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Meditation Workshop

Tired of the ceaseless mental chatter, feeling bombarded by life’s relentless advertising for your attention? Discover the Meditation Workshop, your guide to mastering your inner world and reclaiming profound peace. The Workshop (you do it by yourself) will help you understand meditation, how to do it and it’s benefits. Download – it’s free! This comprehensive […]

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How does storytelling create reality?

Storytelling plays a profound and fundamental role in creating and shaping reality, both individually and collectively. Our experience of the world is not a direct apprehension of “what is,” but rather an internally generated “model” of what we think is going on. This model is built from filtered sensory information, and stories are central to […]

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Who Am I? Your Self Workshop

Discover Your Story: Are you ready to captain your own ship? In a world changing faster than ever before, your greatest asset isn’t just knowledge – it’s your mind and your ability to navigate a sea of information. “Who Are You? 2025” is your essential guide to becoming the hero you were born to be. […]

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Storytelling for Self-Discovery and Growth

By consciously engaging in storytelling, both by sharing our own narratives and by analyzing the stories that influence us, we can gain valuable insights into ourselves, challenge limiting beliefs, and actively shape our personal growth and future. Aspect of Self-Discovery/Growth How Storytelling Facilitates It Understanding Self and Identity Our understanding of ourselves and the world […]

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How storytelling is related to mental illness

I’d just graduated and there I was in what was called “a mental hospital” starting my internship. My very first “patient” was Don. I was prepared for the encounter by reading his file. He’d suffered traumatic injuries from a motorbike accident some years earlier and while his body had healed, his mind was drastically changed. […]

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How to hack the metaprogram

A metaprogram is a sophisticated kind of program that can reprogram itself as it runs. Given this definition, one could see onesself and one’s own thinking as a kind of metaprogram. Using a metaprogram as a metaphor is useful as it allows for conscious re-programming on-the-fly. Here are some ways in which you can access […]

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Dreams of the Mushroom Forest

Many years ago, I had a dream of walking in a forest of mushrooms. It was cool, still and dark and I looked up the slender white stems to the caps high above me. Touching the cool stems, I knew they were nothing like tree trunks. They were much less dense, much lighter, much more […]