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David Hawkins
7 essays feature or mention David Hawkins, newest first.
Why Old Pain Keeps Coming Back: The Pain-Body
Someone says one small thing and you go up like dry paper. We follow Tolle's pain-body through one whole round while Griff snaps at a friend over a loose chair joint. Michael Singer, David Hawkins, Bessel van der Kolk, Joe Dispenza and Brené Brown add their views along the way, and the post ends on what to do the next time the heat rises.
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Why You're Afraid to Become Someone New
Joe Dispenza, Maxwell Maltz, Gay Hendricks, Eckhart Tolle, Michael Singer, Marshall Goldsmith and Carl Jung come at identity from very different places and describe the same two fears. What a hermit crab knows about moving house, why feeling good can trip an inner thermostat, and three weeks' worth of small experiments.
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The Power of Focus: Why Attention Shapes Your Life
Charles Haanel and Robert Collier both compared the mind to a magnifying glass. Eckhart Tolle, Michael Singer, Joe Dispenza, Abraham-Hicks and Marcus Aurelius describe what happens when you hold it still. Three directions to point your attention, what the research does and doesn't support, and three practices to start this week.
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The 7 Hermetic Laws You're Already Living By
In 1908 a small book signed "Three Initiates" laid out seven laws it called a master key. They aren't ancient Egyptian, and none can be proved in a lab. But each one names something you can catch happening on a plain Tuesday.
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The One Step Every Manifestation Technique Secretly Depends On
The techniques keep almost working, and there's a reason. Each one borrows its power from a step nobody names, and teachers from unrelated fields keep pointing at the same one.
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David Hawkins Put a Number on Every Human Emotion
David Hawkins built a 1-to-1000 scale for the whole of human consciousness, using a muscle-testing method he also built a defense against ever being disproven. Here's the ladder, the method, and where it holds up.
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Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Forgot
A mystic, a neuroscientist, a trauma doctor and a psychiatrist arrive at the same answer. The "feel it real" instruction assumes a working felt sense, and nobody checked whether yours was online.
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