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Awareness & the Mind Archives

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Apr 16, 2016

The Key to Self-Mastery

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 external world and inner life seems non-existent. They live in a perpetual state of reaction going from one experience to anothe...

Mar 29, 2016
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Understanding a Person’s Mind

Understanding people’s nature and being aware of it when dealing with them is vital for a peaceful and positive outcome. Know your mind in order to know their mind. Know your nature in order to know their nature. You must know you first. For there is no difference between you an
Mar 22, 2016
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Unwavering Focus - a TEDxReno talk

On October 2nd last year I was honored to be invited to speak and to give the opening talk at TEDx Reno. The abandoned Lear Theater in Reno had been transformed on the inside to host the talks. I titled my opening keynote "Unwavering Focus". A special thank you to my friend Rolf
Feb 15, 2016
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How to view Problems

There are two ways to view problems. You can view it from the intellect or view it from the superconscious. The intellect views "problems" as problems. The superconscious views "problems" as repeated subconscious patterns that need to be adjusted. The intellect solves problems
Feb 8, 2016
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Awareness – The Story of your Journey in the Mind

Do you know that you are pure awareness traveling through the mind? Do you know that you are not the mind? Imagine for a while that you are awareness and imagine this awareness as a ball of pure white light. Now imagine you are this ball, pure awareness, flowing through the mind.
Feb 6, 2016
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Awareness the Dog

Your awareness is like a little puppy. If you let it do what it wants and let it run around where it likes then when it grows up it will be uncontrollable. But if you train it right from the start, catch and stop it overtime it strays, then when it grows up it will be like an ob
Feb 1, 2016
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How long does this high last?

Those of you who have been following my blog know that I have just returned from conducting Enstasy, my meditation confluence in Kerala, South India. One of the participants who had returned home to the states recently commented on a post on Facebook asking "how long does this hi