I’ve been doing a brainwave entrainment meditation practice on a daily basis for eight years now. It’s hard for me to imagine living life without a contemplative practice at this point, and hard to imagine living without the benefits that I’ve gotten from this ongoing commitment to my inner work and inner growth. This technology…
Read MoreI was meditating the other day and thinking about the four noble truths of Buddhism: 1) Life is suffering. 2) We suffer because we’re attached. 3) The cessation of suffering is attainable. 4) The way out of the suffering, the path, includes practice. I went over this in my heart, in my mind, in my experience,…
Read MoreFor all of you who might be interested in undertaking a Vision Quest, I would like to share with you some powerful shamanic journey meditations. They work on the principle of direct revelation. These meditations are helpful to make your experience very rewarding, whether you are going on a traditional Vision Quest, at a sacred…
Read MoreFamous American psychiatrist and author William Glasser says that how we negotiate and take care of the handful of extremely important relationships we will have in our lives, in a large way determines whether we’re happy or not. Our relationships with our parents, our wives, our husbands, our children, our best friends, our mentors, our pets, are…
Read MoreJohn Dupuy: Good morning Eric! I’m talking with Eric Thompson, the creator of the whole transformational line and library of iAwake Technologies. I’m excited to talk about the new product release Harmonic Resonance Meditation. In preparation for our talk, I sat for an hour and did all four tracks this morning. I am really impressed. Can you tell us…
Read MoreTo those of you who are just starting out with the Profound Meditation Program, I want to say that I’m very excited for you, because the changes, shifts, and transformation that can happen are really remarkable. Here, I’d like to give you a few tips, and hopefully some really useful information, to get you on the…
Read MoreI’d like to share with you the 5 stages of Loving Kindness (Metta) meditation. Practicing these traditional Tibetan Buddhist meditations will help you learn to open your heart and develop your compassion. Stage 1 – Loving Kindness For Yourself Stage 2 – Loving Kindness For a Good Friend Stage 3 – Loving Kindness For a…
Read MoreIn the Hindu tradition, they talk about how siddhis emerge after one begins a process of deep meditation and awakening. Siddhis are special abilities and capacities, the equivalent of charisms or “gifts of the Spirit” in the Christian sense. In the Letters of Paul, in the New Testament, he talks about how different gifts of the Spirit were emerging in…
Read MoreI think that enlightenment is a process—not one where somebody flicks on a light bulb and then you’re enlightened forever, and you’re perfect, and you speak all languages—no. It’s not like that. But it is a process, and when we engage in a daily meditation practice, perhaps that is the most enlightened choice that we can make…
Read MoreIt’s the last day of a five-week Integral Recovery intensive and I feel really good about it. There was a lot of healing, a lot of practice, and people are at a different place from where they started. We did a lot of work: We meditated an hour every morning and 40 minutes every evening. Then we…
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