The Flow You Know: A Door to Awake Living

The Flow You Know: A Door to Awake Living I want you to try a simple test right now. It’s one I like to give people in almost every training I teach. Without looking at your keyboard — can you name the keys on the middle row, left to right? How about the bottom row, […]
Flashlight, Floodlight, Living Light: How Awareness Opens into Awake Loving Flow

Flashlight, Floodlight, Living Light: How Awareness Opens into Awake Loving Flow We live in a culture obsessed with focus. Apps, timers, noise-canceling headphones, productivity systems — all in service of the same basic goal: getting the mind to lock onto one thing and stay there. I understand the impulse. But after decades of studying consciousness […]
You Already Know What Awake Flow Feels Like

You Already Know What Awake Flow Feels Like There’s a question I ask at the start of every retreat, and the answers never get old. I ask people: What is it that you do — some activity, some relationship, some place in nature — where time seems to slow or disappear, where you feel completely […]
The 5 Most Common Self-Like Parts

The overarching goal of IFS is access to the Self. -IFS Founder Richard Schwartz The goal in Effortless Mindfulness (EM) and IFS parts work is to establish ourselves in Self or True Nature. For practitioners of EM and IFS, we aspire to be Self-led in our daily lives and learn to return to Self when […]
Integrating Parts Work Therapy and Effortless Mindfulness

Integrating Parts Work Therapy and Effortless Mindfulness What is parts work therapy? And why is it such a transformative healing modality when integrated with Effortless Mindfulness? These days, parts work and parts therapy are exploding in popularity. To my own surprise, it’s even become a powerful complement to plant medicine and psychedelic integration work. I […]
Exploring the 5 Levels of Awareness in Effortless Mindfulness

The Five Levels of Mind–a cornerstone of the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process–illuminate an elegant map of consciousness to help you heal, grow, awaken, and thrive.
Video: Effortless Mindfulness Level One

Welcome! I’m excited to bring this new offering into the world and to share it with you. It’s called Effortless Mindfulness Level One: An Introduction to the Five Levels of Mind.