Basia's Thoughts
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71 episodes
EP 71 What’s the Real Trigger? — Early Patterns, Defensive Loops, and Choosing Again
In this episode I explore a core idea from Bioenergetics: how early developmental trauma can create deep “either/or” splits inside us — patterns that live in the body and run automatically before we have time to think.One example: if a b...
EP 70 What Could Replace Addiction?
In the previous episode we noted that merely focusing on practicing the mutually beneficial win-win situations will not fulfil our longing for meaning and connection. Thus it may not be sufficient to move us out of an increasingly addictive wor...
EP 69 Life Beyond Narratives and Beyond Mutually Beneficial Win-Win
Narratives are stories that we give power when we believe in them. They may originate in traumas, developmental traumas and this form our personalities, telling us who we are.They may come from our society and be partially factual or fi...
EP 68 What is Beauty?
Beauty with capital B is like God with capital G - inexplicable. And yet, there is so much to say.It is our essence. It is one part of the trinity of our essence: Beauty, Consciousness, Love.Beauty is related to one of t...
EP 67 Moving from Beauty
The idea of moving from Beauty can be accessed through all we do but is perhaps easier to find through dance.When we move from Beauty we act from an expanded sense of self and a larger perspective. We act from love, instead of act...
EP 66 Four Perspectives
The astrologer Michael Lennox once said, in passing:"The world is not happening to you, not even for you, or through you, but as you."I found these perspectives thought-worthy and decided to think about them out loud.It is i...
EP 65 How Faith Creates Miracles
Is it possible to keep our faith in spite of all the dark moments we experience? What is faith? What can we base it on an how can we use it to have a beautiful life?We start off by listening to a part of the tango “Torme...
EP 64 Why is Abundance Rare?
Why is life so difficult? Why do we have to struggle so much and yet often gain so little? Why are millions starving? Why is there so much lack and why is abundance so difficult to come by?Even though most would agree ...
EP 63 How Can We Do the Most Good?
Inspired by the movement called "Effective Altruism", I asked myself the question as I have seen it posed: "How can I do the most good, given my limited resources?"As I asked it, I wondered if the second part of the question, "......
EP 62 The System Decides What We See and Who We Become
"The Devil is in the Structure", and it is the structure, or the system, ...
EP 61 Helping Out of Fear
Do you feel the urge to help others? Do you know where it comes from? Sometimes it comes from love, and sometimes, like those times when you feel the need to give others advice and solutions, it might come from another place.<...
EP 60 The Crossroads Where We Are
In this final episode of 2021 I discuss the following picture: http://basiapiechocinska.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/EP60Crossroads-scaled.jpg
EP 59 Stepping Out of Polarity
In times of great polarity we talk about two ways of stepping out of it and gaining insight and perspective. The first method is related to ancient battle tactics, where the opponent wishes to distract you and create an internal f...
EP 58 Awakening from Mass-Hypnosis
We are currently finding ourselves in situations we would not have seen as justifiable only two years ago, and yet we are there. The situation is continuing to escalate as a totalitarian-like movement sweeps across the many countries.&nb...
EP 57 The Freedom of an Actor
When we become aware that we are an actor we get the freedom of being able to choose what roles we play.By relaxing and dwelling in the unknown present, we train our mind in a way that transcends and translates into all our experiences....
EP 56 Judgement
Understanding how and why judgement is problematic for us may be helpful in directing our attention towards alternative ways of being.In our society we have been trained away from our natural way of being into a way that is based around...
EP 55 Silence as the Origin of Win-Win
In this short, short episode we connect some of the ideas we have spoken about. In particular we see how The Art of Silence, of practicing silence, is the origin of the language of the giraffe. This is Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolen...
EP 54 Are We In a Totalitarian Movement Now?
In this episode we primarily look at Hannah Arendt's 1951 book "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and try to see if we can recognise some of the dynamics she writes about, in our current covid-world.The prerequisites for the begi...
EP 53 Is Giraffe the Language of the Future?
Marshall Rosenberg´s "Nonviolent Communication", or "the language of the giraffe" is a heart centered all-win type of interaction.In this episode we discuss it as a possible future language of a civilisation that is ba...
EP 52 "You're Welcome"
This episode is actually inspired by a Disney song. We all probably know that what we focus on we tend to notice more of and who/what we identify as provides a perspective for our life. These are almost cliché, and yet when...
EP 51 The Violence of Positive Judgement
Sometimes it may be difficult to see how steeped in judgement we are and what it leads to. So, we start out by looking at the violence inherent in common compliments.We talk about how not only compliments but all sorts of rewards ...
EP 50 Life Filled With Miracles
Can we bring more magic and miracles into our life?What are some essential aspects of a magical life? Can we do anything to encourage the expression of miracles?We find that awe, an open and expansive sense of surprise, ap...
EP 49 Why Are We Counterproductive?
A friend recommended I listen to a podcast on stupidity, where the question was posed: "Why are we acting in ways that hurt ourselves and others? Are we stupid?"(The podcast was from Dystopia and it is in Swedish.&n...
EP 48 Thieves of Joy
Today we talk about two thieves of joy that are interweaved. They are expectations and judgements.In societies where things work well and our expectations are met we are often accompanied by these joy thieves. The...
EP 47 Problem Solving Beyond Optimisation
We talk about the importance of learning to look for what is positive. We mention that perhaps as a survival mechanism we have developed certain biases that are helpful when we are young but make thriving more difficult over time....