Frequently Asked Questions with Jonathan Quail

A: I have been a spiritual seeker searching for the truth for most of my life and, as part my journey, have tried many different forms of meditation over the last decade, starting with Transcendental Meditation™, which I started practising every day in 1998. I was a professional squash player living just outside London at the time I learnt to meditate. 
What prompted me to learn how to meditate was a car journey I made in order to attend some training for the company that I was working for part-time at that stage. I had to leave at about 4 a.m. to arrive for the training by 9 a.m. and then drive back again at 7 p.m. that night. On the way back, I remember feeling incredibly drowsy and almost falling asleep at the wheel on a number of occasions. Eventually, I pulled off at a roadside service station and attempted to sleep, but couldn’t, and so had to resort to buying and taking some caffeine pills to make sure I did not fall asleep while driving the rest of the way. I have never liked taking any form of drug and had heard of meditation and its rejuvenating benefits, and vowed to learn to meditate so this would never have to happen to me again. It is strange how something that has played such a major part in my spiritual awakening was prompted by a small, everyday incident like this!  

After a few years of doing the Transcendental Meditation™ technique ‘by the book’ I started coming across other meditation techniques during the course of my spiritual seeking, and being a creative type, tried many of them, experimenting with breathing, binaural-beat sound frequencies, touching chakra points, channeling energy into and moving it around my body, toning and introducing prayer, visualisation and affirmations into the meditation process. This process has taken a number of years for the different meditation techniques that are part of the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack to be tried, tested and perfected. In fact, the Pack is the product of a 36-year (my current age) spiritual journey.

I know the meditation techniques and the whole Lifesync™ Integral Transformation (LIT) programme works because it has helped me experience states of peace, joy and even bliss that are quite awesome. I live in a state of almost continuous peace, even though I am an entrepreneur involved in a number of business ventures that could create great stress if I allowed them to. I now find myself ‘flowing with life’ and able to perform at a high level in almost everything I do. I would credit meditation with much of this ability I enjoy, and 'joy', 'peace' and 'flow' is how I would describe my life and the inner state that I abide in most of the time.

I have also understood what the truth is and some might say I am ‘enlightened’ as a result, although I prefer not to make such claims. I am simply happy and peaceful because I understand that there is only peace and love in reality and all else is an illusion of the mind. Again, I would credit meditation with helping me to gain much of this understanding, as it has given me consistent experiences of deep inner peace to match the knowledge I have gained through reading books and contemplating the nature of life and truth. This understanding has been the product of my whole life experience over the last 36 years, so I cannot promise instant enlightenment when you meditate using these techniques, but I can promise that you will accelerate your spiritual journey of understanding the truth greatly and experience far more peace, joy and happiness along the way, and what more can one really ask for from life?

Q: You mention meditation and reading as practices that have helped you to attain the state of consciousness you have reached now. What other practices can you recommend people do to become more enlightened and experience more inner peace?

A: Meditating at least once, but preferably twice, per day and consciously practising radical forgiveness at every opportunity, which should also be practised daily as part of the Forgiveness meditation technique included in the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack, would be the top two on my list of spiritual practices or techniques I would recommend people do on a daily basis. I have incorporated the 10-step Radical Forgiveness process I have formulated through my reading and experience into the ‘Forgiveness’ meditation technique that is part of the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack so you are able to do both in one session, but there will be many opportunities to forgive others and the world that arise in the course of your journey through life, and these should be forgiven away as soon as possible to avoid storing negative energy, which is extremely toxic and the dis-ease of which inevitably causes disease if allowed to sit in one’s subtle energy system for any length of time.

I would also recommend doing other integral transformative practices that are incorporated into the LIT programme, such as consciously letting go of thoughts about the past and future to remain present in the Now moment as often as possible, reading enlightening and inspiring books (a recommended list of which is included in the LIT programme), praying (included in the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack as part of the ‘Forgiveness’ meditation), exercising regularly while breathing properly (detailed in the ‘Meditation in Motion’ meditation technique in the Pack), eating healthily (an excellent book that will show how to eat in a way that is biochemically correct has been included in the recommended reading list you will receive when you invest in the Pack or full LIT programme) and finding and doing the work you were born to do (which will be revealed as your spiritual journey unfolds), all of which will come fairly easily and naturally once you are meditating and practising forgiveness regularly.

To become a great concert pianist, you must diligently develop your skills by playing basic melodies for many hours before you are able to start playing more difficult pieces of music and ultimately, become a master pianist. Using this analogy, the basic tunes in the spiritual journey towards mastery of yourself and life are the practices of meditation and forgiveness, which are the essential foundation for understanding, and ultimately, mastering, the complex symphony that life appears to be and making what appears to be complex, simple. Just like becoming a virtuoso concert pianist, becoming an enlightened spiritual master usually takes disciplined practice over the course of many years. 

Q: Why did you create the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack and LIT programme?

A: My greatest desire is to help people who are stressed and suffering - states that  unfortunately seem to be the norm rather than the exception for the majority of people living in the world today - to find and experience the truth I have come to understand that will set them free from their pain and suffering, all of which is ultimately self-created. The meditation techniques in the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack are designed to help people to have various peaceful, joyful and illuminating experiences during meditation and so change their perception of themselves and life and rewire their brains in the process, enabling them to experience more peace in their daily lives and ultimately, to live in a state of inner peace and joy all the time, even when the proverbial ‘shit hits the fan’, as it is bound to do in almost everyone’s life from time to time. This peace and happiness is what everyone is really looking for, even though they may not realise it and think that it is actually money or success they want.

I know these meditation techniques and the other integral transformative practices I have incorporated into the LIT programme work because firstly, they are based on practices that are literally thousands of years old, practices that have been used and refined by millions of people from different spiritual and religious traditions throughout the ages, many of whom have been enlightened masters, and secondly, I have tried and tested all of them on myself and on my personal coaching clients and people who have attended my Lifeshops™ over a number of years and so I know they work.                 

Q: Why are the LIT programme and the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack so revolutionary? With so many other personal development programmes and spiritual paths out there, what makes this one different?

A: As I said, it works to produce the highest states of peace, joy and ultimately, enlightenment, in those who practise the techniques diligently! The fact that it works and works faster than anything else I know of out there is the primary differentiating feature from most other personal development programmes and spiritual practices and paths. And there is a lot of material and teaching out there telling people either that happiness is to be found in achieving success and acquiring material wealth in the world, which is a delusion, or that happiness can only be found by believing in their version of God and doing various rituals repeatedly, most of which usually do not serve to bring about much, if any, change in the person’s underlying state of consciousness and the inner peace they experience in their lives.

However, don’t make the mistake of thinking that the LIT programme is a quick and easy path to enlightenment that requires no effort. You still have to be disciplined about making the time and integrating the various practices into your life, but the difference is you can see significant results in weeks or months rather than in many years or never. Having said this, I can guarantee that you will start to experience more inner peace, joy and happiness in your life as soon as you start practising the meditation techniques in the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack and the other integral transformative practices in the LIT programme regularly. 

Another differentiating feature of the Pack is that it uses modern technology to enhance the ancient practice of meditation, so it is a fusion of the old with the new. The binaural-beat sound frequencies incorporated into the Lifesync™ tracks that are part of the Pack ‘entrain’ the brain waves to frequencies that scientific research tells us correspond with very peaceful, even blissful states where there is little or no conscious thought happening. ‘Entrainment’ is the process where one thing vibrating at a certain frequency causes another in close proximity exposed to the same frequency to start vibrating at the same frequency, like a tuning fork that causes another tuning fork to make the same sound when struck and held close to the other. 

The less active your mind, the slower the frequency of brain waves and the more peaceful and relaxed you become. Listening to the Lifesync™ frequencies with stereo head phones entrains the brain to that frequency, giving you the same experience as someone who has been using a conventional method of meditating without binaural beats to assist them to access these deep states at which their brain waves are oscillating much more slowly than they would normally do, states that usually take them years of dedicated meditation to start accessing. This saves you a huge amount of time and effort and can greatly speed up your attainment of mastery and increase the amount of time and depth with which you experience inner peace.

The third unique feature of the Pack and, for that matter, the whole LIT programme, is that it fuses the Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. Most Eastern religions and spiritual paths have the goal of attaining a state of ‘no mind’, the ‘nirvana’ of Buddhism and ‘samadhi’ of Hinduism, for example. The western mind has been so trained to think that many westernised people find it very difficult to get into a state where their mind is not busy thinking and a path that focuses only on this goal is unlikely to work that well for many people in the west or westernised countries who have started to adopt the western mode of rational thinking as the be-all and end-all of their conscious development. The spiritual traditions originating in the Middle East and Greece that have formed the backbone of Western spirituality and religions focus on acquiring knowledge that creates the wisdom that leads to right thought and action naturally. The 10-step Radical Forgiveness process incorporated into the ‘Forgiveness’ meditation process is both the distillation and the practical application of this wisdom to help you to perceive yourself and the world correctly, which is the right thinking that leads to right action alluded to by these traditions. 

Q: You have mentioned forgiveness a number of times. Why is it so important to one’s spiritual growth?   
 
A: It is critical for your own spiritual growth and peace of mind as well as for the tangible exterior results you experience in life that you truly forgive yourself, others and the whole world as you perceive it and see that Oneness, or ‘God’, as it has also been called, is your (and everyone’s and every living thing’s) true reality. Only when you can see that this Oneness is all there really is, and all else is an insubstantial illusion, will you truly find ‘the peace of God that passes all understanding’ enlightened people throughout the ages have all experienced and spoken of.

The ego, the seemingly separated sense of self that is full of fear and grasping desire to be and get more out of that fear, will resist this understanding with all its will, as it means the end of the ego, but the Radical Forgiveness process shows people how to get around the block of the ego and its unforgiving thoughts and eventually let it and these dark thoughts go completely into the nothingness they always were. If you truly forgive successfully, your life will flow forward under the perfect guidance of Spirit and you will have saved yourself many forgiveness lessons and much pain and suffering; if not, what you resist will continue to persist, your ego will continue drawing pain, suffering, limitation and conflict into your experience until you have had enough and are ready to surrender the ego and open yourself up to the pure unconditional love that comes from your true Self. The path of non-forgiveness or resistance is the painful way to attain enlightenment as it involves the collapse of the egoic self’s identity under the weight of the suffering it has created for itself and a consequent rebirth into an awareness of one’s oneness with All That Is (God), and so has been called the ‘way of the Cross’ because of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and subsequent resurrection that exemplified this path.

The path of radical and relentless forgiveness is a far easier, and usually quicker, way to enlightenment, and practising the radical forgiveness process relentlessly and continuously on everyone and everything about which you have any judgmental thoughts is the way to follow this path. It entails slowly changing one’s perception of the world and letting go of the thinking mind’s judgmental thoughts, which keep the mind busy and unaware of the peace that lies beyond the mind's thoughts of separation. Along with meditation, which has the same goal of stopping the mind from thinking, albeit achieved in a different way, it is the most powerful spiritual practice for raising consciousness and restoring your inner peace, yet it is overlooked by most religions, philosophies and personal development approaches, which focus on ‘sin’, guilt and the fear of God in the case of many religions, or achievement and material wealth in the case of the personal development or 'self-help' movement that has arisen in the last few decades. Both thought systems are delusional and rob you of inner peace, which is really the goal of everyone, even if they have forgotten this temporarily and chosen other goals or 'false idols' instead.                                                             

Q: Please elaborate on exactly how the Radical Forgiveness process helps people to let go of their judgmental thoughts?

A: By helping them to realise that the world they perceive is all an illusion and in fact their projected illusion, so there is no reality other than the one they create for themselves through their perception. Forgiveness simply recognises the truth that what you thought others or the world in general has done to you has not really occurred other than in your own illusory dream or nightmare. When you completely overlook the illusion of what apparently has been done to you and the illusion of the world in which it has apparently been done, and see the Divine essence that you and everyone and every living thing really is – 'no-thing', that which is beyond time, space and form - you invoke the same formless Spirit to rise in their own mind and soul. This breaks down the negative energy blocks in the mind / soul created by the negative, judgmental thoughts of the ego that keep you stuck in your undesirable life situation and releases the blockage so the situation and your life can flow forward naturally under the guidance of Spirit, which is infinitely intelligent and never makes mistakes, something that can’t be said of the ego, which is itself a mistaken belief in an illusory identity.

The 10-step Radical Forgiveness process is incorporated into the ‘Forgiveness’ meditation process, which, when done while listening to binaural beat frequencies that slow down your mind so your brain is producing predominantly Alpha, Theta and Delta waves, make it even more powerful. You can and should also use the radical forgiveness process as and when you need to forgive something during the course of the day, as well as before bed when reflecting on the events of the day. If you have truly had enough of living in a stressed and unhappy state, practising the radical forgiveness process included in the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack and the LIT programme will help you systematically change your mind about yourself and the world completely and find the inner peace that comes with this changed perception.

Q: What impact will people see on my life if I follow the LIT programme and meditate using the techniques in the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack diligently?    
A: To use an analogy, most people’s lives are like a continual boxing contest between the two parts of themselves, their true Self or Spirit and their ego, which are always at odds with each other. The ego seems to have all the power it takes to win – it loves fighting, is big, mean, aggressive and will resort to any underhanded, dirty tactics to win. Think of Mike Tyson and you will have a good idea of what the ego is all about!

Our true Self or Spirit, on the other hand, is not really interested in fighting at all and so is continually being beaten up and knocked down by the seemingly bigger, stronger ego. Think of Spirit as Rocky Balboa in the 'Rocky' movies, particularly the Rocky IV movie where he fights the bigger, stronger Russian in Russia and gets knocked down repeatedly, but eventually wins. Rocky is up against the home crowd and the referee and judges, who are all extremely biased towards the Russian, just like Spirit is apparently up against the ego in its self-created world of violence, conflict and separation in all its forms.

Although Spirit may be knocked down repeatedly by the ego, it can never be knocked out, as it is indestructible, being who and what you truly are, and always gets up no matter what kind of beating it takes, much like Rocky, whose courage helps him to get up every time he is knocked down by the Russian, which happens repeatedly. Most people have no idea how to fight the ego and so they repeatedly get floored by it and for many, the only way they will one day stop the internal boxing match they are having is if the ego punches itself out and collapses from exhaustion, which is the way of the ‘Cross’ I referred to above, and they ultimately achieve the victory of Spirit over the ego, which is enlightenment. This process can take a very long time and happen in many different boxing contests (lifetimes) because the true Self or Spirit has not learned how to overcome the ego properly.

When someone practises both meditation and forgiveness repeatedly, it’s like they have suddenly become a southpaw, an unconventional style that surprises the ego, and discovered how to jab with the right hand of meditation (the right, non-rational side of the brain that meditation activates), which penetrates through the ego’s wild, uncontrolled punching (thoughts), stopping it in its tracks so the left hook of forgiveness (the left brain’s ability to think through an issue clearly, logically and systematically using the forgiveness process) can smack the ego on its temple, the centre of its self-image, and not just knock it out, but annihilate it forever so there is no more opponent to box and the battle is over forever (you attain enlightenment and do not reincarnate into a human body again).

How long the process takes will vary, but it can take anything from a few years to a few lifetimes once you really get serious about it, depending on how quickly your true Self becomes skilled at this one-two combination punch of meditation and forgiveness and how big and powerful the ego seems to be to you. As in professional boxing, daily training and repetition is the only way to become a champion, so you must practise the meditation techniques as well as the forgiveness process relentlessly every day and at every opportunity. Fortunately, this will not take the whole day, but only an hour to two hours per day of focused time and short periods in between, as well as constant awareness of the boxing match that is continually going on between your ego and Spirit. Then watch miracles of healing and transformation unfold in your life as your true Self finally begins to win the battle for your mind and soul and you start reclaiming your sanity and the inner peace that comes with it!

Q: Do you guarantee this programme works? How do I know this will work and not be just another programme that promises much and delivers very little?  

A: You have my personal guarantee, which is backed by an unconditional money-back guarantee. If you follow the LIT programme and meditate regularly - at least every second day - over a period of 6 months and you have not seen any worthwhile results, I will give you all the money you invested in the LIT programme or the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack back. I know I will never have to do this, as neither the LIT programme nor the Pack on its own can fail to work if you put in the time meditating and do your forgiveness work properly because these are two techniques that inevitably open your mind to the truth, and truth always produces happiness when it is kept in one's awareness.

Anyone who doubts the value in this programme is welcome to go and do their own research and see what else is out there in the market. They will not find another comprehensive transformation programme that does everything the LIT programme does, or another meditation product that combines detailed instructions for doing a number of different meditation methods with binaural-beat frequencies that induce states of calm and peace in the same way as the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack does,  because there is no other transformational programme out there quite like it, and it is also more affordable than almost all other transformational, personal development and meditation programmes and binaural-beat frequencies on the market, so the value it offers is literally and figuratively out of this world. 

Ultimately, my product and service is empowering people with the knowledge and techniques they can practise in order to be happy and at peace with themselves, and there is no greater attainment or goal in life than to be able to be truly happy no matter what the circumstances of your life happen to be at any given time. This mastery of how to be happy is what the process of attaining enlightenment is all about. My question to you is: can you afford not to invest the time necessary to do the LIT programme and meditate using the techniques and frequencies in the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack and remain stressed and in dis-ease, which is the root cause of all disease, one day longer? Life is short and every day is precious, so this is my invitation to you to let me help you make the most of it by investing your time and money in doing the LIT programme and in meditating properly using the Pack to guide you to attain the eternal peace and bliss you really long for.  

Q: What is the ‘Meditation in Motion’ technique and how did you learn it?

A: In 1998, I was a professional squash player and one of the main reasons I learned the Transcendental Meditation™ technique was that I thought that meditation would help me to improve my squash, which is how I could justify the considerable cost of the course to myself. When I told my teacher that I was a professional squash player, he recommended I read a book about the ancient Indian Ayurvedic system of diet and exercise that gave me the knowledge of how to breathe properly through my nose while I exercised. I tried the breathing method the book talked about and persevered until I could breathe through my nose while playing squash or doing the most intense training, a process that took me about 3 to 4 months while I was training intensively during the off-season. Within about 6 months, I was fairly easily cruising through workouts that 6 months before would have been very difficult and exhausting for me. I remember one occasion when I played a league match I won fairly easily and then felt so good that I went onto a free court afterwards and ‘ghosted’, a training method where you move around the court and play shots without the ball or an opponent that I normally experienced as very strenuous, for about half an hour non-stop and it felt almost effortless.

I experienced then what it was like to be in the ‘Zone’ that athletes talk about and have been fortunate to have enjoyed many similar experiences since then. I am no longer a full-time squash player, but continue to play at a high competitive level without doing much training or playing, something I credit mostly to the fact that I breathe through my nose when exercising (and at all other times for that matter), so the basis of my fitness is the high efficiency with which I breathe and supply oxygen to my muscles rather than continuous ‘stress-recover’ type training.

The breathing technique that enables me to breathe very efficiently is the basis of the ‘Meditation in Motion’ meditation technique that is part of the Lifesync™ Meditation Power Pack. If you do any sport or exercise regularly, or would like to, this technique will help you not only to enjoy exercise far more, but also to improve your performance fairly dramatically, although this will take several months of exercising every day or a year or two of regularly practising the breathing technique while you work out three or four times per week to fully experience. 

If you are just exercising for relaxation and your health, your workouts will immediately become relaxing and enjoyable moving meditations where your brain is in an Alpha brainwave state rather than a stressed high-Beta state, which is what happens when you breathe through your mouth while exercising.

If you are a competitive athlete or sportsman, you will find that you can dramatically improve your level of performance while reducing the perceived effort level and increasing the enjoyment you experience over time, but it does require patience to master the breathing technique, as you are activating parts of your lungs that have not been used fully or at all, and this does take some time. The good news is that in activities requiring endurance, you can ultimately expect to double your performance level with the same level of perceived effort or perform at the same level as you do currently with half the perceived effort level. 

In all activities, the Alpha brainwave state the nasal breathing helps to induce will make you feel more relaxed, confident and at ease while you perform, a mental state conducive to reaching ‘the Zone’, a state where high performance occurs naturally and almost effortlessly.    

Q: Does the programme conflict with any religion?  

A: No, it is experiential, and helps people to free themselves of their conditioned minds and experience the inner peace and bliss that are their natural states of being. It is the 'peace of God that passes all understanding' that most religions talk about, the attainment of which is the reason for their founding, but which they have forgotten and so can’t lead their followers to experience any more. The mystical branches of most religions, such as the Gnostic Christians, the Kabbalists in the Jewish religion and the Sufis in Islam, still know this truth experientially and teach practices designed to help people experience this truth. Whatever someone’s religious beliefs, this will help them to realise more fully the truth at the core of their religion and will enhance and deepen their understanding of and faith in God. It will also help them to go beyond the mind's judgments of others for their religious and other beliefs and begin appreciating the eternal truth that is the essence of almost every religion: 'we are all One'.      
                           

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Namaste (which means 'the Divine in me honours the Divine in you')

Jono