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Imagine a More Loving World: Guided Meditation for Awakening

by Philip and Jane Mountrose

During the interview, Jane leads a guided visualization meditation that helps participants feel the vibration of unconditional love.

She invites you to imagine:

A world where everyone’s unique gifts are honored
Communities built on cooperation and mutual respect
A healthy, thriving planet in balance

This simple yet powerful meditation is more than imagination—it’s a spiritual practice that expands awareness and helps manifest a more loving reality.

Watch the full guided meditation and conversation below:

The Science of Love and Happiness

Jane bridges spirituality and science, citing research showing how love and happiness enhance health, longevity, and emotional resilience.

Studies confirm that positive emotions strengthen the immune system, lower stress, and improve heart health. This means that cultivating love is not only spiritually rewarding—it’s scientifically proven to improve well-being. Love truly is a force for healing on every level.

Love as a Path to Planetary Healing

A world guided by love is also a world in harmony with nature. When we act from love, we care for the Earth—reducing harm, honoring life, and restoring balance.

This “ecology of love” extends to all living beings. Love inspires sustainability and cooperation with the planet, rather than domination or exploitation.

Awakening a Cultural Renaissance

Jane reminds us that profound transformations often begin with small groups of inspired individuals— just as the Renaissance four hundred years ago began with visionaries who dared to dream of something more.

Each of us can be part of a spiritual awakening movement— one heart at a time — by imagining, embodying, and sharing a more loving world.

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Join the Awakening

Now is the time to imagine and co-create a world led by love.

Take a few moments to listen, breathe, and open your heart with Jane’s guided meditation above. Together, we can inspire a global awakening rooted in compassion, unity, and joy.

👉 Learn more about our programs at Awakenings Institute

Self-Help & Self-Improvement on the Leading Edge

by Philip and Jane Mountrose

Discover a Faster, Easier, and More Joyful Path to Transformation

There’s never been a better time to dive into self-help and self-improvement. With so many tools and resources available, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The key? Tune into the leading edge—where transformation happens faster, easier, and with more joy.

We know the journey. We’ve faced the same challenges most people encounter: limited time, too much stress, constant pressure, and approaches that just didn’t work. The conventional path didn’t take us where we wanted to go.

That’s when we discovered something extraordinary: the most powerful answers live on the leading edge of personal and spiritual growth. And that’s where everything changed.

One of the most powerful tools we found is EFT, the Emotional Freedom Techniques.

Maybe you’re feeling it too — that the old ways no longer make sense. If so, you’re in the right place. Over the past 30+ years, we’ve discovered powerful shortcuts that we now share with people like you who are ready to create a life they love..

The Real Secret of Self-Help and Self-Improvement

Life can be so much better than most people imagine. Our journey led us from traditional careers—teaching and architecture— to becoming holistic professionals. Why? Because we discovered how to accelerate change and create lasting joy, peace, and purpose. And we found some extraordinary tools like EFT to create emotional freedom and a more joyful life.

But What If Love, Joy and Well-Being Feel Out of Reach?

We get it. Sometimes emotional pain feels stuck and unmovable. That’s why we recommend deep healing tools like EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). It's a powerful, science-supported method for releasing emotional blocks that traditional methods often miss.

If you’ve tried different approaches to self-help and self-improvement and still feel stuck, don’t give up. There’s another way—and we’re here to help you.

Ready to try something new?

Begin now FOR FREE with the Holistic EFT "Get Started" Manual

This powerful self help technique helps you to:

Gently release emotional blocks
Reduce anxiety and stress
Create more clarity, ease, and joy in your daily life

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Get instant access and join over 14,000 people who’ve used this guide to shift their emotions and transform their lives — from the inside out.

Self-Help and Self-Improvement Resources to Improve your Life

We create free resources to help seekers like you to move forward with more ease and inspiration. Some of the tools we now teach were surprising at first—but they make perfect sense once you experience them.

Here’s the biggest insight: the real solution lies within. While most people chase solutions outside themselves, the real power comes from inner transformation. That’s why self-help and self-improvement matter so much.

What’s the Difference Between Self-Help and Self-Improvement?

Self-help is about taking responsibility for your life using your own efforts and resources. It’s about self-reliance and empowerment—getting unstuck and moving forward.

Self-improvement goes deeper. It’s about transforming your mind, character, and inner world. It all starts with your thoughts.

“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” – Buddha

And this is where many people struggle—trying to create change while thinking the same old thoughts. With tens of thousands of thoughts running daily, how can you possibly manage it?

Alone, it’s hard. But with the right tools (we’ll show you!), it becomes surprisingly easy.

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The Core of True Self-Help and Self-Improvement

Real self-growth is about expansion—mentally, emotionally, spiritually. When you feel good, everything shifts. But when you're stressed or overwhelmed, you can easily spiral into thoughts like:

“I’ll never get out of this.”
“I can’t take this anymore.”
“Why is this happening to me?”

Sound familiar? You’re not alone. We’ve all been there. The key is to shift the emotion behind the thought. That’s where true healing happens.

Love and Happiness as Keys for Self-Help and Self-Improvement

The facts are in. Everyone can benefit from the power of love and happiness. The primary mission of this website is to create a world where love and happiness abound, where everyone can live fully and reach their full potential.

With this mission in mind, we want to share the possibilities with as many people as possible, the more the merrier! After all, love and happiness are life-enhancing. It's actually pretty simple. Love and happiness make you feel good and good things happen when you feel good.

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Life Purpose: Three Things That Give Life Meaning

by Philip and Jane Mountrose

What is your life purpose? What gives your life meaning? We all know life has its ups and downs, times of clarity and confusion. Yet it holds a rich meaning, one that you unfold through living your purpose. Your purpose motivates you to do and be your best.

You could describe your life purpose as the life that you were born to live. This all-important topic is explored in-depth in Awakenings Institute’s Holistic Coach and Healer Certification Program.

Three Things About Your Purpose that Give Life More Meaning

Here then are three factors, often overlooked, that affect your life purpose.

1. Your purpose keeps evolving, which gives life even more meaning.

You might stumble on your purpose. Also, you might discover it by doing something you enjoy.

Dealing with Negative Emotions: Letting Go of the Demons

by Philip and Jane Mountrose

How do you deal with negative emotions? We all have difficult times: setbacks, losses and the consequences of poor choices. The more time you have lived longer you live, the more challenges you’ll face.

Of course, we want to shorten the times we experience negative impact and quickly recover and restructure. We also want to learn and grow from life’s challenges and hardships.

With uncertainty and tough times come troubling emotions: doubt, anxiety, loneliness and fear.

Releasing negative emotions is about reframing them. Let’s see how to reframe – look at through a different lens — challenging feelings that we inevitably face throughout life

In the Zone: Where It Happens

by Philip and Jane Mountrose

Being in the zone… remember the thrill of being fully engaged in something that intrigues and enlivens you, sparks your creativity and problem-solving?

It might be singing or dancing, writing or videotaping, healing or coaching, or the wonder of playing with a child or pet.

After the thrill is over, we come back to everyday routines and maintenance, and if our life is relatively in order (for the moment), we are happy and content.

But lifting yourself into the zone is part of a joyous life, the place where so much is unknown, exciting and possible. Here are four fun ways to get there:

1. Dream and live your dream.

There is a magic in thinking big. You may have a dream of a better world: social justice, racial and sexual equality, a protected environment and more. To find a way to contribute, consider your talents, skills and interests. Therein lies the key to making a difference.

One lady we coached wanted a world that had a more functional medical system. This inspired her to pursue energy work to follow her heart and make the world a healthier place.

Overcoming the Top Three Energy Blocks

by Philip and Jane Mountrose

Clearing emotional and energy blocks is essential for personal and professional growth and self-development.
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There are many obstacles as we progress through life. Some energy or emotional blocks are common– yet they can be quite obstinate to remove, even if hidden in plain sight.

They can stop you in your tracks. Here are three big, common showstoppers and a way to overcome each of them.

1. Pleasing

Being likable and agreeable can be part of your social graces. But it can also be an anxiety-producing tendency: to be accepted and liked no matter what.

The Reset Process: Connecting Your Head with Your Heart

by Philip and Jane Mountrose

Connect your heart and head with the Reset Process. Watch the short video below to learn this powerful holistic tool…

As you saw in the video above, by alternating with tapping across your head then your heart can help integrate those key areas (head and heart). This process can stand alone or be added on to other techniques as well.

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The popular Holistic EFT Home Study Certification Course is described in the video below…

Find out about Emotional Freedom Technique Training and more…

EFT Level 1 Home Study Certification Course

People like certification training courses because…

it builds skills
develops confidence
allows them to help more people, in more situations, including themselves

To find out more about holistic tools like the Reset Process see our training courses

Your Life Purpose: The Biggest Myth About It

by Philip and Jane Mountrose

Your life purpose is hugely important. But what is perhaps the most common misconception, the biggest myth about life purpose. Don’t let this stop you in your tracks. Watch the short video below.

Without your life purpose you…

feel lost
are confused
get off track
are slowly dying

With Your life purpose you…

have direction
feel confident
stay on track
feel alive and energized

Would you like to learn more about Discovering Your Purpose? Check out our “Discover Your Purpose” training here.

How to Be More Confident: Key to Health, Wealth, Career and Relationships

by Philip and Jane Mountrose

Worried about money? Health scare? Challenge with work or difficulty in a relationship?

The magic bullet is having confidence. Watch this video to find out more…

This short video explores three key ingredients to check for your self confidence.

Without confidence:

* you feel scattered and confused
* you are unprepared for life’s unexpected situations
* you have poorer results

WITH Confidence:

* you are calm and collected
* you are ready for whatever comes your way
* you optimize your results

Clearly one of the best things you can do to handle any situation — health scare, money problem, relationship difficulty– is learn to have strong self confidence. That is the solid foundation to build your best life on…

Confidence plays a vital role in your success and you deserve the very best.

It’s true. Confidence is a gift you (and only you) can give yourself. It provides fuel for high performance, as it gives the boost your mind needs to function well. With more confidence, your life can change in wonderful ways and who wouldn’t want that?

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You’ll get the “Ultimate Solution” and much more in our Ultimate Plan for Building Confidence and Self-Esteem, and you can start today with instant access when your register. It’s all online, just waiting for you.

How to Build Your Self Confidence

by Philip and Jane Mountrose

How do you build your self confidence? What are the key ingredients you must evaluate and improve where needed?

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This short video explores five key ingredients to check for your self confidence. To learn more see our Confidence Building Tool Kit Telecourse.

The 3-part teleseries includes the Confidence Quiz handout with five more qualities, in addition to those described on the video.

Find out more about the telecourse tool kit for building self confidence…

How to Have a Great Day Today

by Philip and Jane Mountrose

How do you have a great day today?

How do you have a great day today? As Phillip explores in the short video, it’s relatively easy. If you remember… This is the second in the series of how to have a great day each day. Here’s the first post.

Two Tips

Here are two tips to have a great day each day. These tips are drawn from our book “Tap into the Power of Love and Happiness with EFT: 12 Simple Ways to Have a Great Day Every Day“ at Amazon.

Learn how to tap into the power of love and the power of the mind and have a great day, every day. In other words, boost your love and happiness. One is gratitude. But it can be more than listing off what you are grateful for, although that can be good too.

What’s better is explaining aloud, or in writing, why you are grateful. “I’m grateful for my partner because…. she is wonderful and caring. She’s steadfast and always there for me.”

Instead of I’m grateful for my job, list what you like about it (the people, the assignments, the creativity, the conditions,,, you get the idea). Gratitude is more than just being thankful and appreciative. It is a powerful energy that can catapult your day into the happiness zone. Start and end your day with gratitude.

And…

Second is affirmations. Say good things about yourself, aloud. Practice in the mirror. “I am a great person, a success magnet.” “Wonderful things are happening today!” Say it about yourself with energy and enthusiasm. Use big gestures like outspread arms. Have a great day today. /

Find out more here. about our new Amazon book: /

Tap into the Power of Love and Happiness with EFT

About Us

by Philip and Jane Mountrose

Welcome!

We’re Drs. Phillip and Jane Mountrose (Authors – Trainers – Coaches) and Founding Directors of Awakenings Institute, a church for the spiritually minded, which is devoted to helping to create a world where love is the guiding force and each individual’s unique gifts are honored and nurtured.

We have a gift of helping people quickly pinpoint blocks to what’s standing in the way so they can create the life they were born to live. We also specialize in bringing spiritual wisdom and healing down to earth.

We’ve been active as innovators, teachers, and published authors in the areas of spiritual development, holistic life coaching and healing with EFT, and more for over 25 years. Through Awakenings Institute, we practice as Ministers of Holistic Healing with a mission of helping to create a more loving and supportive world.

During these amazing years, we’ve explored a variety of approaches for helping people to make transformational changes. We call the signature techniques we have developed “GTT” (Getting Thru Techniques). They include the Miracle Reframe with EFT, The Reality Shift with EFT, Belief Buster Process, Gratitude Reframe, the Holistic Process to name a few. We teach these unique and powerful processes and more in our books, courses, and programs.

Our passion in life and greatest joy revolve around helping people to overcome personal challenges, discover their purpose, their reason for being alive, and create vibrantly wonderful lives. Accelerated personal and spiritual development are central to our teachings and our personal sessions with clients.

Life is an Amazing Adventure

As Oprah Winfrey said:

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”

What an inspiring thought! We want to take as many people as possible on life’s great adventure. After all, we’re all here to live fully and expand our possibilities. Since 1994, we have offered certification courses in holistic coaching and healing in California, helping people to come fully alive.

We are best known as experts in Holistic EFT, the Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT is a remarkable method that just about anyone can use to clear away the blocks that prevent them from making their dreams come true. Our first book on EFT was published in 1999 and that was just the beginning. You can learn more about our work with EFT on this website.

We also created Spiritual Kinesiology (SK), a powerful effective healing modality, which also helps you receive guidance and wisdom from the soul. EFT users find it to be a more spiritual technique that’s just as fast and effective as EFT. More on this subject can be found throughout this website.

Over the years, we learned a lot about how to create a vibrantly wonderful life and the importance of becoming a conscious creator. We’ve written more than a dozen books and manuals that are sold worldwide and touched thousands of lives. Written works include The Ultimate Paradigm Shift: A Guidebook for Creating the Life You Were Born to Live and Awakening to Your Magnificence Your Journey into the Next New Frontier for Humanity.

We’ve made plenty of mistakes and now know lots of things to avoid. We’ve also learned in depth how to optimize one’s possibilities and transform one’s life in amazing ways. Our primary focus now is on teaching holistically oriented people how to come fully alive, thrive in all ways, and make the difference they want to make in the world.

If you have questions, comments, or want to know how we can help you, please follow this link to contact us.

What is Awakenings Institute?

You may also want to learn more about Awakenings Institute, the organization that created this website. As mentioned, Awakenings is a non-profit organization devoted to creating a more loving world where the unique gifts that each person brings are honored and nurtured.

With the benefit of technology, Awakenings Institute’s spiritual mission reaches individual’s worldwide, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and more. People from almost every continent – North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia – have participated in Awakenings’ programs over the years.

You, too, can make a difference. Wherever you are in the world, you can be part of the change you wish to see.

Phillip and Jane Mountrose
Awakenings Institute

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