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Become the observer to expand awareness
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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?

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3 Helpful Meditation Tips
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Free 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 to demonstrate neuroplasticity of the

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Effortless practice
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Are you trying to Ascend?

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.

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Source and Goal: The Ascendant
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The Goal of life is also the Source: 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. Many techniques lead to higher

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SUffering from Toxic thoughts
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Toxic Emotions and Toxic Thinking impact your health

TOXIC EMOTIONS AND TOXIC THINKING    Every time you have a thought, it changes your brain and your body – for better or for worse.  Examples of Toxic Thinking Dr. Carolyn Leaf has studied the human brain since 1981 and wrote a book about the effects of toxic thoughts. Below is a list from her book of common toxic thoughts: 

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The Lord’s Prayer (from Aramaic)

 The Lord’s Prayer  This is the Lord’s Prayer translated from its traditional Aramaic prayer. (While Jesus actually spoke Aramaic, the New Testament was actually written in Greek). This was translated by Aramati Ishaya

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Toxic forest of Tress
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Accepting Toxic Thoughts Creates Twisted Forests

Have you ever considered what happens in your brain when you think negative thoughts? This article reveals what happens in the brain and then the body after thinking negative thoughts. Active choice along with tools such as the Art of Ascension remove the toxic thoughts and help heal the mind.

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Love & Bunnies
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The Effects of Love on Bunnies

Oh, the power of love!  Odes and sonnets have been written, yet the power of love to heal is just beginning to be researched by science. Here is a favorite story that astonished the scientific community in the 1970’s. This is an excerpt from Deepak Chopra’s Quantum Healing: “An Ohio University study of heart disease in the 1970’s was conducted by

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Which way to go
Expanding Consciousness

Power of Choice

Power of choice Dr. Carolyn Leaf, a cognitive neuroscientist, has been researching the brain since 1981. She explains that as we journey through life, we must actively make choices about what thoughts to accept. Toxic memories take up space and affect the way you think as well as the way the brain functions. If you accept toxic thoughts, “you push

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