Thinking is the structured use of mental reasoning, where we verbalize or talk to ourselves inside our head. Affirmations are a specific type of thinking. In an affirmation our intention is to create a thought that strengthens and affirms, a particular thought, emotion or action. In meditation, our overall objective…

Meditation and mindfulness have become increasingly popular in the last few decades. When I learnt to meditate over 30 years ago, meditation was still a peculiar, fringe activity. People rarely knew what to think of me when I told them I would spend time meditating. Now, meditation has gone mainstream…

Memory is one of the most powerful ways to enhance your meditation practice, and deliberately using your memory is a great way to increase your control and awareness of consciousness. …

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the dark consciousness. — Carl Jung Deep meditative states are undoubtedly transformative. While it may seem like a lofty or even completely unobtainable goal at first, enlightenment is the peak of these deep states. It should be…

There’s typically confusion about the role of thinking in meditation. Thinking is the structured use of mental reasoning, where we verbalize or talk to ourselves inside our head. Thinking is that internal dialogue — the ‘voice in your head’. The contents of that dialogue is influenced by what we hear…

Recently, while looking through a user forum about Dr Joe Dispenza’s meditations, I noticed a lot of people were struggling with the concept of ‘space’. When Dr Dispenza (known to his followers as simple Dr Joe) refers to ‘space’, he is referring an aspect of our consciousness that could be…

Yes! Meditation can make a lot of different things happen to your body! It all depends what type of meditation we are doing, and how aware you are of body sensation. Some people are very aware of their bodies, others, not so much. I like to think of the purpose…

If you study meditation or mindfulness, you will quickly learn that it is all about paying closer attention to the world around you, and inside of you. …

This exercise strengthens your internal consciousness sense of memory. Our memory is an incredible part of consciousness, and not that well understood by neuroscientists or psychologists. Memory is one of our internal consciousness senses. The others are thinking, emotions, imagination and proprioception. …