So you’re committed to your daily practice. You meditate. Listen to mindfulness apps. Visit your local yoga studio or your online YouTube guru regularly. But do you approach your daily practice with a level of mindfulness that reminds you why you took it up in the first place? Or are you looking for the right incentive to begin a practice for the first time? Steve Hasenberg and Cali Alpert discuss the nuances of a daily practice and the benefits of having one, and they offer up fresh ways to take your practice to the next level.

They say everything is perception, right? That very few things are truly right, wrong, good, or bad. Perception is the part of our consciousness that experiences reality, and it is found in every spiritual tradition, from Native American to Jungian psychology. But where do the beliefs that shape our perceptions come from, and can they be used productively to bring us to a healthier, happier state? Steve Hasenberg and Cali Alpert offer up a valuable, unique way to reframe the way you perceive challenges big and small, as a crucial stepping-stone to thrive and foster joy.

Love and fear are companions on the road of life. How often do you get pulled in by your fears and forget that your essential nature is love? If you allow fear to dominate your life, the result will be dis-ease, anxiety, and an unwillingness to engage with life. If you access your inner reservoir of love, you will have an openheartedness toward life, one of balance and harmony. Steve Hasenberg and Cali Alpert share their experiences and stories about being hijacked by fear and then being saved by love. They will offer ways to heal fear and access the deep love that lives within all of us.

Do you know who you really are? Have you been searching? What you may not know is that you actually have two selves: your ego or material self and your divine or heavenly self. If you operate from the large self, your life is lived with ease and a loving openness to the world around you. If you live from the ego self, the world is full of comparisons and feelings of isolation. Steve Hasenberg and Cali Alpert will discuss their relationship to these two seemingly opposite parts of themselves and share tips about how to work more creatively with both, promising a life of greater fulfillment.

Buddhist teachings remind us that uncertainty is natural to ordinary life. The more we can make peace with that reality by finding the safe refuge that resides in each of us, the less we will suffer. As the world hopes to turn a collective corner coming out of a pandemic, many of us share an expectation that we are wiser, bolder, and clearer on what our lives mean and where we are going. But are we? Or are the continuing unknowns we face in our personal lives and the world at large more murky than ever? Steve Hasenberg and Cali Alpert discuss the many ways uncertainty continues to plague us and offer ways to embrace, even celebrate, the beauty of uncertainty.

Central to all successful relationships is empathy, the capacity to understand the feelings of others—or to stand in someone else’s moccasins. For some people, empathy comes naturally, sometimes to extreme degrees where even a stranger’s emotions become your own. To others, often on the narcissistic spectrum, empathy is a foreign concept. As we emerge from a devastating global pandemic, the hope is that we also emerge with more empathy for others, and ourselves. Steve Hasenberg and Cali Alpert will talk about ways to develop empathy, and how to best use it as a tool to improve your life.

Once relegated to recreational drug users and higher consciousness seekers, psychedelic drugs are making a comeback, this time in the mainstream. Psychedelics like psilocybin and MDMA are part of a growing body of research around the treatment of cancer, depression, alcoholism, and PTSD. Steve Hasenberg and Cali Alpert will talk about the extraordinary outcomes from some of these studies, the current climate around the usage of these drugs, and share their own youthful and revelatory experimentations that have contributed to their spiritual awakenings.

Most of us know a bit about scarcity, and all of us wish for abundance. Yes, money is the first thing we identify with these topics, but the magic sauce to creating abundance is really about more than fixing our financial woes. From a spiritual perspective, scarcity can act as a mirror to the parts of us that feel undeserving, unloved, and undervalued and need to be embraced. With the right perspective, we can create space around our deepest scarcity crisis and create a foundation from which prosperity, joy, and manifestation spring. Steve Hasenberg and Cali Alpert will speak to the wider perspective around abundance, the karmic stories you need to befriend, and action steps to help undo limitations and create what you desire.

Do you feel like the good old-fashioned concept of communication has lost its way? Social media seems to define our popularity. Prompt response time is a rarity, and being direct with your thoughts and feelings is more of a far-reaching concept than a daily practice. From the idea of follow-through, to swiftly answering emails, to trading in gossip for expressing more loving sentiments, Steve Hasenberg and Cali Alpert cover all the bases to good communication in the 21st century.

Is happiness a lasting state or a momentary feeling? While we’ve been raised with an aspirational checklist that would get us closer to achieving happiness, the truth is that happiness is not an achievement, it’s a mastery of leaning into what is. Steve Hasenberg and Cali Alpert discuss the difference between happiness without a cause and happiness with a cause, establish the different types of happiness, and lay out thoughtful action steps to help you get closer to a life of being happy every day.