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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. […]

Toxic Emotions and Toxic Thinking impact your health

SUffering from Toxic thoughts

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 […]

Supremacy of the Mind over the Body

Supremacy of the mind

The power of our minds is remarkable. At the end of a three-week placebo trial, 59 percent of the patients knowing they were taking a placebo, said their symptoms had been adequately relieved! Sham knee surgeries have been shown to be as effective as real ones! How can we begin to utilize this in our life for the good?