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Your hands teach you a lot about your romantic relationships. There are around half a dozen different hand configurations that symbolise different kinds of relationships. Listen to learn what they are so that you can identify bad ones and forge better choices to upscale the relationship you have or to develop wholesome new ones.

Negativity, prejudice and fear about aging is a process that inevitably leads to self-loathing and despair. One of the hardest things one might be expected to deal with in life is invisibility, not being noticed or valued as a human being. Suddenly becoming invisible due to aging is a particularly cruel aspect of life. People often become reclusive because they don’t want to be seen as elderly and...

Mindfulness is the ability to know what’s happening in your head at any given moment without being carried away by it. Mindfulness has been around in Buddhist tradition for the last 2,500 thousand years. Clinical psychology and psychiatry since the 1970s have developed a number of therapeutic applications based on mindfulness for helping people who are experiencing a variety of psychological condi...

We are presently experiencing the worst drought in decades and it is at times like this when nature switches off the urge to reproduce and turns its attention to survival instead. All animals exhibit adaptive responses to the lack of food. When deprived of nourishment, animals employ various mechanisms to reduce metabolism. This prolongs the period in which energy reserves can last. Science seems...

Steve Anderson is now banned from entering South Africa unless he repents publicly from his current views. He will claim that the Devil has control of this country and that he has the God’ unequivocal blessing. This will be cited as another case of the Forces of Evil versus the Forces of Good. But what motivates people to seek conformity in others? Why can’t we just get along with everyone, regard...

Eavesdrop on a telephone conversation I had with Jennifer Hirsch. She is a Chirologist, an ambassador for the craft of hand reading and the ancient knowledge of palmistry. Chirology is a dialogue therapy. In using counselling with hand reading, Jen’s purpose is to teach that our hands are our unique, personal guide and tool for self-enquiry, and that their forms and markings tell an accurate story...

In the first part of this show we take a close look at one’s intrinsic value, who are you and what you are worth. Then, in the second half of the show we do a little soul searching of our own when it comes to protesting over Pastor Steve Anderson’s visit to South Africa.

There are two threads that are often entangled and they are Love and Sex. Love is an emotion; sex is a biological urge. Often, when one is in a state of emotional neediness, one uses sex to bargain for love. Sex can also be addictive and one can get hooked on one's own neurochemistry. Nevertheless, Love and Sex can also be spiritual pathways worth exploring.

Christianity has a lot to say about LGBTI issues, condemning homosexuality based on literal interpretation of scriptures. The story of Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah is frequently offered as the reason for condemning same-sex practices. But is this the only way we should be looking at Biblical texts? The Bible, if it is to be the Word of God, can contain only one truth. Hence, is there any possibility...

Islam, like so many other religions, takes issue with LGBTI people. I interviewed Imam Muhsin Hendricks. The Inner Circle started as a social group in 1996 when some Sufi Muslims realised the need to create support for queer Muslims. Imam Muhsin Hendricks, ex-scholar of the University of Karachi, Jamia Dirasaat (1990 – 1994) pioneered the venture with a vision to reconcile homosexuality and transs...

When a friend became the station manager for a radio station broadcasting on the internet to an LGBTI community, I jumped at the occasion to join the station's group of producers|presenters. This is the introductory podcast on Soul Searching.