Foundational practices help us to cleanse and stay grounded. Ritualistic cleansing practices help remove negative or stagnant energy, and there are numerous practices that point to the idea of grounding: connecting oneself to the body and the earth...
Awareness can neither be perceived by the senses nor known by thought. It is the ever-present basis of all we experience, our fundamental nature. Experiencing your natural, unaltered, and simple awareness is experiencing precisely who you are and...
We have all experienced glimpses of a larger consciousness that lies beyond our personal identity and day-to-day life, characterized by a sense of ease, wholeness, peace, delight, and freedom. They are a welcome release from the day-to-day struggles...
Human Flourishing is the realization of our innate potential for an enduring happiness, optimal well-being, expansive consciousness, and effortless serenity. I used the word realization because these qualities are already and have always been innate...
You are the imperishable, unchanging, timeless, and nameless essence of being. That experiential truth, however simple when touched, is unreachable by reason, knowledge, or the efforts of our ordinary “I.” It is thickly obscured by the deeply...
Basic well-being is a stable sense of inner peace, ease, and harmony that is natural to human existence. It is the natural way to be in the world – a mind and body working together with effortless ease, much as they were designed. But this natural...
When we become free from our habitually overactive mind, a profound natural stillness reveals itself. Freed from the dominance of ceaseless mental activity, clarity and an awakened human life arises.
Is it any wonder that meditation is becoming an important skill in modern times? Consider the science that increasingly links meditation with optimal well-being. In modern times meditation has moved from the cave to the laboratory. By investigating...
Richard Davidson is one of the world’s foremost brain scientists. He is the Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is Director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and the Waisman...
Russell E. DiCarlo interviews Elmer Green, Ph.D. about his fascination whether if people meditate in a really potent way, can they generate electrical voltages in their body? He created a special room and wired the walls. When research subjects...