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Five Common Mistakes Made in Meditation
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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 that a person sets aside

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What is Ascension?
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What is Ascension and What is Ishayas’ 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 has nothing to do with

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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
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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 in Nervous System

We don’t need to accept toxic thoughts   Toxic thoughts create Toxic Forests in the mind   Dr. Carolyn Leaf, a cognitive neuroscientist, has been researching the brain since 1981. She explains that 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 it

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