179: Everything You Don’t Like is Your Guru
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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...
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178: Beyond the Mind and Into the Mystery
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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...
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177: Cindy Teevens, Guest Explorer
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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...
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176: Favorite Movies and Books to Inspire
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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...
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175: Saja Fendél, Guest Explorer
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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 Or his YouTube channel: Or his Instagram channel (@sajafendel): Here’s an image of the yin and yang symbol that Saja...
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174: Alex Shailer, Guest Explorer
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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 Or his YouTube channel: Or Instagram channel (@alex_shailer): Don't forget to subscribe for...
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173: Time, Now, and the Non-Future
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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” 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...
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172: Colette Martin and Boris Feldman, Guest Explorers
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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 Or visit Colette’s website at For a good description of Jeffrey Martin's Locations of...
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171: The Future of Consciousness
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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...
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170: Eva Müller, Guest Explorer
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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 and 14 day-free trial: In addition, Eva offers a free Healing Group Meditation on Zoom: Also mentioned in this episode: Transcendence Technique: Partha Srinivasan...
info_outlineIn 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 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
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NEWS:
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and
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Enjoy,
Jonathan and Brian