Sublime

People who meditate are working to strengthen their conscious connection with the Authentic Self. This part of consciousness is the gateway to the spiritual dimensions that have been written about and described since ancient times.

In addition to our own two books based on Psychology of Mind, The Serenity Principle (Joseph Bailey) and You Can Feel Good Again (Richard Carlson), there are several other excellent books available, including the primary resource book on POM, The Renaissance of Psychology, by Dr. George Pransky.

Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror.

IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma. Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.