The Awareness Podcast

What if healing isn't about fixing what's broken, but recognizing that what you truly are has never been broken at all? So often, we approach meditation and healing with an agenda. We want the uncomfortable feeling to leave. The mind to become quiet. The body to feel different. The circumstances to change. We imagine peace will arrive once something about this moment has been corrected....

How often do we wake up and immediately ask the body, mind, or emotions to tell us who we are? I'm tired. I'm anxious. I'm sad. I'm in pain. I'm peaceful. But before “I am this” or “I am that,” there is simply: I AM. In this gentle guided meditation for self-inquiry, healing, and spiritual awakening, Jody Agard invites you to explore what remains when you stop consulting t...

You may experience a profound recognition of your true nature through meditation, self-inquiry, or even an unexpected moment in ordinary life.  And then... Someone triggers you, fear arises, money becomes stressful, or the body does something you don't like. Suddenly, you seem to be right back inside the experience of being a separate person. In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Aga...

Have you ever walked away from a conversation and immediately started replaying everything you said? Why did I say that? I should have explained that differently. Why didn't I mention this? Did I get it wrong? Suddenly, one thought becomes another, regret and self-judgment appear, and before you know it, you're caught in a full-blown thought storm. In this gentle guided meditation for ov...

What if letting go isn't something you have to do? So much spiritual teaching encourages us to let go of the ego, release negative thoughts, surrender control, become more present, and stop identifying with the mind. But hidden inside all that effort is another assumption: There is a separate "me" here who needs to accomplish the letting go. In this gentle guided meditation for lett...

Who are you without everything you've ever been told about yourself? From childhood, we begin collecting identities: I'm the responsible one. I'm too sensitive. I'm anxious. I'm successful. I'm the helper. I'm spiritual. I'm not enough. Over time, these ideas can become so familiar that we stop recognizing them as concepts and begin believing they are who we...

What if meditation isn't about becoming calmer, better, more spiritual, or more enlightened? In this special episode of The Awareness Podcast, the tables are turned as Center for Awakening founder Bill Free interviews host Jody Agard about her upcoming four-part series, True Meditation: The Recognition of the Infinite I AM . Together, they explore one of the most transformative questions on t...

What if there is nothing missing from you, and there never has been? So much of life is spent trying to become someone: healthier, happier, more peaceful, more spiritual, more healed, perhaps even more awakened.  Yet beneath this endless movement of self-improvement and spiritual seeking is a simple question: Who is the “I” that believes something is missing? In this spacious guided meditation, Jo...

What if peace isn't something you have to achieve? What if the constant pressure to become more, fix yourself, heal faster, or finally "arrive" has been pointing in the wrong direction all along? In this gentle guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to step out of the endless cycle of doing and rediscover the quiet Being that has always been here. Through spacious silence, gentle...

Have you ever noticed how quickly the mind begins searching? Searching for answers. Searching for certainty. Searching for the next thing to accomplish. Searching for the version of life that promises peace. In this gentle guided meditation, Jody Agard shares a simple moment from an ordinary Sunday that became a profound reminder of something we often overlook: while thoughts, emotions, plans, and...

When physical symptoms arise, the mind often rushes to create a story, about what's wrong, what needs to be fixed, and how life should be different. In this gentle guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to discover a radically different approach to healing. Rather than resisting discomfort or trying to become a better version of yourself, you'll be guided to rest as the timeless aware...

What if healing wasn't about fixing your thoughts, changing your emotions, or solving every problem in your life? In this gentle guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you into the quiet resting place that is already here, the aware presence that remains untouched by thoughts, emotions, discomfort, and changing circumstances. From a non-dual perspective, suffering isn't caused by experien...

What if true healing wasn't about changing your circumstances? What if peace wasn't dependent on the body feeling better? In this deeply restorative guided meditation, Jody Agard reflects on a season of physical pain and healing, revealing a profound truth remembered in the midst of discomfort: The body changes. Thoughts change. Emotions change. But the light of what you are never change...

In this guided meditation, Jody Agard reflects on a recent experience with shingles and the profound reminder it offered: True peace is not the absence of pain, discomfort, uncertainty, or challenge. True peace is what remains regardless of circumstances. While the body may experience illness, discomfort, exhaustion, or healing, there is something deeper that remains completely untouched by every...

In this guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to explore one of the mind's most persistent habits: the belief that something is wrong and needs to be fixed. Whether the mind is focused on health, relationships, finances, emotions, spiritual growth, or the body itself, there is often a constant movement toward improvement, correction, and becoming.  But what if that movement is simply anot...

In this guided non-dual meditation, Jody Agard invites you into a direct experience of effortless being. From the breath that breathes itself to the heart that beats without instruction, this meditation gently points to a profound truth: life is already living itself. Rather than trying to quiet the mind, fix your experience, or become a better version of yourself, you'll be invited to simply...

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard sits down with spiritual teacher Oliver Blue for a profound conversation about perception, identity, and the choice between love and fear. While most of us spend our lives trying to solve problems in our relationships, health, finances, and circumstances, Oliver invites us to look deeper, to the lens through which we're experiencing life it...

In this deeply grounding episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard sits down with bestselling author and spiritual teacher Alan Cohen for a heartfelt conversation about identity, awakening, peace, and the freedom that comes from no longer trying to hold together a false sense of self. Together, they explore what Alan calls The Crucial Identity Shift — the movement from living through conditioni...

“This shouldn’t be happening.” It’s one of the mind’s most automatic reactions. To stress. To noise. To discomfort. To unexpected moments life places in front of us. In this episode of the Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard gently explores what happens when we stop resisting what’s arising… and begin noticing the deeper peace that remains underneath the reaction. This guided meditation becomes an invit...

In this special bonus episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard sits down with Lisa Natoli for a heartfelt conversation about the transformational journey of the 40-Day Program — a FREE, community-based experience rooted in the teachings of A Course in Miracles, healing, inner peace, and awakening to our true nature. Together, Jody and Lisa explore what makes this journey so powerful and why th...

In this deeply grounding episode, Jody Agard guides you through a gentle guided meditation for surrender, emotional healing, and true inner peace. Life can sometimes feel heavy. There are transitions, change, and plenty of uncertainty. Trying to hold everything together. And yet beneath all of it… there is something here that does not move. This meditation is an invitation to notice any resistance...

Reconnect with inner peace through this deeply calming guided meditation into pure presence and awareness with Jody Agard. So many of us move through life believing something is wrong with us. That we need to heal more. Fix more. Improve more. Become someone better. But what if the deepest healing comes not through effort… but through recognizing what has always been whole? This guided meditation...

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard guides you through a 30-minute guided meditation designed to help you discover something unexpected: Stillness isn’t found away from life… it’s found within it. So often, we believe peace requires silence, space, or stepping away from the noise of everyday life. But what if the stillness you’re seeking has never been disturbed? In this meditatio...

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard guides you through a gentle guided meditation for overthinking and a busy mind. When life feels full; responsibilities, decisions, constant movement… the mind seems to become more active with planning, remembering, problem-solving, replaying conversations, or thinking about what’s next. It can feel like the mind never stops. But what if the thou...

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard offers a deeply compassionate guided meditation for grief, rooted in non-dual understanding. Grief is something every human being encounters. It may come through the loss of a loved one, a change in a relationship, or the quiet ache of something that once was. And when grief arises, the natural impulse is to understand it, fix it, or move throug...