An essay responding to Tim Ferriss’s remark that meditation had diminishing returns, arguing that a meditation practice, like a workout, must evolve through progressively challenging forms — mindfulness, objects, sound, mantra, somatic, energy and consciousness.
A money essay using homicide and domestic-conflict statistics to show how money, as a surrogate for survival, drives anger and violence in relationships, and offering three keys to keep money from sparking conflict with a partner.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Yourself – Taking Responsibility For Your Life](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0816-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of taking responsibility for your life, guiding you to stop blaming others, accept your current reality, and recognize the authority you hold to improve your situation one small step each day.
The book page for 32 Steps, presenting Dr. Kathryn Colleen’s thesis that lasting global peace is inevitable, mapping an eleven-stage cycle of individual development onto the collective evolution of societies and humanity through history.
The book page for Make Love Every Day, describing a new Tantra for the connected couple that treats sexuality as one part of a complete connection built through trust, safety, grounding, power, compassion, expression, wisdom and transcendence.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Money – Getting Out Of Debt](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0814-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Three task of getting out of debt, using a dream-setting visualization of a debt-free life to build motivation and a deeper, more positive relationship with money on the path to financial freedom.
The book page for Validation, Sabotage and Freedom, exploring the nature and effect of money across personal identity, relationships and society — from debt and gambling to wealth, philanthropy, and money as a source of both connection and harm.
The landing page for the book of forty-four guided meditations that accompany the eleven-stage Purna Asatti roadmap, listing formats, ISBNs, and a full table of contents mapping each meditation to a specific stage and personal-development task.
A relationship teaching on celebrating a partner’s individuality, quirks and independent interests through joy, awe and gratitude, and on listening without judgement to encourage their strength of self and honest, reciprocal expression of personal truth.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Others – Seeing Their Humanity Through Their Ideology](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0721-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Five task of seeing others’ humanity through their ideology, guiding the listener to imagine how a disliked person’s past and circumstances shaped their beliefs, softening defensiveness into compassion.
The landing page for the book applying the eleven stages of the human experience to business, using an understanding of employees’, leaders’ and customers’ mindsets to improve hiring, management, marketing, sales and negotiation.
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A guided meditation supporting the Stage Four task of solidifying a savings engine, leading the listener through vividly imagining an ideal life so that a compelling vision motivates consistent, automatic saving.
A relationship teaching on supporting a partner’s independent will and interests, distinguishing love from attachment, examining the fears behind a desire to control, and freeing a partner to pursue their own passions as an act of love.
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A guided meditation supporting the Stage Four task of defining one’s ideology, leading the listener to trace chosen beliefs back to their root principles by repeatedly asking why, and to notice where beliefs and principles register in the body.
An examination of the guilt that often accompanies large-scale wealth: the discomfort of no longer struggling while others do, the search for renewed purpose, and how boredom and guilt frequently lead the wealthy toward philanthropy.
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Four task of recognizing and removing negative patterns, guiding the listener to sit with themselves in self-forgiveness, dig for a pattern’s root cause, and replace it with a chosen self-care habit.
An artist’s statement for an abstract piece created during pandemic lockdowns, attempting to capture the felt sense of disillusionment: churning discomfort and fear in the body alongside an openness and sense of new possibility.
A personal account of an experiment to make love every day, describing why the couple prioritized daily intimacy, how they chose mornings, embraced efficiency, and used their desire or its absence as an indicator of overall wellbeing.
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Three task of connecting to internal energy and feelings, leading a head-to-gut body scan that names emotions, traces them to fear or love, and notices how each registers energetically in the body.
An examination of how building wealth trades one set of problems for another: the tiers of high net worth, the teams of advisors required, and how money magnifies existing character traits in oneself and in others.
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A guided meditation supporting the Stage Three task of seeing others’ humanity through their needs, progressing from imagining the needs of a loved one to those of an acquaintance and finally someone disliked, cultivating compassion.
A business teaching on applying the eleven human stages to corporate and international negotiations: reading the dominant and in-the-moment stages of multiple decision-makers, using presentations to set the right stage, and translating the method across cultures.
A relationship teaching on integrating the physical, energetic and divine dimensions of sexual intimacy, allowing rather than forcing the simultaneous awareness of bodily sensation, energy exchange and each partner’s divine nature.
An artist’s statement for a mandala-based visual piece offered as a contemplation on the divine feminine, left open for the viewer’s own interpretation.
An examination of how wealth is inherently comparative: defining the high-, very-high- and ultra-high-net-worth tiers, and how tying self-worth or intellect to net worth distorts perception, contrasting flamboyant new money with quiet seasoned wealth.