Joe Dispenza
His teaching brings meditation, visualisation and the experience of a future self into a personal practice. We study this work alongside published research involving his collaborators.
Explore his research and teachingResearch & Influences
The work we study.
The questions we pursue.
Author perspectives and published research informing Conscious Feeling’s work on meditation, belief, coherence, intention and inner experience.
The author perspectives
A conversation across
mind, science and spirit.
Bruce Lipton
The Biology of Belief explores Lipton’s understanding of perception, consciousness and biology. His work informs the questions we bring to belief, conditioning and personal change.
Read about The Biology of BeliefGregg Braden
Braden’s books and teaching explore the conversation between science and spirituality. The Divine Matrix is one of the works informing Arf’s inquiry into feeling, connection and conscious creation.
Read about The Divine MatrixSadhguru
His teaching invites an experiential inquiry into the self, the body, breath and the way we meet ordinary life. These themes are part of our wider contemplative reading.
Explore the teaching on wellbeingThese are sources Arf studies and interprets in the Conscious Feeling framework. The author perspectives and the published studies below are identified separately so you can follow each source directly.
Published research
From a question
to a measured study.
Stapleton, Dispenza and colleagues · Psychology in the Schools · 2024
School meditation and children’s emotional awareness
10-week Australian school pilot; measurements before and after participation
The study involved 839 children across two age groups and examined emotional awareness, self-regulation, happiness and behaviour. Several measures improved by small amounts; changes differed by age group and measure.
Relevant to our interest in children’s meditation and emotional experience.
Read the published studyRanganathan and colleagues · Neuropsychologia · 2004
From mental power to muscle power
30 healthy young adults; 12 weeks of mental or physical training and comparison measurements
This study examined mental rehearsal of specific muscle contractions. The mental-training groups improved strength in the trained tasks, with changes in measured cortical signals.
Relevant to our teaching on mental rehearsal, attention and practising an experience internally.
Read the study abstractPractice & author reading
Follow the ideas
into their sources.
Mind Movies in meditation practice
Dispenza describes using mind movies and visual imagery within a retreat practice. This is an author account of his method and a source for our interest in personal visualisation.
Read the sourceAttention, feeling and heart coherence
His teaching connects clear intention with elevated feeling, including gratitude and compassion. This source gives context to the author perspective informing our coherence practice.
Read the sourceBreath and the experience of thought
A short teaching on the relationship between breath and thought. It sits within our wider interest in awareness, direct experience and the body in contemplative practice.
Read the sourceFurther reading
Collective intention and the Maharishi Effect literature
The Maharishi Effect research programme examines group practice of Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi in relation to social indicators. This literature is part of the background to Arf’s interest in collective consciousness and shared intention.
Explore the research programmeThe Conscious Feeling interpretation
Conscious Feeling brings these influences into its own spiritual framework and practice. Our programmes connect belief, awareness, brain–heart coherence, intention and therapeutic work through original CF teaching and guided experiences.
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