Happiness Academy

Life is short - let's live it in a meaningful, engaged and joyful way!  Join Mirna to discover positive psychology tools and tips that will support you in building such a life.  At Happiness Academy podcast, you will gain new knowledge, but also feel motivated and inspired to keep improving your life and design it with intentionality, purpose and enjoyment. Looking for more experiences like th...

Today, a little bit different episode: I will guide you through a short meditation practice called “Rest in the Flow of Effortlessness”. It is a perfect meditation to do when you are a bit too much “in action mode”, accessing things in life with a sense of struggle and effort.  However, it means you will need to listen this episode in a quiet space and focused way, practicing it as a form of short...

Oh, who hasn’t been there: dragged by our own brain into the place of worry, anxiety, or perhaps overthinking, overanalyzing, attempting to control pretty much everything…  The destructive thought patterns tend to sabotage our wellbeing - as well as our focus and efficiency.  So how can we deal with them? The answers are in this podcast episode! 🏝️ Join me at the Mindfulness Learning Getaway in Is...

Winter blues - that mild feeling of being down with your energy and mood, all due to cold and dark days. How can we deal with the “winter blues” more effectively? To deal with the winter blues (or with any other kind of blues), we have three powerful toolboxes: 🫀emotions, 🤸 body, and 🧠 mind. In this episode, I am sharing 5 practical tips to leverage the 3 to mitigate that “dark winter feeling”....

In this episode I am exploring what are the beliefs, myths and assumptions that tend to keep is stuck in overthinking and sabotage us in creating an amazing life vision & life plan. I also share an ideas of what to replace these myths with to kickstart your best life plan yet. Would you like me to guide you and support you with your life design? Join me at Life Design workshop , for a structur...

Having the best plan and the most inspiring vision won’t mean a lot if we don’t find a way to create space and actions to put that vision in place. And in the world filled with noise and distractions, that is truly an art! How can you get better with protecting your priorities? That is exactly what I am exploring - with many practical tips - in todays podcast episode. I hope you will leave this ep...

Year end: what a great opportunity to reflect on your life goals, and on what changes and adjustments would you like to make.  In this podcast episode, I am sharing with you: 2 short tools (10 - 20 minutes) for structured and smart reflection on your life that you can apply at any moment in your life when you feel like you need a bit of adjustment 1 super important question to get your life back o...

To feel like our life is all that we want it to be, to be able to dream big, but also to choose the best option for ourselves, first we need to have options! And options come from our creative thinking, from ability to generate new perspectives and insights, from being dreamer but also critical thinker. Hey, but noone taught us how to do that, you say? That is why we are exploring it in today’s po...

Get ready for a game-changing podcast episode!  Building on her TEDx talk insights, Mirna dives into intentional living, focusing on the first key element: proactivity.  Join the conversation as she shares five down-to-earth approaches to inject boldness into your life.  From vision and identity to small steps, we will explore how to take charge of your life.  Don't miss this episode for pract...

Ever thought of flow as a great solution to burnout? No? Today you will discover why it is actually one of the best antidotes.  Now, keep in mind: when you are in burnout already, that is no longer time to focus on flow. Instead, to deal with burnout, you will need to create time, and space to relax, recharged, disconnect from your stressors.  To handle stress that led you there, and to work on he...

Living life courageously and to the fullest - who of us is not dreaming of it?! Yet that dream often ends up with looking at motivational quotes and cliches, while we stay in same old routine… It’s time for action! In this video I am giving you clear steps on where to start. This is NOT a motivational video. Instead, it is a practical guide to living a more courageous life - one step at a time, wi...

Flow - the mental state of feeling “in the zone”, immersed, deeply focused and enjoying activity that we are doing in that moment - is one of the most important factors in our wellbeing. Experiencing flow often contributes to the sense that our life is meaningful and it is related to higher performance, deeper focus, faster learning and more positive emotions in life. How can you unlock this produ...

In this episode, I am exploring what the research says about wellbeing at work. Next to sharing many quick statistics of amazing advantages that investing in wellbeing at work will provide for organizations and individuals, I am diving into5 groups of benefits of wellbeing at work: physical health, psychological, organizational, social and cognitive benefits. While in the podcast I am sharing rese...

How to ensure sustainable wellbeing at work for your team and organization? In this podcast episode you will find out what are the 6 important foundations of wellbeing at work and how can we approach building these. If you are looking for more insights and suggestions how to strengthen the wellbeing of your organization, do get in touch! Find out more about wellbeing at work: https://happiness-aca...

Our life is full of transitions and new beginnings. Sometimes it’s as simple as a transition of a season and restart after the summer and holidays, while other times it’s bigger than that: a new job, new career, new place to live, new family member… Whichever it is, for transition to be done well, it’s great to do three things: close the past well and honour it, open up towards the future with exc...

To achieve any deep change or meaningful results, there are 4 crucial elements that we need to align. When these 4 work for us, they propel us forward with power and agility, and create amazing results.  Discover in today’s episode what the 4 elements are, and how to make them work for you.  To use the 4 elements in working on your wellbeing, join us at Happiness Academy virtual courses on wellbei...

In this episode I share practical tips for those who are planning to join 10 days silent vipassana retreat - what do you need to bring, how to organize the day before and after, and what to keep in mind when planning your first vipassana experience. To discover more about the vipassana retreat experience itself, check the previous episode. For different side and flavour of mindfulness, one in whic...

As this podcast is being published, I am about to enter my 3rd ten days long vipassana silent retreat. As many of you were curious and asking about how is that experience - in this episode I am sharing how the first two times were. While in this episode I am talking about the experience itself, I am also preparing an episode on practical tips - what to bring and what to keep in mind - for those wh...

How are you doing with recharging your emotional energy? You could do better? If so, this one is for you! In one of the previous episodes I talked about practical tips to recharge, with 7 types of rest in mind. In that one, I shared some tips to recharge all 7 aspects of energy: physical, mental, sensory, creative, emotional, social and spiritual. But each of these seven could be explore so much d...

Zest is the sense of great enthusiasm and energy, sense of vitality. The sense of feeling alive, and living life like an adventure. One of the most important abilities to live satisfied, fulfilled, inspiring life. “Zest means approaching a situation, or life in general, with excitement and energy, not approaching tasks or activities halfway or halfheartedly” (says VIA Institute on Character) How w...

Have you read an amazing article on TEDx about 7 types of rest? It talks about, to recharge well, we need to pay attention to 7 aspects of our energy, and think how to recharge each of them. In this podcast, I am exploring how can you use this idea in practice - how can you use the 7 types of rest to recharge better? You can find the original article here: https://ideas.ted.com/the-7-types-of-rest...

Mindfulness can helps us improve virtually every aspect of our life: from thinking more clearly, to being more resilient, connecting better with other and experiencing more positive emotions. In this podcast episode I am sharing how. To discover new, simple and easy mindfulness practice, grab a free Mindfulness Made Easy ebook with 90 mindfulness exercises: https://happiness-academy.eu/mindfulness...

Today I am sharing with you 7 powerful tools that you can use to build intense, unwavering focus. From keeping your body energetic, to working with mental techniques, they can all be put in practice already today! Discover more: To discover new, simple and easy mindfulness practice, grab a free Mindfulness Made Easy ebook with 90 mindfulness exercises: https://happiness-academy.eu/mindfulness-made...

It is all too easy to slip into mundane everyday habits: doing same old routines at work, eating without truly enjoying the food, talking without making that conversation meaningful and inspiring, spending evenings with Netflix in lack of better ideas. But is that really how we wanna be spending our lives? If you are looking to make more out of it - to live a life that is exciting and enjoyable -...

🎙️ What is Happiness Academy Podcast all about? Life is short - let's live it in a meaningful, engaged and joyful way!  Join Mirna every second Wednesday to discover positive psychology tools and tips that will support you in building such a life.  At Happiness Academy podcast, you will gain new knowledge, but also feel motivated and inspired to keep improving your life and design it with inte...