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Life in Balance

Work life balance without a practice

Are you trying to balance your life? We are told we can achieve more sense of wellness by balancing work life and home life. Here are some possible ways that might look. Read more…

Peak Experience

Peak Experience

Peak Experience     Listen to Podcast on the Peak Experience You may believe you have not had a Peak Experience. But you will see that you no doubt have had a few peak experiences. Bruce Lee had a birth defect that may have precluded him for martial arts; one leg was 1.5 inches longer than the […]

Awe: The Secret to a Happier and Healthier Life

Awe: The Secret to a Happier and Healthier Life

Awe: The Secret to a Happier and Healthier Life   Power of Awe Awe is a feeling of wonder, amazement, and reverence. It is often triggered by something vast or powerful that transcends our understanding of the world. Awe can be experienced in many different ways, such as when we look at a starry night […]

What is meditation?

What Is Meditation?

What is meditation?  Simply stated, meditation is a way to relax the mind.  If it’s that simple, why meditate? The most common reasons why people learn to meditate is for anxiety, depression, relaxation, or spiritual awakening. Research has shown that meditation can have physical benefits such as improving the immune system, reducing cognitive decline, helping […]

Five common mistakes made in Meditation

Five Common Mistakes Made in Meditation

5 Common Mistakes Made in Meditation I have taught meditation for over 20 years.  This article reviews 5 common mistakes made in meditation that when corrected can give more results to your life. The word meditation means different things to different people. That said, I would say most commonly it is a period of time […]

What is Ascension and What is Ishayas’ Ascension?

What is Ascension?

  This article gives an overview of what we mean by “ascension” in general as well as what is Ishayas’ Ascension or Ishayas’ Meditation. The name “ascension” has been used for many things.  Some people assume it means leaving the body in order to go to heaven. Just to be clear, for our purposes, it […]

Become the Observer to Expand Awareness

Become the observer to expand awareness

Paying attention to attention, or becoming the observer, reaps rewards….well-being, stress-reduction, fewer mistakes, and improves the immune system. How do we become the observer?

Free meditation tips

3 Helpful Meditation Tips

Advice from Researchers on Meditation –  3 Helpful Meditation Tips        Looking for free meditation tips from key meditators?  Daniel Goleman, a science writer twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize got together with Richard Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Davidson was one of the first researchers […]

Are you trying to Ascend?

Effortless practice

Often we believe we need to “TRY” to Ascend, that if we put effort into it, we will get “there” faster. Also, while we hate to admit it, we may have ideas about what we think it should be like and may often compare our experience with our Ideal Experience.

The Goal of life is also the Source: the Ascendant

Source and Goal: The Ascendant

The Ascendant is the unbounded consciousness that everything comes from. It has many names or even could be called the nameless One. The name, Ascendant, just allows each of us to have a new experience of it, rather than come from all the ideas and beliefs about it that have come down through the eons. […]