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For more than 25 centuries, historical teachings of the Buddha traveled across the people, languages, and cultures of the world. Mindfulness – commonly described as attention to and awareness of present moment experience – is at the heart of these teachings. Remarkably, over the past two decades, popular and scientific interest in mindfulness has seen a resurgence. Whereas a total of 39 scientific papers were published before the year 2000, today that number is a staggering 6000 papers. Likewise, mindfulness practices and interventions have innervated nearly every sector of society including health care, schools, corporations, corrections, government and policy making, military, social justice movements, and mobile applications with reach and access to millions of new practitioners.

It seems like everywhere you turn nowadays, there is something about mindfulness — mindfulness apps, mindfulness for productivity, mindfulness for sleep, etc. Mindfulness seems like the new magic bullet for people with a personal growth or self-transformation interest. But what is it exactly? Mindfulness, as a modern-day concept, originated in Eastern contemplative traditions and comes from the word Sati which means “awareness.” Jon Kabat-Zinn, who trail-blazed mindfulness-based clinical applications in the West in the 1980s, described it as: “Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.” Starting with his program Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) — originally used for people with back pain — in the past 30 years there has been a huge outpouring of mindfulness-based therapies for everything from depression to addiction to eating disorders. There seems to be a mindfulness-based program for everything. Why is that? Well, for one, it works!

You may have experienced mood symptoms over a long period of time, you may just have experienced them recently, or you may be experiencing them in response to a big change, shift, or loss in your life. You have likely already done many things to help yourself. I respect you and your process and know that you want to take care of yourself in the best way possible. I want to tell you a little bit about my experiences with the iRest (Integrative Restoration) meditation program and the study at IONS, which is looking at how it can help improve mood symptoms.

The IONS Experience Team is happy to announce two free webinars. An introduction to two of our upcoming Autumn workshops, these webinars will give you tools you can use right away!

Never before has any civilization had access to almost all the world’s spiritual practices. In major cosmopolitan cities, it is now possible to attend rituals from a wide range of religious traditions, to learn to meditate, to practice yoga or chi gong, to take part in shamanic practices, to explore consciousness through psychedelic drugs (albeit illegally in most places), to sing and chant, to participate in a wide range of prayers, to learn martial arts and to practice a bewildering array of sports.

A guiding premise at the Institute of Noetic Sciences is that all things are interconnected, and that embodying that awareness can reveal information not limited by space or time. Yet how does that process actually operate in people’s lives? That is what we hope to discover through the Noetic Signature™ study currently being conducted by IONS Director of Research Dr. Helané Wahbeh. At IONS we hypothesize that ALL people have the ability to access information and energy not limited by space and time. And yet the way that people access and receive this information and energy manifests differently in each individual. We are terming this unique human quality a person’s Noetic Signature™. The intention of this study is to explore the myriad ways this noetic signature works in people’s lives and attempt to categorize these experiences so we can assess and nurture them more effectively.

“All matter in our universe is created in star systems and so the matter in my body, the matter in the spacecraft, the matter in my partners’ bodies was the product of stars. We are stardust. And we are all one, in that sense.”
~ Captain Edgar Mitchell, ScD, PhD, NASA Apollo 14 Astronaut

The 2019 IONS International Conference: The Possibility Accelerator was a soul-inspiring experience with unimagined synchronicities and accelerated possibilities! I was honored to contribute a Spotlight Talk on “An Overview of Crystal Technology for Energy Healing and Biofield Research” with the intention of presenting the science of crystal energy for healing subtle energy fields as the foundation for an online course. The universe not only listened to my intention, but responded with a dream come true!

In the August 28, 2019, episode of “New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove,” IONS Research Director Helané Wahbeh discusses her personal experiences of channeling and how they relate to the scientific research she’s doing today.

There are lots of words to describe it… clairvoyance, telepathy, psychokinesis, precognition, psi, psychic, channeling, extended human capacities, anomalous information reception… the list goes on and on. And not many people feel comfortable talking about it. Help us learn more about how people experience the phenomenon that we describe as accessing and/or expressing information and energy not limited by space and time. IONS is conducting a study to learn more about the diversity of these experiences.