It was a few months after the birth of our second child that I came to truly understand the effects of long-term sleep deprivation. Constantly waking up at 1:00 or 3:00 a.m. soon turned daily life into a hazy blur. I'd often find myself lying in bed, anticipating the next round of crying, or later in the night, I'd be tossing and turning for ages after being woken up. It's no fun whatsoever to drag yourself out of bed every morning with dark circles under your eyes. During this time, it became … [Read more...]
How To Fast-Track a State of Pure Awareness
John Dupuy of iAwake Technologies talks with best-selling author Jonathan Robinson (The Technology of Joy, More Love Less Conflict) about how to awaken spiritually and access states of pure awareness. Jonathan is the creator and narrator of the guided meditations on iAwake’s latest release, Shortcuts to Awakening, which gives us the best of both worlds: effective and proven meditations to help us awaken combined with iAwake's powerful brainwave entraining audio tracks in the background, taking … [Read more...]
Alpha, Theta, Delta, Epsilon, Gamma: What Do These Brainwave States Do For You?
You may already have a good feel for where each of the different brainwave states takes you, and know intuitively what will work for you the best on a day-to-day basis with your meditation practice. If you are a little fuzzy about the differences between the brainwave states, however, and would like to have a really clear, visceral sense of what each state does for you and how they resonate with you physically, mentally, and emotionally, one way you can find out is to listen to Harmonic … [Read more...]
How to Find Your Creative Flow: Tools, Tactics, and Insights
So how’s that novel coming? Your new song? What about that program you were going to write? Or the website you wanted to build? If your creative project, no matter what it is, isn’t coming along as smoothly or as quickly as you’d hoped, you’re not alone. After a lot of soul-searching, research, and banging my head against the wall, I've learned a lot about creative flow, and I'd like to share these tools, tactics, and insights with you. But back to where we started... It’s not that you didn’t … [Read more...]
A Deep Sleep Meditation That Entrains Your Brain
As we are all learning in this age of astounding progress in the field of neuroscience, the brain is capable of being trained and re-trained in ways we previously thought impossible. Now Joseph Kao, a brilliant hypnotherapist from the U.K., has turned his hand to developing a tool -- a guided deep sleep meditation -- to help people both relax deeply and also to retrain their brain to be able to fall asleep more easily and sleep more soundly. What makes this particular tool uniquely powerful is … [Read more...]
How to Survive New Year’s: Part II of How to Survive the Holidays
There’s a real cultural thing about New Year’s Eve that you’ve got to get toasted, right? That’s how you bring in the New Year. Being an introvert, I don’t remember the last time I went to a drunken New Year’s Eve celebration… I don’t even like to watch the ball fall in Times Square. In How to Survive New Year’s, Journey of Integral Recovery podcast co-hosts John Dupuy, Dr. Bob Weathers, and Douglas Prater continue their heartfelt discussion about how to survive the holidays, with practical … [Read more...]
How to Survive the Holidays
“To go home to my family was both painful and also very embarrassing to me. It seemed like if you were to walk in, you wouldn’t see me anywhere, because I was just a little tiny water droplet or something. That’s how powerful a hold lifelong interactions can continue to have.” Journey of Integral Recovery podcast co-hosts, John Dupuy, Dr. Bob Weathers, and Douglas Prater, share their wisdom, experience, compassion, and humor on the subject of surviving the holidays—whether you are facing … [Read more...]
Waking up: Awakening to your True Nature | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Coaching Call on July 26, 2017
In this call, John and Doug answer the question, "What is spiritual awakening?" John mentions a book that he and Doug are currently working on with the working title of The Practice of Life or The Life of Practice. There are four parts to this practice of life or life of practice to help us become the best versions of ourselves: waking up, growing up, cleaning up, and showing up. The conversation focuses on the first step which is waking up. … [Read more...]
How to Change our Negative Life Stories into Empowering Life Stories | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Coaching Call on July 19, 2017
John and Doug talk about how to get rid of negative life stories by tuning in to your interior states, bracketing your thoughts to be aware of your feelings, focusing on your feelings, staying with those feelings, processing those feelings, and then eventually changing your story. … [Read more...]
Heart Healing Meditation: It’s not optional | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Coaching Call on July 12, 2017
John and Doug talk about heart-centered meditation practice - how we do this practice and how it can help us heal. … [Read more...]
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