Awareness Explorers

In this episode we explore the topic of rituals and their impact on experiencing deeper peace, love, and joy in life. • Includes a guided meditation in which we reflect on past meaningful ritual experiences, imagine new possibilities for personal rituals, and consider timing and context for implementing new rituals. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   # 5 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart   # 6 in the Top 100 joy All time chart   # 5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart   # 7in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart   # 43 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart  To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:  https://www.youtube

In this episode we talk to Pernille and Todd Lent Damore, founders of the Awakening Curriculum, about the Wheel of Identification, which is their framing of the Ten Buddhist Fetters, as well as practical applications to wake up moment to moment in the midst of everyday life. Their focus is on direct experience with no resistance and no labels. • Includes a guided meditation exploring the felt sense of where “you” are located, by exploring where it seems to be showing up within the space of our senses, including visual, auditory, and bodily sensations, and looking at our raw experiences without labeling them. To learn more about Pernille and Todd Lent Damore, Guest Explorers, please visit:  https://theawakeningcurriculum.com/ Or if you have questions, you can email:  unfetterdmindfulness@gmail.com And you can also view their YouTube channels:  @TheAwakeningCurriculum on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@theawakeningcurriculum and @unfetteredmindfulness on Youtube  https://www.youtube.com/@unfetteredmindfulne

In this episode we look at twenty-five possible qualities of being an ideal human, and explore their relevance to awakening. • Includes a guided meditation taking several qualities of an ideal human, and sending them in a circle from fully imagining them to be your experience, through letting them go, to being with the wordless knowingness that you are. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   # 5 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart  # 6 in the Top 100 joy All time chart  # 5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart  # 7in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart  # 43 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:  https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in th

In this episode, we discuss neurofeedback, consciousness, and practical techniques for achieving higher states of awareness with Dr. Amy Albright and Dr. Drew Pierson , founders of Holon, a blend of science, technology, and spirituality. • Includes a guided practice combining breath awareness, skin sensation, and tailbone alignment to help connect to a sense of oneness and earth energy. To learn more about Amy Albright and Drew Pierson, please visit: https://www.holonexperience.com/ The full version of the Holon Breath Practice is available at the above website, or at the link below:  https://vimeo.com/1001020753/a9602eb558?share=copy Sens.ai neurofeedback headset:  https://sens.ai/product Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:  # 5 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart  # 6 in the Top 100 joy All time chart  # 5 in the Top 100 awareness All time c

In this episode, we talk to Kat Adamson, widow of the late non-duality teacher Sailor Bob Adamson, about his life, teachings, legacy, and Bob’s core message: There is no separate self, only awareness expressing through various forms. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to relax into present awareness and recognize it as our essential nature, prior to all experiences, thoughts, and sensations. To learn more about Kat Adamson and Sailor Bob Adamson, please visit  https://www.sailorbobadamson.com/ Bob and Kat’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SailorBobAdamson Sailor Bob’s Memorial Service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx8Mqa7oW9Y&t=40s Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   #3 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart,   #5 in the Top 100 joy All time chart,   #5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart,   #6 in the Top 100 conscio

In this episode we talk about the negative associations of aging but also how it can be a doorway to the gifts and spiritual opportunities that come with growing older. • Includes a guided meditation leading us to an appreciation of the wisdom and lessons we’ve learned as an entrance into this precious moment. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   #3 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart,   #5 in the Top 100 joy All time chart,   #5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart,   #6 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart,   #38 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart. To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:  https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:  https://www.youtube.com/

In this episode we talk to Craig Hamilton about his “direct awakening” approach to meditation that aims to immediately connect with one’s true nature. He also emphasizes the importance of integrating awakening insights into daily life through specific practices and radical surrender to a higher principle. • Includes a guided meditation inviting us to notice the vast open spacious awareness within all of us, where there’s room for anything that can arise, when we take the radical step of simply allowing our experience in this moment to be exactly as it is. To learn more about Craig Hamilton, please visit  CraigHamiltonGlobal.com And his podcast, Meditation Changes Everything:  https://craighamiltonglobal.com/podcasts/meditation-changes-everything/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   #3 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart,   #5 in the Top 100

In this episode we talk about how the things in our lives that we don’t like can show us where we are resistant and attached, and can trigger new ways to transcend and learn from those daily occurrences. • Includes a guided meditation that shows us how we can hold two opposites in our minds together, for instance, pain and ease, anxiety and peace, as a way of healing resistance. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   #3 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart,   #5 in the Top 100 joy All time chart,   #5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart,   #6 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart,   #38 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart. To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:  https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our med

In this episode we explore methods for entering into a state of mystery and wonder through specific questions and contemplations. • Includes a guided meditation that uses questions to direct you into an experience of mystery, humility, and awe. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   #3 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart,   #5 in the Top 100 joy All time chart,   #5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart,   #6 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart,   #38 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart. To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z Or on our Awareness

In this episode, we talk to Cindy Teevens, author of Alchemy, How to Feel Good No Matter What, as well as The Happiness Lie—which challenges the belief that external factors control our happiness—about her “explosion of love” experience of intense bliss and joy for no external reason, eroding the idea of separation, and leading to a profound awakening. • Includes a guided meditation that gives a taste of her “Two Minute Technique to Inner Peace,” utilizing the power of attention to shift focus from thoughts to sensory awareness. To learn more about Cindy Teevens, please visit:  https://cindyteevens.com/ or  https://alchemylovejoy.com/ And listen to her podcast, Mind Blind at: MindBlind.show https://mindblind.show/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:  . #3 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart . #5 in the Top 100 joy All time chart . #5 in the Top

In this episode, we share a gift bag of movies and books that have inspired us over the years and talk about how they can be powerful tools for inspiration and spiritual growth when approached with an open, receptive mindset. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Movies: Brother Sun, Sister Moon - directed by Franco Zeffirelli Resurrection (with Ellen Burstyn) - directed by Daniel Petrie Peaceful Warrior - directed by Victor Salva Harold and Maude - directed by Hal Ashby The Razor's Edge (Bill Murray version) - directed and co-written by John Byrum Waking Life - written and directed by Richard Linklater Books: The Zen Teachings of Huang Po - by John Blofeld (Translator) True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness - by Adyashanti A Search in Secret India - by Paul Brunton The Razor's Edge - by W. Somerset Maugham Being Aware of Being Aware - by Rupert Spira The Zen of Oz: Ten Spiritual Lessons

In this episode, we talk to Saja Fendél, founder of Thought Dojo, about forgiveness, and explore practical methods for realizing unconditional happiness, and how, through a lack of resistance to experience, all experience is seen as being one with awareness. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to recognize the intimacy of our experience by showing us how all we touch and see is made of awareness. To learn more about Saja Fendél, please visit The Thought Dojo at https://www.skool.com/thethoughtdojo Or his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@sajafendel Or his Instagram channel (@sajafendel): https://www.instagram.com/sajafendel/ Here’s an image of the yin and yang symbol that Saja talks about in this episode: Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart  #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart  #5 in the

In this episode, we talk to Alex Shailer about fully experiencing feelings as a way to release them, identifying with our true nature as consciousness, and resting as open awareness, rather than trying to forcefully cultivate positive states. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to turn our attention to direct sensory experience, inviting us to notice the “I” in thoughts while resting as open awareness itself. To learn more about Alex Shailer, please visit his website at  https://alexshailer.com/ Or his YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexShailer Or Instagram channel (@alex_shailer):  https://www.instagram.com/alex_shailer/ Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart  #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart  #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart  #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart

In this episode, we discuss the non-reality of the future and its traps that keep us from the now and obscure our true nature. • Includes a guided meditation using various methods to shift our attention from the future to the only time when awakening can be experienced: now. The Louis C.K. video mentioned in this episode: “Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones | CONAN on TBS”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart  #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart  #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart  #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart  #36 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:  https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you

In this episode we talk to Colette Martin and Boris Feldman about their Deepening Protocol, which guides people through progressively deeper states of fundamental well-being and awakening. The process involves sinking into present experience, letting go of resistance, and allowing deeper states to emerge naturally. • Includes a guided meditation leading us to ever deepening levels of present moment experience. To learn more about Colette Martin and Boris Feldman, please visit their website at TheDeepeningProtocol.com Or visit Colette’s website at ColetteMartin.me For a good description of Jeffrey Martin's Locations of Fundamental Wellbeing: https://insanebraintrain.blogspot.com/2015/01/jeffrey-martin-locations-of.html or The Martin Matrix, a Comprehensive Map of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience (Enlightenment/Nondual) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfeamM07dk Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers ha

In this episode we discuss how consciousness exploration will change in the future due to emerging technologies and societal changes, and we contemplate how to know if these changes are useful or just mere distractions. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to visualize our awakened future self and how we can take steps to embody that in our current lives. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart  #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart  #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart  #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart  #36 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:  https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in

In this episode we talk to Eva Müller about her spiritual journey, her meditation techniques, and her healing transmissions. • Includes a guided meditation from Eva, focused on clearing energies and allowing more light and higher vibrations, while emphasizing relaxation, joy, and the understanding that everything is perfect as it is. To learn more about Eva Müller, please visit her websites at  EM-Healing.com and  NextElevations.com 14 day-free trial:  https://www.nextelevations.com/plans-pricing In addition, Eva offers a free Healing Group Meditation on Zoom:   https://www.em-healing.com/zoom-meditation Also mentioned in this episode: Transcendence Technique: Partha Srinivasan is a spiritual teacher who teaches the Transcendence Technique (“TT“), channeled by Swamiji Sri Atmananda. This technique helps to clear the human system from Samskaras (karma) and helps to raise the vibration of the collective consciousness: https://www.yogictransformation.org/transformation-and-manifestation https://www.yogictrans

In this episode we talk about how limited thinking patterns can be looked at, dissected, and overcome. • Includes a guided meditation providing ways to identify a cognitive distortion and come up with a rebuttal to go beyond it. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart  #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart  #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart  #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart  #36 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z Or on our Awareness Explorers website:  http

In this episode, David Farmer talks about how Japanese culture, including archery, led to spiritual insight, and his further explorations with David Bingham that led to his realization of our true nature and effortless being. • Includes a guided meditation showing us how looking at every aspect of our experience can lead us to the direct realization of effortlessness and what it is to simply be. To learn more about David Farmer, please visit his website at  EffortlessBeing.org Or his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@effortlessbeing Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart #36 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all

In this episode we talk about patterns that keep our thinking locked in mental stories and keep us from present moment awakening. • Includes a guided meditation providing ways to ask questions that challenge our thinking and put thought in a wider perspective. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:   #2 in the Top 100 Awakening All time chart  #5 in the Top 100 Joy All time chart  #5 in the Top 100 Awareness All time chart  #6 in the Top 100 Consciousness All time chart  #37 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:  https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z Or on our A