R4B Mastery: A brief 3 step process for Coping
R4B Mastery: A BRIEF 3 Step Process for Coping …grok what’s happening, mobilize your personal energy, take action in two domains Photo by Severin Höin on Unsplash First Step: Grok what is happening The dharma wanderer doesn’t watch cable news. He typically reads headlines from all major news sources. And he reads substack authors such as Paul Krugman […]
R4B Mastery: Detecting Synchronicities
R4B Mastery: Detecting Synchronicities … fine tuning consciousness for a beneficent life journey What if meditation practice is just that. Practice. What if it’s practice for tuning a more refined awareness to detect guidance, primordial awareness and synchronicities. What then? What if the practice is for learning how to personally navigate a chaotic challenging tumultuous […]
R4B Mastery: Reaching For Well-Being
Reaching for being … by challenging limiting beliefs and aligning with the dharma Photograph taken by Simon Berger on Unsplash This post introduces a strategic psycho-spiritual process for achieving well-being and presents specific practices for the twenty-first century that are aligned with the dharma. The nature of needs and wants that arise in awareness is […]
R4B Mastery: Body Mind and Spirit
Body Mind and Spirit … a BRIEF New Year’s Message for 2025 Photograph taken by Dave Hoefler on Unsplash Consider there is an awareness being who resides inside the skin sack called a body. This awareness being has a mind that directs the body’s behavior via the intentions that arise before actions are implemented. Beyond […]
R4B Mastery: Introducing Dharma Paradigm and Practices
R4B Mastery: Introducing Dharma Paradigm and Practices … a Christmas message Photograph taken by Annie Spratt on Unsplash The most recent previous post briefly clarified three stages of the R4B method and introduced a fourth stage: Mastery. The learning process in this fourth stage involves dharma practices that dissolve unnecessary attachments and negative emotions as they arise. […]
R4B Mastery: The View
…dissolving attachments, negative emotions and ignorance. The R4B Method is an adaptation of ancient spiritual disciplines blended with contemporary psychology. This powerful practice of meditative movement is explained in stages. In the beginning stage a goal, affirmation, mantra or prayer is carefully formulated, then silently repeated in rhythm with breath, in rhythm with movement. This may create internal […]
Hints, Clues, Signs, and Signals
…bring opportunities for unexpected benefits This reflection includes 3 sections: 1 a brief discussion of mind and awareness; 2 clarification of how hints, clues, signs and signals can become messages in awareness for each life’s journey; and 3 real world examples of the dharma wanderer’s direct experience and benefits from taking action based on key […]
Extending Life’s Long-Term Journey
…using AI bots and information gathering for risk management CHOICES May this information be helpful for those who are healthy and want to improve their longevity and healthspan, as well those who are troubled with ill health and persistent symptoms. ib Consider the varied life sectors in the relative world that most beings have to […]
Belief, Meditation, Wisdom
…accelerating life journey’s unfolding into FLOW As the digital world moves faster, AI bots such as perplexity.ai provide accessible information that reveals sources for the bot’s response to a query. This information can bump up against dimly understood personal belief systems that have evolved over decades. Every sentient being is bound by unconscious habits and […]
Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds
…theory and practice for HEALING EMOTIONAL SCAR TISSUE Feet on the ground involves rational concerns about the relative world — that which can be seen, touched, tasted. How to practically do this or that, achieve this or that, solve this or that. This relies on the deterministic view derived from the Newtonian world of classical physics. It assumes time […]