Mental Arguments
Our ability to control where awareness goes in the mind is a critical skill to learn in helping us overcome mental arguments.
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Awareness & the Mind
Every teaching, story, and reflection filed under Awareness & the Mind.
Focus Misconceptions
The many misconceptions surrounding focus lead people to have a misinformed perspective on focus thus shunning it as a possible quality to cultivate in life.
The Missing Link to Mindfulness
Mindfulness and observation are states of being and not something that can be practiced. What you can practice is ...
Making the Case
In speaking at events around the world, I realized that I have not really made the case as to why we need to focus
The Superconscious Mind
If you were to look at the mind in a simplified way you can say that there are three states of mind.
Do you know who is in charge of your awareness?
Most people unknowingly give people and things around them permission to move their awareness from one area of the mind to another all day every day.You can think of this like the same way you give a…
Who’s in charge of your awareness?
Most people unknowingly give people and things around them permission to move their awareness from one area of the mind to another all day every day. The same way you give a director of a movie…
Announcing my App and NEW online course!
Since I released my Introduction to Meditation course in 2016, thousands of students from more than 130 countries around the world have gone through this training. Many students have shared with me…
Manual for the Mind
You have a mind. You are born with it. You live with it. Throughout your entire life, you function in the mind whether it be in your waking state or in your sleeping states. It’s the one thing you…
Awareness and Reactions
As events occur in life, most people react to them in an uncontrolled way. When this happens awareness gets drawn out and externalized. Their energies get externalized too, entangling itself with…
Where awareness goes, energy flows
When I lived as a monk, my guru (Sivaya Subramuniyaswami) taught me a phrase he coined: ‘Where awareness goes, energy flows.’ It's probably one of the most important things I’ve learned. First, we…
Awareness vs. Consciousness
One of my online course meditation students asked about the difference between awareness and consciousness. I’m glad the student posed this question.
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