Lisa Miller What was the mechanism of this connection? I felt the same way about the inipi. My ability to explain what had happened didn’t obscure my absolute joy and wonder in the imminent arrival of two children. Dr.…
Lisa Miller “I’ve never seen a patient who needed major surgery refuse a general anesthetic because the anesthesiologist couldn’t explain precisely how it works.” I also thought of a continuing education symposium I’d attend at Harvard Medical School a year or two before Isaiah came. Dr. Larry Dossey, a longtime medical doctor in Dallas…
Lisa Miller Awakened awareness When I think of awakened awareness, I think of the iconic painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel of God giving life to Adam. So are we given life,…
Lisa Miller Quiet your achieving awareness The twentieth-century views of the mind describe imagination as something we construct. Imagination is invention. Make-believe. But in awakened awareness, imagination is not an act of creation so much as…
Lisa Miller Preparing our brains for spiritual awareness To engage our innate capacity for awakened attention, we first quiet the “little me,” turning down our achieving awareness so that our awakened awareness can emerge. There are many conscious…
Lisa Miller To build awakened attention Even obstacles often appear at just the right time to teach us something important. I created this exercise called Three Doors to help show that when we’re using the lens…
