Practice of Meditation
What if you could be a 30% better you? | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Coaching Call on May 3, 2017
John and Doug discuss how to be a better you – how you should always be available to what you can learn. You have to show up to whatever you experience and do the best you can do in that moment. For John, his daily practice helped improve 30% in spirituality, in health, and in…
Read MoreDeep Practice and the Mind Body Spirit Connection | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Coaching Call on April 26, 2017
John discussed in this week’s call the four pillars for practice: wake up, grow up, clean up and show up. Wake up: You need to stay awake Grow up: You need to go to the highest level of your moral development Clean up: You need to deal with your shadow, trauma, and screwed up childhood…
Read MoreCompassion and the Art of Forgiveness in Integral Recovery and Beyond | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Coaching Call on April 19, 2017
John is back with the Integral Recovery Podcast coaching team, Doug Prater, and a special guest for this week, Dr. Bob Weathers. Dr. Bob Weathers has a PhD in Clinical Psychology. He is also a therapist, teacher, writer and a practitioner. In this call, he shared the 9 Different Perspectives on Forgiveness, and grouped…
Read MoreIs Using Technology Cheating? & Flow States? | Practitioner’s Weekly Coaching Call – March 22, 2017
John explores flow states, Stealing Fire, answers questions about long-term PMP3 use, is it cheating, etc. Click to Play or Download Audio Themes from this call: Flow States Practice Doug Prater Joins the call Is it cheating? How do you use iAwake tracks at work? ______________________________________________________ Questions/Comments I spent over a decade doing dozens…
Read MoreWhat IS Spiritual Technology 2.0? | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Coaching Call – March 15, 2017
John discussed spiritual technology and how spirituality deals with ultimate questions: “Who am I?” “What am I?” “What am I here to do?” Technology is any tool to assist you in doing something. How meditation (especially in using iAwake tools) helps in finding your deepest self. Certain meditations focus on the heart center –…
Read MoreFlow States & Micro Doses | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Live Coaching Call on March 8, 2017
This week John discusses: • Extended Meditations – do 2 hours instead of 1 hour • Flow States • Stealing Fire book • Flow State’s STER: Selflessness – Timelessness – Effortlessness – Richness • Translucent Revolution • Radical Brilliance • 16 Neurohacks: Digital Coffee – Digital Energy • Deep Delta • Micro-dosing LSD • Trans…
Read MoreStormy Monday | iAwake Practitioner’s Weekly Live Coaching Call on March 1, 2017
This week John discusses: • John starts off with an electric blues version of Stormy Monday, per request from the group the week before. • Practice: work your body, emotions/mind… shadow, spiritual • Integral Recovery (& upcoming podcast) Click to Play or Download Audio Questions/Comments: • “One question I have is what are practitioner’s experiences…
Read MoreWhat is your super power? iAwake Call 2.22.17
This week John discusses: Integral Recovery Cleaning up – waking up – growing up – showing up What is your Super power: Practice Many questions & comments Download the audio Questions/Comments: 20:06 – What is your experience of excavating deep fears in epsilon as contrasted by trauma in deep delta? 29:44 – Do you ever…
Read MoreDoug Prater, iAwake user, establishing a daily meditation practice – iAwake Weekly Call 2.15.17
Themes from this call: Doug Prater shared what drew him to iAwake. Found them through the Superhuman Operating System. Doug shares how to get the practice of meditation going. Pick a meditation track that speaks to you, that you connect with. Start slowly and make it an everyday thing. Upcoming Spiritual Technologies 2.0 Online…
Read MoreMake Room for New Thoughts: Meditation and Creative Thinking Techniques
With so many thoughts begging for your attention each day, it’s hard to believe that most of them are the same ones you had yesterday. Actually, many psychologists who have studied the thought processes associated with our thinking patterns would agree that, on average, 90% of the thoughts that we become aware of throughout the day…
Read MoreWhat is Emotional Releasing and How Can I Let Go?
Javi: Today we are lucky to have with us Joseph Kao, the creator of iAwake’s latest release Profound Releasing. As it says in the description, “It’s a multi-layered, guided meditation with advanced brainwave entrainment technology, designed to help you let go of old, rigid emotional patterns and rediscover your natural spontaneity, energy, and vitality ……
Read MoreMeditate Like a Rock: The Way to Spiritual Maturity
I 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 MoreRelationships, Pain, and Finding Our Deepest Selves
Famous 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 MoreTips for Beginners: Getting Started with Brain Entrainment Meditation
To 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 MoreHow to Develop Compassion: The 5 Stages of Loving Kindness Meditation
I’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 MoreA Powerful Meditation Practice Can Improve Everything That Matters
In 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 MoreA Dedicated Daily Meditation Practice Makes All the Difference
I 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 MoreUnder Intense Stress? Do a Brainwave Entrainment Meditation Marathon
It’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…
Read MoreTechnological Grace: Just When We Needed You Most
While I was meditating today, I was thinking about all the breakthroughs people are having doing this practice of using brain entrainment and biofield technology while meditating. If you could sit where I sit, hear, and read all of the testimonials from people that are using the iAwake technology—from our beta testers, from the students…
Read MoreVision Questing in the Postmodern World: Now More Important Than Ever
Vision questing is a very personal topic for me; I have vision quested for years and also developed wilderness therapy programs that put hundreds of people out on vision quests. I’m talking about the traditional type of vision quest here, in which the individual goes into the wilderness and finds a spot. When we were helping…
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