Charting a Conscious Course for the Day by Shannon December 7, 2015 The Presence Process has been nothing short of amazing. I am amazing. I can finally fully participate in my life, and it feels good. When I started this 10-week process – which includes 15 minutes of breathing each morning and night – I felt comfort in knowing there was a very accessible moment in the start of my day when I could check-IN and, at the...
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A Whisper from deep within: “There’s more to Life than this.” by Kris November 23, 2015 I signed up for my first Awareness Institute weekend workshop because I’d had enough of myself. I’d had enough of the self-hatred and the self-pitying, enough of the shame and regret. I signed up for the workshop because something deep within me whispered, “There’s more to life than this.” Today, I couldn’t be more grateful for...
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Wake Up To Your Life by Ellen May 4, 2015 I first came to a Level I workshop with the Awareness Institute (then known as the Aspire Foundation) on the advice of my meditation instructor in the Shambhala lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Although I didn’t know it at the time, and although it was not what I was “supposed” to be doing, I had for a long time been trying to use meditation as a tool for what spiritual teacher Michael Browne...
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This Moment Will Never Happen Again by Rebekah May 4, 2015 What would you say if I told you that this moment would never happen again? Well, it’s true. There are no repeats, re-runs, re-dos. All you’ve got is this very moment, right now. I realized this fact (again) while driving home from work the other day. “I survived the week!” I thought, as if merely getting through was the goal. And yet, surely it can seem that way...
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