Transformative Practices
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"Living Classroom" with Chris Bache (part 2 of 2)
This workshop explores the dynamics of collective consciousness in the classroom. Participants learn practical strategies for working with fields of consciousness: opening and closing fields, visualization exercises to strengthen fields, spiritual practice and the common ground, and recognizing and managing resonance.
- Audio Lectures
- 2009-06-21
- 00:45:56
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"Improvising Our Lives" with Patricia Ryan Madson (interview)
In this teleseminar, Patricia discusses 12 improv maxims, which are applicable in everyday life, and very useful in healing. The principles used by professional improvisers provide a template that can be used to freshen and repurpose our daily life.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-07-22
- 00:38:35
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"Improvising Our Lives" with Patricia Ryan Madson (Q&A)
In this teleseminar, Patricia discusses 12 improv maxims, which are applicable in everyday life, and very useful in healing. The principles used by professional improvisers provide a template that can be used to freshen and repurpose our daily life.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-07-22
- 00:43:47
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"How To Live A More Peaceful and Liberated Life" with Genpo Roshi (extended Q&A)
In this program Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi shares his groundbreaking “Big Mind Big Heart” teaching, a combination of Zen & Western psychology with host Tina Amorok. They discuss the “Buddha Mind” – the mind of clarity, transcendental wisdom, and unconditional compassion. And the need to examine the shadow side of ourselves.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-07-15
- 00:31:01
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Teleseminar with Sylvia Boorstein
Host Cassandra Vieten talks with author, psychologist, and spiritual teacher Sylvia Boorstein, who shares ways to bring spiritual practices into every day life. From standing in line at the grocery store to driving in heavy traffic, she suggests we repeat: “May I (“you” or a specific name) be peaceful; May I be happy; May I be free from suffering.”
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-03-11
- 00:59:40
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When The Impossible Happens
Feelings of oneness with other people, nature, and the universe. Encounters with extraterrestrials, deities, and demons. Out-of-body experiences and past-life memories. Science casts a skeptical eye.
- Publications Books
- April 1, 2005
- 400 pages
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From "Me" to "We"
An IONS community group applies some of the principles of the book Living Deeply to their own transformational potential. Sharing, storytelling, and celebration anchored this process of individual and collective ...
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2008
- 3 pages
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Poetic Medicine
Western medicine's zealous preoccupation with technology, prescription drugs, and financial return has taken much of the healing out of health care. Citing research and his own experience with patients ...
- Publications Articles
- September - November 2008
- 6 pages
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At Home Within
The Institute of Noetic Sciences has collaborated with the Committee on the Shelterless to develop and pilot test a transformational practice program for homeless adults.
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Evaluating Effects of Transformative Practices
A group of 62 practitioners of a transformative practice community were studied over the course of a year.
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Connexiones
This study aimed to examine the effects of a specially developed noetic intervention designed to encourage maternal infant bonding and communication in Latina pregnant teenagers in Marin County.
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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...
- Inner Wisdom
- Personal Well-being
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Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery
Tapping into the heart's wisdom through creative visualization is an ancient practice, but today guided imagery is used as an adjunct to conventional medical therapies for health issues ranging from cancer and heart disease to post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction.
- Publications Books
- February 1, 2009
- 224 pages
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The Transformation Project
A series of studies over a decade has investigated transformations in consciousness, or how people make fundamental shifts in perception that alter how they view and interact with themselves and the world around them.
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Living Deeply
A book, DVD, and series of workshops that move spirituality off the mountain top and into your daily life... one step at a time.
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Forgiveness
In this program, recorded during a conference called Living Deeply: Expanding Human Capacities, held on the IONS campus in May 2003, we explore both the challenges and benefits of forgiveness. Dr. Fred Luskin describes his research findings on forgiveness and offers practical tools for learning to truly forgive.
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Why Good Things Happen to Good People
A longer life. A happier life. A healthier life. Above all, a life that matters—so that when you leave this world, you’ll have changed it for the better. If science said you could have all this just by altering one behavior, would you?
- Publications Books
- May 8, 2007
- 320 pages
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"Conscious Medicine" with Lee Lipsenthal and Marilyn Schlitz (part 2 of 5)
Marilyn and Lee discuss the challenges new medical students face learning alternative healing modalities in addition to their required allopathic curriculum.
- Video Interviews
- March 23, 2008
- 00:04:37
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"Conscious Medicine" with Lee Lipsenthal and Marilyn Schlitz (part 1 of 5)
IONS Board Member Lee Lipsenthal talks with IONS President Marilyn Mandala Schlitz about changes in allopathic health care and the wider acceptance of meditation, yoga, and consciousness in healing practices.
- Video Interviews
- March 23, 2008
- 00:04:57