Interview with Nicholas Haines the author of the book: The Art of Kind and Flowing Relationships and co-author of the book The Story of Boxes, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - not to mention the co-creator of the #NoMoreBoxes Movement, Methodology and Lifestyle. Give you little insights around this magical and a very dear friend of mine.Nicholas Haines, or Nick as I call him, is the creator of The Vitality Test and Co-founder of the Five Institute. Nick is an entrepreneur, international speaker, strategist, author and teacher in Chinese Energetics. He has spent all his adult life practically applying the wisdom of Chinese philosophy within health, personal development, business, leadership, relationships and international change. Nicholas has always considered physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing as a cornerstone of personal and international change. As such he has spent 35 years on the frontline as a Practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine and running a busy Complementary Health Centre in Nottingham (UK) before retiring in 2015. Over that time Nick conducted over 50,000 one on one consultations. And as a testimony to his commitment and expertise, for the majority of that time, he had a waiting list of at least six months to see him as a new client, stretching at some points to a ridiculous 2-year wait. Nick and I have had countless conversations around the consequences of putting ourselves and others into endless boxes. How that stops our energy to flow effortlessly. It creates stuckness and stagnation and prevents us from being the highest version of who we were born to be. In one of our first conversations around this topic, I was a bit devastated. I had noticed people kept telling me to step-into-my feminine energy, and quite frankly although I didn’t feel they meant anything harmful by saying this to me, I could not stop noticing how their suggestions made my skin crawl. Talking with Nick on this subject, he calmed me down when he said: “There isn’t any energy that is feminine, nor is there an energy that is masculine - it’s just energy.” Nick just published his brand new book: The Art of Kind and Flowing Relationships, and I had to get him to share his wisdom around relationships, masculine and feminine energies and what is really stopping us from being our best - or our highest version. Some great takeaways from Nick: Be in bliss and exude peace Look into the other side of things Expand and dive into the abyss We are being conditioned, your gender, education, religion isn’t who you truly are. The desire to feel good is universal ______________________________________ The Change Makers are doing a fundraiser for their #NoMoreBoxes Online Training and Collaboratory Center. A platform designed to teach you how to create safe space for deep-dive conversations that open up for the conscious and unconscious bias behaviours, placing ourselves and others into boxes, that places our focus on what separates us as human beings, not what unites us. Your help is highly appreciated. Just go to www.Patreon.com/NoMoreBoxes today! Or grab a copy of their book; The Story of Boxes, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I want to connect with Runa MAKE SURE YOU DON'T MISS AN EPISODE OF THE CHANGE MAKERS PODCASTSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL ON APPLE PODCAST, STITCHER or SPOTIFY  The Change Makers Podcast RSS Subscribe to The Change Makers Podcast Get the latest transformational out-of-the-box Leadership and Communications Tips, Insights, Tools & Stories from other change makers delivered directly to your inbox. First Name Last Name