Shards of Consciousness

In Podcast 55 - Meditation Breathing Exercises, I discussed two breathing exercises from yoga that are useful in improving your emotional and physical state and preparing for meditation, alternate nostril breathing and the skull shine breath. There is a third breathing exercise that falls into this category, the victorious breath.Read more

Personal development means different things to different people. We may relate it to becoming more productive, attaining success in whatever field interests us, spiritual growth, or education. Personal development can relate to all these things, and more, but most of the definitions embody adding to, or taking away from, what we already are or have. I suppose this is inevitable. Much of the western world view is mechanistic. Personal development becomes an exercise in engineering wherein traits are added or subtracted from the personality according to plan.Read more

When we look around, metaphors abound. One of my favorite metaphors I found in a giraffe at the zoo and his fear of the wide world around him. This podcast tells his story.Read more

Courage. The dictionary defines it as
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She loves me! I enjoy movies. Let's have fun! I love my new car.Read more