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....

Courage. The dictionary defines it as...

She loves me! I enjoy movies. Let's have fun! I love my new car....

Not all exercises require us to hit the gym. Sometimes the most effective techniques are also the most simple. Yoga long ago developed techniques that ask you to just sit quietly and breathe in a predetermined manner to experience changes in your health, improve your emotional well-being, and heighten your mental faculties....

Odd as it sound may sound, finding out what we believe isn't always an easy task. It isn't that the beliefs that shape our world are buried deep in our unconscious. They're not. But they do tend to hide in dusky, ill lit corners. They work their magic from the shadows while more obvious beliefs obscure their presence. In this podcast I talk about a way we can use our awareness of the obvious beliefs to sweep some of these shadow beliefs out of the corners and into the light where we can examine them and work with them....

Personal growth results from changing our beliefs. Before we can change your beliefs, we have to know what they are. In this podcast I discuss one meditative technique we can use to become aware of the beliefs that are guiding our behavior and emotions....

Television shows can be the source of a lot of metaphors in our lives. And no wonder, there is an interplay between the fiction of the broadcast and the experience of living in which each shapes the other. In this episode of the Shards of Consciousness podcast I touch on cooking shows, and how they can accurately, and inaccurately, act as a metaphor for living....

The dictionary defines a hero as A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life. We have all had heroes in our lives. They may be someone we know face to face. They may be a character from fiction. They could be a figure from history or mythology....