Episodes
June 1, 2016
A Full Cup
There are many, many people out there talking about abundance. They say that if you think only positive thoughts and emotions, if you build the right kind of vision board, you will find yourself gifted with all your dreams co...
May 18, 2016
Nancy Dreyfus: Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love
One of the most difficult challenges of any relationship is communication. How do we say what we mean without lashing out, or hurting the ones we love the most? Unfortunately, we tend to go to the extremes on this one: We eit...
May 4, 2016
How to Let Go
People say it all the time, right? You hear it almost every day: Let it go, man, just let it go. But what they forget to tell you is HOW to let it go. It’s easier said than done, right? If you are holding on to something, obs...
April 20, 2016
The Distillation Process of Love
We go around all the time telling each other and ourselves that we should “be” more loving. Be more kind. Be more respectful. But how do we make these shoulds into reality. The truth is that anytime we put the word “should” i...
April 13, 2016
Spiritual Telepathy
I remember watching Star Trek on TV as a teenager and wondering what it would be like to be able to read the minds of other people. Back then that’s what I thought telepathy was all about—sneaking into the thoughts of another...
March 30, 2016
Coming Alive
We generally belief that “livin’ the good life” means having lots of money to buy all the things that give us pleasure. That’s because we don’t know that pleasure is not the same as joy. We also believe that avoiding difficul...
March 2, 2016
What's divine about Self?
In order to answer that question we first have to understand that Self is not the same as self. Indeed, what we consider to be self or personality is commonly made up identity. Identity is formed by introjecting the projectio...
Feb. 24, 2016
Surrender to the Divine Self
There is not one single miracle, not one single answered prayer, not one single period of bliss or peace that does not involve at least a temporary state of surrender to divine Self. That said, however, that is not how we thi...
Feb. 10, 2016
Detachment
If you know anything about the Buddhist philosophy, you know that one of its primary principles is detachment. We are not to attach ourselves to people, places, things, events, circumstances or situations. But how does one li...
Feb. 3, 2016
The Ancient YOU
Have you found your deepest ancient roots? No. We're not talking about your genealogy, though that can certainly be a part of it. We’re talking about the deepest collective archetypal memories found in the corpuscles of your ...
Jan. 27, 2016
Oneness
Why is it so very difficult for us to imagine that we are One with all, and that all is One with us? Why is it that we feel so very separate from the divine and each other? Why does any one of us ever feel lonely? Today we ar...
Jan. 20, 2016
The Gift of Sorrow
No one wants to feel sorrow. It is the emotion we most avoid, for it makes us vulnerable to the onslaughts of deep emotional and psychic shifts. We live in a world in which the social pressures and rigid schedules of life for...
Dec. 9, 2015
Gratitude and Presence
There are many spiritual teachers teaching that we should practice gratitude as a daily, even hourly part of our routine—so that we will maintain a positive outlook, increase our mood, decrease our stress and make us generall...
Dec. 2, 2015
Inside the Miracle with Mark Nepo
What do we do with the enormous suffering created by such things as deadly illness and trauma? They say, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But when the miracles come, what is it that happens within us, around us, abou...
Nov. 11, 2015
Whatever!
What can you expect to happen next in your life?Will you get that job or relationship you want? Or not. What if it doesn’t happen? What will you do then?
Oct. 21, 2015
Where is Your Peace
If you are like most people, at some point in your life you begin to think that lasting peace or happiness will forever elude you. You may have had periods of satisfaction or contentment but deep, abiding peace seem to be imp...
Oct. 14, 2015
Wicked Thoughts
We still hear a lot about how it is that we should control our thoughts so that we can get what we want. There are memes on social media sites every day about this idea. We are constantly being advised to watch what we are th...
Oct. 7, 2015
Surrender as Personal Empowerment
Typically we don’t think of surrender as a form of empowerment. We think of surrender in terms of defeat, waving the white flag and feeling forever after that like the loser. But surrender is allowing the soul to be itself. S...
Sept. 30, 2015
How to Thrive Through Life's Transitions
We all have major life transitions, which come in many different forms. But these difficult times can be thresholds to a new adventure. How do we take the challenge to turn what appears to be a block or even a death, into a t...
Sept. 23, 2015
Mind Control of Original Thought?
Have you ever looked back over your life and thought to yourself, “I’ve been had?” Well, don’t feel alone, many of us have experienced deliberate gotcha’s perpetrated by those who want to manipulate, abuse or control us. But ...
Sept. 16, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: What are we going to do about guilt?
Joan Borysenko is back this week for the third time to talk with us about guilt, for guilt can be a major block to our resilience factor. Her latest book, “It’s Not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Chan...
Sept. 9, 2015
How to have a healthy, happy, long-term relationship
We have arrived at adolescence in our understanding of relationship—in other words, we have a long way to go. But, well, what do we expect? Only 150 years ago, we were still often arranging marriages. We arranged for a good d...
Aug. 26, 2015
Illusions, Delusions and Lies
What is it that keeps us from living authentically? Well at least a part of it is the illusions, delusions and lies we believe that keep us from even considering that there is such a thing as the authentic Self, or that we ca...
Aug. 19, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: Getting the Gift from Grief
When we experience a loss or a defeat, we often feel a great deal of pain. Added to that pain is also a self-judgment, self-recrimination, that has to do with our effort to spiritually by-pass grief altogether. Many are teach...