For literally billions of years on planet earth, change happened very very slowly, in geological time frames where a million years one way or another didn’t much matter in terms of what changed during that time. Now and then sudden events occurred, such as a meteor hitting the planet – but mostly, change was incremental [...]
The at-work Breather Break has become a key ingredient in the new vision of stress relief and innovation at work, and I’m often asked about the origins of the term. For that answer, we need to look back forty years and revisit a most wonderful philosopher and meditation guide named Alan Watts, who was the [...]
This is a very common misunderstanding – that being aware of one’s breathing and bodily presence somehow detracts from getting things done. The opposite is almost always the case – the more you hold your attention here in this present moment, the better your performance in the moment. This is all about ‘being in the [...]
For many years now, we’ve been exploring the impact of stressed breathing patterns on mental alertness and other cognitive functions. I’ve just done a new review of research on this important theme, and the documentation now entirely clear: When stress and anxiety, time pressure and other stressors tense the natural breathing cycle, the resultant shallow [...]
This is a complex question, one that I’ve often discussed with parents over the years, because marijuana is relatively benign compared with other drugs available in our society, but can also be dangerous and downright harmful, especially with teenagers. Early in my career as a psychologist I participated in NIH research at the NJ Neuropsychiatric [...]
Enough of you folk are coming to this site now, to provoke friends into saying that I should be advertising on this site and making effortless money from all your visits. Hmm. I wonder if you want to see ads on this site? Please leave a comment at the bottom of this page, voting yes [...]
Too much of the time, most of us are going around quietly hurting emotionally, isn’t this true? We’re stressed out, worried about the future, suffering from old emotional wounds of rejection, depression, apprehension, guilt, shame and so forth. In this new short video, John offers his daily path to healing those emotional wounds, so that [...]
Much of my work involves quieting the chronic flow of thoughts, images, memories and imaginations through the mind (thinking) in order to enter into highly-rewarding direct engagement with the real world (experiencing). In order to comprehend why a quiet mind is often more valuable than being lost in thought, I’d like to share several new [...]
Everywhere in the world, everything is speeding up – so we in turn tense up. Time pressure and anxiety about the future too often give us the emotional shakes, and sometimes we even collapse inwardly under the strain. Not good. If we continue getting more and more stressed, trying to go faster and faster even [...]
For the last four months, I’ve been getting up most mornings, doing my own meditation, and then sitting down to write a short blog on whatever seems most important that day. These blogs are all collected in the archives (on the right, below, sorted by month). It’s too bad in a way that blogs disappear [...]
Many people ask this question, because we have the idea that meditation demands stern rigorous discipline, which most of us these days don’t have unless absolutely essential. Have we become a weak undisciplined nation? Or have we broken free from unnecessary self-motification? Discipline is a word that a great many people react to negatively – [...]
(Quote from Executive Genius) “There’s no question – a person who maintains a higher quality of awareness at work will almost always win out over someone with a lower level of awareness; that’s a basic performance law. And other variables remaining constant, the company that maintains a higher awareness quotient will outperform companies whose leaders [...]
We live within the primal psychological and spiritual paradox that in order to change ourselves for the better, we must first honor and love ourselves exactly as we are right now, which means unconditionally. Why? Because only with self-acceptance does love flow into our life equation – and it’s that inflow of love that actually [...]
As I’ve been exploring in my recent books on consciousness, human beings are unique creatures to the extent that we possess the remarkable mental power to think cognitive thoughts that in turn determine where we focus our attention in that moment. Why is this mental power so important? Because what we focus on determines what [...]
We have all done things, or at least thought and imagined doing things, that we continue to struggle to forgive ourselves for – so that we can finally love ourselves unconditionally. I am currently in touch with a man who is doing remarkable work at San Quentin prison teaching yoga and meditation to inmates who [...]
The tenth and perhaps most important Focus Phrase being taught in my books, most recently in Expand This Moment, goes like this: “I feel connected with my Source.” Over the years, I’ve done my best to develop a spiritual language that works for all of us regardless of our religious or philosophical background. For most [...]
For me, this question is a paradox – because for both spiritual growth and everyday success in life, I’ve found that the most important thing to do is not to do anything at all. Instead, we regularly need to pause and take a breather … stop all our busy buzzing and doing … so that [...]
This is perhaps the most important of my videos for meditation – because it simply guides you through the 12 Focus Phrases that make up the heart of my whole program. When you prefer very soft piano meditation music as you move through the Daily “Expand This Moment” Process, come to this video for the [...]
Ah, good question. And I do have an answer to the question – an answer that applies to all of us. At core levels that this site continually delves into, I sometimes have answers to people’s questions because I can sometimes access a deeper part of me, beyond my ego identity – and this deeper [...]
Here’s a short version of questions and answers from a radio interview with John, focusing on his new set of 12 Focus Phrases for short-form meditation in his forth-coming EXPAND THIS MOMENT book. Many of your basic questions about John’s work are answered herein – enjoy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Q #1: John, you’ve written over two dozen books [...]
It’s important to remember that meditation as we use the word refers to any mental process or activity that helps you to become more aware, and more spontaneously involved in, this emerging moment. In this understanding, we are meditating all the time if we are consciously staying aware of our breathing experience, our whole-body presence, [...]
This is a very deep question … anxiety is so solidly ingrained in so many of us. Freud called it ‘free-floating anxiety’ – that chronic recurring grip of fear that takes over our minds and bodies and plunges us into an inner hell of worries, apprehensions, stress. Here’s my honest answer to the question of [...]
It seems that everyone hungers to experience unconditional love, and yet most people most of the time don’t feel that they are receiving unconditional love from anyone. Is it really possible for someone to love us unconditionally – or is unconditional love just a hopeless craving left over from our infantile days? We begin our [...]
Ever since conceiving of and writing the book Tapping The Source, and developing a set of Focus Phrases to empower Charles Haanel’s unique philosophy of manifestation, the sober question has arisen in my mind over and over: does this actually work? I am at heart a scientist, a research psychologist doing most of my research [...]
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ANSWER: A Focus Phrase is a carefully-crafted statement of personal intent, designed to aim your attention immediately toward an inner experience of high value. First you say a Focus Phrase silently to yourself, and then you experience the instant shift in focus that the statement elicits. For instance, if you now say to yourself the [...]
ANSWER: Charles Haanel lived around a hundred years ago, a mid-westerner who seems to have attained enlightenment in a particularly American fashion. At least, the seminal core of his writings in The Master Key System are truly enlightened and enlightening. I don’t believe in making people into gods, but it is true that people can [...]
ANSWER: Even after you read the TTS book and know the seven Focus Phrases intellectually, it’s essential, each and every day if you can, to take just five minutes to move through the actual experience of saying these Focus Phrases to yourself, so that you aim your mind’s attention in directions that elicit deep inner [...]
ANSWER: Happiness is an inner quality; therefore how you manage your own mind and emotions and experiences, moment to moment, determines your overall happiness quotient. That’s why our Tapping The Source Master Process focuses upon your own inner experience, and then leads your attention to sharing your inner experience and passion with the outside world [...]
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