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Making the Case
Apr 28, 2021 Awareness & the Mind

Making the Case

In teaching or encouraging others to learn to focus, we have to make the case. What do I mean by that? Well, let me tell you a story about how I learned this very important lesson. In 2018, I was invited to speak at the 18th World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, South Korea. The 3-day event had around 3,000 attendees and an impressive lineup of speakers that included former prime ministers and president...

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  • The Superconscious Mind
    Sep 9, 2020

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    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. The conscious, the subconscious and the superconscious mind. What is the superconscious mind? My guru defines it as the “The mind of light, the all-knowing intelligence of the

  • Do you know who is in charge of your awareness?
    Mar 9, 2020

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    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 director of a movie permission to move your awareness all around the mind while

  • Who’s in charge of your awareness?
    Oct 1, 2019

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    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 mo

  • Announcing my App and NEW online course!
    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

  • Manual for the Mind
    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

  • Awareness and Reactions
    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