Awareness Explorers

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

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