Personal Well-being
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Posted by Heidi Fuller on Dec. 10, 2011
How Giving Improves Your Health and Heals a Wounded World
If the art of holiday giving is starting to feel a little more contrived this year, a little more commercial, then the science of giving has some news to bolster your holiday spirit...
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Posted by Kathleen Erickson-Freeman on Dec. 3, 2011
How the Noetic Sciences Contribute to “Conscious Aging”
IONS Director of Elder Education talks about IONS' new Conscious Aging program and some of the things that IONS is offering to help support the transformation that comes with aging. "My wish," she says, "is that more people could learn how all of these ideas, tools, and practices can help reduce the suffering that can accompany aging and ignite the potential for positive, passionate, and soulful aging."
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Posted by Cassandra Vieten, PhD on Sept. 26, 2011
Farewell Lee Lipsenthal
Beloved IONS Board member, colleague, and friend Lee Lipsenthal passed away last Tuesday, September 20, after a two-year battle with untreatable esophageal cancer.
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Posted by Peter Russell, MA, DCS, FSP on May 3, 2011
How Do I Pray?
We usually think of prayer as an appeal to God or some other spiritual entity to change the world in some way. We might pray for someone’s healing, for success in some venture, for a better life, or for guidance on some challenging issue. Behind such prayers is the recognition that we don’t have the power to make the world the way we would like it to be – if we did, we would simply get on with the task – so we beseech a higher power to change things for us.
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Posted by Peter Russell, MA, DCS, FSP on Dec. 2, 2010
There Is No Such Thing as an Ego
What we call the ego is not another separate self so much as a mode of being that can dominate our thinking, decisions, speech, and actions, leading us to behave in ways that are uncaring, self-centered, or manipulative.
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Posted by Matthew Gilbert on Nov. 22, 2010
Inner Space – Technology’s New Frontier?
It’s immersive, it’s interactive, it’s embodied (sort of), and it’s actually changing people’s lives, tapping into each individual’s potential to get beyond their conditioning and become engaged in transforming themselves and their world.
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Posted by Dean Radin, PhD on Oct. 3, 2010
Of Mice, Men, and… Miracles?
Does hands-on "energy healing" really work or are outcomes attributed to such healing merely a matter of self-healing, as in the placebo effect? This is what sociologist (by day) and energy researcher (by night?) William Bengston set out to test, motivated by his own remarkable experience with an energy healer who cured his intractable back pain. Bengston got his evidence… and then some.
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Posted by Elliott Dacher, MD on Sept. 21, 2010
Meditation: Relaxation or Awakening
Meditation allows us to penetrate the surface experiences of the mind and gain a more detailed understanding of its workings and essential nature. That understanding allows us to remove the veils that obscure our authentic nature, revealing the qualities of human flourishing.
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Posted by Dr. William Benda, MD on July 20, 2010
Thought Balloons
No one ever mentioned thoughts in medical school, or throughout my residency training. Come to think of it, the term was rarely mentioned during my years with the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Mind, mindful, mind-body, yes. But no professorial lecture or class discussion on what actually constitutes our thoughts...
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Posted by Peter Russell, MA, DCS, FSP on June 1, 2010
Praying for Peace – A Different Take
Each of us would rather experience peace than suffering. One reason we do not experience as much peace as we would like is the result of how we see things, the interpretations we put on our experience.
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Posted by Marilyn Schlitz, PhD on May 31, 2010
7 Noetic Steps to Surviving a Volcanic Ash Cloud
I was preparing for my lecture on consciousness transformation to the League of Optimists in Brussels, Belgium when I got the news: All flights from Europe were cancelled. I was due to go on stage shortly and nothing about the implications of this information had sunk in. I just wanted to be here tonight and home tomorrow...
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Posted by Elliott Dacher, MD on May 12, 2010
Aristotle and Human Flourishing
In the 4th century BC, Aristotle gave a series of lectures in Athens that became know as the Nicomachean Ethics. There he introduced the word eudaimonia, now translated to mean “human flourishing” – the innate potential of each individual to live a life of enduring happiness, penetrating wisdom, optimal well being...
