Elliott Dacher – Integral Meditation for Optimal Health

Description Of Integral Meditation for Optimal Health

With the Integral Meditation for Optimal Health course, you’ll discover time-tested strategies for overcoming obstacles and developing an effective, progressive and stable meditation practice – within the context of integral health and well-being.

Integral medicine pioneer, Dr. Elliott Dacher, will share his unique perspective as a trained physician and lifelong meditator. Elliott Dacher will demonstrate, with clear scientific evidence and profound personal experience, what the mystics have long understood – that effective meditation has the power to miraculously heal your body, awaken your mind and ignite your spirit. And more importantly, Elliott Dacher will provide a proven approach for putting effective meditation into action in your life.

What you’ll learn in Integral Meditation for Optimal Health

You’ll receive access to the many benefits of integral meditation:

• Support for your optimal physical health and well-being throughout the different cycles of your life
• Empowerment to flourish with deep serenity, penetrating wisdom, enduring happiness, compassion, boundless freedom and the perfection of health
• Help aligning with your transformative inner resources: intention, attention, mental/emotional stabilization, mental clarity and insight
• Deeper understanding of the mind to reduce negative habitual, reactive patterns
• Sense of deep peace to an overactive mind
• Improved interpersonal relationships through mindfulness, authentic love and compassion
• Transformation of ordinary work into a spiritual practice
• Skills that transform suffering and adversity into opportunity

What You’ll Discover in Integral Meditation for Optimal Health:

Each weekly LIVE teaching, activation and training session will build upon the next, so that you’ll develop a more multi-dimensional understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to develop a truly transformative meditative practice in our fast-paced, modern world.

Whether you are new to meditation or are a seasoned practitioner who is ready to go even deeper, this course will give you everything you need to know to successfully integrate meditation into your daily life and deepen an existing practice.

Awakening to the Gift of this Life:

The Foundations of a Truly Transformative Meditation Practice

We begin with the age-old and universally-shared vision of the preciousness and promise of human life. We will explore how and why integral meditation is the keystone of this timeless vision for health and human flourishing. In this session, you’ll also learn the time-tested basics of meditation training – techniques that will serve as the foundation for your daily practice. This module will help you:

• Understand why inner development through a precise meditation practice is the key to evolving a precious human life.
• Differentiate between meditation for relaxation versus personal transformation.
• Learn the characteristics of each of the three progressive states of meditation.
• Understand the essential, preliminary practices for meditation, including techniques for calming an overactive mind.
• Extend and integrate your practice into daily life by incorporating mindfulness into your daily routine.

The Integral Approach to Health and Healing:

Bringing All Dimensions of Your Being into Balance

In this session, you’ll learn more about the integral approach to health and healing. This holistic and evolutionary view of well-being serves as a road map to a comprehensive and expansive health. It is a leap that both embraces and transcends the biological view of modern times. This module will help you:

• Learn about the four quadrants of integral health: psycho-spiritual, biological, interpersonal and culture/community.
• Identify the core elements of the integral model.
• Understand the role that the development of consciousness plays in driving the entire process of integral health.
• Further develop your meditation practice by introducing techniques that increase clarity and presence, and reduce mental dullness.
• Integrate meditative listening into your daily life.

The Evolving Mind-Body Connection:

Cultivating Your Inner Development to Transform Your Physical Health

We are all aware of the mind-body interface. For instance, we know that when we are nervous that we have a physical response. It’s both common sense and well established science. But how much do we know about the subtler interactions of mind and body – about the effect of an expanding consciousness on brain function, structure, and beyond? How do we translate the capacities conveyed by meditative stability into biological harmony and well-being? This module will help you:

• Honor your body as precious, because it is the home of your consciousness.
• Learn about the evolution of our understanding of the mind-body interface – including perspectives on psychology, biofeedback, psychoneuroimmunology and neuroscience.
• Integrate a subtle-mind body awareness and practice into your daily life.

Awakening the Noble Heart:

Consciously Evolving Your Interpersonal Relationships

How do we transform disconnection into connection, and disharmony into harmony? In this session, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how meditation and inner development can help transform your personal relationships. You’ll learn how interpersonal relationships grow and evolve in tandem with the expansion of consciousness. We will also explore the movement from “I” to “other” to “us” to “all of us” to “one.” This module will help you:

• Discover how meditation restores basic well-being, which is the foundation for extending ourselves to others.
• Recognize the connection of consciousness to the development of “otherness.”
• Understand the characteristics and levels of authentic love and compassion – personal, human condition and non-referential.
• Learn and practice the skill of “equalizing and exchanging” as an adjunct to your meditation practice.

The Transformative Power of Selfless Service:

Liberating Your True Gifts

In this session, you’ll gain insight into how ordinary work can be transformed into a spiritual practice. It is possible for you – regardless of the nature of your job. Selfless service opens the heart, clears the mind, and advances your path towards integral well-being. This module will help you:

• Learn about the timeless understanding that drives this transformation.
• Identify five skills that underlie the development of compassionate service – regardless of the type of career or project.
• Integrate these skills into your daily tasks.
• Take on the role of “healer” in your work environment.
• Integrate the practice of transforming work into service into your daily life.

Transforming Adversity into Opportunity:

Releasing Subtle Levels of Suffering & Mental Distress

In this session, you’ll discover, that adversity – both inner and outer – can be a powerful opportunity for personal development. Irrespective of your particular circumstance, there are skills and techniques for transforming challenges and conflicts into opportunities for growth. When we you gain mastery over this process you will no longer fear yourself – your emotional afflictions – nor the expected adversities of life. This module will help you:

• Understand the fundamental cause of suffering and emotional afflictions.
• Discover the three common habitual responses to suffering or adversity that inadvertently feed the problem.
• Cultivate the five skills that transform suffering and adversity into opportunity – bringing challenges onto the path to an integral health and life.
• Learn how to integrate inner mental calm and mental clarity – the basis for becoming peaceful and carefree inside – while dealing with complexities in the outer world.

Human Flourishing and the Perfection of Health:
Integrating

The great sage Aurobindo spoke about what he called, the Perfection of Health. And, it is available to all individuals, irrespective of their state of physical health. The perfection of health – human flourishing – is a state of being, rather than a state of biology. This module will help you:

• Understand how it is possible to sustain high-level well-being throughout the cycles of human life.
• Learn the skills for human flourishing: intention, attention, mental/emotional stabilization, mental clarity and insight.
• Discover the qualities and three developmental phases of human flourishing – a serenity that surpasses understanding, penetrating wisdom, enduring happiness, compassion, boundless freedom and the perfection of health.
• Identify the key components of our course: the cultivation of a stable and progressive meditation practice – and the knowledge to bring all of life’s activities on the path to a larger life of integral health and well-being.
• Identify resources and directions to build upon what we have learned into your future practice.

About Elliott Dacher

Traditionally, there are three progressive stages of meditation that relate to three levels of consciousness: calming the overactive mind, resting with alertness in the still mind, and the non-dual aspect of consciousness when mediator and meditation, subject and object, drop away. In this latter level of consciousness the great traditions speak of special powers and capacities that reveal themselves. In this discussion Larry Dossey and Elliott Dacher will discuss the character and significance of the non-dual state of consciousness, and its impact on integral health and well-being.

He is executive editor of the peer-previewed journal Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. He is the author of twelve books on the role of consciousness and spirituality in health, which have been translated into twenty languages. Dr. Dossey’s most recent book is ONE MIND: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters. He lectures around the world.

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