96 Practicing the Awakening Meditation

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 separation as well as past and present obstacles.  Another noticed that he absorbed depression sitting next to a depressed man, etc.
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 psychotherapist. 

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 creation, as Light, Love, Peace, Happiness, Joy, etc.  We place our attention on Awareness so that we can experience our Selves rather than just understand our Selves.  We talk about why some experience them Selves as Peace while others as Love, or Joy or Happiness or All.  Though not the focus, we talk briefly about how to release what distracts and blocks us and why.  We also note that much more information on releasing and the whole process of awakening is available for free on this platform.  All podcasts stand on their own yet each rests on those before.  Best to start at number 1 and move forward unless you find a title compelling now.

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 psychotherapist. 

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 2 on my website, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com

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 psychotherapist.

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.

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 psychotherapist. 

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 needed for my previous dread and anxiety.  No meditation, no philosophy, nothing is needed.  All done.  While all of the above can be vital at different times, "To See Is To Be Free." From my contemplation number 1 on my website, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com

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 psychotherapist. 

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.

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 psychotherapist. 

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 26 on my website, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com

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.
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 psychotherapist. 

Trying to control life is exhausting.  Longchenpa, the ancient Tibetan Dzogchen masters' suggestion?  "Leave it as it is and rest the weary heart and mind."  Sound good for today?  My contemplation 13 on my website. "Leave it as it is and rest the weary heart and mind."  Sound good for today?  My contemplation 13 on my website, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com

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.  My contemplation 14 on my website, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com