My Heartsongs

By Victor La Cerva

What's My Heartsongs about?

A podcast about conscious empowered masculinity, exploring all the vital areas of a man's life, including family, personal evolution, sexuality and love, friendship and solitude, success and right livelihood.

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My Heartsongs episodes:

06.01.2024
My Heartsongs Podcasts 253 Swedish Death Cleaning
It is a challenge to face a lifetime mountain of clutter. I haven’t moved in 24 years, and doing a deep dive and really sifting through stuff to keep what is useful, retain important memories, and yet let go of...
05.19.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 252 These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things
Paying attention to “favorite things” in some ways is a prayer, full of gratitude and appreciation rather than asking for more or something different. The lists are different every time I engage with this little exploration. I wonder what your...
05.12.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 251 More Miracles On The Way
Time for some good news: Gene treatment for sickle cell disease, a new antibody for the fight against malaria and new hope for reducing pain in fibromyalgia.
05.04.2024
My Heartsongs Podcasts 250 Mental Fitness & Optimal Moodality
The 5 a day campaign to get folks to eat more fruits and vegetables has been around for some time. Here is my own 5 a day prescription for optimal moodality.
04.26.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 249 THE NEXT PANDEMIC LURKS
Here comes H5N1! The current bird flu epidemic, which most believe began in 2020, has successfully globetrotted very quickly. Millions of poultry – 90 million and counting in the US alone – have been culled in a futile attempt to...
04.20.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 248 Here Come The Robots
The breakthrough that is now about to explode is that roboticists have started using deep learning and neural networks to create “software” for mobile machines that enable them to learn from their environs, as they navigate and adjust their behaviors...
04.13.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 247 Spare Me The Big A
The guesstimate is that currently about 55 million people worldwide have dementia, by 2050 that number is expected to be 2 ½ times higher. This represents an enormous emotional and financial toll for society, and those directly caring for such...
04.07.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 246 To Sleep, Perchance To Dream
Although the American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends adults sleep at least 7 hours a night, more than one-quarter of adults simply do not meet this recommendation. Getting refreshing sleep is good medicine, an essential aspect of wellness, that we...
03.31.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 245 My Dog Is The Best Part Two
A biotech company is progressing with testing of a canine life extension drug—the company’s name is LOYAL. From dog hotels to fancy pet urns, to cremation jewelry and glass art, perhaps we are going too far for our beloved companions....
03.23.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 244 My Dog Is The Best
It is undoubtedly true that any animal with whom we form an intimate relationship has much to teach us. There is a mystical sacred connection that evolves over time, somehow different than a surprise spotting of a special bird, or...
03.16.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 243 Smartphones, Dumb Minds?
A recent survey of teens revealed that 72% of them felt they were happier and more peaceful to be phone-less, with 1/3 acknowledging they spend too much time on social media and their smartphones. A smaller percentage felt anxious, lonely...
03.10.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 242 Fall Back Spring Ahead
I acknowledge I remain a Prisoner of Time, with some moments when I manage to escape, only to fall again into her clutches, like a wild animal caught by falling suddenly into a carefully disguised pit trap.
03.02.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 241 Uplifting Techno Marvels
Some amazing wonders of our current capabilities as humans to create initiatives for the common good: a pop-up hospital, brain computer interface implants, AI skin cancer detection, the largest solar energy project in the US, and deep sea explorations.
02.25.2024
My Heartsongs Podcasts 240 What Gets Stimulated Gets Enhanced
Resistance to doing what I say I want to do often manifests as negative mindtalk, self-defeating behaviors, avoidance and procrastination. I want to consistently choose “yes” to what nurtures, and drop the “shoulds.” I have learned that success begets success,...
02.18.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 239 Welcome to Bizzaro World
Perhaps as a species all the division we are experiencing is because of an actual epigenetic shift to not trust any of our institutions and instead blindly follow the advice of hive mind social media influencers. If genetic changes are...
02.10.2024
My heartsongs Podcast 238 Guardian Angels?
What to call it, that protective energy that somehow showed up for me in my life multiple times, at least twice a decade, shielding me from serious harm, guiding me to safety?
02.04.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 237 Navigating Life's Inanities
When I am feeling dispirited from the gnawing grievances of my own small self, I surrender to such revered unrest, knowing it is what stimulates me to keep digging and discovering hidden gifts to bring forth into the world.
01.28.2024
My heartsongs Podcast 236 Living To 100
Damage and decay of biological systems is the hallmark of aging, as our cell’s powerhouse mitochondria break down, various and diverse proteins unravel or clump together, and precious reserves of regenerative stem cells dwindle. I was quite struck by a...
01.21.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 235 Where In The World Is Vittorio?
The gentle sounds of swaying trees and crashing waves is what I awaken to most mornings, just before the soft sunlight fills the view behind us with beauty, only needing to open my eyes and slightly tilt my head to...
01.03.2024
My Heartsongs Podcast 234 Make It So!
So what are we exactly? Is the body a collection of specialized cells, a fluid continuum composed mostly of water with permeable membranes on the biomolecular scaffolds of the system, an electromagnetic field, a quantum field? All of these at...
12.30.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 233 Ringing In The New
The world needs us to each do our part. As we approach this new beginning, here’s to more love and kindness, including self-loving and caring, being doing whatever uplifts us. Be a fountain not a drain!
12.23.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 232 Beat The Holiday Blues
All the seasonal traditions – Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Solstice and Christmas – aim to be uplifting with the return of light and goodness. So why do we sometimes fall short?
12.16.2023
My Heartsongs podcast 231 Artificial Intelligence And Real Stupidity
When – not if – the machines became more intelligent than humans, might they turn on their creators? Could we unintentionally create a self-aware AI that has its own motivations and goals? These queries, while they may seem the realm...
12.09.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 230
In common usage, “hate speech” refers to offensive discourse that targets either a group or an individual based on inherent characteristics (such as race, religion or gender). How might we differentiate that from free speech, especially in terms of current...
12.03.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 229 Conscious Aging Principles
I share a recent talk I gave at the Celebration, a long-standing Santa Fe spiritual community. I present some ideas about 3 principles of conscious aging.
11.26.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 228 Crisis
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.” Thus said Michel de Montaigne, the French Renaissance philosopher. How much energy do I give to my worries, anxieties and fears?
11.11.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 227 Armistice Day
Anyone familiar with some of the great war movies – the Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Band of Brothers, & Saving Private Ryan come to mind – will acknowledge their portrayal of courage, comradeship and the meaningless abominations of armed conflict,...
11.04.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 226 Center And Edge
Constantly connected to a digital neighborhood, endlessly distracted, lost in the trance of busyness and the cult of productivity, I can easily drift from living on purpose. I firmly believe that everyone needs a center and an edge.
10.28.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 225 Satisfying The Primitive Brain
The shimmering luminous web of connection to my more primitive self is satisfying in ways that remain important to my wellbeing on every level—physical mental emotional and spiritual. It is hard to articulate, but walking in the moonlight, hunting, gathering...
10.21.2023
My heartsongs Podcast 224 Wow I’m Alive and It’s Amazing
Thought of this as a topic while driving down I25 in a steel container at 75 mph – a journey that a mere 120 years ago would have taken three days – the scenery zipping by as if by magic....
10.08.2023
My heartsongs Podcast 223 CoVid Update Fall 2023
So, how to assess our own level of risk? We know that the risk of severe illness increases with the number of underlying medical conditions present, including obesity, diabetes, heart or lung disease, being immune compromised and others. Just being...
09.29.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 222 Seeking Wisdom Part Three
I continue the exploration of wisdom, this time focused on body based wisdom. I've learned much by consistently listening to its messages. Here is the link to podcast 41 on energy flow awareness as mentioned in the podcast: https://heartsongs.podbean.com/e/41-the-wonder-of-wellness/
09.23.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 221 Seeking Wisdom Part Two
Three more bits of wisdom to share, based on my life experience, which help me to gradually drop whatever is holding me prisoner to my past, and step into the territory of being a pioneer of my own future. For...
09.16.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 220 Seeking Wisdom
The question arises: is there any individual wisdom to be found that might assist me through these modern day societal maladies? As I reflect upon various pearls of deep truth that have been passed down to me, I realize that...
09.01.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 219 The Good Old Days Part Three
I certainly can’t claim that the good old days were free of environmental toxins. What is remarkable is that some things have gotten worse, despite ongoing efforts to clean up our earth nest.
08.20.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 218 The Good Old Days Part Two
The burning question is why could we not find a way to strengthen the humane aspects of medicine while embracing the techno magical advances? In any case some things remain true: you are always your own best advocate when dealing...
08.10.2023
My heartsongs Podcast 217 The Good Old Days
The good old days had their many imperfections, yet, for me, the strong bonds of neighborhood and family, the relative lack of corporate greed, and the more tempered influence of media on our lives made for a better childhood. I...
08.06.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 216 Lessons In Apparent Powerlessness
I believe that our core issue is the central locus of our inner work, the essence of our quest to evolve. It is what fuels our addictions, creates unskillful habits, and stimulates our being triggered by the remarks and actions...
07.23.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 215 Coronavirus Update Summer 2023
I review current endemic numbers, fall vaccine recommendations and emerging helpful info on PSAC, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, also known as long CoVid. Trump vaccine PSA here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INH-CmCgIYs
07.15.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 214: Engaging With the World
Only with time and careful attention have I embraced creativity, compassion, courage and community as my preferred ways of embracing this life journey. The key question all along has been: In what awareness do I want to abide, what qualities...
07.01.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 213 No Resistance
Are these all just disguises of resistance: procrastination, lack of whole heartedness, denial, “laziness”, overwhelm or even giving up on the possibility of positive change? As Marcus Aurelius commented, “the obstacle IS the way.” Link for podcast 41: https://heartsongs.podbean.com/e/41-the-wonder-of-wellness/
05.21.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 212 In Praise Of Creativity In Modern Medicine Part 3
PTSD is a spectrum of normal reactions to highly abnormal circumstances. Basically, a continuation and an exaggeration of the normal protective fight or flight response. In the body's attempt to protect itself, symptoms appear which can be destructive. How to...
04.30.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 211 In Praise Of Creativity In Modern Medicine Part Two
We explore the latest in dogs sniffing CoVid 19, remarkable new malaria vaccines and preparing for the next pandemic.
04.22.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 210 In Praise Of Creativity In Modern Medicine
Cancer miracles to vending machines to combat overdoses, to novel forms of mosquito control to influence rates of disease. Mental health techniques to combat insomnia, and steps to create a healthy GI flora to decrease depression and anxiety. Modern medicine...
04.16.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 209 When Too Much Is Not Enough Part Three
The gap between our collective aspirations to alter the present course of planetary destruction and the reality of the on the ground efforts required to make it so is enormous. Will magical yet-undeveloped new technologies save us? Perhaps, but right...
04.09.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 208 When Too Much Is Not Enough Part Two
In the 2016 book, Half Earth, Edward O. Watson makes a compelling case for us humans – for the sake of our own survival if nothing else – to agree to protect what remains of the intact systems that hold...
04.02.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 207 When Too Much Is Not Enough
I like to connect the dots to two other solutions, both of which in hidden ways contribute to preserving habitat. Waste less food: I hate that horrible statistic that 1/3 of US food production goes uneaten. Use products for longer...
03.11.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 206 Dancing With Uncertainty
Uncertainty certainly fosters fears and revitalizes regrets. Being comfortable with it allows me to greet my circumstances with curiosity rather than constriction, openness rather than anxiety. Dealing with all the painful uncertainty is clearly a bit of a spiritual strip...
03.04.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 205 The Miracle Monster In My Pocket
There is good data to suggest that teens spend half of their waking hours on their smartphones. Feelings of loneliness and sadness are rampant, and teens across the board are getting less sleep and spending less in-person time socializing. Cyberbullying...
02.25.2023
My Heartsongs Podcast 204 My Beloved Bosque Beatitudes
A sampling of my personal beatitudes: 1. Blessed are those who are easily satisfied and have few expectations, for they shall rarely want or be disappointed. 2. Blessed are those who take anything anyone says as a compliment, for they...

What's My Heartsongs about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

My Heartsongs episodes:

My Heartsongs Podcasts 253 Swedish Death Cleaning

My Heartsongs Podcast 252 These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

My Heartsongs Podcast 251 More Miracles On The Way

My Heartsongs Podcasts 250 Mental Fitness & Optimal Moodality

My Heartsongs Podcast 249 THE NEXT PANDEMIC LURKS

My Heartsongs Podcast 248 Here Come The Robots

My Heartsongs Podcast 247 Spare Me The Big A

My Heartsongs Podcast 246 To Sleep, Perchance To Dream

My Heartsongs Podcast 245 My Dog Is The Best Part Two

My Heartsongs Podcast 244 My Dog Is The Best

My Heartsongs Podcast 243 Smartphones, Dumb Minds?

My Heartsongs Podcast 242 Fall Back Spring Ahead

My Heartsongs Podcast 241 Uplifting Techno Marvels

My Heartsongs Podcasts 240 What Gets Stimulated Gets Enhanced

My Heartsongs Podcast 239 Welcome to Bizzaro World

My heartsongs Podcast 238 Guardian Angels?

My Heartsongs Podcast 237 Navigating Life's Inanities

My heartsongs Podcast 236 Living To 100

My Heartsongs Podcast 235 Where In The World Is Vittorio?

My Heartsongs Podcast 234 Make It So!

My Heartsongs Podcast 233 Ringing In The New

My Heartsongs Podcast 232 Beat The Holiday Blues

My Heartsongs podcast 231 Artificial Intelligence And Real Stupidity

My Heartsongs Podcast 230

My Heartsongs Podcast 229 Conscious Aging Principles

My Heartsongs Podcast 228 Crisis

My Heartsongs Podcast 227 Armistice Day

My Heartsongs Podcast 226 Center And Edge

My Heartsongs Podcast 225 Satisfying The Primitive Brain

My heartsongs Podcast 224 Wow I’m Alive and It’s Amazing

My heartsongs Podcast 223 CoVid Update Fall 2023

My Heartsongs Podcast 222 Seeking Wisdom Part Three

My Heartsongs Podcast 221 Seeking Wisdom Part Two

My Heartsongs Podcast 220 Seeking Wisdom

My Heartsongs Podcast 219 The Good Old Days Part Three

My Heartsongs Podcast 218 The Good Old Days Part Two

My heartsongs Podcast 217 The Good Old Days

My Heartsongs Podcast 216 Lessons In Apparent Powerlessness

My Heartsongs Podcast 215 Coronavirus Update Summer 2023

My Heartsongs Podcast 214: Engaging With the World

My Heartsongs Podcast 213 No Resistance

My Heartsongs Podcast 212 In Praise Of Creativity In Modern Medicine Part 3

My Heartsongs Podcast 211 In Praise Of Creativity In Modern Medicine Part Two

My Heartsongs Podcast 210 In Praise Of Creativity In Modern Medicine

My Heartsongs Podcast 209 When Too Much Is Not Enough Part Three

My Heartsongs Podcast 208 When Too Much Is Not Enough Part Two

My Heartsongs Podcast 207 When Too Much Is Not Enough

My Heartsongs Podcast 206 Dancing With Uncertainty

My Heartsongs Podcast 205 The Miracle Monster In My Pocket

My Heartsongs Podcast 204 My Beloved Bosque Beatitudes