Brain Entrainment, Meditation, and… Tennis?
There are two kinds of religions: old-fashioned religion and what is now the emerging religion. Old-fashioned religion is a religion that involves a set of beliefs, or dogmas, that you buy into in order to be saved and in order to be part of the “inner group.” The new kind of religion that is emerging is…
Read MoreWhy Do We Stay With Our Meditation Practice? The Dialogue Continues
John: We left off last week’s discussion with Zen practitioner and psychotherapist Alexander Leuthold just after Alexander remarked, “One point is how we come to do a meditative practice, but the other point, which has become more interesting to me in recent years, is the question, why do we stay with the practice? Alexander: Yes, people…
Read MoreIntroducing iAwake’s Energy Alchemy Series: Biofield Tech Takes Center Stage
The inspiration for the Energy Alchemy Series is all about the biofield formulation. Using biofield technology in different ways helps us to connect with the deepest parts of ourselves and helps us to wake up. For me, the biofield technology itself has become a very beautiful, profound, invaluable support and friend in my meditations and in my daily…
Read MoreProfound Meditation in a Troubled Land: Practicing in Honduras
My wife Pam and I recently returned from a very powerful trip to Honduras, where we had been invited to stay with some very dear friends. As we got on the plane on the way there, I was talking to my older brother who is an international security expert, and he said, “You know what? Honduras…
Read MoreA Profound Meditation Practitioner On Practice, Zen, and More
John: Today we’re having something very cool: a dialogue with Profound Meditation practitioner Alexander Leuthold, who is calling from Germany. Alexander, would you like to tell us a little bit about yourself, your background, how you use the Profound Meditation Program, and how that experience has been? Alexander: John, I remember we met in Bremen, in Germany. You gave a…
Read MoreMeditation and the Physical Transformation of the Brain: Part III
One of the really important structural changes we see due to long-term meditation occurs in the middle prefrontal areas of the brain. In recent blogs, I have discussed what scientists are learning about the structural changes in the thalamus, the left prefrontal cortex, and the parietal lobe. Here I will discuss the findings regarding the…
Read MoreThe Power of Brainwave Entrainment Meditation to Help Release Trauma
I have been kind of a spiritually-oriented person most of my life since I was about 11 years old when I had my first big opening. For many years, I struggled with the idea that I needed to have a meditative practice—a consistent interior practice. This was always very, very hard for me to maintain. Finally,…
Read MoreMeditation and the Physical Transformation of the Brain: Part II
In this series we will be looking at four key structures in our brains that change as a result of long-term meditation: the thalamus, the left prefrontal cortex, the parietal lobe, and the middle prefrontal areas. You can read about the implications of changes that occur in the thalamus in my previous blog Meditation and the…
Read MoreGo Deep, Get Dog: Contemplative Spiritual Practice
A number of years ago when I was working as a therapeutic wilderness guide, a friend of mine, Corey Alexander, told my group and me this story. He said he had been at a Lakota sacred ceremony and afterwards they traditionally have a meal. In the Lakota tradition, dogs are considered sacred food. So, as Corey…
Read MoreMeditation and the Physical Transformation of the Brain: Part 1
One of the key structures in the brain that has been found to be physically changed through long-term meditation is the thalamus. Long-term meditation also affects the prefrontal cortex, the parietal lobe, and the middle prefrontal areas, but here I will focus on the changes to the thalamus and their implications. The thalamus is a…
Read MoreHow the Practice of Meditation Raises Your Stress Threshold
One of the things we know about binaural beats and the other technologies Eric Thompson has so brilliantly woven together in the Profound Meditation Program and iAwake’s other tracks is that with daily practice and prolonged use, in a very short time, we start becoming much more resilient and able to deal with stress. The stress threshold begins to raise and…
Read MoreVaporize Your Performance Anxiety
One of the most common emotional problems we experience revolves around performance anxiety—whether it involves a job interview, a difficult math test, creating a new relationship, or especially public speaking. Building on the seven important insights into obtaining emotional freedom that I shared with you in my last blog, this time, instead of theorizing about…
Read More7 Insights into Obtaining Profound Emotional Freedom
Insight #1: Every emotional experience, including anxiety, has two components: The story which seems to give rise to the emotional experience. The energy behind that experience, the stream of sensation accompanying it. We often get so caught up in the story that is attached to our emotions, that we unwittingly magnify the energy behind such experiences, and in reality…
Read MoreBattling Burnout, Addiction, and Depression with Positive Psychology
I just got off a Skype call with my wife Pam and a colleague of ours from South Africa, Guy du Plessis. Guy is a brilliant man, and he’s written a number of papers on Integral Recovery, which is one of the things that I’ve been involved in—applying Integral theory and practice to the disease of…
Read MoreShawn Phillips and John Dupuy – Mindful Strength Training Video
Train your body, entrain your brain Get your evolution going in the fast lane. John Dupuy and Shawn Phillips begin a discussion on mindful strength training and its role in an integral, whole life. This video is an excerpt from a dialog in the Spring of 2012, Shawn and John sharing their discovery of the power of strength…
Read MoreQ and A w/ Eric: Part 2 – Am I Cheating When I Use Technology to Assist My Spiritual Growth
This is the second video of a new series in which Eric Thompson, Chief Technical Officer and Creator of the iAwake Technology, answers questions he receives from iAwake practitioners. Here Eric is exploring inner meditation technologies versus outer meditation technologies, such as the Profound Meditation Program. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxKOgDmzsCg What do you think about Eric’s response? Do…
Read MoreGetting into the Zone with Eric Thompson and Shawn Phillips
Eric: There’s a Canadian trainer by the name of Thomas Hawes who has developed a concept he calls zone minutes; he has found among the athletes he has worked with, that the more minutes they accrue of being in the zone—of being in that place where they’re totally relaxed and totally connected to everything that’s happening around…
Read MoreTaking a Universal Perspective and What We Can Do to Evolve
Why is the whole big picture—everything, the universe—part of our conversation? It’s because we’re evolving the human brain, which means we’re evolving consciousness. I don’t know of anything more important going on right now, because everything else flows from that. There’s not a problem in the world that I can think of offhand that is…
Read MoreEmptiness and Fullness by Bill Epperly
There are two essential capacities for awakening: emptiness and fullness. What I mean by emptiness is access to radical emptiness—abiding in the place where self can seemingly dissolve to nothing, where we are in the presence of nothing, and yet have the felt sense of tremendous presence that is pure potential. I want to contrast that with…
Read MoreUsing Our Minds to Change Our Brains
How can we, as meditators, use our attention to direct the flow of energy and information in our brains? In effect, how can we use our minds to change our brains? There are many different types of meditation. One person’s definition of meditation may differ from another’s. We can loosely say that one thing meditation has…
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