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Welcome, and welcome back!
By Ben | May 28, 2007
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For those of you who find yourself returning to Peaceful Prosperity, Welcome Back! For those of you visiting the first time, Welcome, and Enjoy!
This site is an ongoing investigation into experience. Our primary tool for this will be awareness, and we seek awareness through meditation. A wide variety of techniques and principles from a diverse array of disciplines will be presented here. On this site, you can learn how to use meditation (guided, transcendental, energy, energized, chakra, mindfulness), self hypnosis, NLP, coaching (success coaching and life coaching), yoga, chi kung, pranayama, deep breathing, martial arts, progressive relaxation, and other techniques to achieve peaceful prosperity, greater focus, and improve at virtually anything! I will also explaing stress management and how to expand your consciousness!
Some of these devices will be explained in meditations. Others will be explained in other tools. If you want one on one help from me, check out the coaching page (currently, I’m located in Colorado Springs, Colorado). As you use these techniques to investigate them, your experiences will begin to change.
It is my hope that you can use this site to help you find yourself where you want to be.
On this blog, you will likely be reading posts and occasionally looking at pictures. What if you were to begin to notice what effect these words and pictures have on you? When you can let go of judgment, you can just start to pay more attention to the experience. And if you can’t let go of judgment, you can notice what the judgment is like, can’t you? What are you seeing, hearing, and feeling?
Paying more attention to the components of your experience will allow you to
enjoy your experience more and more.
It is important to note that the primary ways we learn are through intensity and repetition. We will cover intensity later, for now, I hope you will focus on repetition. The more you come back, the more you think about these principles, and the more you apply them in your life, the better and better you will become.
So Welcome, and Welcome Back again!
keep smiling,
ben
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May 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
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July 1st, 2007 at 9:46 pm
The focus of this site is focus. When you develop your focus to a certain degree, achieving what you want becomes a non-issue… it just happens. It becomes very important to pay attention to and consider what you want… because you will get it! Meditation, Hypnosis, and Coaching are all tools that ultimately help develop focus. There are an infinite array of tools available… how will you use them to get where you are going?
To answer your questions, yes, that is really me, and though I practice non-attachment everyday, I do have a girlfriend. Keep smiling!
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August 2nd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
What is the difference between meditation and hypnosis?
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August 2nd, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Depending on who is doing the meditation or hypnosis, there is not necessarily any difference.
Meditation tends to be associated with ‘religious’ or ’spiritual’ practice. Hypnosis tends to be associated with self help. There are drawbacks of each. Meditation can often become little more than social proof…much like going to church. For most of the church goers I have met, fellowship isn’t a part of who they are, church is merely a habit they have developed to prove they are followers of their given faith. To reap the real power of meditation (or prayer for that matter), you must allow it to become a part of who you are. Hypnosis, on the other hand, is typically used to “build a better robot.” Now if you are going to be a robot, you might as well be a better robot, but I tend to look for more than this in my practices… and though I will help anyone in any way I can, I tend to be most interested in the people who have similar goals.
Both involve using some specific components of experience to change the nature of experience.
I like the term ‘meditation’ better because ‘hypnosis’ is a scary word for many people, and I have found more people who ‘meditate’ tend to seek liberation. Ultimately, I don’t want to create non-smokers (to use a common example), I want to help people be able to make a real choice in a given moment whether or not they want to smoke (there is a much deeper aspect to this, but the analogy will do for now).
I’ll speak more on this in the future.
Keep smiling!
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