Awakening Together, Relaxing into Happiness with William Cooper, Master of Theology, Licensed Professional Counselor

Part 2 is a deeper examination of the issues we discussed in part 1. Your Being is pure Radiant Light just as powerful as any guru.  Why doesn't it feel that way?  Most of us have taken a vast portion of our light and siphoned it off by creating repressed problems, attitudes, and delusions.  We are Awareness and all Awareness is love, peace, and joy.  Just as we can freeze life giving water i...

Your Being is pure Radiant Light just as powerful as any guru.  Why doesn't it feel that way?  Most of us have taken a vast portion of our light and siphoned it off by creating repressed problems, attitudes, and delusions.  We are Awareness and all Awareness is love, peace, and joy.  Just as we can freeze life giving water into a destructive shape such as a frozen ice knife, we can freeze Awa...

This is a recording of a Live Q & A which has been edited for clarity, length, and helpfulness.  Lately many have been experiencing distress both inside and outside.  Current events have been difficult for many. Much of the discussion in this Q & A centered around living in awareness with these many levels of distress. Topics included, "Starting by getting out of the pounding surf.&qu...

So many of us are experiencing lots of inner and outer stress.  This is a brief, effective, and easy guided meditation for relaxation and to release stress.  Since it could be dangerous when coupled with other activities, please do not listen to this guided meditation when you are driving or doing any other activity.  This meditation is done when sitting or lying down when you are ready to complet...

We have all experienced intensity.  Unfortunately, often times it is because of layers of stress, problems, and difficulties.  Yet it is that same intensity that is the intensity of Love, Peace, and Joy in Awakening....in experiencing our true Selves.  There is only one intensity.  Consciousness is like life giving water. It can be frozen into sharp edges such as an ice knife that can hurt.  When...

This is a recording of a Live Q & A which has been edited for clarity, length, and helpfulness. We discussed that in the Awakening process there is only flow and tension. To the degree I am tense in any way I am blocking my innate and eternal Light which is flow.  Light, flow, and tension.  I described my process here and more deeply in all of these podcasts.  Since each podcast builds on thos...

This is a recording of a Live Q & A which has been edited for clarity, length, and helpfulness.  In this lively exchange, we discussed some of the hows in experiencing our Selves as Light.  At some point we let go deeply and flow happens.  We discuss some hows of letting go.  We also discuss forgiveness, how to help our children spiritually in todays world, releasing deep anger, can we feel ma...

This is a recording of a Live Q & A which has been edited for clarity, length, and helpfulness.  By way of encouragement I shared with the group how I am experiencing my Self as LIght these days.  Also discussed how relaxation and tension apply to the process of Awakening and how to release blocks.  Participants asked how to release childhood trauma, how to respond rather than react, How to op...

This is a recording of a Live Q & A which has been edited for clarity, length, and helpfulness.  We discussed how relaxation and tension apply to the process of Awakening and how to release blocks.  A participant asked for perspective on experiencing herself as "nothing".  Others asked about negative thoughts in meditation, can we be dealing with feelings we have absorbed from others...

This is a recording of a Live Q & A which has been edited for clarity, length, and helpfulness.  Participants heartfelt questions and experiences guided our discussion.  We discuss how to release our blocks and let them melt, stopping hurting ourselves, the importance of "getting out of the pounding surf" as a basic step in our path of awakening, some grief is from biological separat...

To a seeker, Ramana said, "Before you ask out 'your life', find out who 'You' are."  Good advice.  In this podcast we place our attention on what we are.  What is always here and remains when everything goes?  We place our attention on Awareness or our "Buddha nature".  It is like a rainbow and is experienced beyond creation as a full nothing and, in creatio...

There can be no ultimate joy living a life that is false and deluded.  Therefore, let's see clearly what we are not.  Knowing what we are not, we can, also, more easily experience what we are.  Let's let go of what we are not and enjoy the radiant Peace, Love and Joy of who we are.  From contemplation number 2 on my website, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com These podcasts are meant to su...

This is a recording of a Live Q & A which has been edited for clarity, length, and helpfulness.  We discuss that so many are suffering these days, how to melt the obstacles that block our happiness, daily consistency in taking baby steps, the fear of death, past lives, and that it's ok to modify spiritual practices. These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path of awakening wh...

Meditation, exercise, nutrition, yoga, psychotherapy, energy work, philosophy, etc all can be important in our awakening process.  Yet seeing clearly can melt the delusions that may be causing much of our problems.  When I see that the deadly cobra in my room is actually only a rope all of my issues regarding that "deadly" event melt away quickly.  No psychotropic drugs or psychotherapy...

This is a recording of a Live Q & A which has been edited for length and clarity.  We discuss how we freeze free flowing consciousness into painful inner obstructions and how to melt them.  Also, nonattachment, how to open the chakras, how to "Be Here Now", etc. These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path of awakening whatever that might be. They are a compilation of wh...

Contemplation and reflection on, "Be Still and Know that I am God", Psalm 46:10 "Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water.  Do you have the patience to wait?  Be still and allow the mud to settle." , Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. From my contemplation number 26 on my website, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path o...

In this recorded live Q & A we discussed the 3 steps in letting go of That which keeps us from Awakening and enjoying life fully, What happened when Jesus appeared to William, question about Catholic guilt and how to let it go and know Jesus as a friend.  A mother asked if her awakening could help her troubled child.  Lots more as well. These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path...

What if wrestling with life and trying to control every aspect is precisely what's keeping you from the peace and happiness you seek? Join me as we unlock the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Dzogchen master, Longchenpa, and explore his profound suggestion to 'leave it as it is.' This episode is a heartfelt invitation to let go of the exhausting grip we so often maintain on our lives. In t...

If we lived in a dark world that was without light we might try to cope and understand through philosophy, science, relationships, psychotherapy, thinking, emoting, talking, etc.  Yet nothing would help us all as much as a single person lighting a candle.   From my contemplation number 14 on my website,  www.williamecooper.wordpress.com These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path of...

Your heart shines through and around emotional layers  and colors. I describe a large painting I did where the white canvas shines through just like your Being shines through. This is from my contemplation number 15 on my website, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path of awakening whatever that might be. They are a compilation of what I have fou...

How is non attachment is possible?  Short of repression we only will let go if we trade for something better.  Ultimate non attachment, therefore, is only possible in Awakening.  In Oneness we are All.  Everything has become us.   From my contemplation number 19 on my website. The story about the Abbott recounted as heard on a podcast by Jack Kornfield. Thank you!  www.williamecooper.wordpress.com...

In this Q & A somebody asks why their Blocks are not dissolving in meditation, they are afraid of Christianity, want to talk to angels.  We also talk about letting go in general and the importance of trust and how to experience trust.  Another asks if they have to experience their negative stories in order to let them go.  Etc. Though I am a psychotherapist and these podcasts are offered to be...

You are Happiness (Being) right now and always.  Nothing to do but enjoy.  Yet we often feel blocked from our Selves by our troubles.  We develop preferences to protect us from being triggered and feeling our repressed pain blockages.  Our life becomes small.  What to do?  Let's do the opposite repression.  When we become triggered or feel our tensions or pain in anyway, just relax and let it...

In this dynamic Q & A we discussed the relationship between trust and clarity, meditation, "Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?".  Another asked, now that she experiences unfathomable joy why does she feel like shutting down as she did when experiencing negative emotions?  Another asked  how to cope with anger?  Though I am a psychotherapis...

A beginning meditator is working her way through these podcasts starting at 1, the introduction, and moving forward.  She wrote in asking how to stop her thoughts and her mind from roaming and how to stay in the present?  Though I am a psychotherapist and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy.  If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psycho...