My Heartsongs

My Heartsongs Podcast 159 Coronavirus Flameout Part Three

As Nietzsche proclaims: “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.”There is the reality that what can’t be cured must be endured, and we have collectively done that across the globe. The nagging question for me remains: how has the pandemic changed me, and is it for the better?

My Heartsongs Podcast # 158 Coronavirus Flameout Part Two

Worldwide CoVid Deaths stand at 5.73 million as of today. Of course, the actual number is higher due to limited testing and reporting challenges in terms of attribution of the cause of death. Mumford and Sons sing beautifully: But you are not alone in this. And you are not alone in this. As brothers we will stand and we’ll hold your hand, hold your hand.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPy59xNtTU

Has the pandemic taught me to live a more balanced life, to alter my priorities?

My Heartsongs Podcast #157 Coronavirus Flameout

As we hopefully morph from pandemic to endemic over the spring, from looming cosmic dread to tulips once again poking up their little heads in the garden, with all the hope of renewal and new beginnings, the morbidity & mortality risk equation will shift, but certainly far from zero.

My Heartsongs Podcast #156 Dream On Part Three

Rather than leave dream inquiry to the individual, the Senoi people have made it an established social discourse, specifically for this purpose. Each morning, community members gather to talk about their dreams of the previous night. The community’s dream guide, called a halak, encourages people to share the messages, warnings, and gifts discovered in their night wanderings.

My Heartsongs Podcast #155 Dream On Part Two

Today I’d like to explore the borderlands of falling asleep and waking up. Hypnagogic hallucinations occur while falling asleep, while hypnopompic events unfold while awakening. Both states offer fertile ground for discovery.

My Heartsongs Podcast #154 Holiday Time Again

All of the celebratory events of this time offer well wishes to be merry or happy. Happy Channukah, Merry Christmas! If we seek the true path of happiness, Carl Jung and other wise ones tell us, it lies within, in working on ourselves to achieve wholeness, and the personal sense of connection to the Self (capital S) that individuation implies.

My Heartsongs Podcast #153 Dream On!

What is the point to spending hours each night in a swirl of strange fantastic stories and virtual simulations that we barely remember the next day? Often after a bad night’s sleep I feel more dream deprived than sleep deprived. If dreams can be a tool for healing and mind body spirit integration, what might I do to promote and nurture that process?

 

My Heartsongs Podcast #152 Be Your Greatest Part Seven

The focus of this final aspect of be your greatest revolves around identifying and working with whatever core issue runs us. Have you identified what yours might be? What essential questions flows from that awareness? Are you making some progress in weaving those parts of you into your lifepath? Everyone harbors a Shadow, a repository of repressed emotions they would prefer to conceal. It takes both courage and support to look at parts of oneself that were rejected by your parents, society, and even you.

My Heartsongs Podcast #151 Be Your Greatest Part Six

I am a big fan of the Jungian concept of four basic human functions: thinking feeling sensing and intuition. These windows on the world parallel many ancient indigenous ideas of the various aspects of being human, as well as current templates for integrative wellness: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Thus, being your greatest is about actively seeking to evolve and grow by embodying lifelong learning within each of these realms.

My Heartsongs Podcast #150 Be Your Greatest Part Five

This past bit of time has seen the celebration of the Diá de los Muertos —that annual holiday with Mexican origins that honors the dead. And I did my own ofrenda, with lit candle and photo for the recent anniversaries of the deaths of my grandfather and grandmother. Part of being a positive light bringing ancestor myself is clearly and regularly honoring those upon whose shoulders I stand who assisted me in simple and complex ways to move forward in my own life journey.