I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “What you focus on grows,” right? Well, through these techniques, a gateway to wellbeing opens wide. The practice of focusing your attention never ends. On the contrary, it becomes more refined, more subtle, more harmonious and lighter. It truly is the best game in town.

Dann erkannte ich eines Tages, dass ich mich mit den Gedanken, Gefühlen, Emotionen, Überzeugungen, Konzepten und Stimmen, die in mir zu existieren schienen, eingelassen hatte und sogar eine enge Beziehung zu ihnen aufgebaut hatte. Und dann hörte ich einfach auf. Ich ließ los. Ich erlaubte mir, in der Stille des Augenblicks zu verweilen.
I surrendered my attention to the presence that exists now – to the infinite field in which everything exists now, to the underlying reality of everything, to free observation, to the source that loves everything just as it is. And there I found myself. There I remembered; I woke up.

When we subtract all that is required simply to sustain the body or fulfill society’s demands, what remains? A handful of years, perhaps, that could be called truly our own. The hours of wonder, of laughter, of deep conversation and quiet reflection —these are the rare coins of consciousness amid the currency of habit.

You know that feeling when there’s something you don’t like, something that repels you, and you’d want to change everything completely? Perhaps you’ve already thought about a situation?
Wenn das passiert, entsteht meist Widerstand: eine Art innerer Konflikt, eine Anspannung, die uns daran hindert, das Leben so zu leben, wie es ist.

Für eine Ishaya ist Hingabe weder ein abstraktes Konzept noch ein Gefühl, das je nach den Umständen kommt und geht. Es ist ein lebendiger Zustand bewusster Hingabe.

For a few blissful hours or days, I’d find reprieve from my mind’s endless loop of worry, frustration, and anxiety about outcomes or what others thought.

Imagine a large bowl filled with millions of ice cubes in various shapes-circles, stars, squares, and more. We notice countless distinct shapes if we focus on the bowl’s contents. Yet, each ice cube is made of the same substance: water. When they melt, nothing remains but water.

Hast du, so wie ich, nach Glück, Liebe und Zufriedenheit gesucht? Hast du, wie ich, Dating-Apps und neue Hobbys ausprobiert, bist umgezogen und hast den Job gewechselt, um dich erfüllt zu fühlen, um Liebe und Glück zu finden?

I started on this journey of seeking inner peace about twenty years ago. At that time, I stumbled upon the Ishayas’ Ascension meditation practice. Its simplicity, its purity, its quick results and the radiance that emanated from the teachers, spoke to my heart.

“Commitment” can seem like a scary word sometimes. In my younger days, I would rebel against the concept, rejecting it as the end of my individual freedom of choice.

The Ishayas’ Teaching is that experiencing peace, love and oneness with the world is our natural state. That we are beings with unlimited creative potential – we are luminous and Divine.

I didn’t know why it was so difficult for people to be kind to one another or why we treated nature with such disregard. I also noticed friends and adults around me were often sad or struggling.