• 174: Alex Shailer, Guest Explorer
    Nov 22 2024

    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
    #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:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian

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    59 mins
  • 173: Time, Now, and the Non-Future
    Nov 8 2024

    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 can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian


    Photo by Guilherme Stecanella on Unsplash

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    46 mins
  • 172: Colette Martin and Boris Feldman, Guest Explorers
    Oct 25 2024

    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 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:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • 171: The Future of Consciousness
    Oct 11 2024

    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 this playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian


    Photo by Drew Beamer on Unsplash

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    54 mins
  • 170: Eva Müller, Guest Explorer
    Sep 27 2024

    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.yogictransformation.org/learning-the-technique

    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:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • 169: Remedies for Cognitive Distortions
    Sep 13 2024

    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:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian


    Photo by Uday Mittal on Unsplash

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    49 mins
  • 168: David Farmer, Guest Explorer
    Aug 30 2024

    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 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:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • 167: Negative Thought Patterns
    Aug 16 2024

    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 Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers
    NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one.

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian


    Photo by Karl Magnuson on Unsplash

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    46 mins