Awareness Explorers

In this episode we talk to Walter Dennison about his experiences with diving into the center of emotions in order to let go of resistance and open a doorway to unveiled reality. • Includes a guided meditation that uses your feeling-imagination to scan first for your non-existent separate self, and then for old emotional energy being kept in your body. To learn more about Walter's Meetup group, please visit the "Rupert Spira NY Non-Duality Group" on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/rupert-spira-ny-non-duality-group/ 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 podcas

In this episode we compare and contrast the techniques of positive psychology with the techniques of nondual awareness practices. • Includes a guided meditation that focuses on raising one's vibration through gratitude in order to relax into pure beingness. Books or authors mentioned in this episode: Find Happiness Now: 50 Shortcuts for Bringing More Love, Balance, and Joy Into Your Life by Jonathan Robinson Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment By Tal Ben-Shahar Happier, No Matter What: Cultivating Hope, Resilience, and Purpose in Hard Times By Tal Ben-Shahar Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment By Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D. 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 th

In this episode we talk about what triggers you, what we normally do with triggers, and seven ways to make good use of them on the path to awakening.  • Includes a guided meditation to use when you are triggered involving allowing the arrow of love to crack open your defensive armor and awaken the love in your heart.  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

In this episode we talk to Seye Kuyinu about his book, This Glorious Dance: Contemplations About Who We Are, as well as about questions that explore our true nature, and a variety of topics such as anxiety, hypnotism, and contemplative practice. • Includes a guided meditation, based on a Gurdjieff practice, helping us to awaken a sense of aliveness in each body part, while at the same time allowing that part to be the full container for attention. To learn more about Seye Kuyinu, please visit… seyekuyinu.com and seyekuyinu.substack.com And you can read his book, This Glorious Dance: Contemplations About Who We Are, On Amazon or listen on Audible. 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

In this episode we explore what it means to be a really good human and the various factors and approaches that help create inspiring people. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to envision and embody who you would like to become. DISCLAIMER: The quote from Albert Einstein, reputed to have been from a letter written to his daughter, is now considered to be a fabrication, but whoever wrote it, it's such a profound sentiment, and so germane to our topic, that we decided to leave it in. For more information, see: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/einstein-universal-force/ and https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-truth-behind-einsteins-letter-on-the-universal-force-of-love_b_7949032 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 i

In this episode we talk to Paul Austin about microdosing psychedelic substances to enhance productivity, mood, and spiritual awaking, and how these altered states can be transformed into altered traits. • Includes a guided meditation using breathing and present moment awareness to tap into deeper beingness. To learn more about Paul Austin, please visit:  TheThirdWave.co Twitter & Instagram: @paulaustin3w And check out his book,  Mastering Microdosing: How to Use Sub-Perceptual Psychedelics to Heal Trauma, Improve Performance, and Transform Your Life  on Amazon. And if you're interested in the extended practitioner training program, please visit…  https://psychedeliccoaching.institute/ 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 cha

In the second episode of this two-part exploration, Jonathan describes his favorite methods to quiet the mind and how he often uses them in a particular order for deepening quiet within himself. • Includes a guided meditation in which you are led into ever deepening levels of silence through a series of mind quieting methods. 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.

In the first episode of this two-part exploration, Brian describes three different approaches to freeing ourselves from the grip of thought and runs through his favorite methods in each category. • Includes a guided meditation offering various examples of the three basic approaches to quieting the mind. 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=P

In this episode we talk to Rastal about his journey from trauma and depression to fundamental wellbeing, his experience with a method from Jeffery Martin's Finder's Course, as well as how he navigates the many different levels of fundamental wellbeing, bringing it to the foreground of our experience. • Includes a guided meditation for sinking into one's direct experience as a vehicle for deepening into various levels fundamental wellbeing. To learn more about Rastal, please visit: ConsciousCuriosity.cc Other sites mentioned in this episode: The Fundamental Wellbeing Foundation https://fundamentalwellbeing.foundation/ Jeffery Martin, The Finders Course, etc.: https://drjefferymartin.com/ https://www.nonsymbolic.org/ The Finders book: https://www.amazon.com/Finders-Dr-Jeffery-Martin/dp/1572425563 45 Days to Awakening Course: 45daystoawakening.com For a good description of Jeffrey Martin's Locations of Fundamental Wellbeing: https://insanebraintrain.blogspot.com/2015/01/jeffrey-martin-locations-of.html or Th

In this episode we talk to Karen Thorson about the interplay between health, pain, worry, responsibility, and being present with what is, as well as using the body for direct experiencing, and our unique paths among the various modalities for continuous explorations. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to feel the vast fullness of breath, and the field in and around our bodies, bigger than our skin, connected with everything, expanding with life, wellness, and joy. To learn more about Karen Thorson, please visit:  NetworkWellnessOfBoulder.com Other sites mentioned in this episode: Epienergetics:  https://epienergetics.com/ Nonviolent Communication (NVC)  https://www.cnvc.org/ Jeffery Martin, The Finders Course, etc.:  https://drjefferymartin.com/ https://www.nonsymbolic.org/ The Finders book: https://www.amazon.com/Finders-Dr-Jeffery-Martin/dp/1572425563 45 Days to Awakening Course:  https://45daystoawakening.com/landing-page1594666682471 For a good description of Jeffrey Martin's Locations of Fundame

In this episode we explore the potential drawbacks of our spiritual journey, and how awareness of these drawbacks can help us to sidestep them. • Includes a guided meditation in which we acknowledge potential challenges that arise in awaking, and how we can accept and allow them with compassion. 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 Spirituality chart  #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart  #32 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:  https://www.aware

In this episode, we talk to Judith Blackstone about her new book, The Fullness of the Ground, different approaches to nonduality, and inhabiting the body as a way to connect to Fundamental Consciousness and the ground of being. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to connect the space of our body with the environment, allowing us to experience both as the same space. To learn more about Judith Blackstone, please visit: RealizationProcess.org 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 Spirituality chart  #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart  #32 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 eith

In this episode we delve into the practical use of thinking that we have free will and the liberating implications of imaging that we do not. • Includes a guided meditation leading us to imagine the consequences to your view of the world if you do not have free will and are not the doer. 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 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 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:  https://www.awarenessexplorers

In this episode, we talk about the benefits and potential drawbacks to aligning with and pursuing a sense of mission. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to remember past moments of purposefulness, and to create a guiding sense of mission for the upcoming year. 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 Spirituality chart  #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart  #32 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:  https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

In this episode we talk to Rosalyn Rourke about her book, When Wisdom Arrives, the Enneagram, how to deal with feelings, and using more relatable terms that are not spiritual jargon to help people reduce suffering. • Includes a guided meditation allowing us to reframe an upsetting experience in light of eight basic emotions, thereby going beyond emotional thought loops and imagined unworthiness. To learn more about Rosalyn Rourke, please visit: https://rosalynrourke.com/ And to sign up for her Glimpses, please visit: Glimpses 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 Spirituality chart  #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart  #32 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

In this episode we talk about the advantages and disadvantages of both identification and disidentification, and when it’s appropriate to use each in daily life and in our spiritual practice. • Includes a guided meditation that helps us notice that what we hear and what we feel are simply appearances in the larger field of awareness. 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 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 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 Expl

In this episode we talk to Sid Friedman about how his technique—Effortless IFS—grew out of Internal Family Systems, and how we can heal contractions and life difficulties while celebrating the fulfillment inherent in our nature. • Includes a guided meditation using music to help us experience the causeless joy that is ever-present. To learn more about Sid Friedman, please visit: https://EffortlessIFS.com/ For Sid’s Effortless IFS YouTube page, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/@EffortlessIFSwithSidFriedman/featured Or on Facebook: IFS Nondual Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/635095095241821 Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: The audiobook version of Jonathan’s new book, Ecstasy as Medicine is now out! Also available in Kindle and Paperback. https://amzn.to/3RCK1c8 Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:  #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart  #5 in the Top 100 Religion &

In this episode we discuss the value of abstaining from various distractions and the potential value in fully indulging or experiencing the joy and sensations of the present moment. • Includes a guided meditation about deciding to abstain from a distracting habit in order to notice your experience more directly. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Jonathan’s new book, Ecstasy as Medicine: How MDMA therapy Can Help You Overcome Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression...and Feel More Love is out in Kindle and Paperback. And keep your ears peeled for the audiobook version, out soon. Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 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 wa

In this episode, our guest, Patricia Dennison, offers something different. Five songs about nonduality, along with our discussion of putting nondual lyrics within the heart opening sound of simple guitar music and vocal harmony. To learn more about Patricia Dennison, please visit: dennison-music.com LYRICS TO THE SONGS IN THIS EPISODE: THERE IS NO END There is no end to who I am. I must manage 'till the end. To make a story once again,  With a me I must defend. This self creation keeps me safe. This is just how I know my place. Even if there is the pain,  At least I know just who I am. Sometimes I feel the flow  Of something I can't know. It takes a simple thing. A miracle it brings;  A unity,  But then it fades, you see. In this world I can see,  This clever mind deceiving me. With each story I renew,  I push away from life and you. The more I try, the less I see. A way to change this mind made me. If I could stop, then I would not,  And something else might come to be. Sometimes I feel the flow  Of someth

In this episode, we explore how limiting beliefs happen and how to go beyond them into a more expansive experience of life. • Includes a guided meditation and exercise for softening or doubting limiting beliefs so that new possibilities can open up. 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 Spirituality chart #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart #32 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:  https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations To Support Awareness Exp