Posts in category Open Questions Podcast
OQ20: Open voice, open heart, open mind with Ellen Bakker
In this episode I speak with Ellen Bakker, a singer and vocal coach from the Netherlands, who sees it as her mission to contribute to healthy, effective and 'happy' vocal habits, for singers and speakers (f.i. teachers) alike. Ellen shares with us some of the simple, effective, healthy and happy techniques of using our voice, debunks some of the myths bout how we can take care of our vocal cords, and demonstrates the imaginary technique of projecting the voice into the back of our head, that results in a bigger and warmer sound, both in speaking and in singing. Music track: Jacinto Chiclana performed by Ellen Bakker. Music: Astor Piazzolla. Lyrics: Jorge Luis Borges.
Continue readingOQ19: Leif Lindh and his moose park
In this episode I speak with Leif Lindh, the founder of Gårdsjö Elkpark, a place where everyone is guaranteed a chance to come close to a moose. We discuss the charm of these magnificent animals, how Leif first came up with the idea of starting an animal park and what it takes to make something like this happen. I close the episode with the track Golden Chasene by the Swedish band Den Flygande Bokrullen from their latest album Shuff!
Continue readingOQ18: Lonely with Emily White
I speak with Emily White about her memoir Lonely: Learning to Live With Solitude, in which Emily recounts her struggle to comprehend and overcome her chronic loneliness. Emily discusses some of the roots of loneliness and how the existing in the Western societies stigma around the state makes it harder for people who feel isolated and rejected, to batter loneliness. She also talks about the core differences between loneliness and depression, the difficulty of transitioning from loneliness and how it can be helped and touches upon how experience of loneliness day after day can influence our physiology and behavior. Music track: Your Are My Applepie by Northern Safari (http://annasara.se/) Lyrics: Anette Skåhlberg. Please rate Open Questions in Itunes store. It will make it easier for others to find it. Happy winter/summer!
Continue readingOQ17: A life of dreams with Dr Dave, Part Three
Part One: I continue my conversation with psychologist and podcaster Dr David Van Nuys on dreams and how they can inform our waking life. In this episod Dr Dave and I discuss pre-cognitive and psychic dreams, synchronicities and simple but effective techniques to improve our dream recall. Dr Dave, host of Shrink Rap Radio Psychology Podcast and Wise Council Podcast, also talks about his podcasting career, its challenges and rewards. Part Two: I talk about some of the findings of content analysis research, a scientific method for accurately describing what we dream about, conducted by Calvin Hall and Bill Domhoff. Featured music track: Da Vinci from 2006 album Mallorca Charm by Mr Marx at stereolovers.com. Have comments or questions? Drop me a line at oqpodcast@gmail.com.
Continue readingOQ16: A life of dreams with Dr Dave, Part Two
Psychologist and podcaster Dr David Van Nuys talks about the benefits of keeping a dream journal and of being part of a dream group. Dr Dave shares some of his experience of working through real life examples of nightmares and how we can use nightmares in our dream life as growth opportunities in the waking life. I share one of the recurrent dreams and how the dream evolved with time and Dr Dave offers his comments on the dream based on the process of dream work from Robert Jonsson’s book “Inner work” and the technique if-this-were-my-dream. After the conversation, I discuss the consequences of not giving one particular dream the attention it deserved when I found myself overwhelmed and didn't seem to know what I really wanted. To celebrate the irony in our lives I close the episode with "my first day with a moustache", another track from Baasztian's latest album "diagnosis: chronically ironic". Do you keep a dream journal? Was there any particular dream that you used to resolve a challenging situation? Leave a comment in the comment field after the episode or drop me a line at oqpodcast@gmail.com.
Continue readingOQ15: A life of dreams with Dr Dave, Part One
In this conversation psychologist and host of the Shrink Rap Radio Psychology Podcast Dr David Van Nuys, or "Dr Dave", talks about Freud's and Jung's understanding of the unconscious and the functions of dreams and the methods the two big minds used to work with dreams. This is a great introduction into the subject as we will be exploring dream work based on the teachings and insights of Carl Jung in the next episode. Follow the drama as self-diagnosed (diagnosis: chronically ironic) and interested in psychology Baasztian passionately sings out his desire of "killing lew wallace", the inventor of the snooze button, on this track from his latest album.
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