Carol McMahon
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As a National Science Foundation Trainee, Carol earned a Doctorate in psychology from Penn State University. National Institute of Mental Health and American Philosophical Society grants followed and Carol published widely in distinguished jou
als including the American journal of Psychology, Psychological Medicine, and Medical Hypotheses. Her book WHERE MEDICINE FAILS (1986, paperback edition 2009), acclaimed the authority in its field, became a driving force in the holistic health movement. Discovery of a feedback method of meditation, however, and the meditation breakthrough it produced, redirected Carol's life. A life of destiny began, devoted to teaching, testing and refining the method and to crafting enlightenment tests to guide readers to the grand prize. This culminated in 2009 with: STRAIGHT LINE MEDITATION: HOW TO RESTORE AWARENESS AND WHY YOU NEED TO by Carol E. McMahon, Ph.D. with martial arts Master Deac Cataldo. Carol is the author of THE PIG FAIRY and other stories in a forthcoming series: AWAKEN THE CHILDREN. She is married, has a daughter, holds eighth degree black belt Mastery in Karate, and makes STRAIGHT LINE MEDITATION available free of charge to retreat center and prison libraries.
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Why The Best Meditation Requires Feedback
What do you gain from meditation? Consider what could be. Imagine “a world of peace and ease,” yours without changing a thing. Imagine perfect mental balance: “a balance of mind never upset by any event under the canopy of heaven.” Meditation promises great things: “Great Liberation;” “Great Knowledge;” “Great tranquility.” The promise however is rarely fulfilled. Most who meditate gain little more than rest and relaxation. The shortfall is due to flaw in traditional methods.
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How To Meditate Better Than Your Guru: The Feedback Solution
Better than your Guru? No joke is intended. Read this and you’ll know how to meditate better tha Gurus past and present. You’ll be free of the problem that limits success in all forms of meditation: mind’s uncontrollable wandering. Even Gurus are plagued by drifting and dreaming; time spent wandering when they’d hoped for attention. Now an easy solution makes success a sure thing. The solution is “feedback.” Here’s how it works and how to use it. Why Meditation Needs Feedback Attention is the key to success in meditation. Attention makes meditation work.
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Meditation Meets Western Efficiency: How Visual Feedback Accelerates Progress
They say “practice makes perfect.” When it comes to meditation however, the rule doesn’t seem to apply. “After twenty years,” warned a Zen master, “you can finally say you’ve begun to learn how to sit.” Practice skill in meditation (and associated benefit) is slow to develop. Indeed, you can get even less effective with practice! How is this possible? As a research psychologist interested in skill learning, the paradox drew me. I gave meditation a critical look and discovered the root of the problem.
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Is It Really Love? Twelve Eye-Opening Tests of Love in Relationships
How can you tell if your love is real? The following self-tests will help. Answer “yes” or “no” to each question. 1) Does your love need to hear the words “I love you?” (Yes. No.) Looking into your eyes, does your love need to hear you say: “I love you.” Thomas Carlyle wrote: “Under all speech that is good for anything lies a silence that is better.” This is especially true of love. Love’s union is most complete when the thinking mind is silent. Saying: “I love you” (or anything else) disrupts love’s flow. 2) Is your love exclusive? (Yes.
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How "Awake" are You? Seven Reliable Tests of Enlightenment
If you feel “awake,” try these self-tests. They may open your eyes to something surprising. Enlightenment (or “awakening”) is a state of full awareness. While most people feel they are aware, everyday awareness is very low. Measure yours here and gauge your enlightenment. rn(1) Can You See What’s Before Your Eyes? Look at the face of a clock. Both the minute and hour hands are moving. Odds are you can’t see them move. It’s easy to see the fast movement of the second hand. This requires little awareness.
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Meditation Reinvented: How Feedback Alters The Odds Of Success
Appearances can be deceptive. Sitting meditation looks like restfully doing nothing at all. Meditation is, however, a task of extreme difficulty, and chances are the sitter is not performing well. Meditation’s task is paying attention. All forms of meditation involve attention focused on various things (mantras, movements, breaths, etc.). Good attention is necessary for success. Most meditation benefits follow from enhanced awareness attention creates.
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Meditation Reinvented: How Feedback Alters The Odds Of Success
Appearances can be deceptive. Sitting meditation looks like restfully doing nothing at all. Meditation is, however, a task of extreme difficulty, and chances are the sitter is not performing well. Meditation’s task is paying attention. All forms of meditation involve attention focused on various things (mantras, movements, breaths, etc.). Good attention is necessary for success. Most meditation benefits follow from enhanced awareness attention creates.
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The Sure Way to Happiness: Solve a Problem You Don't Know You Have
THE SURE WAY TO HAPPINESS: SOLVE A PROBLEM YOU DON'T KNOW YOU HAVE What is the sure way to happiness? It is awareness. Awareness opens your eyes to beauty and your senses to pleasure. It opens your mind to truth and your heart to love. You may think you already have awareness. Most people think they do. If you do, you’re in for a surprise. Try this test. Test Your Awareness
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How To See God: The Spiritual Power Of Straight Line Meditation
Spiritual traditions agree God is omnipresent. How then do you see God? Nothing more than awareness is required, but awareness of profound depth. This article explains how a highly efficient method of meditation anchors attention, builds awareness, and delivers the prize. First, let’s look at the challenge. What does it take to see God? What It Takes To See Godr
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How Meditation Works And Why It Will Work For You
Meditation methods are many and varied. Some are vocal like mantra meditation. Others, like concentration on breathing, are silent. Some methods sit, some move, some are done alone, others in groups. At first glance they seem to have nothing in common, but a closer look shows they do. All methods work in the same way. All share the same ‘active ingredient.’ It is attention. Attention: Meditation’s Active Ingredient
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The Impossible Made Easy: How Feedback Tames The Restless Mind
"Restless man's mind, How shall he tame it? Truly I think the wind is no wilder." The words echo down through the centuries. All who meditate share the complaint. You sit down to meditate. You try to attend. More often than not, your mind wanders. Attention is all but impossible to sustain. Today, a new method solves the problem. It’s known as “straight line meditation.” It uses visual feedback (sensations of light) to stop the wandering. Here’s how it works. Feedback - What You Need To Succeed
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How To Stop Aging: The Surprising Remedy
Are you aging unnecessarily? Answer these questions and find out: Do you see gray hair as loss of youth (as opposed to loss of pigmentation)? Do you describe how you feel as “young” or “old,” rather tha “energetic” or “tired” for instance? Do you see an “age spot” on your hand or face where you once saw a “freckle?” If you answered “Yes,” take warning! You are aging unnecessarily. The culprit here isn’t passing years. It is thoughts that arise from deeply engrained concepts of “age” and “aging.”
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TheBestWayToMeditate
This site presents the how-to of the breakthrough meditation technique: the Feedback Method. It explains its advantages over traditional methods, and offers highlights from STRAIGHT LINE MEDITATION:HOW TO RESTORE AWARENESS AND WHY YOU NEED TO by Carol E. McMahon, Ph.D. with martial arts Master Deac Cataldo.
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StraightLineMeditation
Site introduces a feedback method, a self-guiding meditation technique - a fix for the wandering mind. Presented here is the how-to; Focusing Discs that harness attention; enlightenment self-tests, and excerpts from Dr. Carol McMahon's STRAIGHT LINE MEDITATION, the guide that offers a straight line to enlightenment.
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Where Medicine Fails
This site announces the new paperback edition of a popular classic and driving force in the holistic health movement - the acclaimed authority in its field: Where Medicine Fails by Carol McMahon, Ph.D.
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"Unless you do something to improve your health every day, you will age."
Master Deac Cataldo
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