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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
Benefits of Ascension

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
Expanding Consciousness

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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Love & Bunnies
Expanding Consciousness

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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What lies do you believe?
Expanding Consciousness

What Lies Do You Believe?

What Lies Do You Believe? Our senses lie to us! You may not have ever thought about this concept. We don’t discuss it very often. Many may not even realize that our senses lie to us. And even more important, why do we care? · If we were to believe our senses, we would believe that the sun revolves around

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Upward Spiral
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Upward Spiral of Praise

 Upward Spiraling Current in Creation  “With lightning speed, one rises to complete consciousness once one taps into the upward flow of Creation.” There is an upward spiraling current that runs through all of Creation. Normally, we are so busy thinking 50,000-100,000 thoughts, we’re not even aware of that flow.  Divine Order continually flows like a river that’s taking us to

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Man looking at night sky
Expanding Consciousness

Do you believe your own thoughts? Do you want to believe them?

Do you believe your own thoughts?  Do you even want to believe them?   A poll of 2,000 British workers found they spent nearly two hours every day feeling tense; spending the equivalent of 27 days a year worrying, stressing 3,676 times every year, and six in ten believe these stresses impact their well-being.Whatever the reason for all of this stress,

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