2010-05-12 - While desire is intrinsic to life, it can contract into the craving that traps us in suffering. This talk explores how we seek happiness yet become habituated to false refuges--substitutes like over- consuming food, dependent relationships, approval, achieving--that can never bring happiness. Our freedom becomes possible when we forgive the way ... Show More
Aug 20
Listening to the Song: The Transformative Power of Deep Listening - Part 2
What becomes possible when we truly listen—to ourselves, to one another and to the life around us? In part 2 of this two-part series, we'll continue to explore listening as a profound spiritual practice and a pathway to intimacy, compassion and healing. When we feel genuinely hea ... Show More
56m 42s
Aug 19
Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care (16:05 min.)
In this guided meditation, we cultivate an embodied sense of acceptance, kindness and care—learning to meet each moment with a friendly, allowing presence. Beginning with the breath and a relaxed, awake awareness, we explore the felt sense of an inner smile, allowing its warmth t ... Show More
16m 5s
Aug 13
Listening to the Song: The Transformative Power of Deep Listening, Part 1
What becomes possible when we truly listen—to ourselves, to one another and to the life around us? In part 1 of this two-part series, we'll explore listening as a profound spiritual practice and a pathway to intimacy, compassion and healing. When we feel genuinely heard, our defe ... Show More
56m 23s
Apr 2025
How to Overcome Craving & Find Joy in the Present
Desire can keep us stuck in a cycle of wanting more. In this episode, Eve explores how mindfulness helps us recognize cravings, break free from them, and appreciate the joy already present. 🔗 Explore more mindfulness tools: 📖 Try guided meditations for craving & desire: Headspa ... Show More
6m 6s
Sep 2025
How to Work with Desire in Meditation
Desire can feel like an itch we’re desperate to scratch, promising satisfaction but leaving us restless. In this episode of Radio Headspace, Dora explores how craving shows up in meditation and daily life, and shares gentle mindfulness practices to observe desire without being ru ... Show More
7m 1s
Jan 2020
114. Wanting Vs. Having or the Pleasure of Desire
This week, I’m diving into the basic premise of desire and why changing how we think about it can be so transformational. We tend to want to push this feeling away when we can’t have something, or rush to acquire the object of our desires if we can have it, but I want to suggest ... Show More
18m 24s
Jan 2020
5: Choose Your Addictions Carefully
Raghunath & Kaustubha discuss how the mind is going to get addicted to something - so choose the addictions that lead to getting grounded, connected, and liberated, through Bhakti Yoga. Plus the appearance of the young sage Sukadeva Goswami the six symptoms of the soul found in a ... Show More
57m 6s
May 2023
The Great Spiritual Conundrum. Attain What You Desire OR Surrender to What Is
<p>In this video, Teal Swan rectifies the two camps within spirituality... The camp that sees happiness as a byproduct of working with your desire to manifest what you want. And the camp that sees desire as suffering and happiness therefore, as a byproduct of accepting what is, a ... Show More
23m 6s