National Conscience Month | American Meditation Institute

Love: The Most Ancient Traveler

A Special Valentine’s Gift for Humanity

Long before there were bodies to inhabit, emotions to name, or stories to tell, Love was already present. Love is not a product of biology, culture, or personal history. It is the most ancient traveler—moving silently from eternity to eternity, unchanged by time, untouched by circumstance.

Yoga Science teaches that Love does not belong to the personality. It precedes it. Love is not something we generate; it is something we participate in when the mind is rightly aligned.

Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)2026-02-23T12:30:46-05:00February 16th, 2026|AMI MEDITATION, Essays, Featured Article, National Conscience Month, Selected Essays by Leonard Perlmutter|

Updating the Mind’s Software: Reclaiming the Conscience

Lift your lower self by your Higher Self; do not let your lower self be diminished. The Higher Self alone is the friend of the lower self, and the lower self alone is the enemy of the Higher Self.”
––Bhagavad Gita 6:5-6

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
––Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Each January, National Conscience Month invites us to pause—to look within and remember that the human mind is not a fixed machine, but a living instrument that can be consciously re-programmed. As we celebrate […]

Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)2026-02-23T12:39:48-05:00February 16th, 2026|AMI MEDITATION, Essays, Featured Article, National Conscience Month, Selected Essays by Leonard Perlmutter|

The Next Frontier: Inner Coherence

Simple methods to help the Conscience lead us—one breath, one choice at a time.

Inner coherence is experienced when the Four Functions of the Mind are coordinated so the Conscience can provide us the thought to think, word to speak, and action to take that will lead us for our highest good.

In a world of constant notifications and opinions, our minds rarely rest. Information pours in, demanding reaction before reflection. We’ve gained knowledge but lost wisdom. and as the noise grows louder, the inner voice […]

Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)2026-02-23T12:45:17-05:00November 17th, 2025|AMI MEDITATION, Essays, Featured Article, National Conscience Month, Selected Essays by Leonard Perlmutter|

High School Senior Jiya Patil Wins 2024 National Conscience Month Scholarship Essay Contest

AVERILL PARK, NY, February 13, 2024 — The American Meditation Institute (AMI) proudly announces that Jiya Patil of Pleasanton, California is the winner of the 5th Annual National Conscience Month Essay Contest. For her creativity, this year’s honoree will receive a $2,000 scholarship toward higher education for describing her personal rewarding experiences of using her Conscience as her decision-making guide.

In her award-winning entry, Ms. Patil, a senior at the Foothill High School in Pleasanton, California, writes about how she overcame persistent emotional challenges to finally use the […]

Elaine Peterson2024-02-13T11:48:03-05:00February 13th, 2024|National Conscience Month, Press Release|

Conscience Month: At least 99.5% of Americans Don’t Know How the Conscience Works to Transform Struggling Into Flourishing, Suffering Into Happiness and Sadness Into Joy

AVERILL PARK, NY, December 27, 2022 — The American Meditation Institute (AMI) announces that the fourth annual National Conscience Month will be observed throughout January 2023 with the goal of encouraging people of all ages to understand how their Conscience really works and to experiment with using it’s […]

Elaine Peterson2023-01-03T12:01:17-05:00January 3rd, 2023|National Conscience Month, Press Release|

American Meditation Institute Research Scientist Claims to Have Discovered the Antidote to Lying

AVERILL PARK, NY, JANUARY 18, 2022 — During the 3rd annual National Conscience Month observance at The American Meditation Institute, Yoga Scientist and Yoga Psychologist Leonard Perlmutter announced that by coordinating the Four Functions of the Mind to support the wisdom reflected by the Conscience, pathological and compulsive lying and their far-reaching forms of pain can be significantly diminished. Perlmutter’s […]

Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)2022-01-18T11:24:49-05:00January 18th, 2022|National Conscience Month, Press Release|

New Book Warns: Democracy Without Discrimination From the Conscience Leads to Disintegration

AVERILL PARK, NY, DECEMBER 01, 2021 — As Congressional hearings work to reveal the facts that led to the January 6th attack on the U. S. Capitol, author Leonard Perlmutter suggests in his new book, YOUR CONSCIENCE, that the primary cause of the insurrection is the failure of our education system to train students to employ the unerring wisdom of the Conscience to assure the integrity of the political union, our physiological balance, and much more. The book explains in concise and logical terms how every individual can learn to access the wisdom […]

Elaine Peterson2022-03-09T12:42:10-05:00December 1st, 2021|National Conscience Month, Press Release|

National Conscience Month Originator Explains How Your Heart, Liver, Brain and Kidneys Can Also Celebrate Thanksgiving This Year

AVERILL PARK, NY, NOVEMBER 23, 2021 — As families and friends gather around the Thanksgiving dinner table in gratitude for life’s many blessings, Leonard Perlmutter, founder of American Meditation Institute reminds the nation that celebrants can ensure that every organ of their bodies will also be able to give thanks for the […]

Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)2021-11-24T12:01:02-05:00November 22nd, 2021|National Conscience Month, Press Release|

As High School Seniors Finalize College Applications, the National Conscience Month Essay Contest Offers a $2,000 Scholarship

AVERILL PARK, NY, NOVEMBER 16, 2021 — As many high school seniors complete their college application essays, the American Meditation Institute invites them to think more deeply and submit an essay to the 3rd annual National Conscience Month Essay Contest. This year one high school senior will receive a $2,000 scholarship toward higher education for the best essay that clearly explains how they experimented with using (or ignoring) the wisdom of their brilliant conscience […]

Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)2021-11-24T12:01:09-05:00November 16th, 2021|National Conscience Month, Press Release|

New Book Predicts: Coordinating the Four Functions of the Human Mind Can Resolve All Conflicts and Suffering

AVERILL PARK, NY, NOVEMBER 02, 2021 — According to Leonard Perlmutter, author of the new book, YOUR CONSCIENCE, humanity possesses the innate creative potential to resolve all political, social, racial and economic conflicts and suffering. And in an excerpt from his book in the November, 2021 issue of Transformation the Journal of Yoga Science as Holistic Mind/Body Medicine, Perlmutter explains in precise, understandable detail that by coordinating the Four Functions of the Mind and using the Conscience to access Super Conscious Wisdom, every human being can solve all of life’s challenges.

But why should you […]

Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)2021-11-24T12:01:45-05:00November 2nd, 2021|National Conscience Month, Press Release|

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