Judith Pennington shares her extensive knowledge of gamma brain waves with John Dupuy, co-founder of iAwake Technologies. Judith is the founder of the Institute for the Awakened Mind, where practitioners from all over the world use the Mind Mirror EEG to map, monitor, train, and research advanced states of consciousness. Judith: I fell in love with gamma in 2005. I had started seeing extended amplitudes up in the high beta range, which normally describe states of stress, anxiety, and … [Read more...]
What Is the Best Brainwave Music for Studying?
When you type “brainwave study music” into your search bar, more than likely, you are going to get a good variety of results: alpha brain waves, gamma, theta… But how do you know which one is the best to use, and when? You’re in luck, because in this article, we will be exploring just that! But first, let’s quickly take a look at the 5 different types of brain waves. Types of Brain Waves Here is a brief summary of each type of brain wave and how it affects your brain — beginning with the … [Read more...]
Trouble Sleeping? Recapture the Lost Art of Deep, Restorative Sleep
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 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...]
Using Meditative States for New Levels of Growth | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Coaching Call on July 5, 2017
John and Doug talk about a new product currently undergoing development with the working title Call of The Heart. In this call, they also discuss how Integral practice can help us reach new levels of growth. … [Read more...]
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