Let’s talk about manifesting, debunk the BS behind it, and talk about how to really make your dreams come true.I kinda cringe when I hear people talking about manifesting. When they do, I get the impression they’re either trying to sell me something, or have never really achieved anything in their life.BUT behind the strange, woo-woo, pseudoscientific explanations, there is a very real, observable, reliable, repeatable track to success, to being a results maker. This is the gem that the manifestation people are desperately trying to explain with QM.And once we’ve talked about the current manifestation movement, we’ll look at exactly how you become a results maker in detail.

Today, we talk about personality masks.Often our most salient character traits are a facade erected to conceal who we really are behind it.Learn to accurately judge and interpret people, stop taking things personally, create emotional distance, and get ultra-useful intel on yourself and others.Accompanying article

Let’s talk about the spiritual ego and how to dismantle it.Rather than viewing the spiritual ego as a single kind of personality, I see it as a phenomenon that shows up as different characters, as subpersonalities, as mini-egos that hijack Truth to serve their own ends, thus distorting pure spiritual wisdom.I’ve come across six types in my time, and here are my quirky names for them: the Theoriser, the Mean Monk, the Hippy, the Introspective, the Hermit, and the Prophet.Disclaimer: All of my conclusions are merely works in progress. That said, I’ve been around enough to meet these various characters both in myself and in others.Accompanying Article on Spiritual Ego

Today we talk about six ways that modern society screws you up, and my six solutions to these issues.On the surface these might seem quite simple, but in combination they aspects are deadly and slowly rot away our ability to be happy and lead fulfilling lives.These tentacles reach down into all aspects of our psychology, our habits, and our view of what life is all about.

We have an extraordinary amount of luxury available to us, luxury that our parents and grandparents’ generation couldn’t imagine.And it’s all available very quickly and for very little money. You might think this makes you happy, but it actually slowly ruins your life. You’re being manipulated and exploited by media and marketeers, and it’s making you miserable.Learn how stimulation and comfort are ruining your life, and how to reprogramme yourself to free yourself from their grip.This is a small part of my next episode, which is coming on Friday. Subscribe to be the first to see it.

Today we talk about spiritual abuse: how to see the warning signs in teachers, why it happens, and how to lead a healthy spiritual life. This is based on my personal experiences as a teacher, meeting other teachers, and my 10-year meditation journey.

I explore persistence, failure and success, with no script. I open up and share the challenges I've faced this week, month and year so far. I hope you take away some lessons on success, failure and persistence.

Let’s discuss and practice choiceless awareness, a particular meditation state in which we give up control of our attention. This is also a meditation practice in its own right, and we’ll look at a couple of varieties of it.Skip to 11:30 for the guided meditation!I often see choiceless awareness talked about as a philosophy or doctrine. But to me it’s much more immediate than that. It’s a first-person meditative state. You don’t have to believe that it exists: you just need to experience it for yourself.That said, this work is best suited to people with some experience with meditation, particularly mindfulness or vipassana-style practices. This is a delicate, nuanced art. If you’re a beginner, feel free to check out my free guided meditations on the channel.Accompanying article with extra tips and second meditation: https://deep-psychology.com/choiceless-awareness/

Let’s talk about walking meditation, how to practice it, why we practice it, and the obstacles involved.If you do meditation for some time, you’ll naturally begin to bring it into everyday life, and walking meditation is a powerful way to systematise this process. In my local classes I teach it from day one to accompany our sitting work. My students discover that it’s possible to meditate whenever, wherever.Practice it enough, and you’ll realise you can enter meditative awareness whenever you want. This is life-changing.Accompanying article: https://deep-psychology.com/moving-meditation/Free guided meditations: https://deep-psychology.com/category/meditation/guided-meditations/Learn more techniques: https://deep-psychology.com/category/meditation/learn-meditation/

Limiting beliefs are disempowering views you have about yourself. You tend to strongly hold on to them, and they persistently prevent you from changing.Holding one is like being hypnotised by yourself, by your own mind. They trip you up, paralyse you, stop you in your tracks, and you don't even realise it.Today we talk about the 5 most common limiting beliefs and how they’re destroying your life. You’ll learn these limiting beliefs, why they’re so sneaky and pernicious, and what you can do about them.Okay, I don’t really know if they’re destroying your life. You’ll have to analyse your situation for yourself. But if you’ve never learned about limiting beliefs before, I can guarantee they’re having some kind of negative effect on your life and preventing you from making positive changes.

Welcome to this 5-minute sleep meditation, guided by Ross Edwards BSc DipBSoM. I suggest you do this lying down with a pillow under your head, keeping the body symmetrical.My accompanying post (link below) includes this free audio along with tips on how to get the most from it.This is perfect for both beginner meditators, who can get a taste of mindfulness meditation, and for experienced meditators, who can use it to supplement their existing habit.In this 5-minute sleep meditation, we intentionally relax the body then bring attention to the feelings of relaxation that result from it.In this way, we begin to enter a sleep-ready state while also cultivating the essential skills of meditation.Sleep meditation: Tips and next steps

I've been practicing meditation consistently for nearly a decade and now teach dozens of meditators every week. What I've found is that beginners tend to come into meditation with all sorts of misconceptions. These misconceptions are unhelpful and even damaging. They jeopardise our efforts to establish a regular practice and start seeing its power.So here are my three best meditation tips for beginners. With these you'll avoid the typical traps and plant the seeds for a mature meditation practice from day one.EXTRA MEDITATION TIPS FOR BEGINNERS: https://deep-psychology.com/advice-beginner-meditators/

MIND is my bespoke 10-week online mindfulness coaching programme that empowers you to bring mindfulness into your day-to-day and have it transform how you face life’s challenges, overcome your blocks, and gain greater authenticity and fulfilment.I'm Ross Edwards BSc DipBSoM, founder, teacher and coach.In my 10-week online coaching programme, you not only learn essential mindfulness techniques – you learn how to adapt them to your own needs for maximum personal growth. You start incorporating them into your daily life as soon as possible, meaning you get maximum leverage from your practice.You craft your own coaching goals, get personalised guided meditations to help you reach them, and work with me to strategically improve your life using mindfulness as the main tool. You simply don’t get this level of attention in standard meditation classes or on the popular apps.In this episode, we dive deeper into my programme and why it’s powerful.Free guided meditation: https://deep-psychology.com/online-mindfulness-coach/Book your free 30-minute taster: https://bit.ly/calendlyrossedwards

Jean Gebser's work on the structures of consciousness illuminates the deep emergent structures of human psychology and how they play out in culture, society, religion, science and systems of meaning across human history, back to time immemorial.This is psychoactive philosophy. We're not analysing these structures of consciousness as separate entities far removed from them. We're steeped in these structures of consciousness.In fact, our psychology morphs and evolves through these structures as we grow and develop – in both an individual and collective sense. And their vestiges can be seen strewn across both our inner world, our objective world, and our planet.Here are Jean Gebser's Five Structures of Consciousness, which he calls mutations:1) Archaic2) Magic3) Mythic4) Rational5) IntegralIntegral is being born right before our eyes. Can we step up and embody this aperspectival, multi-viewed, flowing, flexible consciousness and take the world beyond the limited Rational perspective that has dominated for the last few hundred years? To be spiritual yet worldly and inclusive, rational yet integrative, and healthily selfless and selfish. This is our challenge as modern humans.

Ken Wilber’s Four Quadrants sound nice in the abstract, but how do we apply them in practice?Let's discuss some of the on-the-ground applications of this theory, with a focus on our wellbeing, values, desires, and our developmental journey.By doing so we see the power of Ken Wilber's Four Quadrants and can begin applying them to find greater balance in our lives.Keep in mind one principle for this: four-quadrant balance is a requirement for healthy functioning.

We tend to emphasise some perspectives over others.When we do this, we’re blind, we’re biased. We’re not seeing the full picture, the fullness and complexity of life, and we create weak explanations and weak solutions.What if we could go beyond all this dichotomising and reductionism to a complete picture of reality? Enter The Four Quadrants.In his Integral Theory, Ken Wilber proposes his Four Quadrants as the four fundamental perspectives on life, human beings, and the cosmos. And they play a huge role in this comprehensive perspective.These four fundamental perspectives are visible in all human disciplines, in all phenomena.To get an accurate picture of politics, health, science or any other real-life phenomena, we ought to look at them from these four perspectives, at least.

Let’s talk about the Pygmalion Effect and the self-fulfilling prophecy.The beauty of these concepts is that they reveal the power of thought, belief and emotion. We’re creators, and our primary medium is our imagination.And though we tend to abuse this power and create like drunkards, it’s possible to retrain ourselves to get our mind working in our favour.We look at common examples of this effect, like in the learning process, contemplate why it’s true, and discuss the keys to getting it to work for you.

Often we see personal development as a sea of people disagreeing and giving advice that seems to be completely disconnected or even contradictory. But it doesn't have to be that way! I show you that all of personal development is really arranged in a series of layers that address different levels of our wellbeing. These are not so much stepping stones as repeating themes, each of which builds on the last. At any given time, we tend to focus our efforts to improve ourselves and our lives on one of these levels.Today we’ll look at four such levels and how to use this framework to help you self-transform.

The 8 stages of human development in career. What are they? And how do we embody the highest ones, transforming ourselves and our career lives to the benefit of all?– What Are The Stages of Human Development?Levels of complexity, a series of operating systems, each including the prior one but improving on it in crucial ways.– What Do They Mean For Our Career?The higher the levels we embody in our career, the more selfless we are, and the greater the impact our work has on the world.– What Can We Do To Advance?Integrate earlier levels, encourage later ones to take root, scrutinise career and ask how we can make it more expansive and loving.The 8 Stages of Development in Career: Basic Survival; Power & Dominance; Deference; Achievement; Sensitivity; Integral; Benevolence

Let’s talk about a powerful concept that I’ve discovered after years of working hard on my personal growth and mastering different subjects, from maths to languages to meditation to writing. This is my Law of Proportional Reward, and it applies to all areas of personal growth, whether it’s career, relationships, finances, spirituality, or indeed learning.It even explains our levels of fulfilment and zest for life. We tend to think that a comfortable, easy life is what we want. This law turns that idea on its head.I’ve had this concept built into my psychology for a long time, but only recently have I realised that it drives many of my positive personal growth habits and explains my negative ones.If you want to experience positive gains in any area of life, you simply need to know – nay, live and breathe – my Law of Proportional Reward.Want to be a prolific learner? Join the GU Members Area to access premium online personal development courses, including Master How to Learn.