3 months of presence,
well-being and mindfulness.
We are embarking on a 90 Day Gratitude Experiment to work personally with a select cohort of practitioners who want a practical training in mindfulness. Applications for the next ascent are open.
For 90 days we will personally guide you to become skillful at self regulating the autonomic nervous system. For 14 Thursdays we will meet in a virtual room where we will give the weekly guided practice live on zoom and we will open a space for questions and answers. The sessions are recorded and the replays are available for you.
You will receive the knowledge in the weekly zoom, and you will experience mindfulness with the guided practices that are the basis for your transformational experience.
More than anything, what you will live and embody is a direct experience of transformation, which becomes the foundation of a new trajectory for your life.
We use posture and breathwork practices with biofeedback technology to invoke heart brain coherence, which is the synchronization of the heart and brain to achieve optimal bodymind operating efficiencies.
We contribute to the field by sharing gratitude at a distance, thus raising the frequency of the global community.
We are becoming skillful at invoking the ideal fertile conditions for creating the future self.
Hi, I’m Eric. I uniquely bring together mindful practice, breathwork, and biofeedback. I’ve led an 8 week mindfulness course for 13 years and read thousands of journal entries from people just like you, ready to transform their lives. This 12 week expedition adds laboratory experiments where we test hypothesis and measure heart coherence. We are collecting data for analysis and publication.
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Hi, I’m Danielle. I host 28 Day Toning Experiences and the 90 day ascent. I created a gratitude workbook to generate inspired action. With a background in Earth Science, I fuse that foundation while leading as a breathwork facilitator, yoga instructor, and movement educator. I feel grateful to play in this playground of consciousness with you.
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Mindfulness has improved millions of lives
Practicing mindfulness is scientifically proven way to change your personal reality.
Todays science shows us that mindfulness meditation reduces your stress levels, improves your sleep, increases your self-esteem, balances your emotions, promotes a good mood and increases the ability of your immune system to fight against disease. You can change the biochemicals through which you create and experience your reality. Through daily practice over 90 days, we slowly transform the physiology in our nervous systems.
Mindfulness is not a magic pill that solves all your problems without you doing anything. Transformation occurs through skillful manipulation of the energy centers and the autonomic nervous system. The result is living your life in a happier, healthier and in a more conscious way.
When we invoke coherence we are creating the ideal conditions for energy (chemical messengers) to move throughout the body. This movement of energy releases old energy patterns (emotional patterns) and improves the ability of chemical messengers to communicate to every cell in your body. This includes messages that communicate with the DNA. Each day you invoke coherence you will be participating in creating your future self at an emotional and cellular level of chemical experience.
We (you) will be creating the ideal biochemical conditions for moving the baseline of your nervous system from a habituated state of fear/contraction to expansion — openness to love.
Like climbing a mountain, preparing well in advance is the key to a successful ascent.
Plan to practice every day for 45 minutes.
Plan to send a daily journal entry to the instructor.
Through practicing mindfulness exercises (toning) you can take control, becoming objectively aware of your physiological processes, interrupting the inertia of the automatic unconscious body-mind feedback loop.
During the 90 days you will develop a habit of pleasant practice that will be your best ally to reduce stress, anxiety, worry, nervousness, anger and inner tension, to live a healthier and fuller life.
Your inner center of calm
Your attitude towards life, your way of being, is what really makes the difference in everything you do.
Mindfulness is what you have been looking for, and it is not something you have to “get” or acquire.
It is already within you.
It is a deep internal resource that is patiently waiting to be released and used so that you can put it at the service of your future growth, healing and wholeness.
The science of mindfulness, Research and proven benefits
Both medical science and cognitive-behavioral therapies support the practice of mindfulness and more and more professionals in the clinical sector recommend Mindful Science to their patients.
Decades of research show that mindfulness practice is a scientifically proven way to :
PRACTICE 1
SPACE, POSTURE, AND BREATH
Your physical practice space is very important. You will begin by learning how to prepare your physical worldly environment to send a clear signal to your body and mind that all is well, here it is safe to relax and practice.
We will practice daily the correct posture and breathing practices to align your autonomic nervous system (ANS) to access states of peace and calm that lead to inner balance — the peace beyond understanding. Posture and breathing are two clear safety signals you send to the nervous system. Through proper practice, using biofeedback and focussed attentional awareness, will support your nervous system to begin to transform safely, ensuring a successful outcome at the end of these 3 months.
PRACTICE 2
YOUR INNER CENTER OF SAFETY
How you perceive what is happening for you from moment-to-moment, largely determines how you respond to what happens. Your perception of reality and creating an internal emotional state of safety is the key to your progress in this second week.
The first step in dealing with stressful and painful situations from a safe feel of complete calm is to create a safe indoor space – a state of emotional safety. You will begin choosing your safe physical space – you practice chair.
Once established, this sacred emotional state of safety, experiencing aliveness in complete inner security, will transform the way your bodymind responds to the past remembered thought forms and the current challenges you encounter in your daily life as you walk in the world.
PRACTICE 3
DEVELOPING THE “MUSCLE” OF THE OBSERVER
After 14 days of practice, in week 3 you will remember how to observe the thoughts, images, and body sensations -sounds that arise in your awareness.
The simple act of paying full attention to these thought-forms transforms the neuronets of your heart and brain: the
“Center of the I ”, the prefrontal cortex, weakens the old connections, so you can control those repetitive thoughts about your life: about the emotions you unconsciously associated with the mistakes you made. You will remember how to strengthen the connections in the lateral prefrontal cortex, or the “Assessment Center” of the brain, which helps you feel differently about yourself. your problems and difficulties, with greater perspective, objectivity, and clarity.
PRACTICE 4
STRENGTHENING THE “MUSCLE“ OF THE OBSERVER
With each slow breath and focused attentional energy, we learn to observe the state of thought forms as they really are. Now that you’ve trained your bodymind to feel confident. With courage, you’ve learned to observe thoughts and images without judgment as the neutral witness, it’s time now to strengthen your observing muscle and move beyond mental habituation into the exciting journey of the unknown. “The muscle, this mental force, this focused attention IS the vehicle for transcending, letting go of the illusion of physical form. You are the creator.
PRACTICE 5
CHOOSING EMOTIONAL BALANCE
In this session, we will present the first ACTIVE practice and work with emotions (energy moving). You are going to learn to let go of the attachment or the emotional charge, that is, the unconscious identification with your feelings and emotions.
Normally, we tend to reject (or suppress) our uncomfortable emotions and attach to our most familiar habitual emotions even the unpleasant emotions that do not serve us. Choosing an emotional experience creates the inner territory for expanded awareness – open focus – presenting new reality-making opportunities.
In this fifth week, you will remember how to regain your emotional balance and strengthen emotional maturity. You will learn to be OK and present with your emotions, no matter what they are. You will remember how to remove your awareness from the stream of habitual reactivity, without reacting chaotically in every moment. You remember the power of choosing, Through choice, you become skillful at maintaining an inner center of serenity.
PRACTICE 6
DUALITY
In this practice, you will realize the nature of duality. As an observer, you will maintain an uninterrupted state of conscious awareness BEcoming aware of awareness itself, being aware, as we guide you to a place that is in infinite awareness — the emptiness and simultaneously, all that is. You are developing the ability to create your own experience in the present moment. You will become skillful at choosing and letting go of energy states. You will witness the creator at work. You are the creator! This is an active exercise that further strengthens the observer’s mental muscle — sustained awareness.
PRACTICE 7
LIMITING EMOTIONAL CONDITIONS
Throughout your life, you have unconsciously created a multitude of mental limits that restrict your access to your true potential and prevent you from experiencing the richness and diversity that your life offers you.
This unconscious habitual mental prison oppresses you and limits your ability to experience a personal reality more aligned with your life’s vital purpose.
This week you will learn to transcend these repressive states of mind by practicing mindful exercises and thereby participating in your own conscious awakening. You are the creator of your future self.
PRACTICE 8
RECONTEXTUALIZATION
This is the most important mindful exercise of this experiential journey. It is also known as cognitive refocusing. You will learn to rewrite the emotional meaning of past memories that limit future possibilities. You are the creator of your future self.
Recontextualize an old memory, from the past, freeing yourself, presenting yourself with new possibilities of BECOMING. Create your future self, beyond your pain and your fear of the past. Explore new emotions through expanded states of new awareness.
BONUS
THE VORTEX
The vortex mindful practice is to feel the energy in motion. We are energy beings unconsciously experiencing our energy – our light bodies in physical form. This practice allows you to consciously explore energy moving through continuous and uninterrupted awareness.
LAB 1
SHARED AWAKENING pt.1
Hypothesis:
- Coming into eye contact and traversing through gates of perception together. What can transform when we are in presence with another?
LAB 2
SHARED AWAKENING pt.2
Hypothesis:
- Coming into eye contact and traversing through gates of perception together. What happens to coherence when we are in presence with another?
LAB 3
GRATITUDE
Hypothesis:
- Measuring heart coherence during and after giving gratitude, receiving gratitude, or witnessing the story of gratitude being shared by others. What imaginal state will produce the most coherence?
ADD ON
NO GUIDE – ON YOUR OWN
Two (unique) practices with more moments of silence (emptiness in the void) so that you can explore the FIELD practicing without a guide. This session will support you with strengthening your habit of mindfulness (focused attention) without relying on guided meditations. This is the playground of possibilities.
It is an experience of personal and collective transformation through the direct application of technique and knowledge.
- Weekly live zoom sessions where you will learn the practical bases of mindfulness in a fully guided way. Each session is recorded and we send you the replay.
- Experientially experience methods and techniques supported by science.
- Apply mindfulness in all areas of your life, including your personal relationships and your work environment.
- Learn about the science of the bodymind connection and learn to activate your natural self-regulation mechanisms.
- Establish long-lasting and enjoyable practice habits.
- Receive personalized follow-up on a daily basis to your emailed journals.
- Contribute to a group data sheet to graph Average Coherence data from the HeartMath Inner Balance.
- Connect in the private mini-group with Community as you go from Basecamp to Mountain Summit.
- At the end of the course you earn a participation certificate.
A simple and innovative approach to inspired transformation
1. Biofeedback Measurements
Your HeartMath Inner Balance sensor and phone app are used to record daily measurements during your practice. Record your Average Heart Coherence value for your daily 5 minute silent practice (5 second inhale and 5 second exhale) and 10 minute toning practice (5 second inhale and sounds on the exhale for 10+seconds). This group data is being collected and analyzed will be used in service to accelerate the transformation of humanity from fear to love.
Daily practice includes, posture, breathwork, biofeedback, journal entries, gratitude and future selfing disciplines. These practices are unique and when combined, produce accelerated transformational experiences.
2. Clear and concise guided mindfulness practices
We start with 15-minute guided practices and we increase the time little by little. Small gradual changes that cumulatively help you create healthy habits.
Experience the introduction of a new live guided practice during the Thursday zoom calls and then listen to a recording during your practice upon awakening each day.
3. Receive personal support… daily
We will use a digital journaling format to provide daily feedback. Within 30 minutes of each practice send a ‘bullet point’ journal entry of your experience to your guide via email. You will receive a personalized response to support your ascent. You will have someone by your side who cares about you. And this is really going to make a difference.
In addition, the FB big group is available for you to share your progress, ask your questions and connect with past-present-future practitioners. You will gain access to a private webpage and private mini-group of the expedition cohort only.
4. Online-face-to-face format
Every week we meet in a virtual conference room, where the cohort is present. We practice together and you receive unique information you need to practice for the upcoming week, we move to a live question and answer session, and we end with the live guided mindfulness practice of the week.
5. Receive daily gratitude
Science shows that the there are significant benefits from receiving gratitude. Will coherence improve when we receive gratitude daily?
The group receives one 2-minute gratitude story per zoom call. Everyone is then assigned a gratitude buddy for the week. During your daily practice, you send gratitude to your buddy. This ensures that everyone receives gratitude on a daily basis.
Count Me IN!
90 Days ascending the mountain mindfully, heart to heart with your guides.
We meet at a virtual “basecamp” to begin our ascent up the mountain, for our first zoom meeting. Everything is recorded and we will send you each replay. We encourage attendance to each call to share what you are experiencing and create community connection.
Congratulations and Welcome! The ideal 1st step is to schedule a 15-20 minute interview with Eric Lloyd Knouse prior to enrolling in this experiment. Note that the instructors for future experiments may vary.
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Posture & Breathing pt.1
We will practice daily the correct posture and breathing practices to align your autonomic nervous system (ANS) to access states of peace and calm that lead to inner balance — the peace beyond understanding. Posture and breathing are two clear safety signals you send to the nervous system. Through proper practice, using biofeedback and focussed attentional awareness, will support your nervous system to begin to transform safely, ensuring a successful outcome at the end of the course.
Posture & Breathing pt.2
The first step in dealing with stressful and painful situations from a safe feel of complete calm is to create a safe indoor space – a state of emotional safety. You will begin choosing your safe physical space – you practice chair.
Once established, this sacred emotional state of safety, experiencing aliveness in complete inner security, will transform the way your bodymind responds to the past remembered thought forms and the current challenges you encounter in your daily life as you walk in the world.
Developing the “Muscle” of the Observer pt.1
The simple act of paying full attention to these thought-forms transforms the neuronets of your heart and brain: the “Center of the I ”, the prefrontal cortex, weakens the old connections, so you can control those repetitive thoughts about your life: about the emotions you unconsciously associated with the mistakes you made. You will remember how to strengthen the connections in the lateral prefrontal cortex, or the “Assessment Center” of the brain, which helps you feel differently about yourself. your problems and difficulties, with greater perspective, objectivity, and clarity.
Developing the “Muscle” of the Observer pt.2
You’ve trained your bodymind to feel confident. With courage, you’ve learned to observe thoughts and images without judgment as the neutral witness, it’s time now to strengthen your observing muscle and move beyond mental habituation into the exciting journey of the unknown. “The muscle, this mental force, this focused attention IS the vehicle for transcending, letting go of the illusion of physical form. You are the creator.
Feeling Wheel
Normally, we tend to reject (or suppress) our uncomfortable emotions and attach to our most familiar habitual emotions even the unpleasant emotions that do not serve us. Choosing an emotional experience creates the inner territory for expanded awareness – open focus – presenting new reality-making opportunities.
In this fifth week, you will remember how to regain your emotional balance and strengthen emotional maturity. You will learn to be OK and present with your emotions, no matter what they are. You will remember how to remove your awareness from the stream of habitual reactivity, without reacting chaotically in every moment. You remember the power of choosing, Through choice, you become skillful at maintaining an inner center of serenity.
Exploring the Sphere
Inside/Outside
This unconscious habitual mental prison oppresses you and limits your ability to experience a personal reality more aligned with your life’s vital purpose.
This week you will learn to transcend these repressive states of mind by practicing mindful exercises and thereby participating in your own conscious awakening. You are the creator of your future self.
Recontextualizing Past Memory
Recontextualize an old memory, from the past, freeing yourself, presenting yourself with new possibilities of BECOMING. Create your future self, beyond your pain and your fear of the past. Explore new emotions through expanded states of new awareness.