SAMIA: Hello, Salam, Shalom, Namaste, Sat Sri Akal, Aloha, Holah, Ciao, Bonjour and Buna! It's really good to be with you and I'm very excited because we have a very special guest today Maria Nika who's the founder of The WOW healing that’s so cool…

MARIA: Hello, Namaste, Aloha, Bonsoir, Bonjour... however the time zone and yes Bonasera very nice of you talked also in Romanian very nice of you thank you so much Samia for your invitation… 

SAMIA: It's so good to have you with me Maria and actually one of my friends Aura who is also a coach she's the one who taught me to say Buna so…. wow that's a great surprise from your side yes I really didn't expect it and it's very nice of you thank you so much… 

MARIA: You're so welcome... so Maria I will just invite you to jump right in and tell us more about who you are and what you do….

SAMIA: I am the founder of The WOW healing a mindfulness app that is trying to support a better world... a wow world... as we name it full of bliss and happiness because yes we do believe this is very possible because everything is within us and from here we can attract whatever reality we may choose and actually the reality in which vibration we are at that moment... so yes we just hope we can bring some blissfulness into this world… 

MARIA: I'm with you on that... you know I also believe that it is possible for us to have a peaceful world and a blissful world and it's really just a matter I think for me... of people recognizing that it's possible and understanding and learning how they can make it happen for them and for everyone that they love around them and if each of us does it I think that this is definitely something we can achieve so I'm so excited to find someone like you who has this vision and this mission also yay...

SAMIA: Actually it's so normal to attract one another because yes we attract what we resonate with and what we actually... what we are inside us… so yes and for sure everyone should acknowledge that this is possible to live in a blissful state because I am sure that each of us at one proper time we live this kind of moment of peace of bliss of love of whatever vibration you can name it… 

MARIA: So once you have lived it... it's clear it is possible… now how long you can sit that proper vibration this is probably the key and what we can actually support  people to do through our app creating the proper space a positive vibration where you can enjoy where you can be peaceful where you can enjoy positiveness optimism and all this kind of stuff… 

SAMIA: And yes once you stay at that vibration you cannot live in another one... but I don't say I am living in a blissful state all the time… this is not true… and probably no one here on earth for now can do this… I'm sure we all have situations in our lives that require a bit of stress a bit of I don't know different other states… but this is the thing to be present to be aware of which vibration you are at that time and to know that you can change it… 

MARIA: Yes you can change it and choose which vibration you want to be... I really love that thank you so much for sharing that Maria… will you…

SAMIA: My pleasure… 

MARIA: Yeah please tell us more about your story your journey how did you get here…

SAMIA: To be honest since I was a child I have been always attracted by this spiritual world to say so... I mean a world beyond what you can see what you can feel beyond senses actually… so I always trust that there is a force over there that can help us and support us at any time... of course I don't like to go in a polemic discussion with different religion... religions… I have not... I do respect and love all the religions... and I do believe that each of us as people we have our choose and I do respect all of them… it's just maybe a matter of level of evolution stage that you can see another perspective… actually maybe it's the same truth you know but you can see it and understand it differently… 

MARIA: Yeah yeah… 

SAMIA: For sure ten years before I thought I don't know whatever word whatever phrase you can tell me it was meaning something and now I can see at a larger perspective so yes my understanding maybe deepened a little bit…So I just have respect and love for everything and everyone and yes... I had always liked to evolve to know more I think I I'm starving for knowledge you know so always I like to learn more to grow to be a better person a lover person something better every day you know… 

MARIA: So maybe this is my story to evolve all the time and to hear everyone's perspective and to learn something from each of every one of us…

SAMIA: Do you experience any challenges in this process or in this quest of trying to get to know different people and learning from them….

MARIA: Yes definitely I think... actually I think that challenges are the ones who transform us and yes it might seem very heavy sometimes but still when you see the lesson and when you understand the deep meaning of that challenge I think it's wow… so yes this is maybe... I don't want to take anything as heavy you know I just want to try to understand that there is a lesson and there is something to learn from whatever situation appears on my way... and in the end always was something wonderful to be seen you know…

SAMIA: Indeed indeed… can you share an example of something that you may be initially experienced as a challenge and then you learn something from that…

MARIA: Right now I don't know… okay maybe let's talk a bit about my actual situation… So even if I I'm involved in healing because the brand is named The WOW Healing yes I think even the healing itself is not something very easy... actually to heal something means there is a wound over there… there is a wound there is a trauma maybe anyway there is a wound it may hurt now because every wound even if it's a small scratch it hurts a bit but if we have trust in God… whatever energy everyone and feels there is beyond anything…And if you have faith and acceptance I think and love of course... I think this will give you the proper strength to get over any challenge… right now I can say I'm having a situation with my father who had pneumonia five years ago and he was very ill you know… always I was trying to help him yes to support him with all my tools all my techniques all my knowledge… and of course the fact that he's still alive say a lot of about this because most of the doctors give him no chance I was the only one who said no he will have a chance because he is a great man he is so loved by God and I'm sure he will survive... indeed I was right but yes it's not easy… still you know when you can think yes I help him so much I don't want to say this but yes I can share my techniques with him to support him in the healing process but I can be very honest and tell you that maybe he can teach me even more from what he choose to experience so that I can be his companion in this if you understand me what I mean… yes…So I am so grateful for each of every soul on this planet on this time which yes we can be honest that is not easy to live here at this moment… we have so many challenges all the time but still I am so grateful because yes we are so powerful and we have chosen to be here and this is something to be very appreciated... I think yes we learn from one another and we are teachers and we are students at the same time we are maybe changing roles from time to time but yes it's amazing... it's amazing to live now even these challenging times but if we are using love and we can understand beyond things and beyond situations I'm sure we can see amazing things…

SAMIA: Very true very true... is there a particular lesson that you learn from being your father's companion while he was going through his illness… 

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MARIA: I think these last five years taught me a lot about acceptance and patience…I wasn't a very patient person you know so I was like a stubborn one and always I was so happy and excited of something that I wanted to have it now now now you know and now I understand that there is a divine time for anything and with acceptance and again faith I think we can handle any situation…

SAMIA: So tell me more about what you learned about patience... what is patience is it just about waiting for things to happen in divine time or is there something more to it…

MARIA: From my point at this proper stage of evolution to say so because maybe after 20 years I will tell you something I'm sure I will tell you something different but right now I believe there is yes a divine time so things that happens in a divine time but still we need to surrender to this …in the same time it's not that you shouldn't do anything… I think we need to do our job but still if this thing that you want at that time it's not happening just have it have faith continuously and this will happen you know... and also maybe there is not that thing that need to happen at that proper time… I don't know let me give you an example maybe... let's say I would like to have a Ferrari because I think also The WOW Healing gap is teaching about this lesson too... So let's say I want to have a Ferrari you know this is my dream I make this as a goal of my life yes it's not of course but just to give you an example… okay so I want a Ferrari so I need to be abundant so I need to have a good career to so that I can afford it or a great business whatever… in the end if I put myself to the right questions and I am very honest with myself I maybe I can understand that it's not what I really want to have a Ferrari… maybe I just want the experience to drive a Ferrari maybe just half an hour and if I pay a lot more attention to what I wish I can understand yes I can even afford it right now you know… so I think this is to have of course most of all patients with ourselves and to have the right questions to be very honest with ourselves to get the right answers and actually to get the deeper meaning of whatever situation appear in our lives… 

SAMIA: Yeah… so you mentioned having the right questions... can you tell me more about that... how do you know you have the right questions... what are the right questions...

MARIA: For example in The WOW Healing app we have a section that is named live vision creator …here we address some questions very well thought so that we can help people to get clarified in their vision… so yes to do this I was addressing… 

SAMIA: I see so the right questions are the ones that help you become more clear about your life vision…nice… 

MARIA: Exactly yes about the life vision about what you desire about what is your purpose in life about what could be your meaning and so on… 

SAMIA: That is so interesting... it reminds me of the saying by Albert Einstein... I mean I think he was talking about something a little bit different… but the saying just popped into my mind where he said something like... he said… if I had a problem… like a really big problem and only 60 minutes to solve it I would take the first 55 minutes just understanding the problem just making sure that I understood the problem correctly and… and he said once you understand the problem correctly then the solution appears to you and it's easy… And a big part of of understanding the problem correctly is about asking the right questions… 

MARIA: Exactly actually actually what I think it's a very good question I mean a very good word to start with… would be why... I think why… once you said why the message will come the answer will appear in whatever way you know… so either I talk to you and to tell me something and I understand why that thing or I just open the tv and I just see one phrase and so the message surely will appear... I do believe in a universe that is always always helping us supporting us showing us… but the... maybe the big condition if you can say is to ask...

SAMIA: Yes so once you ask whatever you have in your mind or whatever you want to clarify I'm sure the answer will appear either is coming from inside us or is coming as a message or is coming as a... I don't know as a cartoon as whatever you know as a symbol is coming...

MARIA: Yeah you know... 

SAMIA: I... me... I... presume Albert Einstein wanted to say the same thing… 

MARIA: Yeah... you know I mean I won't try to guess exactly what he was trying to say but I definitely from this quote that I know of his I have learned to understand the importance of paying attention to like understanding what the problem is and asking questions to help you understand the problem… and actually just remembered I have another quote from another teacher that's also about questions and... and let's see I want to make sure I quote it correctly... my teacher said... the quality of your life depends upon the quality of the questions you ask if you want to improve the quality of your life improve the quality of the questions you're asking… 

SAMIA: Yes it's amazing yes... I resonate with it so yes I do believe the same… 

MARIA: Yeah and it makes me think about how... when I was a lot younger and I remember I used to really struggle as a teenager with questions of you know like faith and religion and spirituality and there was like this point in time where... you know I started questioning everything that I was taught… I was like do I really believe this is this really accurate and true to my experience and why are we told to do this why are we taught to think in that way… and some of the elders in my family they got a little bit worried when I started asking these questions because they thought maybe I was losing faith or that I would lose face faith because I was asking all these questions… but actually I found that asking the questions helped me to grow into a stronger person into a better person and a more faithful person... like I am still very much a person of faith I'm very committed to my spiritual faith my religious faith and identity now and I give a lot of that credit to the fact that I asked all the questions that I asked… 

SAMIA: Yep... I can agree with you because you know many times I'm questioning myself okay I don't know let's say I am a very emphatic person you know so let's say you tell me something and suddenly I start to cry I just ask myself inside you know why that... why inside of me was so touched by your story or whatever you said that made me cry... it's clear something... it's very powerful over there okay… So I just try to understand why that… I don't say… and another thing and I don't judge myself you know so I just try to understand to see why and that's it… 

MARIA: Yeah I love that I love that... because being non-judgmental with yourself you just it goes back to you… the value of accepting as you are saying that we need to accept so we also need to accept ourselves and our fears… 

SAMIA: Of course... actually what I think right now is that everything is about ourselves you know so it's just us and the world which is actually within us but we can see it outside but actually is within us you know… 

MARIA: Yeah… 

SAMIA: So whatever you like or whatever you don't like to people around you to situation around you to the situation in the whole world or whatever is coming from within us and the difference between us it's again maybe I repeat myself too much but I just want to be understood that... yes it's just a matter of evolvement... so however I understand now all the situation with the COVID 19 and all this stuff… maybe at the beginning of it I said oh my God maybe I was trying to be judgmental or for sure I had people around me who said that this is not possible this is not… okay but what the question is what from within us open the way to experience the situation you know and how we can work over there so that we can change something…

MARIA: Yeah yeah... is there something you want to share with us that you learned about what opened within you to experience this situation… 

SAMIA: This situation with COVID 19 now... so actually I was a very and I am a very social person I like to go outside a lot to meet my friends so much and yes to interact a lot you know… also on the other side I am an Aquarius person so I am also with technology and all this stuff… still still yes if they say artificial intelligence you know I am more with the divine intelligence which is the divine within us our power our strengths… of course yes we can use all the tools digitalization artificial intelligence to help us but still to be connected at our divine... without the divine intelligence the world cannot survive on this way… but all this I didn't expect to handle so easy all this situation to not see all my friends all the time as I was used to… moreover that I have the situation with my father I didn't want to expose him too much so by exposing me you know… but yes it's unbelievable this time this period of time gave me so much joy because I had so much time to reflect more about the situation about myself about how we can interact one another and how we can find solutions to still remain connected and pipe I found so many things I had I didn't know I have skills in cooking and I started cooking with my friends and because we couldn't go to restaurants and terraces and all this stuff… so I always like to find the joy in every situation and yes in every challenge in the end you know… I find something you know to play it's I think it's a lot… it's meaning a lot to keep your child... your soul like a child you know very playful like this... and to see every situation in a funny way you know and to find the best in everything and in everyone… 

MARIA: So always I was trying to find the good part in everything even when we need to stay isolated in our home I moved my family and myself to another house where we have a yard we have garden and we start gardening and we started planting more flowers to make a more colorful life... I mean you know always I was trying to bring something very nice around me and around the people that I love the most… 

SAMIA: Oh that's amazing thank you for sharing that and I'm sorry...

MARIA: It's my pleasure… 

SAMIA: …I have to start to wrap up for today we're running out of time do you have any last words that you would like to share for today…

MARIA: I just want that we as society to be more aware of our power… our we... I think we are so blessed I mean I didn't see any time that we are here to struggle to suffer yes we are here to learn this is definitely true yes... we are here to learn more… but if you find the best and the beautiful in any situation I think everything come more easy comes more loving and it's nice I mean yes… and I hope The WOW Healing gap will come to create you the proper space to... so that you find all this positive energy that will give you all the time wings to fly to have more faith and to understand that yes we have unlimited potential… 

SAMIA: Yay thank you thank you so much Maria and we are adding the links for your app and any other links... like for me and for Maria so that you can connect with us. So please make sure you check the show notes and connect with Maria and check out her app... and until we connect next time I wish you lots and lots of peace and joy… 

MARIA: Thank you so much Samia... thank you…