousands of years can remove dark energy intrusions, spirit attachments and offer soul retrieval through energy healing and plant medicine. These modalities coupled with counseling and lifestyle changes show that holistic treatments offer a more sustainable and lasting form of healing. There are many current studies to prove that energy healing works. Working with her suggested affirmations can begin unraveling the psychic energy stuck in the body, emotions and mind to create space for healing. From my own personal experience this process is most effective in a multilayered approach combined with reiki, shamanic healing, flower essences, dietary changes, exercise and nature therapy. In this episode, I am sharing the highlights of the conversation with Anna where she talks about breaking those belief systems that we have developed deep within ourselves for years, about letting go of those judgement words that we put on our circumstances, about how control is an illusion, about understanding where our energy is blocked through chakra work; we also talk about becoming aware of the choices that we make every day and how can we take action without unwanted influences of the past. Anna also talks about how when we begin our spiritual journeys of inner growth, we discover many things about ourselves, other people and the world and she dives deeper into giving some interesting insights into chakra work and how it has transformed her life. Listen to the entire episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EkYLNfKQVaf91WadnjX1C?si=VWbiyxR0SRKG-5ayrrVevw&dl_branch=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #94 Trust the Process

Hello guys, how’s the week coming along? Well, guess on a global level – things have been quite stressful, especially with the Afghanistan and Taliban issue that we have all been hearing about day in and day out. Distressing images of the Taliban taking over Afghanistan are beamed into televisions throughout the day, leading to fear, instability and conflict which also brings up the question of where are we really heading towards, not just at an individual level but at a collective level? Are we progressing or regressing in our approach? For that matter, mental health issues are rising too! And with whatever that’s going on – I thought it was best to remember that – we can cope up even though life gets tough and tests us over and over again. And no better episode to share the highlights of than with the one where I interviewed Vipp Jaswal who gives us an insight into his journey with Depression and how he came out of it. Sometimes, it helps to know other people’s journey and resonate with it. I hope you’ll find this episode helpful and if you want to listen to the entire episode – I have mentioned the link in the show notes! Depression is more than just feeling down or having a bad day. When a sad mood lasts for a long time and interferes with normal, everyday functioning, you may be depressed. Symptoms of depression include:1 • Feeling sad or anxious often or all the time • Not wanting to do activities that used to be fun • Feeling irritable‚ easily frustrated‚ or restless • Having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep • Waking up too early or sleeping too much • Eating more or less than usual or having no appetite • Experiencing aches, pains, headaches, or stomach problems that do not improve with treatment • Having trouble concentrating, remembering details, or making decisions • Feeling tired‚ even after sleeping well • Feeling guilty, worthless, or helpless • Thinking about suicide or hurting yourself The following information is not intended to provide a medical diagnosis of major depression and cannot take the place of seeing a mental health professional. If you think you are depressed‚ talk with your doctor or a mental health professional immediately. This is especially important if your symptoms are getting worse or affecting your daily activities. Tune into the entire episode now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/58cTGXOl5XtUVVUUnM9WEB?si=_HQ78441SMWkbOrVP5HXqA&dl_branch=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #93: Healing is not Linear

Welcome back to the 92nd episode on THP podcast. I am in an absolutely amazing state of mind this week and am pretty excited for LIFE! There have been so many developments in my life and all of them make me want to look forward to the future. Well, I really hope you guys are hopeful as I am for the last few months of 2021! Today’s episode is the ‘ever-popular’ topic around ‘Social media’ and how it has impacted our lives, mostly in negative ways! The only time you should look in your neighbour’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbour’s bowl to see if you have as much as them. Or the classic, Comparison is the thief of joy. We are social beings and need company, affirmation, and friendship. Traditionally we sought that in face-to-face interactions, the most remote form of it was the penfriend. Someone we had never met but who we wrote letters to. We protected our identity and personal information and guarded it jealously and would go ballistic if even our parents, closest relatives or friends opened any letter of ours or read our diary without our permission. Then came social media in 2004 and opened the doors for us to seek affiliation and affirmation without any boundaries or rules and without the tools to even assess its reality or effect. The first social media site to reach a million monthly active users was MySpace and was the beginning of social media as we know it. Yes, it is, as recent as that. Facebook which owns Instagram, Twitter and WhatsApp has over a billion active users who volunteer their information for it to harvest and use for anything at all, is even more recent. Only in February 2012 did Facebook become a public company. Its first IPO in May raised $16 billion, giving it a market value of $102.4 billion. Today it is worth over $300 billion. Ask how your wealth increased from 2012 to 2021. With social media, suddenly from a few real friends who we knew, we ended up with tens and hundreds of virtual ‘friends’ and ‘followers’. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and everything else in between encouraged us to share the most mundane information about ourselves and suddenly made it the means to become ‘popular’. They gave us ‘role models’ like the Kardashians and others who post what they post to induce us to do the same. Like faithful sheep, we followed. I am putting words like ‘friends’, ‘followers’, ‘popular’ in quotes to underline the fact that none of that is real. However, human nature is such that it does not analyze or deny pleasant experiences. And so, if we have 2000 virtual friends on FB or 3000 followers on Twitter, we do not question the reality or check it against real evidence. We are happy to stay with the fantasy and give in to the drive to increase our ‘following’. This also means that we will do whatever we need to, to ensure that we don’t lose any friends or followers. Remember that all this happens very unobtrusively and quietly and our behavior changes without our being aware of it. Rapidly we get our own sense of identity hooked to this and start to look forward to seeing what our ‘friends’ and ‘followers’ think of us. We want them to like us and so we do what they like. We think we are independent. We are not. We are enslaved. Tune into the entire episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6UDPnM2zsHVqXeWi55WARM?si=gKMu0WR0SMGpvXMM3LlQpQ&dl_branch=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep#92 The Psychology of Social Media

We are now very close to completing about a 100 episodes very soon. And I want to make the next few episodes very special for all of you. It’s been a journey with so many of you from over the globe – literally in different parts of the world. I want to celebrate your support, your love and the n number of emails and messages showering with love I receive on a consistent basis. You guys inspire me to become – so much better! So wherever that you are – Israel, Argentina, Bermuda, India, Togo, Sudan, Fiji! Literally wherever that you’re listening this episode from – I am grateful to each one of you! I am sending in this healing energy to everyone listening to this episode! Sending you so much of love and light! Well, from the beginning of this journey of starting a podcast – up until now: I have tried to simply make it personal as I could! And today’s episode is immensely personal to my life situation at this point of time. The past week has been extremely eventful and stressful for me. In this episode, I want to share some learning lessons from the past 6 months that involves breakthrough discovery and cutting edge personal transformation which resulted in a new perspective and a paradigm in thinking, feeling and manifesting. My break throughs are very personal to me and I do not expect you’ll to experience the exact same thing! That’s humanly impossible but what I do hope is that you grab the learnings, the lessons and allow yourself to reflect on some past experiences and realize for yourself of those moments that shifted an entire perspective of certain things in your life. “Well, I hope the next few months brings in a significant amount of courage to see things through, faith to manifest your desires, calmness so you could slow down in the chaos, acceptance so you could let go of anything that is holding you back, clarity so you can resolve your emotional baggage, strength so you could get out of any confined states, inspiration to de-clutter your life and create space for magical beginnings, gratitude in times of challenges, openness so you could allow people into your life and give love another chance, and connection to remind yourself of all the compassion you deserve in the world” Find out more about my work: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raina-jain-73b615a5/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/happinessprojectstudio/ Website: https://www.thehappinessprojectstudio.com Podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject Link to my work: https://www.thehappinessprojectstudio.com/blog Please find below the links for my recently published articles - 1. You don't need to have it all figured out (Nobody ever knows it all, neither did Madonna your age) - https://www.thehappinessprojectstudio.com/post/you-don-t-need-to-have-it-all-figured-out 2. Why is Change so Difficult and what can you do about it - https://www.mentalmovement.co.uk/why-is-change-so-difficult/ 3. Stop Apologizing for taking a break in Career - https://www.thehappinessprojectstudio.com/post/manage-your-blog-from-your-live-site 4. The Heroine's Journey of Raina Jain https://theheroinejourney2016.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/the-heroines-journey-of-raina-jain/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #91 - From Break to a Breakthrough

I am in conversation with someone very unconventional, someone who defies the norms and shows us a different path to life. It’s none other than Charles Collins. Charles is an Amazon best-selling author of the “LifeCraft Book Series”, which are a collection of novels that present a framework to help make a masterpiece of your life through the application of craftsmanship. Charles' work demonstrates how anyone can learn to practice 'Life-as-a-Craft' to achieve extraordinary results. It is a framework for managing life's many topics based on the way we practice our occupations and professions, vs. the 'hit-or-miss' results of living by trial and error. One of the questions that is prevalent throughout Charles work is about crafting a life that you desire. He says, Craftsmanship is a universal principle that can be applied to any way of working and living. It is the foundation upon which Making a Masterpiece of Your Life is built. It is intended to teach ourselves and our children to value the ancient and time-tested quality of craftsmanship, and to cultivate the spirit of the craftsperson in everything we do; to empower ourselves and our children with the skills to Make A Masterpiece of Our Lives. Today, Charles shares his Five Elements framework for practicing 'life-as-a-craft' via the Life Masterpiece Workshop.com, his LifeCraft book series on Amazon, more than 50 guest appearances on podcasts, and published articles appearing in Thrive Global, Personal Growth, Lifehack, A Parent Is Born, The Good Men Project, Change Becomes You, and his own Life Masterpiece Journal.com The five elements that he talks about are: Family & Personal Heritage - Where you come from, where you are now, and the legacy you will leave to future generations. Family & Household Management - The home you grew up in, and the home you are making right now, and how well you manage it. Family & Personal Finance - What you have learned about managing money, and how you manage it together with your partner. The Human Being - What you know, and how you treat your inner self and your outer self including your diet, your career, and managing your emotions. Tools for Living - What tools you use in your life, and how skillful you are at using them. To know more about Charles Collins: Life Masterpiece Journal: https://lifemasterpiecejournal.com/ Workshop: http://lifemasterpieceworkshop.com/ Podcast: https://www.podchaser.com/creators/charles-collins-107a4S3tyj LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cpcollins/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Charles-Collins/e/B00AFBIDVC YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrKnggcE_BmL187hSmMDhrg --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #90 Life as a Craft with Charles Collins

When Nate Rifkin began his journey, he was suicidal and drank alcohol every morning to get through the day. He dropped out of college, went broke, bankrupt, and even worked on street corners waving around a sign. However, Nate learned a little-known spiritual discipline that helped him transform his thoughts, emotions, financial life, and find love. He’s described his journey and the transformative practice he learned in his book, The Standing Meditation. Nate lives in Golden, Colorado with his lovely wife. He recently published a book about his journey called The Standing Meditation and it's getting great reviews. He is currently training/studying to become a Daoist priest and get his Doctorate in Chinese Energetic Medicine. In this episode, Nate and I talk about some practices he started that helped him recognise his full potential and how meditation was his best learning experience; he also spoke about his biggest resistance while practicing meditation. While there were so many practices that helped him, but getting out of your comfort zone, breaking out of unhealthy patterns, and taking small steps each day were small milestones that helped him get out on the other side.  To know more about Nate Rikfin - https://naterifkin.com/blog/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-woo-woo-best-friend/id1555589799?i=1000524911483 https://anchor.fm/elisabeth-axiak/episodes/Ep-38---Nate-Rifkin-and-The-Standing-Meditation-e126fqt https://undergroundantics.podbean.com/e/ep-16-the-standing-meditation-w-nate-rifkin/ https://anchor.fm/thehappypsychic/episodes/Dipping-our-toes-into-Daoism-with-Nate-Rifkin-e137pe7 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #89 - From suicidal to happy and successful - In conversation with Nate Rifkin

Ashley Holt is passionate and committed to bringing women’s voices and leadership into the world. Ashley is a mother of two daughters, best-selling author, nonprofit founder, motivational speaker, former Mrs. International finalist and international podcast host. After facing divorce and becoming a single parent, Ashley reinvented her life and turned her pain into power and purpose. Goddess, Wake Up! is Ashley’s sixth book. Her mission through all of her works is to empower others to claim their power, recognize their highest potential and live their best life. Her other works include I Am B.R.A.V.E Soul-Strong Living for Girls, Miko the Perfectly Imperfect Pug, Fearless with Finley, Make a Wish with Marley and Beyond the Woman. Ashley’s dynamic professional experience includes a successful career with a Fortune 500 company where she excelled in personal development, coaching and women’s leadership roles. She also previously was connecting women to their community through her impactful role with the South’s largest digital publication for women. Ashley is a passionate student of #1 New York Times best-selling author and Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday expert, Gabrielle Bernstein’s Masterclass and she is also trained and certified in EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and NLP (Neuro-Linguistics Programming) and other holistic practices. Ashley’s passion to inspire children, teens and women find their voice and to live life to their highest potential has led her to work as an author, speaker and empowerment coach. Through her numerous media appearances, books, public speaking and coaching, she is fulfilling her passion as a mentor with a mission to create a safe and compassionate space for women as an author, speaker and empowerment coach. Ashley has a powerful voice and message for any generation. Her dynamic and energetic speaking platform is uniquely designed to provide tailored keynotes, seminars and workshops that are engaging and ensure a memorable experience every time. She creates her programs to fit your needs. Her workshops and one-on-one coaching sessions offer remarkable insight to help you develop and implement your personal dreams and goals. Her words and methods will inspire you to dream big, focus on what matters and to embrace a life filled with infinite love and possibilities. Well, in this episode – Ashley and I talk about claiming your power, recognizing your inner potential and living your best life. She talks about the GODDESS mindset and how to embark on this transformation journey. http://www.ashleyholtbooks.com/ Ashley Holt: Instagram: ashley_holt --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #88 - Goddess, Wake Up with Ashley Holt

Admit it. You know you have greater potential. A special gift that makes you different from anyone else, something that can make you impact the world in a unique way, and that can make the world a better place. You have a vision for the lifestyle outcome you’ve wanted. And it’s not just you alone, I believe everyone does. But maybe you’re shrouded in frustration, feeling blocked, unproductive and uninspired, or maybe you’re even feeling you’ve lost your way. Maybe you just don’t know how to connect to and unlock your hidden potential. Chances are that, secretly, you know you are capable of so much more. Maybe you know exactly what you want to do – you already have an idea of your ideal life. But is it possible to unlock your potential and create your ideal self? Perhaps you’re experiencing something like this – You know exactly what you need to do, and still, something is holding you back? If that’s the case, this episode will give you some ideas on how to think less and act more, so as to unlock your full potential. We will look at your potential in all areas of life – health, wealth, goals, relationships. Maybe you are already starting to unfold your talents in some of these? Or, maybe you are at the beginning of your journey and have only the strong inner voice telling you that you are capable of more. Either way, you’re on your way to creating your ideal self. But how do you unlock all your potential to do so? Sound familiar? Your potential is limitless. It doesn’t have any upper ceiling. Although by buying into limiting beliefs, we believe that there is a ceiling. I’ve been working with people’s mental and energetic “prisons” for many years now. And I have learned that each of us has some upper limit of receiving. We decide how much we allow ourselves to be happy, healthy, and abundant. And we, too, have an upper ceiling of our potential. The prison we keep ourselves in doesn’t bring us fulfillment, yet it feels safe because it’s comfortable. However, your infinite being didn’t come here to be locked up in some artificial prison. The way to unlock your potential is to understand that your potential is limitless. Your infinite being is here to express itself through your embodiment entirely. This is your life purpose. Please find below my details - E: rainajain1102@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raina-jain-73b615a5/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/happinessprojectstudio/ Website: https://www.thehappinessprojectstudio.com Podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject Link to my work: https://www.thehappinessprojectstudio.com/blog Please find below the links for my recently published articles - 1. You don't need to have it all figured out (Nobody ever knows it all, neither did Madonna your age) - https://www.thehappinessprojectstudio.com/post/you-don-t-need-to-have-it-all-figured-out 2. Why is Change so Difficult and what can you do about it - https://www.mentalmovement.co.uk/why-is-change-so-difficult/ 3. Stop Apologizing for taking a break in Career -  https://www.thehappinessprojectstudio.com/post/manage-your-blog-from-your-live-site 4. The Heroine's Journey of Raina Jain https://theheroinejourney2016.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/the-heroines-journey-of-raina-jain/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #87 Introduction to 'Unlocking your Inner Potential'

I am awestruck with the relationship journey of my guest speakers today. It has been such a joy having these lovely ladies on my show sharing an incredible conversation with me. Jennifer and Stephanie are Quantum Relationship Coaches who work with the LGBTQ+ community.  Their mission is to bring more love to the world, one relationship at a time.  They focus on creating holy relationships through teaching self-love, boundaries and communication.  They have been married for a year and have been through the wringer in their relationship: They met, disability occurred, they broke up, found their Authentic Self based on their Spiritual Path and then found their way back to a solid, healthy, loving relationship.   They have identified the major components that go wrong in relationships and have developed tools to help people learn the ways to have true intimacy and build rock-solid relationships. Jennifer’s experience included 2 degrees in psychology and is currently working towards her PhD in Metaphysical Holistic Counseling.  Stephanie has a master’s degree in social work and has been working as a therapist for many years.  They both love to talk with people, hear their stories and help them find their Authentic Self and guide them to the Life of their Dreams! They have an amazing fairytale story that they love to share and bring hope to all those struggling with their relationships in life. In this episode, Jennifer and Stephanie takes us through their 12 year long journey of being in and out of relationship with each other. It’s wonderful how they connect with each other only because they are now so much more in touch with themselves. Their work revolves around quantum relationship coaching – where they ask people to work hard and dig deeply into their life and relationship patterns and begin to change these by teaching them the skills to be in their Authentic Self, understand their boundaries, and how to communicate what they need to in ways that foster joining and loving connection rather than conflict. We also discuss about the stigma surrounding the queer community and how it impact their lives, their struggles of coming out, and how they are in this process of changing the world. They also share their idea of happiness and how spirituality has been a major component of their lives. To find out more about Stephanie and Jennifer - https://enchantedawakenings.love/our-story/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehappinessproject/message

Ep #86 - In conversation with Stephanie and Jennifer (Enchanted Awakenings) on Quantum Relationships

Welcome to my show 'The Happiness Project' and thank you for tuning in. I am your host Raina Jain and I am a qualified psychologist, a wellness coach and a content writer. To know more about my piece of work, please follow my website - mind unwinds.com. So right before you start wondering whether is this show for you, let me throw some light on what’s in it for you. Of course. This show is for anyone who is looking at transforming their lives and wanting to get their lives into perspective. So here I am going to bring the best content that will help improve your life, by taking one step at a time, steadily feeding your mind with the best possible thoughts, ideas and perceptions. Each episode is going to revolve around a topic that will give you an opportunity to reflect on your personal well-being. I am going to cover thought provoking topics which will make you want to start focusing on yourself a little more each and every day. Topics will revolve around - how important it is to love yourself and prioritise yourself before everything else, or how sometimes its okay to not be okay, how it's okay to make mistakes, and how gratitude can take you a long way In life. I am enormously influenced by positive psychology and the entire purpose of doing this show is to improve your life in every tiny way possible. What I believe is that if you get your inside right, the outside inevitably falls into place. Make sure you never miss a single episode of this show by clicking the “subscribe” button now. This podcast is made possible by listeners like you – thank you for all your support.

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