Be calm, still and aware...
Rediscover yourself as compassionate awareness — calmness, stillness and present — to transform fear, anxiety and stress. The journey inward is a profound exploration, not merely a destination.
Rest upon the background awareness from which all things arise, are witnessed and to which all return. You are that awareness — ever still, unmistakable, peaceful, luminous and unchanging — across time and space in waking, dreaming and dreamless states.
Levels of the human mind
Gross, subtle and subtlest
Within our being, the gross mind dances in the light of day, conscious and outward. Deeper still beneath waking state is the subtle mind of dreams, feelings and memory — our subconscious landscape. Beyond that lies the most subtle mind, the unconscious depths of pure potential and stillness where seeds of our memory reside. With inner awakening, we see that these layers of mind are like gentle waves upon one vast ocean of awareness.
All levels are embraced by the ever-present, unchanging witness. This pure awareness shines through every thought and emotion, guiding us toward inner clarity and self-discovery. In this uplifting journey of awakening, we find peace.
Every part of us — conscious, subconscious, unconscious — awakens together in awareness. Each mind’s level is cradled in love and wisdom, unveiling the truth of inner unity and insight. In this serene awareness, we remember our own eternal freedom and inner light. In that stillness, we awaken truly in luminous peace.
Health and Well-Being
In the heart of mindfulness meditation lies a profound yet simple truth: healing and well-being arise not through striving, but through resting deeply in one’s own awareness. Rather than seeking peace in external circumstances, mindfulness invites us to turn inward—to become still, to observe, and to gently rest in the spacious awareness that underlies all thoughts, emotions, and sensations. This shift in attention, from doing to being, unlocks a natural state of balance and wholeness that many of us overlook in our fast-paced lives.
When we rest in awareness, the mind begins to settle. Stress, anxiety, and mental chatter gradually lose their grip. This inner calm soothes the nervous system, lowers cortisol levels, improves focus, and enhances emotional resilience. Over time, the brain itself changes—developing stronger neural pathways associated with compassion, clarity, and emotional regulation. Mindfulness also cultivates acceptance and patience, allowing us to respond to life rather than react impulsively.
The benefits extend beyond the mind. Mindfulness meditation has been shown to reduce inflammation, improve immune function, regulate blood pressure, and support sleep quality. As the mind releases its habitual tension, the body follows, softening into a state of ease and vitality.
In daily life, this inner health reveals itself in practical, meaningful ways. We become more present in our relationships, more grounded in challenges, and more attuned to beauty and gratitude in ordinary moments. Tasks feel lighter, decisions clearer, and interactions more compassionate. The world no longer pulls us in all directions—we move through it from a center of stillness.
Ultimately, resting in awareness is not an escape from life, but a profound return to life—a return to the essence of who we truly are beneath the noise, roles, and responsibilities. In the stillness of pure awareness, we rediscover that peace is not something we must earn, but something already present when we stop chasing and simply allow ourselves to be.
From this space, life begins to unfold with greater ease. We move through the world with clarity rather than confusion, with steadiness instead of reactivity. Each breath, each interaction, becomes more intentional, more spacious, more alive. Even amidst difficulty, we find an inner refuge untouched by outer circumstances.
This grounded presence empowers us to make wiser choices, to speak and act with kindness, and to live with greater joy and authenticity. In resting within awareness, we don’t withdraw from life—we meet it fully, with an open heart and an awakened mind.
Yoga, pranayama and mindfulness
Yoga asanas
Yoga asanas, or postures, are designed to place the body into positions of deliberate stillness. In these frozen moments, the body becomes steady, allowing the mind to quiet and mental fluctuations to settle.
This stillness creates the inner condition necessary for awareness to arise. Asanas also regulate the flow of prana — the body’s vital energy — bringing balance and calm to both body and mind. By cultivating physical stability and energetic harmony, asanas prepare the practitioner for deeper meditation. They serve as a gateway into inner stillness, where awareness becomes vivid and the path to true meditative absorption unfolds.
Breathing
Yogic breathing (pranayama) is a method to balance the body’s vital energy (prana) and restore harmony between body and mind. As prana stabilizes, the body relaxes and the mind begins to calm. The breath then naturally moves toward kumbhaka — the stillness between breaths — where all motion ceases.
This state prepares the mind for Nirvikalpa Samadhi, the highest meditative absorption, where breath and mind meet in silence and dissolve. In that stillness, awareness reveals itself—not as something observed, but as what we are. With this realization, all suffering rooted in mental activity falls away, and only pure awareness remains.
Meditation
The purpose of meditation is to rediscover our true nature — pure awareness — unchanging, calm, and ever-present. Rather than being caught in the movement of thoughts, emotions, and sensations, meditation invites us to rest in our awareness.
By shifting our attention from the constant change aspects of ourselves to the non-changing awareness, we begin to free ourselves from the inner turbulence that causes stress and depression. In this still and open presence, the qualities of awareness — calmness, clarity and compassion — begin to shine forth, transforming how we relate to ourselves, others and the world.
Brainwaves oscillation
During meditation
Theta: Best for emotional healing, trauma transformation, and reprogramming subconscious patterns.
1/ Entering the Theta State 2/ Bring Gentle Awareness to the Pain 3/ Reprogram the subconscious mind – plant a positive seed 4/ Repeat Consistently
Theta reprogramming works because it bypasses the thinking mind and speaks directly to the subconscious. By entering this deeply receptive state with safety, intention, and self-compassion, we can release trauma, soothe depression, and restore emotional balance from the inside out.
There is scientific evidence supporting the idea that theta brainwave states play a key role in emotional healing, trauma processing and subconscious reprogramming.
— David Spiegel, Stanford University: Hypnosis (a theta-dominant state) showed measurable changes in brain activity linked to self-awareness and control of pain/emotion.
— Mindfulness meditation studies (e.g., Sara Lazar, Harvard): Long-term meditation increases grey matter in regions tied to emotional regulation and decreases the size of the amygdala.
Meditative brainwaves
Alpha waves ~ (8 - 12 Hz)
Alpha brainwaves (8–12 Hz) appear during early stages of meditation, when the mind relaxes and thoughts begin to slow. This calm, alert state enhances mental clarity, reduces stress, and improves emotional balance. Alpha activity supports memory, creativity, and learning, while also promoting physical health by lowering blood pressure and supporting immune function. It reflects a bridge between wakefulness and deeper meditative absorption.
Theta waves ~ (4 - 8 Hz)
Theta brainwaves (4–8 Hz) arise in deeper stages of meditation, when the mind becomes quiet and inwardly absorbed. Associated with deep relaxation, intuition, and dream-like states, theta enhances creativity, emotional healing, and subconscious insight. This state supports memory consolidation, reduces stress, and promotes regenerative physical processes. It marks a gateway to profound inner stillness and transformative meditative experiences.
This state is associated with deep meditation, light sleep, and the edge of consciousness — where the subconscious mind is most accessible. In theta, the brain is highly suggestible and open to reprogramming. This is the ideal state for processing and transforming trauma, releasing limiting beliefs, and accessing suppressed emotions. Practices like guided meditation, hypnotherapy, and inner child work often target this state for healing. Theta allows the mind to rewrite old emotional patterns, helping to transform depression, anger, and stress at their roots.
Meditation, Theta, and Emotional Balance
Mindfulness and deep meditation often increase theta wave production.
Regular meditation has been shown to:
# Reduce depression and anxiety# Improve emotional regulation
# Lower cortisol levels (the stress hormone)
Rewire parts of the brain like the amygdala (linked to fear) and prefrontal cortex (involved in emotion regulation)
➡️ Theta-related meditation creates the right conditions for lasting emotional healing.Delta waves ~ (0,5 - 4 Hz)
Delta brainwaves (0.5–4 Hz) appear in the deepest states of meditation and non-REM sleep, when awareness is pure and the mind is fully still. Associated with deep healing, delta waves promote cellular regeneration, immune function, and profound physical restoration. Mentally, they support emotional release and access to non-verbal awareness, offering a state of timeless presence and deep inner peace.
Inner Exploration
Reflective writting
Reflective writing is a transformative view that invites us to reconnect with our true essence — the unchanging awareness that has been with us from the beginning of life. By engaging in this introspective journey, we can move beyond the identification of our thoughts, feelings, emotions and physical bodies.
Instead, we come to recognize the constant, witnessing presence within us. This practice serves as a gentle reminder to return to our core, offering clarity and peace amid life’s fluctuations. Through the view of reflective writing, we are invited to rediscover ourselves and navigate through daily challenges with ease, understanding and compassion.
Learn to relax your mind's muscles
Thinking is a cognitive process that generates a slight tension in the mind. Similar to the body’s movement, muscles need to alternate between tension and relaxation to enable motion. Likewise, when a thought emerges, it induces tension in the mind’s muscles to produce a thought or sensation. During stressful situations, we tend to exert more tension than required, causing our minds to become drained. By acquiring the skill of relaxing the mind’s muscles, we can abstain from the turbulence of arbitrary thoughts. Studies indicate that only 1% of the thoughts we ponder daily are of value, while a staggering. Studies indicate that only 1% of the thoughts we ponder daily are of value, while.
Subconscious activities as main hindrances
Beginners often struggle with meditation when their subconscious mind takes over. Subconscious thoughts can appear randomly and disrupt our attempts to calm our conscious mind. These thoughts control 95% of our actions, so it’s important to learn how to work with our subconscious instead of against it. To overcome these hindrances, we need to find ways to release the subconscious energy in our body in order to access deeper dimension of ourselves. To effectively manage our subconscious disturbances, it is crucial to comprehend the principles by which our mind operates. In the conscious state, we possess the capacity to select our thoughts and
Focus vs. unfocused of attention
Whenever a problem arises in our lives, it is common to become excessively fixated on the issue at hand. Rather than objectively analyzing the situation, we tend to get caught up in the drama unfolding before us. Furthermore, our minds have the tendency to amplify the magnitude of the problem when we recollect it. What may have been a small challenge at the moment can suddenly transform into a large issue. As we all know, sometimes it is advisable to avoid viewing a problem too closely as it may create more difficulties. On occasion, it is necessary to have a wider perspective than that of an 8K microscope. Throughout our lives, we have learned to maintain a narrow focus in order to accomplish.
Look deeply into the emptiness of mind
In accordance with the principles of science, the ancient sages of India proclaimed, “As the microcosm, so is the macrocosm.” Despite the fact that everything in the physical world appears to be solid, it is constantly changing. For something to change, there must be enough space for new information to enter and old information to exit. There must be a connection between the internal and external influences, and the space between physical objects allows this to happen. Energies exist in a state of boundlessness within the space between our thoughts. To redirect energy to higher purposes, one must access this state. This space between our thoughts cannot be detected by the senses. Only by letting go.
Self-enquiry of who or what is aware
In the space between two thoughts, we must ask the question, “who is aware?” The answer is clear: awareness is not a person, thought, idea or feeling. It is the Self-existing lifeforce inside every human being, expressing itself as Self-knowingness. It is luminous, unchanging and calm. This awareness has the ability to perceive, and it is the background on which life plays its stories. It is like an ocean on which waves are created, and once everything comes to an end, waves return and become one with the ocean. The same can be said about thoughts, feelings, emotions and perceptions. Awareness is the foundation of all, and once they dissolve, they return back to awareness. With this knowledge, we can feel.
The origin of time is the present moment
Time is a cyclical spiral of the past, present and future, confidently created by our experience of change. Time becomes real through the changes we encounter, and it is undeniable that everyone’s experience of time is unique. It may seem to fly by for some and slow for others, but one thing is for sure: the existence of the past, present and future is a common experience for all human beings. So when we closely examine our experience of time, we come to understand that all changes happen in the present moment. The past and future are thoughts stored in our memory. We can never step out of the present moment to go back to yesterday, nor can we move forward to a distant future. In reality, the only.
Heart Qualities
Cultivating Heart Qualities Through Present-Moment Awareness
Heartfelt qualities such as happiness, calmness, stillness, compassion, kindness, and friendliness are fundamental to our human experience. These attributes are deeply embedded within us and naturally emerge when we embrace the present moment.
However, our thoughts, emotions, and self-centered tendencies often cloud the beauty of the now, causing us to lose touch with our true nature.
The present moment is a powerful force residing deep within us, influencing both our unconscious and conscious states. Yet, when we become entangled in the patterns of our subconscious mind, the brilliance of the present moment fades as it enters our waking consciousness.
To reconnect with this innate awareness, it’s essential to learn the art of relaxation and letting go. Through this practice, we return to a state of pure, unconditioned awareness—what we refer to as Open Unfixated Awareness.
Dharma practitioner
Huan M. Vuong
A lifelong seeker turned guide, Huan Minh Vuong has spent more than 30 years walking the path of inner discovery. Through silence, insight, and unwavering dedication, he has uncovered the aware stillness at the heart of all experience — and now shares this light with others. His work invites you to return to your True Self, where peace, clarity and inner awareness are waiting for you to come back.
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