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

Awakening is often a two part process.  We extract ourselves from all of our distractions and put our attention back on our Selves.  We take our foot off the brake and accelerate.  In this podcast our attention is on accelerating at our own pace. Baby steps and we'll get there.  Let's stay connected with any happiness, peace or well being that we can find.  Let's listen primarily to...

Taking a pause from practices we look at what we are now and always.  We are One.  In fact there is no us....only Happiness.  There is no connection because there is no two and, therefore nowhere to flow and connect to.  There is only the hum of bliss which is everything....creation. And the other side of the same coin which is everything beyond creation.  In this podcast we don't postpone ex...

We do a meditation to start to explore and be in touch with all the Energy, Bliss, Peace, Love, Happiness, etc that we are....even if it is in a trapped state at the moment.  In our meditation we explore what might loosen the bounds of our infinite radiance inside.  We will continue this exploration in various future podcasts....especially the ones on PTSD but this is a start to loosen things up i...

Close your eyes and feel your self.  What is going on inside?  Do you feel tension? Pain? Hurt? Stress? Nothing?  Racing thoughts?  Troublesome emotions? Anticipation? Love and Peace? What are you experiencing?  Don't change anything just notice what you are feeling.  You are the infinite energy of Being and always will be. We are using this moment to get a snapshot of how you are choosing to...

We discuss a combination of things that are or will happen in your awakening at this stage in our podcasts.  We will explore most parts of this combination much more deeply in future podcasts but are exploring the broad strokes now in this podcast.   We are radiantly One with All.  It is only connection.  No you or me...only connection....Oneness.  Radiant Love, Peace, and Joy.  In our path to thi...

Exploring the importance of letting go in ways that work vs counterproductive letting go. We are looking at how to dissolve inner thought and emotional structures in this and the podcast that follow. Later, we will look at how to integrate our psychology with our Being.  These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path of awakening whatever that might be. They are a compilation of what I...

We all want to find our True Selves...why is it so hard? And how do we "find" our True Selves? These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path of awakening whatever that might be. They are a compilation of what I have found to be the most helpful over the last 50 years on my path of awakening. I feel these podcasts are most powerful when listened to in sequence from podcast one...

Let's pause for a moment and pull together what we have covered thus far.  So many meditate for years without much progress.  Usually this is because they do not have a clear vision of what they are doing and how to do it.  Clear seeing is very important.  Ramana used to say that before you figure "your" life out, know who "You" are.  Stopping to let everything settle out...

We hold so much tension and stress in our body.  It is one of the places we store repressed material, blocks, distress, etc.  Often meditation and other spiritual exercises can't reach this material stored in the body nearly as well as physical yoga can.  I have found that meditation followed by Yogananda's 39 Energization Exercises is an extremely  powerful combination on the path of aw...

The unhealthy personality is not us but, rather, the thoughts and emotions that we have created to get what we mistakenly think we do not have.  Because we are separated from our Being we no longer fully experience true Love, Peace, and Happiness. Though we get glimpses from time to time.  In order to try to regain Love, Peace, and Happiness we form a getting machine called personality made of too...

An exploration on both the creative and blocking aspects of thoughts.  The utility of using them when they are helpful and letting them go with they are not.  How thoughts and emotions work and what they do. These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path of awakening whatever that might be. They are a compilation of what I have found to be the most helpful over the last 50 years on my p...

We connect to who we are.  How is Awareness (Being) experienced in clarity?  Like a rainbow.  One end stretches beyond creation in what might be called empty/fullness.  As you come into creation there is an explosion of Light then sound, then bliss, joy, love, happiness and peace.  This is what is aware of everything else in meditation.  Thoughts and emotions are just structures we have created. T...

We explore the basic principle behind successful therapies and, more importantly, awakening meditation as found in Coherence Therapy.  We can't hold two opposing viewpoints at the same rime. The less true will dissolve away.  When we stay as who we are, Being, we can let everything else burn away leaving just Us.  That's awakening and Happiness.  Pure Being is pure Happiness and Love. Th...

Direct experience dissolves beliefs yes.  But often we resort to counteractive positivity or counteractive actions to distract, relax, relieve, suppress, or repress  symptoms.  We overlay something on the problem rather than dissolve the problem to start with.  Meditation and spiritual practices can be this way. These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path of awakening whatever that m...

Following up on the last Podcast.  Our psychological thoughts are endlessly running because they are fueled by the hurt, fear, and anger underlying them.  The hurt fear and anger is launched because we have betrayed ourselves.  We have become separated from our heart and that shows up as tension and blocks.  We have accepted a notion or our selves that is not true....we have actually been hypnotiz...

Listen to your self and have your own direct experience...question everyone and thing.  Believe only if you don't really know.  In this podcast we are going to begin to look more deeply at our Being and what motivates our thoughts.  Hurt, fear, anger which are made of tension.  We are stopping long enough to look for ourselves.  We are suffering....how are we making our own suffering?  What d...

Practicing the Awakening meditation together again.  This time a little longer.  Continued instruction....just to make sure we are confident in our meditation.  We, also, talked some about not leaving our center which is the radiance that we are.  From awareness we simply let everything be and experience it as it is.  Acceptance really.  As we stay in Awareness everything else burns away until all...

In this podcast we are making sure we are meditating correctly.  This will be a balance of principles of meditation and meditation itself. More meditation in the next podcast. These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path of awakening whatever that might be. They are a compilation of what I have found to be the most helpful over the last 50 years on my path of awakening. I feel these p...

Let's talk about the Awakening meditation and go over some details to build confidence so you know you are doing it properly, On the next podcast we will meditation together and I will talk you through it.  By then you will have some experience to evaluate the guidance that you have considered in this podcast. This meditation starts to burn off all that covers your radiant Being so that you b...

Our Being is always intensely happy.  But we don't always feel powerfully happy and Calm.  Why? And can meditation help dissolve what is blocking us and feeling so bad?  How?  Most are meditating mistakenly thinking it should peaceful and calm and it is not. So we no longer continue.  Let's correct some basic misinformation before we actually begin our awakening meditation in the next po...

In the last episode we looked at who we are not.  Now we begin to look at who we are!  We are taking a step by step approach in our awakening into our Selves.  Our awakening into Happiness. These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path of awakening whatever that might be. They are a compilation of what I have found to be the most helpful over the last 50 years on my path of awakening....

Before talking deeply about and experiencing awakening let's look at how we experience our inner selves.  Let's look at who we are and what we are not.  So we can begin to clear out the clutter to better see and appreciate our clear Being. Awakening!  These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path of awakening whatever that might be. They are a compilation of what I have found...

This podcast lays out the direction we will be going.  We will be experiencing our true Selves and dissolve the false.  We explore the basis of meditation and an Awakened life where we will begin to flow into a more integrated personality that better serves us. More fully Awakened and flowing.  Please note that as you open up and release pains it can be very painful. Consider taking baby steps and...

This is an introduction to the series, Awakening Together, Relaxing into Happiness with William Cooper, Master of Theology, Licensed Professional Counselor.  In this series we are exploring a distillation of what he has found most helpful on the path of Awakening over the last 50 or so years. William has experienced everything he talks about in these podcasts. Because truth is timeless and univers...