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Awareness & the Mind Archives

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Oct 1, 2019

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 permission to move your awareness all around the mind while watching the movie. For most people, the people and the things in their lives become the director of their daily experiences. People and things di...

Sep 26, 2019
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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 they have a better understanding of how their mind works, a greater ability to foc
Aug 5, 2019
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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 spend 24-hours a day with. You don’t even spend that much time with the people or t
Dec 20, 2018
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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 people and things around them. Before long they find themselves bound to the externa
Sep 4, 2018
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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 have to learn that awareness and the mind are two separate things. Second, our mind
Aug 7, 2018
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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. My guru answers this question in the best way possible. He says “Consciousness and awareness are the same when awareness is total
Jul 31, 2018
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Overcoming Anxiety

I've taken a long hiatus from blogging. My apologies. The last few months have been filled with speaking engagements around the world and working on a few important projects including the development of Siva Ashram, our retreat center in Costa Rica. I hope to update you on some o