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During these challenging times, gather with the global IONS community as we learn about a collection of guided and experiential meditation practices — including mudra hand positions — designed to bring our hearts into coherence.
In times as uncertain as these, I like to return to two concepts that guide much of what I do in the kitchen at EarthRise: simplicity and flexibility. While you may be tackling how to bake bread or make your mother’s pasta sauce, sometimes returning to basics can be a way to calm our hearts, minds, and bodies. While our current situation is both strange and unsettling, the kitchen can be a welcome respite from the anxiety — a way to transform the fear, anger, and unknowing into action… tangible, delicious action! One can approach the kitchen counter with compassion for oneself and for one’s capacity to feed and nourish.
Over the past three weeks, over 4,000 of our members and friends have come together for a special ConnectIONS Live webinar series on Noetic Wisdom for Challenging Times. In these webinars, we explore noetic topics and tools that build our resiliency, spark innovation, and support our wellbeing during this truly unprecedented and challenging time we are in.
Starting in late February, 2020, the news in US media has been filled with concerns about the novel Coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China. In the US at that time, there were reports on the disruptions overseas and warnings that there would be a worldwide spread of the Covid-19 virus. Since then, we have recognized this is a pandemic that will likely infect a large proportion of the world population. In connection with the physical spread of the virus, there is another “viral” effect – on the world’s economies – with serious and continuing disruptions. This can be seen in stock market activity which has fluctuated wildly over the last few weeks, with extreme daily changes of 5-13%.
We often think of the nervous system as a single structure regulating our body. However, our nervous system has two very different parts, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. In these stressful times, understanding how our bodies respond to stress, how stress affects our immunity, and the interaction between the two is vital for optimal health.
IONS is pleased to welcome Joshua Weiss, MD, to the IONS science team as a Fellow. A former intern at IONS, Dr. Weiss went on to earn a BSc in Biochemistry from McGill University and an MD degree from the University of Manitoba. Today, he is a supervising hospitalist at the Brant Community Healthcare System, where he teaches McMaster University medical residents and medical students. Dr. Weiss is the founder of the Life Medicine clinic, where he is pioneering the use of lifestyle medicine and group psychotherapy treatments for Canadians with chronic medical and mental health diagnoses. In addition, Dr. Weiss is the lead investigator for the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ Spontaneous Remission Annotated Bibliography project. Since its initial publication in 1993, this ongoing IONS project has been the standard text on cancer and chronic disease spontaneous remission.
Dominic Olivo, Program Coordinator at IONS, interviewed Dottie Koontz of the Vancouver IONS Community Group regarding her experience with virtual meetings, her recommendations on hosting and recording meetings online, and her advice for those interested in forming a new IONS Community Group.
The best thing you can do for yourself and the planet is to be of service to others. You can practice every energy medicine technique in the book: journal your deepest feelings until your wrist hurts, meditate twice daily, pray, connect with Mother Nature, clear your chakras, release your limiting beliefs, etc., but if you aren’t being of service, you are not fully living in the light.
What is the relationship between our mind and our immune system? Do major lifetime experiences have an effect on our health?
Our research studies at IONS help us gather scientific information on which innovative approaches to noetic sciences have the greatest impact on individual and global consciousness and transformation. We could not do this important work without our wonderful study participants! Their contribution of time and effort is critically important to the data that we collect, but their individual experiences of participating in IONS studies are not often reflected in the professional papers we publish. Ultimately, these personal transformations are the very purpose of why we do the work we do at IONS. Our research is important because it helps provide information about how we can support individual and global transformation.