Send me a message Words hurt. The unkind words and actions of others can hurt far worse than physical pain. Physical pain is fleeting, but disappointment, betrayal, disrespect and cruelty can last a lifetime and change us forever. So what can we do? Is there a way for other people's words and actions not to effect us? Is it truly possible to stay at peace, even when you're home for Thanksgiving with all the people who know exactly how to push your buttons? In this podcast, I share the real reaso...
Aug 02, 2025•22 min•Season 1Ep. 159
Send me a message Why isn't peaceful oneness our natural way of being? Why does it seem so hard to break free from our fears and pain? Why do we fall for the illusion of separateness? Why is there even this illusion that makes us suffer and feel alone? In this podcast, I get to the heart of why our thinking causes us so much misery. I talk about why we fall for illusions. I discuss the root cause of internal and external conflict in this world. And I share simple ways to root out those causes so...
Jul 26, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 158
Send me a message Life is made up of hard choices. It's those big moments that define our lives. It's not the outcome that matters. It's those precious moments where we get to decide which direction our life takes. We put so much pressure on ourselves to make the right decision, but we forget that it's the journey and freedom of having options that makes life so meaningful. The heart is always open to new possibilities, the gut guides us, but the mind stops us. We think the mind is being rationa...
Jul 05, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 157
Send me a message Why are we here? Seriously, what's the point? Why is there a universe where we lose everyone we love and everybody dies? Why is there war and famine and widespread poverty? Is there a purpose? What purpose could there be for all this suffering? Is life a cruel joke? These are the age-old questions that have puzzled humans for thousands of years. But perhaps we've been looking for answers in the wrong places. In this podcast, I share why we're truly here, how to get through life...
Jun 28, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 156
Send me a message What can we do when the world is burning all around us? How can we stay hopeful when we are surrounded by hopelessness? What is the point of life when we have nothing to live for? I know that our world can sometimes feel dark, scary, lonely and meaningless. Every hundred years, nearly every single human will die. A slow moving apocalypse is coming for each of us. Our whole world will one day be shattered and destroyed. Everyone we know and love, gone. This is the nature of this...
Jun 21, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 155
Send me a message Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do good things happen to bad people? And more importantly, why can we have everything in life and still feel empty inside? Is karma why some people seem to have all the luck? Is there cosmic justice in the afterlife? Some kind of Heaven or Hell? Is life totally random? Or is there some other explanation? In today's podcast, I explore these timeless topics. I talk about why life can seem unfair. And I share how we can all have the goo...
Jun 07, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 154
Send me a message We can move forward from any mistakes. We can be freed from all regrets. And we can gain from both wisdom and courage. None of us are slaves to our past. The fact is, notions of regret and mistake live only in the mind. We did not choose our circumstances or our brains. These self-imposed prisons are merely illusions we carry with us. So many of us spend so much of our lives feeling regret for mistakes we've made in the past. It's part of life, to live and to learn. But the gre...
May 31, 2025•24 min•Season 1Ep. 153
Send me a message Does every human being have Buddha nature and Hitler potential within them? Are we destined to exist within one of these extremes? Are we forced to live according to our programming — genetic, cultural and familial — or are we capable of rewriting our future? Do we all truly have the potential to achieve Buddhahood, Christ consciousness, and Krishna consciousness. And if so, how? The more we understand what makes a person who they are, the more we discover how to change ourselv...
May 23, 2025•22 min•Season 1Ep. 152
Send me a message Relationships are both the greatest sources of happiness we can find in our lives, and the greatest sources of pain and suffering. Not only can relationships cause us tremendous heartache, but the lack or loss of them can be even more heart-wrenching. So what are we supposed to do? Live as hermits in solitude? Live as doormats to be taken advantage of? Live in constant conflict? Or is there a better way, a way we can enjoy the delights of companionship and skip the conflict and...
May 16, 2025•24 min•Season 1Ep. 151
Send me a message We all want our life to be all peaks all the time. We want maximum enjoyment, pleasure, satisfaction and achievement every moment of our waking lives. Even when we're asleep, we want the best dreams on the best mattress and sheets. We want to always be at the peak of the rollercoaster of life. We want to reach the peak of the mountain without doing the hard, grudging work to get there. Not only do we want it, but we've come to expect it. And that is one of the major causes of s...
May 09, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 150
Send me a message Why do we give great advice to others and yet we have a hard time following it ourselves? What is the root cause of our own self-sabotage? Why do we keep making the same mistakes over and over again? And what can we do to break the cycle? In this podcast, I talk about why we keep failing to make positive changes and I share a simple 3-step process for breaking free from that inner voice that keeps giving us bad ideas. If we want to stop making life hard for ourselves, we have t...
May 02, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 149
Send me a message We are all addicts. Every single one of us is addicted. And it's not to our phone, alcohol, food, work, substances, gambling, sex, shopping or whatever else you may think it is. Some of us are wild and out of control. And some of us are able to manage our addiction. But we all struggle, we exhaust ourselves putting forth tremendous effort to refrain, and in the end we either cave in or temporarily fight off. But we all have this one addiction, and it is the cause of all our oth...
Apr 25, 2025•25 min•Season 1Ep. 148
Send me a message Who’s your best friend? Did you say yourself? You should, because there’s no one more important to you than you. You may think there is, but you can only experience other people through your own state of consciousness. So your state of consciousness is the most important determining factor for your relationships and your happiness in life. So how do you treat yourself? How do you talk to yourself? Are you loving and kind, or critical and harsh? Do you spend quality time with yo...
Apr 19, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 147
Send me a message There is an epidemic sweeping the world. You may have it and not even know it. That disease is called denialism, and it's not just psychological. It manifests as physical symptoms and can negatively impact every aspect of our life. We live in a world where appearances matter more than truth. We are rewarded if we can shove down our pain, ignore our stress, and drown our sorrows. But when all of those problems bubble under the surface, eventually they explode. Denial is one of t...
Apr 12, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 146
Send me a message What if your entire life is being shaped by wounds you don’t even know you have? Most of us carry emotional scars buried so deep, we’re not even aware they exist. And because we don’t see them, we don’t know we need healing—let alone how to begin. Trauma isn’t always dramatic. Sometimes, it’s subtle. It’s the weight of things unspoken, inherited pain passed down from generations, childhood moments that left marks, or a society that never taught us how to feel safe. The real iss...
Apr 05, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 145
Send me a message When we look around and see the suffering in this world, it can be easy to wonder what the point of life is. But it is not our world that shows us the suffering. It is our mind. When we are happy, we notice the kindness and beauty in this world. When we are in pain, we only see the bad stuff. In today's podcast, I talk about how we can change our mindset, not to tune out the world's problems, but because only by changing our level of consciousness can we actually create real an...
Mar 28, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 144
Send me a message Why do we exist? Are we here to suffer? Is life a tragedy? Or, is life a cosmic joke? Are we the punchline? Is the joke on us? Sometimes, it's easy to wonder why we are here on this Earth if life is so full of suffering. But one thing is clear; there is a way out of this suffering. The more seriously we take life, the more we suffer. The more attached we are to the physical world, the more we suffer. And the more consumed we are by desire, the more we suffer. Only when we tap i...
Mar 17, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 143
Send me a message Our friends, family, neighbors, community, society and the media all tell us what makes a perfect life. It's inescapable. We're supposed to graduate at 18, go to college, get rich, get married, get a house and 2.5 kids all by the time we're 30. We're supposed to remain in the same profession until we retire at 60. And if we do it all just right, we'll be happy. But human beings are not all the same. What if following the plans of someone else doesn't make us happy? What if our ...
Mar 10, 2025•22 min•Season 1Ep. 142
Send me a message What is life? What is reality? What is our place in the Universe? Why are we here and what does it all mean? And how can we best go about navigating this chaotic world so that we can have a peaceful life? I answer these questions and more in today's podcast. Please enjoy other episodes where I share meditation techniques, tips and spiritual lessons from around the world for peaceful and stress-free living. Remember to subscribe to stay up-to-date. For the days when life feels l...
Feb 28, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 141
Send me a message We spend most of our waking lives focused on the world around us. All day we look around, giving all of our attention to what we see and hear. We spend our days trying to control our external circumstances, we blame people and our situations for our how we feel, all while neglecting our inner world. But, it is in fact our inner world that creates our external world. The outer world will always be outside of our control, but the world of our thoughts and emotions is the one plac...
Feb 21, 2025•24 min•Season 1Ep. 140
Send me a message Having the approval and praise of others is a natural human desire. We evolved to depend on each other for our survival, and so maintaining strong social bonds is in our DNA. But too often, people may voice their disapproval who do not have our best interests at heart. Other times, people may be too overcome with fear and worry to approve of people's lifestyles and choices that are different from theirs. So how can we navigate these uncertain waters? How can we know when to tak...
Feb 04, 2025•25 min•Season 1Ep. 139
Send me a message We are all on our own unique journey. And while no one can tell us what our adventure has in store for us, fortunately there is a great deal of wisdom that can be gained learning from people who have gone before us. Life is meant for growth. That's its purpose. It's the same for a tree or a person. While I am not done growing, there are many things I've learned along my on unique path. In this podcast, I share the five most important lessons I learned along the way that would h...
Jan 25, 2025•24 min•Season 1Ep. 138
Send me a message No one is immune from life happening — the ebbs and flows, the ups and downs, the exciting and the monotonous. But it is this variety that makes life a beautiful tapestry. Someone recently asked me what I do when I get sucked into the mundanity of life. So, what tips and tricks can we employ when life gets boring or repetitive? And is it our external situation that needs change, or our internal one? I answer these questions and more in today's podcast. Please enjoy other episod...
Jan 17, 2025•24 min•Season 1Ep. 137
Send me a message Bad days. We all have them. It's the nature of life. Life is in a constant state of renewal and decay. Bad days can be caused when we face tragedy, or it can be from traffic or spilling our coffee. So what can we do when life's events don't go according to our plans and wishes? How can we overcome those negative downward spirals of thoughts and emotions? And what can we do to change the way we perceive life's undesirable circumstances so that we can prevent bad days from happen...
Jan 09, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 136
Send me a message From the moment we're born, our lives are set to a timer. We're supposed to start kindergarten by this age, graduate college by that age, get married, have kids and buy a house by such and such ages. But what are we supposed to do when our life doesn't go to plan? Life is not a one-size-fits-all, cookie-cutter recipe. As long as we are in a race to the end of our lives, we will miss out on the entire journey. In today's podcast, I share what we can do when life takes a detour, ...
Jan 01, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 135
Send me a message We all can reach a point where we just don't feel like doing anything. But why does this happen? Why do we get to a place when we feel like we need Tony Robbins to walk into our bedroom and start yelling at us to get it together? And if we are not close friends with Tony Robbins, what are we supposed to do about it? The good news is we don't need Jillian Michaels or Tony Robbins to yell at us. A lack of motivation is not the cause of this feeling, it's the symptom. Motivation i...
Dec 25, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 134
Send me a message How do we know when to make a change and when to accept our circumstances? Is it better to stay in a familiar and safe situation than it is to take a risk on ourselves? Should we fulfill the expectations of our family or live a life that we find fulfilling? These questions are delicate balances we will each need to navigate in our lives. Finding where the line is between hurting others and hurting ourself can be hard to find. But at the end of the day, we only have one life to ...
Nov 24, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 133
Send me a message Life moves in cycles. It is the nature of all things. We live in cycles with the sun, the moon, and the seasons. Our life moves in phases from infancy through old age. We have times of high energy, low energy, emotional highs and emotional lows. This is the nature of being human. When we spend our whole life engaged in doing things, we fail to understand how these bodies of ours operate. It's like we're strapped into a rollercoaster and we have no choice but to go along for the...
Nov 11, 2024•21 min•Season 1Ep. 132
Send me a message There are four common mistakes in our thinking that nearly all of us make and that contribute to our suffering. These misguided thoughts that stem from false beliefs cause us to inadvertently harm ourselves, our communities, and our planet. In this podcast, I share what those mistaken beliefs are, where they came from, how to spot them, and what we can do about them. I talk about how they block us from becoming truly happy, and what we we can do to overcome those blocks and sta...
Nov 01, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 131
Send me a message Forget disinformation, misinformation and malinformation. We live in a world of mass information. Every one of has access to endless content on our phones, TVs, VR headsets and tablets. Unfortunately, those algorithms don't tell us what is actually the most important, helpful, useful or honest content to consume. So what are we to do? In this podcast, I share how we can navigate this increasingly complex media landscape, how to notice bias and manipulation, and most importantly...
Oct 24, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 130
