The Way of Gratitude, Part 3: Emotions Like the Weather
Years back, my relationship to emotions was the same as my relationship to the weather is now. For example, I don’t really follow any weather forecast—for me, it’s quite easy to look through the window or just get out and be in the weather. I don’t really care if there are prospects of good or…
Read MoreThe Work of Anna Wise: The Way of Gratitude Part 2
I would like to introduce you to the work of Anna Wise. Anna had an early interest in meditation, in higher spiritual states. She went to London in the 70s; it was for a summer vacation, but she ended up staying there for a decade or 11 years. Anna met Maxwell Cade, who was a…
Read MoreThe Illusion of Obstacles
Coherence is a peak state, characterized by the harmonious functioning of our mental, emotional, and physical systems. When measured, it tends to show balanced biomarkers, especially those related to heart rhythms, as suggested by the fascinating work being done at HeartMath Institute. When experienced, coherence often feels like an effortless-and-filled-with-joy-can-do attitude, during which we might…
Read MoreThe Way of Gratitude – Part 1 of 3
I like to think about meditation as the art of being present. Being present is something that is quite difficult sometimes, mainly because the mind tends to wander and take us on unexpected trips to either the future or the past. It is often busy producing thoughts that might create anxiety in us, or fear,…
Read MoreOn the Meaning of Life: How to Wake Up and Show Up
I’d like to talk about the meaning of life and tell you what that is from my perspective. First of all, I think we have to wake up. We have to remember; we have to know who and what we really are and wake up to our true identities, because before that we’re just wandering…
Read MorePlaying Golf in the Zone: An Interview with the Creators of VISION54
John: We have with us today two of the premier teachers and coaches of golf on the planet: Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott of VISION54. Pia and Lynn are getting ready to release a bundle of iAwake Technologies tracks for those who are interested in improving their golf game—deepening it, working on their inner game,…
Read MoreHealing Light: The Latest Breakthrough in Biofield Technology
I’d like to talk today about a new program called Healing Light. Over the last few months, we’ve been receiving emails and posts on our Facebook practitioners’ forum, asking if it would be possible to create a program that carried the signatures of sunlight—as well as all the other types of energies that are either…
Read MoreTransformational Life Technology: The Chrysallis Project
John: Hello everyone! We have a special show today. It’s a real honor to have Eric Brown with us, who is working on the Chrysallis project, as the business manager or the… Eric: (Chuckles). Thanks, John. Good morning, everyone! If you were to put a title on me, it would be Business Development, as I’m in…
Read MoreAn Introduction to the New HeartWave Meditation
When I first began meditating, I did so partially as a way to bring some relief from more than two decades of bipolar disorder in which I experienced periods of severe depression for months at a time every year of my adult life. When I first started meditating, I enjoyed a lot of benefits and…
Read MoreWhere a Contemplative Practice with Brainwave Entrainment Can Take Us
I’ve been doing a brainwave entrainment meditation practice on a daily basis for eight years now. It’s hard for me to imagine living life without a contemplative practice at this point, and hard to imagine living without the benefits that I’ve gotten from this ongoing commitment to my inner work and inner growth. This technology…
Read MoreMeditate Like a Rock: The Way to Spiritual Maturity
I was meditating the other day and thinking about the four noble truths of Buddhism: 1) Life is suffering. 2) We suffer because we’re attached. 3) The cessation of suffering is attainable. 4) The way out of the suffering, the path, includes practice. I went over this in my heart, in my mind, in my experience,…
Read MoreShamanic Journey Meditations: Making the Most of Your Vision Quest
For all of you who might be interested in undertaking a Vision Quest, I would like to share with you some powerful shamanic journey meditations. They work on the principle of direct revelation. These meditations are helpful to make your experience very rewarding, whether you are going on a traditional Vision Quest, at a sacred…
Read MoreRelationships, Pain, and Finding Our Deepest Selves
Famous American psychiatrist and author William Glasser says that how we negotiate and take care of the handful of extremely important relationships we will have in our lives, in a large way determines whether we’re happy or not. Our relationships with our parents, our wives, our husbands, our children, our best friends, our mentors, our pets, are…
Read MoreThe Inspiration for Harmonic Resonance Meditation: An Interview with Eric Thompson
John Dupuy: Good morning Eric! I’m talking with Eric Thompson, the creator of the whole transformational line and library of iAwake Technologies. I’m excited to talk about the new product release Harmonic Resonance Meditation. In preparation for our talk, I sat for an hour and did all four tracks this morning. I am really impressed. Can you tell us…
Read MoreTips for Beginners: Getting Started with Brain Entrainment Meditation
To those of you who are just starting out with the Profound Meditation Program, I want to say that I’m very excited for you, because the changes, shifts, and transformation that can happen are really remarkable. Here, I’d like to give you a few tips, and hopefully some really useful information, to get you on the…
Read MoreHow to Develop Compassion: The 5 Stages of Loving Kindness Meditation
I’d like to share with you the 5 stages of Loving Kindness (Metta) meditation. Practicing these traditional Tibetan Buddhist meditations will help you learn to open your heart and develop your compassion. Stage 1 – Loving Kindness For Yourself Stage 2 – Loving Kindness For a Good Friend Stage 3 – Loving Kindness For a…
Read MoreA Powerful Meditation Practice Can Improve Everything That Matters
In the Hindu tradition, they talk about how siddhis emerge after one begins a process of deep meditation and awakening. Siddhis are special abilities and capacities, the equivalent of charisms or “gifts of the Spirit” in the Christian sense. In the Letters of Paul, in the New Testament, he talks about how different gifts of the Spirit were emerging in…
Read MoreA Dedicated Daily Meditation Practice Makes All the Difference
I think that enlightenment is a process—not one where somebody flicks on a light bulb and then you’re enlightened forever, and you’re perfect, and you speak all languages—no. It’s not like that. But it is a process, and when we engage in a daily meditation practice, perhaps that is the most enlightened choice that we can make…
Read MoreUnder Intense Stress? Do a Brainwave Entrainment Meditation Marathon
It’s the last day of a five-week Integral Recovery intensive and I feel really good about it. There was a lot of healing, a lot of practice, and people are at a different place from where they started. We did a lot of work: We meditated an hour every morning and 40 minutes every evening. Then we…
Read MoreThe Neuroscience of Shadow Integration – Part II
Last week we defined the shadow, according to Carl Jung, and discussed how to recognize the shadow when it’s trying to get our attention. (See The Neuroscience of Shadow Integration Part I.) Today I’d like to talk about the possible neural correlates of the persona and the shadow. First, I’d like to point out that none of this…
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