Personal Story: Let’s Get Real About Thorny Problems
If you’ve spent a long time struggling with one big problem that seems to take over your life, this account might speak to you.
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Your Inner Ocean Blog
Your Inner Ocean
- Sep 23, 2020
- 3 min
If You’re Not Making Progress in Mindset and Meditation
Is there one thing in your life so problematic that it ruins everything else and you just can’t shift it?
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Your Inner Ocean
- Aug 22, 2020
- 5 min
Liberation from the "Shame, Blame and Guilt Game"
Few psychological conditions in life are as debilitating as what I call the “shame, blame, guilt game”.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Aug 16, 2020
- 7 min
The Society of Future Happiness
Predicting the future is a major industry, despite the obvious fact that most predictions turn out to be wrong.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Aug 8, 2020
- 4 min
Warriorship and Society: The Mindset Gap
A warrior’s life is characterized by a state of awareness. The present moment is the most important moment in a warrior’s life.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Aug 1, 2020
- 3 min
Summer: the Key to Building Your Personal Resilience
The summer months are ideal for working on certain aspects of personal resilience, so let's take a look at some of them.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jul 25, 2020
- 4 min
Overwhelmed By Everything (OBE)? Here’s Your Exit Strategy…
In the world of personal resilience, one of the toughest nuts to crack is beating the OBE syndrome.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jul 19, 2020
- 3 min
The Prison of Perfectionism
The psychological purpose of perfectionism is to avoid shame.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jul 18, 2020
- 3 min
Qigong the Personal Resilience Multitool: Lung Health
Qigong is a specialized toolkit that can help you to achieve particular goals.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jul 11, 2020
- 2 min
Simple Techniques to Improve Your Memory
Optimizing our memories in the midst of our society's constant information overload is critical to learning new skills.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jul 10, 2020
- 2 min
Tibetan Medicine: Transforming Our Assumptions About Healing
We often do not realize how deeply our assumptions about the nature of human beings determine how we approach illness and medicine.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jul 4, 2020
- 3 min
Science's "Big Problem": Mind, Matter and Humanity
Science has a problem, and it's the universe.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jul 3, 2020
- 2 min
Fasting to Improve Your Health
So why would you bother fasting? Perhaps because there are few if any other health tools in your arsenal that give such powerful results.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jun 27, 2020
- 2 min
Becoming a "Hollow Bone"
Sioux medicine man Frank Fools Crow said that the first task of a holy person was to make himself like a “hollow bone”...
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jun 25, 2020
- 4 min
“Opening the Dragon Gate…”
The amazing Taoist master Wang Liping is someone whose name will come up a lot on this blog.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jun 20, 2020
- 2 min
Hacks for Tackling Mental Overload
One thing we often forget when we talk about mental blocks is that some of them are simply mental overload.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jun 18, 2020
- 3 min
The Taoist Longevity Checklist
Taoist medicine has studied longevity over millennia, and originated a comprehensive system to sustain it.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jun 13, 2020
- 2 min
Create Without Fear
In the videos below, Eckhart Tolle introduces a key distinction that applies equally to creativity, creative work, and to manifesting.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jun 11, 2020
- 1 min
Superb Qigong Resource for You
I'd like to introduce you someone else whose work I consider authentic and powerful...
Shifu Yan Lei, a 34th generation SHAOLIN master.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jun 6, 2020
- 3 min
Qigong for Chronic Joint Pain
Today, we look more into the theory and use of Qigong for joint health, and especially for the treatment of long-term joint pain.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Jun 3, 2020
- 4 min
Walking the Circle
Bagua Zhang is perhaps the least-known and most intriguing of the Chinese “Internal” martial arts.
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Your Inner Ocean
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
The Year of the Great Reality Check
The list of ways 2020 changes our reality grows every day.
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Your Inner Ocean
- May 23, 2020
- 4 min
Smashing Your Mental Blocks
Have you ever really, really wanted to do something, to the point where you spend hours each day planning it, but you can't actually do it?
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Your Inner Ocean
- May 21, 2020
- 2 min
Three Meditation Tips to Energize Your Practice
Whether you meditate for stress reduction or as part of spiritual practice, these three points from Tibetan lojong training will help you...
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Your Inner Ocean
- May 16, 2020
- 8 min
The Conspiracy Syndrome
With nations struggling under lockdown, it’s no surprise that the conspiracy theory generation machine is at it like never before.
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Your Inner Ocean
- May 13, 2020
- 4 min
Thought Rehearsal: Reinstall Your Personal Programming
We human beings are in many ways self-programmed…
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Your Inner Ocean
- May 8, 2020
- 3 min
Five Underrated Cooking Channels For the Pandemic
It's no surprise that the culinary world has changed substantially during the lockdowns.
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Your Inner Ocean
- May 6, 2020
- 3 min
Peak Performance – That “Flow” State You’ve Found, but Can’t Replicate
Athletes throughout history have found that their performance inexplicably increases for certain periods of time.
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Your Inner Ocean
- May 2, 2020
- 1 min
Taming the Elephant: A Buddhist Key to Ending the Cycle of Suffering
His peers joked that his three attainments were eating, sleeping and defecating...
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 27, 2020
- 1 min
Tip for the Week: Ask a Question So Powerful that...
Welcome to One Minute Mindset Secrets!
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 25, 2020
- 1 min
Keys to Cultivating HARA in Your Meditation...
It's no secret that learning to develop your body's primary "energy production facility" is central to creating superior health.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 25, 2020
- 3 min
The Science Behind Procrastination
Take control of your motivation in the world of the telecommute.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 24, 2020
- 1 min
What Every Qigong Practitioner Asks Me about Meditation...
I get this all the time. And I've already kind of answered it on this series, but it deserves more than I've given it.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
Super-Effective and Wonderful Health Meditation
If you really want DEEP health benefits from meditation, then you need to look at the Taoist meditation systems.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 21, 2020
- 1 min
Meditation for Health? - It's Completely Different :-)
So, do you want your meditation practice to improve your health?
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 18, 2020
- 1 min
Bruce Lee's Mindset Principles
He broke one of Hollywood's glass ceilings, founded the martial art Jeet Kune Do, and inspired millions. But he also developed a philosophy
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 18, 2020
- 1 min
Why "Mindfulness" IS Important and How to Get There...
You might get the impression from my previous posts or videos that I have something against "mindfulness meditation". In fact...
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 17, 2020
- 1 min
This Meditation Will Make You a Much Happier Person...
Yesterday I outlined the two distinct types of meditation you need to practice. Today, we start that second type - Vipassyana or "insight"
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 16, 2020
- 1 min
The Two (2) Types of Meditation You Need to Know :-)
There are TWO very distinct yet related types of meditation we desperately NEED to practice.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
Say Goodbye to Physical Discomfort in Meditation
Which meditation will go better for you - one where your body is tense and restless or one where you start off limber and relaxed?
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
Do You Know These Meditation "Breathing Hacks"?
Focusing on your breath is not necessarily as easy as it looks.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 14, 2020
- 1 min
More Secrets of Effective Meditation - Focus and Variety
Okay, we've started off by using the common meditative practice of focusing on your breath. While you should continue that regularly...
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 14, 2020
- 1 min
Not All "Meditations" are Created Equal - Use Only the Best
There are a zillion different types of "meditation" out there today...
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 14, 2020
- 3 min
Working on Ourselves At Home... And Some Advice From Tilopa's Mahamudra
In the unusual circumstances we find ourselves in, many people are finding both new challenges that they need to address, and opportunities.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 14, 2020
- 1 min
Obstacles in Meditation: Here's What to Do...
Almost everyone who starts or re-starts a meditation practice runs smack dab into some seemingly major obstacles.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 14, 2020
- 1 min
The Purpose of Meditation (hint: Not Stress Relief ;-)
Most people seem to think meditation exists to fix their chronic stress problem. Well, yes and no. Mostly no. Of course......
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 14, 2020
- 1 min
Want to Meditate Better? Watch This...
So , since you've got all this extra time on your hands thanks to the global pandemic, why not use it wisely?
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 5, 2020
- 3 min
Leadership Under a Hard Performance Metric
National leadership now comes with a performance metric in cases and lives lost, and it is merciless.
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Your Inner Ocean
- Apr 5, 2020
- 2 min
Your Mind and Its Power Over Your Reality
With the threat of the coronavirus and the isolation of social distancing, it's all too easy for us to dwell on the seemingly concrete world
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Your Inner Ocean
- Mar 22, 2020
- 4 min
Key to a Better Reality - Improve the Quality of Your Mental Processes
Many of us are consciously trying to manage what goes into our heads. We also need to understand how to influence our own thought processes.
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