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Esta es la frase con la que empieza todo

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Dialogues for Fundamental Peace: Monday 19 October, 7:30 pm, Church of San Antón (Mensajeros de la Paz), with Padre Ángel and host Sonia Rey. Free entry; the conversation is in Spanish.

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0:32Nine to One Source — nine women, nine paths, one peace

What the UN taught me: change walks on two legs.

0:46Five words to come back to yourself — Fundamental Peace

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Card of the week · Meta Pet 1 — "From Entropy to Syntropy". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "If entropy becomes syntropy, what was the chaos for?" Affirmation: I transform entropy into creative flow.

A glimpse of peace is easy. A retreat, a good walk, a quiet Sunday. Staying there on a Tuesday is another matter.

Both peaces that peace research names are about the world. Galtung's two words: negative peace, the absence of war; positive peace, the presence of justice.

0:41“And beyond” — what the Dalai Lama told me in Dharamshala

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0:32Nueve Caminos — la saga Nine Paths to One en castellano

3:05The peace beneath treaties and justice — Fundamental Peace in 3 minutes

What is the peace beneath the peace of treaties and the peace of justice? In three minutes: the three kinds of peace, the four capacities the FP20 measures, and the Ground Route — eight movements, five of them a daily engine.

Music: "Fundamental Peace", from The Mind That Makes the World.

0:32The Shadow Speaks — give the part you hide a voice

Card of the week · Meta Pet 7 — "Virtue is its own Reward". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "If virtue is its own reward, why do you seek recognition?" Affirmation: My virtue shines through all my actions.

In 1997 I was posted as an international observer in Prijedor, in the former Yugoslavia. My job was to watch an election after a war.

0:31What if the dive began before the water? Diving into Presence, Cabo de Palos

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0:42My first teacher of breath was a swimming pool

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0:32The Universe in a Room — Līlā's song | The Mind That Makes the World

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My love lay still at midnight's border I would not let the lamp go out I called the goddess of the rivers Of speech, to wash away my doubt Come, little queen, leave weight behind you Thought is the only wing you need Your husband dreams a whole creation Inside a single mustard seed Worlds within worlds within a world A palace folded in a room Whatever mind believes completely Becomes the sky, becomes the bloom I flew through ceilings made of aeons I watched him reign, I watched him grieve Each life as real as any other Each real only as we believe Om Aim Saraswatyai Namaha Om Aim Saraswatyai Namaha Space is a thought the thinker opened Time is a thread the dreamer drew The curtain thought has drawn between us Thought can draw open too Worlds within worlds within a world A palace folded in a room Whatever mind believes completely Becomes the sky, becomes the bloom Awake inside the dream Awake... awake

Card of the week · Meta Pet 12 — "A Pure Heart". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "A pure heart has no walls. What are you protecting?" Affirmation: My heart is pure and open to all of life.

2:48Why breath sits at the centre of diving — Mindful Breath in 3 minutes

Why does breath sit at the centre of diving — and of inner peace? In three minutes: the 4B arc (before, below, between, beyond), six breaths a minute, and the breathwork review behind the book (138 papers screened, 62 cited).

Music: "The Pool", from The Mind That Makes the World.

For years I kept two books open on my desk: the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha — the "Supreme Yoga", a dialogue between the sage Vasiṣṭha and a young prince who has seen through the world — and the clinical literature of hypnotherapy.

0:28Four phases of a dive, and only one is underwater | Mindful Diving™

Music: “Breathing with the Ocean”, from The Ocean Within (Nine Paths to One).

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When you put an ancient contemplative text next to a clinical science, the temptation is to say they mean the same thing. They don't.

0:42She woke up first — Queen Cūḍālā, Yoga Vāsiṣṭha

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Land practice only. Underwater, breathing stays slow, continuous and as trained: never hold your breath on scuba.

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3:05The peace beneath treaties and justice — Fundamental Peace in 3 minutes

What is the peace beneath the peace of treaties and the peace of justice? In three minutes: the three kinds of peace, the four capacities the FP20 measures, and the Ground Route — eight movements, five of them a daily engine.

Music: "Fundamental Peace", from The Mind That Makes the World.

2:48Why breath sits at the centre of diving — Mindful Breath in 3 minutes

Why does breath sit at the centre of diving — and of inner peace? In three minutes: the 4B arc (before, below, between, beyond), six breaths a minute, and the breathwork review behind the book (138 papers screened, 62 cited).

Music: "The Pool", from The Mind That Makes the World.

2:16An ancient yoga text meets hypnotherapy — The Mind That Makes the World

An ancient yoga text and a hypnotist's chair at the same table. In three minutes: the five stories of the Supreme Yoga, what a trance actually is, the concordances (never equivalences) and the forty-day path toward Fundamental Peace.

Music: "The Universe in a Room", from The Mind That Makes the World.

2:24What trance is (and is not) — Hypnotherapy in three minutes

Trance is not sleep, and not surrender. In three minutes: three myths about hypnosis, what actually happens in a session, and how Hypnotherapy: The Essential Guide leads from a first induction to Fundamental Peace.

Music: "Seven Rungs of Light", from The Mind That Makes the World.

2:14From shadow to essence: The Transpersonal Leader in three minutes

Leadership is not a role; it is what remains when the shadow has been walked. In three minutes: Shadow → Gift → Essence, the six ROUSER pillars, and the free assessment.

Music: "Seven Rungs of Light", from The Mind That Makes the World.

1:52Shadow, wound, presence: the three books of the Transpersonal Series

Three books, one architecture. The Leader (from shadow to essence), The Alchemist (from wound to essence), The Coach (from presence to transmission).

Music: "The Universe in a Room", from The Mind That Makes the World.

2:18Nine Women, One Old Agreement: Nine Paths to One in Three Minutes

Nine women, one old agreement, a field that has been waiting — and sixty-four sisters who sing it. In three minutes: the novel, its transmissions, and the mantra cycle that grew around it.

Music: "Return the River", from The Mind That Makes the World.

3:08Five Words, Three Minutes: A Practice for World Meditation Day

Five words you can walk in three minutes: Settle · Focus · Intend · Witness · Choose. For World Meditation Day, 21 December, a guided practice from Fundamental Peace: The Source Book — breathe with the circle, then walk the daily engine of the Ground Route.

Music: "Fundamental Peace", from The Mind That Makes the World.

2:32The Ground Route: eight movements, five minutes a day — a practice for 2027

War closes the sky; peace goes by land. In a short film: the eight movements of the Ground Route — Ground · Settle · Focus · Intend · Witness · Transmute · Choose · Return — and the five-minute daily engine at its heart.

Music: "The Gold Beyond the Gold", from The Mind That Makes the World.

2:19Six Wounds, Six Virtues — the root beneath violence (Fundamental Peace)

Beneath violence, a wound — and Fundamental Peace names six: repression, denial, shame, rejection, guilt and separation — each with the virtue it becomes at a different frequency. For the School Day of Non-violence and Peace (30 January).

Music: "The Crow at the Edge of Time", from The Mind That Makes the World.

1:55Peace at Work: what organizational design does to your inner life

What ordinary organizational design does to the interior — and what leaders can do instead. The four nutrients, the 6 Rs from Brands & Rousers (2012), the ROUSER pillars, the Rouser Principle, the CWO test, and the rule beneath all of them: Ground first.

Music: "A Lifetime in a Moment", from The Mind That Makes the World.

2:15What would ten billion free, conscious and happy people by 2050 take?

For the International Day of Happiness: what "10 Billion Free, Conscious & Happy by 2050" would actually mean. The Peace Triad, the arithmetic (25 million catalysts × 400 lives), the five conditions, and the invitation — Generation Txai · Generation Compassion.

Music: "Fundamental Peace", from The Mind That Makes the World.

The Making of a Question

In 1995 I spent my days on two very different scales.

Organizations begin long before they are registered.

An idea becomes real the first time other people walk into a room because of it.

Some of the most durable things an organization owns were not named by its leaders. They were named by its community.

Every organization has a sentence for "we are doing well". The interesting part is what that sentence is counting.

In May 2025, in Dharamshala, I shared the mission of the World Happiness Foundation with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Meta Pets cards

Card of the week · Meta Pet 1 — "From Entropy to Syntropy". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "If entropy becomes syntropy, what was the chaos for?" Affirmation: I transform entropy into creative flow.

Card of the week · Meta Pet 7 — "Virtue is its own Reward". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "If virtue is its own reward, why do you seek recognition?" Affirmation: My virtue shines through all my actions.

Card of the week · Meta Pet 12 — "A Pure Heart". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "A pure heart has no walls. What are you protecting?" Affirmation: My heart is pure and open to all of life.

Behind codependency there is a sensitivity that has not yet chosen itself. Card of the week · Meta Pet 19 — "The Future Human Being". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "The future human being is here now. What are you waiting for?" Affirmation: I embody the future human being of compassion.

Just one. Card of the week · Meta Pet 23 — "The Alchemy of Simplicity". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "Simplicity is the ultimate alchemy. What are you complicating?" Affirmation: I find the profound in the simple.

Its antidote fits in one word: attention. Card of the week · Meta Pet 33 — "The Final Revelation". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "The final revelation reveals: there is no final revelation." Affirmation: The final revelation unfolds within me now.

Is your fantasy pulling you away from what is coming, or anticipating it? Card of the week · Meta Pet 41 — "The Prime Emanation". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "The prime emanation emanates. From where?" Affirmation: I channel the prime emanation of source.

Stress asks for more motion; this card asks for the opposite. Card of the week · Meta Pet 52 — "The Stillpoint". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "At the stillpoint, everything moves." Affirmation: I rest in the stillpoint between worlds.

Card 64 of 64 is not an ending but a dawn. Card of the week · Meta Pet 64 — "Aurora". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "The aurora ends the night that never was." Affirmation: The aurora of my awakening illuminates all.

Conflict is not the opposite of peace; in this card it is its shadow. Card of the week · Meta Pet 6 — "The Path to Peace". Shadow → Gift → Essence. Koan: "You found the path to peace. Who was walking the path of war?" Affirmation: I walk the path of deep inner peace.

Page of the week

“Peace is not just a treaty to be signed—it’s a skill to be learned and a value to be lived.” Peace, Happiness, and a New Paradigm

You can understand a new way of living and still rehearse the old one every morning.

The hardest place to keep your peace is not a retreat. It is your own kitchen.

Your team can tell the difference between a performance and a presence within minutes.

A simple test for any city: do people wake up smiling, and do they feel they belong?

“If openness is a river, understanding is the sturdy bridge that lets us cross into each other’s worldviews.” Rebirth and Freedom: The Alchemy of Whole-Being Leadership

What we call inevitable is often a choice repeated until it looks like fate.

We cannot promise young people a world without difficulty. We can teach them to meet it.

When aid budgets shrink, schooling for refugee children is often among the first things cut.

Meditation, hypnotherapy, breathwork, shamanic drumming: one target beneath them all.

From the Journal

Most conversations about violence start too late: at the war, the strike, the scandal.

Most knowledge work runs on one kind of attention: the tight beam. Deadlines, inboxes, back-to-back meetings.

Hope is often treated as waiting for conditions to improve. I think that is the wrong definition.

"Behind every choice, even those that result in harm, there is a positive intention."

Most ocean policy is framed as damage control. I think that frame is part of the problem.

Friday was the International Day of Friendship. In most workplaces it passed unnoticed, which says something.

Most of us are optimised for certainty. Awe breaks that optimisation, and leaders need more of it.

The most common barrier I see in university classrooms is not lack of talent. It is social anxiety.

Thursday was World Humanitarian Day. It is a good moment to say something leaders rarely say in public: I feel limited.

Music

0:32Nine to One Source — nine women, nine paths, one peace

0:32Nueve Caminos — la saga Nine Paths to One en castellano

0:32The Shadow Speaks — give the part you hide a voice

0:32The Universe in a Room — Līlā's song | The Mind That Makes the World

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My love lay still at midnight's border I would not let the lamp go out I called the goddess of the rivers Of speech, to wash away my doubt Come, little queen, leave weight behind you Thought is the only wing you need Your husband dreams a whole creation Inside a single mustard seed Worlds within worlds within a world A palace folded in a room Whatever mind believes completely Becomes the sky, becomes the bloom I flew through ceilings made of aeons I watched him reign, I watched him grieve Each life as real as any other Each real only as we believe Om Aim Saraswatyai Namaha Om Aim Saraswatyai Namaha Space is a thought the thinker opened Time is a thread the dreamer drew The curtain thought has drawn between us Thought can draw open too Worlds within worlds within a world A palace folded in a room Whatever mind believes completely Becomes the sky, becomes the bloom Awake inside the dream Awake... awake

0:32Ixchel at Bedside — a mantra for the threshold

0:32Om Ah Hum — three syllables for body, speech and mind

0:32Eatnu, Eatnu — Áile's song from Sápmi | Sister Songs

0:32Sawubona, Sikhona — to be seen is to be made real

0:32Naguya, Naguya, Naguya — Sister Songs — The Return | Nine Paths to One

0:32Roots of the Earth — Unlocking Your Light Within | Nine Paths to One

Mindful Diving™

0:28Four phases of a dive, and only one is underwater | Mindful Diving™

Music: “Breathing with the Ocean”, from The Ocean Within (Nine Paths to One).

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0:27Enter with the plan, not ahead of it: ARRIVE in sixty seconds | Mindful Diving™

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0:28Say it at amber, not at red: the 40-second Readiness Scan | Mindful Diving™

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0:28The Amber Word: a hand signal for “not fine, not in trouble” | Mindful Diving™

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0:29Diving teaches you to breathe. Presence teaches you to stay. | Madrid, 19 Dec

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0:27Every dive is a session of contemplation — the water just never told you

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0:30Every breath underwater teaches awareness: the Mindful Diving Manifesto

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0:31Never hold your breath, and 9 other dive rules that work on land

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0:30The First Dive Is a Breath | Mindful Breath™, a Mindful Diving™ specialty

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0:29Why the regulator feels empty, and the one exhale that breaks the loop

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World Happiness Fest channel

Talks, dialogues and Fest moments.

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Diálogos para la Paz Fundamental - Heal the Healers

16 Jul 2026

World Happiness Fest 2026

27 Mar 2026

World Happiness Fest 2026 - Las Rozas, Madrid -

27 Mar 2026

A GLOBAL MOMENT OF PEACE

21 Mar 2026

Hipnosis para Sueño Profundo

12 Mar 2026

Dr. Stephen Sideroff and Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo on Foundations of Happiness

26 Feb 2026

The Web of Life A Holistic Education Toolkit for Schools of Happiness

2 Feb 2026

Schools of Happiness, a new paradigm

2 Feb 2026

Schools of Happiness Series Felicia A New Educational Paradigm – Happiness

2 Feb 2026

How to Feel Loved with Sonja Lyubomirsky and Luis Miguel Gallardo

28 Jan 2026

Meditación de Año Nuevo 111

2 Jan 2026

New Year Soul·Full Meditation

2 Jan 2026

Meditación Especial de Navidad

24 Dec 2025

Holiday Special Meditation

24 Dec 2025

World Happiness Fest Argentina

29 Nov 2025