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SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Overcome Frustration by Accepting What is Happening, Right Now

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Integral LifeApril 19, 2020Leave a Comment

Are you angry, upset or frustrated by a situation in the world, or perhaps someone in your life? Are you having trouble accepting some circumstance in your life? Learn to address it constructively by practicing acceptance in the face of difficult feelings. This one minute practice can help you do so.

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The Embodied Success Shift: A Simple Meditation to Cut Through the Hustle and Cure Your Burnout

Ryan Oelke

Ryan OelkeMay 6, 2019

This 7-minute meditation is very easy to follow, and empowers you to quickly experience the shift from living outside of yourself to resting in the fullness and foundation of your body. Feel the difference between living on the surface of yourself and what’s it’s like to return within your body, to the center of your life.

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Reclaiming Your Power While Struggling With Chronic Illness

Dr. Lynn Royster Fuentes

Dr. Lynn Royster FuentesAugust 4, 2018

Lynn Fuentes offers a brief teaching about how to reclaim your power while struggling with the sense of disempowerment that often accompanies various kinds of chronic illness, whether you are dealing with your personal health issues or those of a loved one.

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Finding Your Inner Home

Miriam Mason Martineau

Miriam Mason MartineauOctober 11, 2017Leave a Comment

This practice will help you discern where you are coming from within yourself in each moment — your egoic self, or your deeper essential Self — and enable you to live and relate from a place of presence and centered-ness, so that you can respond rather than react to your child.

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A Taste of Centering Prayer

Father Thomas Keating

Father Thomas KeatingAugust 29, 2017Leave a Comment

Centering Prayer is a simple Christian practice that helps us to locate and take refuge in our “inner room,” consent to the presence of God-in-2nd-person, and lead us into deep prayer, devotion, and contemplation of the divine. Listen as Father Thomas offers a short guided practice of Centering Prayer.

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Your Native Perspective: Better Relationships

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Integral LifeAugust 14, 2017Leave a Comment

This practice will help you become more fluent with native perspectives — four fundamental ways of being, perceiving, and doing — in both yourself and in other people.

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Aesthetic Practice: Looking at the Overlooked

Michael Schwartz

Michael SchwartzJuly 11, 2017Leave a Comment

Michael Schwartz offers a powerful aesthetic exercise to help you activate the various perspectives on art (including becoming aware where we are stuck in the fluidity of our perspective taking) and integrate those perspectives into a higher-order perception that will profoundly expand and deepen your aesthetic experience.

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Contemplation on Death and Impermanence

Terry Patten

Terry PattenJune 21, 2017Leave a Comment

Terry Patten offers a short guided meditation to help you reduce the existential fear, dread, and anxiety surrounding death by shifting your attention and identification to the indestructible presence at the very center of your being.

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Basic Meditation Instructions

Terry Patten

Terry PattenMay 30, 2017Leave a Comment

Terry Patten offers some very basic instructions to help you kickstart your meditation practice. He also offers an extended segment on “Integral Inquiry”, a simple but powerful technique that can deepen your ongoing practice.

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Get a Feel for Integral

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Integral LifeMay 15, 2017Leave a Comment

Consciously following the deepest contours of your very own nature is the foundation of any Integral Life Practice. Here you will learn how to feel these basic dimensions of your being, simply by noticing what is already present.

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The 1-2-3 of God

Terry Patten

Terry PattenApril 24, 2017Leave a Comment

The 1-2-3 of God practice will help dramatically deepen your own ongoing practice by getting you in touch with each of the three fundamental dimensions of spiritual unfolding.

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Unleash Your Productivity With Power Hours

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Integral LifeMarch 27, 2017Leave a Comment

Power hours – two-hour, highly-focused blocks of time – are one of the secrets to staying focused and productive at work, school and at home. This one technique will skyrocket your productivity.

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Increase Your Erotic Polarity

Dr. Keith Witt

Dr. Keith WittMarch 14, 20172 Comments

Renowned marriage and family therapist Dr. Keith Witt offers a short practice to reinvigorate your “erotic polarity” — one of the fundamental forces that sustain thriving relationships.

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8 Questions that Disrupt Negativity & Depression

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Integral LifeFebruary 21, 2017Leave a Comment

Depressive symptoms are often accompanied by rumination, or persistent cycles of distorted, negative thinking that undermines your mental clarity. The good news is that with practice you can interrupt these cycles. Use these eight questions to assess the reality of your negative thinking and consider alternative possibilities.

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You’re Angry! Find Your Deeper Unmet Need & Reframe Your Anger

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Integral LifeFebruary 20, 2017Leave a Comment

Anger arises when you feel like you’ve been violated: you are interpreting some situation or behavior, whether it was done intentionally or not, as a very real violation of your deeper needs or values. It’s usually sourced in a deeper need that’s not being met. This practice is designed to help you find it.

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What’s Beneath Your Anxiety?

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Integral LifeFebruary 7, 2017Leave a Comment

Anxiety feels terrible, a gnawing fear that is hard to pin down and harder to shake. This activity may help you alleviate anxiety: when you can see the core fear that’s really underneath your anxiety, you loosen its hold on your emotions and feel more empowered to address it.

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Having No Head: A Pointing-Out Exercise

Ken Wilber

Ken WilberDecember 30, 2013Leave a Comment

“Keep an open mind,” we like to say, “but not so open your brain slides out.” But what happens when you open your mind so fully that you end up temporarily misplacing your entire head? Well that’s enlightenment, baby!

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A Few Moments of Being

Lama Surya Das

Lama Surya DasJanuary 31, 2013Leave a Comment

Lay claim to your birthright with this short guided meditation by Lama Surya Das.

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The Three Faces of Spirit

Diane Musho Hamilton

Diane Musho HamiltonApril 15, 2006Leave a Comment

In this practice we contemplate, think, and know about Spirit in the 3rd-person; we relate, dwell, and commune with Spirit in a 2nd-person relationship, and we meditate, feel and know ourselves as Spirit in a 1st-person apprehension of our source and substance.

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10-Minute Practices to Reconnect with Spirit

Roger Walsh

Roger WalshApril 12, 2004Leave a Comment

A quick and easy way to recontact the sacred dimensions of this and every moment.

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