The Awareness Podcast

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 is a gentle invitation to release the constant inner fixing and rest as the pure awareness that exists before thought, before identity, and before the story of “me.”In this meditation, you’ll be guided to:Let go of the pressure to heal or improve yourselfNotice thoughts and emotions without identifying with themRest in the quiet presence of “I Am”Experience awareness beyond the body-mindAllow fear, discomfort, and emotions without resistanceRecognize the stillness that remains untouched beneath all experienceThoughts may come and go. Sensations may rise and fall.But what you truly are remains unchanged.This meditation is especially supportive if you:Feel emotionally exhausted from constantly “working on yourself”Struggle with anxiety, overwhelm, or self-judgmentLong for a deeper sense of peace and wholenessAre exploring awareness, awakening, or non-duality✨ Another way to go deeper…What if the struggle you’ve carried isn’t actually who you are? What if beneath the roles, conditioning, and expectations placed upon you… there remains something untouched, whole, and waiting to be remembered?In his new two-part live series, “The Crucial Identity Shift,” Alan Cohen guides a compassionate yet profound return — from the conditioned self you were taught to be… back to the truth of who you’ve always been. Through practical insight and grounded spiritual guidance, you’ll explore how to live from that deeper identity in everyday life — navigating challenges with greater clarity, peace, and presence. As this deeper identity becomes more embodied, even ordinary moments begin to feel different. This series offers a practical path for bringing spiritual truth fully into daily living.  👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

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 meditation, you’ll be gently guided to:Notice the presence that exists before thoughtRecognize the silence that remains even when the mind is activeRelease the need to “get meditation right”Rest as the awareness, the eternal I AM that is already hereExperience peace without needing to change your circumstancesThis is the essence of non-dual meditation, by simply discovering that what you are is never touched by the noise.Thoughts may come and go.  Sounds may rise and fall. Life continues moving.And yet… something here remains still.This meditation is especially supportive if you:Feel overwhelmed by a busy or noisy mindThink you need perfect conditions to feel peaceStruggle to “quiet” your thoughts in meditationWant a more natural, effortless way to experience presenceYou are the stillness that holds it all.✨ Another way to go deeper…What if every desire you’ve ever had — for love, for peace, for something you couldn’t quite name — has been pointing to the simple recognition of I AM… that Eternal, ever-present  awareness within… the very ground of being itself? Not something to find. Not a future state. Not a higher level… but what’s here now.In his new four-part series, “Remembering the Self: I AM the I AM,’” Bill Free offers a clear and practical exploration of this awareness — and how to live from it in the midst of everyday life. That recognition is possible. Not someday. Now.👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

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 thoughts aren’t the problem?What if something deeper… is already still?In this meditation, you’re invited to:Notice the natural movement of the mindRecognize the awareness that is always presentRest as the simple sense of “I Am”Experience stillness without effort or controlThis is the heart of non-dual meditation. It’s not about trying to quiet the mind, but discovering that you are not the mind.Thoughts can continue.Life continues.But something here… does not move.You are the stillness in which everything appears.✨ Another way to go deeper…What if every desire you’ve ever had — for love, for peace, for something you couldn’t quite name — has been pointing to the simple recognition of I AM… that Eternal, ever-present  awareness within… the very ground of being itself? Not something to find. Not a future state. Not a higher level… but what’s here now.In his new four-part series, “Remembering the Self: I AM the I AM,’” Bill Free offers a clear and practical exploration of this awareness — and how to live from it in the midst of everyday life. That recognition is possible. Not someday. Now.👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

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 through it.But what if grief doesn’t need to be solved?What if it can be gently held… in something much larger?Through soft guidance and spacious pauses, this meditation invites you to:Allow grief and emotion to be present without resistanceNotice sensations, memories, and feelings as they ariseExplore the awareness that knows griefRecognize the quiet presence that remains unchangedRest as the space that holds all experienceThis is the essence of non-dual meditation, not removing emotion, but recognizing that what you are is never limited by it.Grief may move.Tears may come and go.Memories may arise.And yet…There is something here that does not move.The same presence that has always been here.This episode is a gentle invitation to rest as that — the open, loving awareness in which grief appears… and is held.✨ Another way to go deeper…What if every desire you’ve ever had — for love, for peace, for something you couldn’t quite name — has been pointing to the simple recognition of I AM… that Eternal, ever-present  awareness within… the very ground of being itself? Not something to find. Not a future state. Not a higher level… but what’s here now.In his new four-part series, “Remembering the Self: I AM the I AM,’” Bill Free offers a clear and practical exploration of this awareness — and how to live from it in the midst of everyday life. That recognition is possible. Not someday. Now.👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody is joined by Bill Free, co-founder of the Center for Awakening.Together, they explore a deeper understanding of desire and how it can become a doorway to recognizing the Self.Many of us spend years chasing fulfillment through relationships, achievements, or experiences… only to find that something still feels incomplete. In this conversation, Bill points to what’s actually being sought beneath all desire and how that recognition changes everything.This conversation is clear, grounded, and deeply practical...✨ Another way to go deeper…What if every desire you’ve ever had — for love, for peace, for something you couldn’t quite name — has been pointing to the simple recognition of I AM… that Eternal, ever-present  awareness within… the very ground of being itself? Not something to find. Not a future state. Not a higher level… but what’s here now.In his new four-part series, “Remembering the Self: I AM the I AM,’” Bill Free offers a clear and practical exploration of this awareness — and how to live from it in the midst of everyday life. That recognition is possible. Not someday. Now.👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard offers a calming guided meditation rooted in non-dual understanding, helping you discover the stillness that is already present, even when the mind feels busy or overwhelmed.The world seems uncertain or loud and often, the instinct is to try to calm it… to fix it… to quiet the mind.But stillness isn’t something we create, it’s already here, even in the middle of the swirl.This episode is an invitation to rest as what you truly are, even in the midst of everything.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out CFA's brand new offering:The Imperturbable I Am with Jenny Beal — an experiential 4-part series. For those who’ve glimpsed clarity but feel pulled back into thought, emotion, and the challenges of life — this is an invitation to rest in the unchanging presence within — where a natural steadiness and peace remain, regardless of what arises.👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard offers a gentle guided meditation rooted in non-dual understanding, inviting you to discover that the peace you’ve been seeking is already present.So much of life can feel like a movement toward relief, trying to feel better, fix what’s uncomfortable, or become a more peaceful version of yourself.But peace isn’t something you arrive at, it’s what you are… before the story of who you are begins.Before memory.Before identity.Before the mind says, “This needs to change.”Through spacious pauses, simple guidance, and quiet self-inquiry, this meditation creates space to notice the pure presence that is already here — aware of every thought, sensation, and experience.This episode is an invitation to stop searching… and gently come home to the peace that has always been here.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's upcoming brand new offering:The Imperturbable I Am with Jenny Beal — a 4-part live series starting April 6th. For those who’ve glimpsed clarity but feel pulled back into thought, emotion, and the challenges of life — this is an invitation to rest in the unchanging presence within — where a natural steadiness and peace remain, regardless of what arises.👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard offers a gentle guided meditation rooted in non-dual understanding, inviting you to explore the difference between what changes… and what remains.From the moment we wake up, the mind begins to label experience:“I feel tired.”“I feel anxious.”“I feel good.”Moods shift.Energy rises and falls.Thoughts come and go.And almost instantly, we take it personally.But what if you are not your mood?Through spacious pauses and simple guidance, this meditation opens a quiet space to notice that all experiences — emotions, sensations, and thoughts — are constantly moving. And yet something here is aware of it all. That awareness does not change.Moods will come and go.The body will feel different from moment to moment.Life will continue to unfold.But what you are…remains unchanged.This episode is an invitation to rest as that.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's upcoming brand new offering:The Imperturbable I Am with Jenny Beal — a 4-part live series starting in April. For those who’ve glimpsed clarity but feel pulled back into thought, emotion, and the challenges of life — this is an invitation to rest in the unchanging presence within — where a natural steadiness and peace remain, regardless of what arises.👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard offers a simple guided meditation exploring the recognition of "I AM" — the awareness that is present before every thought, sensation, and experience.So often the mind believes something needs to be achieved, understood, or improved in order to awaken. The personal self can make this recognition seem distant or difficult.But what if nothing needs to be achieved?Before the next thought about yourself…Before the story of who you are…There is the quiet knowing of I AM.Rather than trying to create a special experience, this meditation simply opens space to notice what has never been absent.The awareness that hears these words…The awareness that knows each sensation…The awareness in which thoughts appear and disappear…That awareness is what you are.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's upcoming brand new offering:The Imperturbable I Am with Jenny Beal — a 4-part live series starting in April. For those who’ve glimpsed clarity but feel pulled back into thought, emotion, and the challenges of life — this is an invitation to rest in the unchanging presence within — where a natural steadiness and peace remain, regardless of what arises.👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In a world that feels constantly shifting, is there something about us that does not move at all?In this episode of the Awareness Podcast, Jenny Beal joins Jody Agard to explore her upcoming four-part teaching series, The Imperturbable I Am — a deep inquiry into the unchangeable nature of our essential self.While the world, the body, and the mind are in continual motion, Jenny points to something prior to all change — the awareness that knows experience but is not altered by it.In this conversation, we explore:What “imperturbable” truly meansThe difference between the ever-changing body-mind and unchanging awarenessWhy disturbance belongs to the body-mind — not to what we truly areThe body-mind as a kind of conditioned “AI system”Why awakening is more about undoing than acquiring knowledgeThe role of self-inquiry in dissolving false identificationHow fear and contraction arise as protective conditioningWhat happens after a glimpse of our true natureWhy we are not confined to the boundaries of the bodyJenny beautifully describes the body-mind as something trained through experience — much like artificial intelligence — operating through conditioning and learned responses. But what we truly are is not the conditioned system. We are the awareness in which it appears.Rather than adding new beliefs or spiritual concepts, this path is an undoing — a letting go of deeply held assumptions about who and what we are.If you’ve had glimpses of clarity but still feel pulled back into identification with thought, emotion, or contraction, this conversation offers a steady and practical perspective.Jenny’s four-part series, The Imperturbable I Am, begins April 6th. 👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.About Jenny Beal:Jenny discovered the peace, happiness and ease of being that is inherent in our true nature through the Direct Path teaching of Rupert Spira and Francis Lucille. She has a love of science and mathematics and sees science as a set of mathematical models which express the beauty of unfolding patterns of natural phenomena, not as ultimate truth. Jenny considers openness to examining and abandoning all belief systems to be the principal prerequisite for the understanding of our true nature. In Jenny’s view, the spiritual path has no beginning or end. Nor is there any distinction between spiritual life and life in the world. When asked a question, she temporarily becomes a teacher; otherwise, she remains a student and enjoyer of all that is.To learn more about Jenny & her teachings:  universalquestions.comSupport the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

What happens when the body is sick — and nothing in you resists it?In this gentle, experiential meditation, Jody Agard guides you to explore the subtle habit of identifying with the body and its condition. When illness appears, it can seem personal, limiting, or unfair. But what if sickness is simply something happening within experience, not to what you are?Drawing from A Course in Miracles and lived insight, Jody’s meditation invites you beyond the idea of being a fragile self who can be diminished by circumstance.Jody shares through the simple example of being sick on her birthday, as she examines how story and meaning creates unnecessary suffering. Sensation arises. Discomfort appears. The body does what bodies do.And yet — what knows these experiences remains unchanged.In this meditation, you’ll be guided to:• Notice the habit of “I am this body”• Rest as simple being — prior to role or condition• Allow illness to be an appearance, not an identity• Discover what does not age, improve, decline, or breathe• Experience quiet stability even in physical discomfortThis is not about denying the body. It is about recognizing that what you are has never been limited by it and resting as what is not affected.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's upcoming brand new offering:Freedom from Suffering in a World on Fire🔥 with Tom Das — a 4-part live series starting in March. If you’ve ever wondered how freedom from suffering is truly possible — even in the midst of chaos, we hope you’ll join us.👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this guided nondual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest as the peace that doesn’t come and go.Many of us experience moments of clarity, stillness, or deep relief, only to feel like we’ve “lost” it when thoughts, emotions, or life circumstances shift. But what if peace isn’t something that appears and disappears? What if it’s what you are, even when the mind is busy or the body feels unsettled?Rather than trying to create a spiritual state, this practice invites you to notice the quiet presence that has always been here, the stillness that remains unchanged through every thought, sensation, and life circumstance.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's upcoming brand new offering:Freedom from Suffering in a World on Fire🔥 with Tom Das — a 4-part live series starting in March. If you’ve ever wondered how freedom from suffering is truly possible — even in the midst of chaos, we hope you’ll join us.👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

Life can feel full — conversations, responsibilities, decisions, and constant movement pulling attention in every direction. In the midst of it all, the quiet stillness beneath experience can seem distant or forgotten.Yet the awareness you truly are never leaves.In this gentle guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to pause in the middle of daily life and notice the simple sense of being that is already here. Through effortless noticing and quiet inquiry, we explore the presence that remains untouched by thoughts, emotions, and changing circumstances.This session is simply an invitation to rest as the I AM presence that has always been here — before effort, before identity, and before any story about who you are.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's upcoming brand new offering:Freedom from Suffering in a World on Fire🔥 with Tom Das — a 4-part live series starting in March. If you’ve ever wondered how freedom from suffering is truly possible — even in the midst of chaos, we hope you’ll join us.👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard is joined by spiritual teacher Tom Das for a spacious and deeply relevant conversation about suffering, resistance, and what true freedom actually means in today’s world.If you’ve ever wondered how peace is possible when life feels overwhelming, this episode will meet you right where you are.Tom’s upcoming 4-part teaching series with the Center for Awakening is titled Freedom from Suffering in a World on Fire🔥 and this conversation offers a beautiful introduction to his gentle, clear, and compassionate way of pointing to our true nature.His teachings illuminate what truly matters: being happy, being free, and recognizing the truth of what we are — not as ideas, but as a living experience here and now. So if you’ve ever wondered how freedom from suffering is truly possible — even in the midst of chaos, we hope you’ll join us. Tom Das’s 4-Part Teaching Series begins March 2nd, brought to you the Center for Awakening. ✨ Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.About Tom Das:Whilst Tom has explored many teachings traditions including Advaita (Nondual) Vedanta, Buddhism, Zen, Christian Mysticism, Dzogchen and Taoism as well as more “New Age” teachings such as the Law of Attraction, his love is to share the teachings of his Beloved Guru, Sri Ramana Maharshi, as well as his devotion for Sri Ramana. That said, irrespective of your own seeking background, Tom has an uncanny knack of being able to meet you where you are and facilitate a greater clarity in those who approach him for guidance.  Tom lives with his wife and children in London UK.  To learn more about Tom & his teachings: tomdas.comSupport the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard offers a gentle, grounding non-dual meditation for anyone feeling caught in busyness, effort, or the constant pressure to do more.In a culture that equates busyness with worth, success, and importance, stillness can feel uncomfortable — even threatening. Yet stillness isn’t something we need to create or earn. It’s what we are.Through personal reflection and spacious guided meditation, Jody invites you to notice the quiet Presence that’s always been here — silently aware of every thought, task, and movement, yet never caught in any of it.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's upcoming brand new offering:Stillness Wars: Awakening, Clarity, Forgiveness & Embodiment with Keith Kavanagh — a 4-part live series for those who’ve had glimpses of truth but feel caught between awakening and the mind’s management. If you’re tired of efforting, fixing, or trying to “hold” awakening, this series is an invitation to let truth live you instead.✨ Click here for more details & registration for Keith's 4-part series. About Keith Kavanagh:Though Keith first started reading A Course in Miracles thirty years ago, it was only after eight long years of a severe generalized anxiety disorder that he threw himself into the Course’s process of unbinding identity from thoughts and the meeting of the shadow of sin, guilt and fear in the mind with the Course’s forgiveness practice: undoing projections and bringing the unprotected shadow to non-judgmental Awareness, meeting emotion without story. The anxiety disorder fell away and, unexpectedly, there was an awakening from thought identification to a nondual, rather vaporous, world of incredible beauty.To learn more about Keith & his teachings:  acimwithkeith.comAs always, thank you for listening — and for taking this moment to come back to what’s true.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

Have you ever felt the quiet heaviness of being a “me” — the effort of holding together roles, stories, and identities that seem to define who you are?In this deeply gentle nondual meditation, Jody Agard invites you into a simple yet profound exploration: what remains when the structure of “me” is no longer held in place.Guided by a powerful inner image of a box — representing the personal self, its roles, labels, and memories — this meditation allows the walls of identity to soften and collapse naturally. There’s no force, no fixing, and no attempt to silence the mind. Thoughts may still arise. Sensations may still move. And yet, something vast, still, and untouched remains.Through long, open pauses and effortless inquiry, you’re invited to:Notice the weight of personal identity without judgmentRest as the awareness in which thoughts and sensations appearAllow the story of “me” to quiet without resisting itSense what remains when identity loosensDiscover the stillness that cannot be moved by life’s motionThis is not about becoming someone new.It’s about recognizing what was here before the box.Before the stories.Before the effort of being “someone.”Let the box fall away.And rest as what remains.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's upcoming brand new offering:Stillness Wars: Awakening, Clarity, Forgiveness & Embodiment with Keith Kavanagh — a 4-part live series for those who’ve had glimpses of truth but feel caught between awakening and the mind’s management. If you’re tired of efforting, fixing, or trying to “hold” awakening, this series is an invitation to let truth live you instead.✨ Click here for full details and registration for Keith's 4-part series. About Keith Kavanagh:Though Keith first started reading A Course in Miracles thirty years ago, it was only after eight long years of a severe generalized anxiety disorder that he threw himself into the Course’s process of unbinding identity from thoughts and the meeting of the shadow of sin, guilt and fear in the mind with the Course’s forgiveness practice: undoing projections and bringing the unprotected shadow to non-judgmental Awareness, meeting emotion without story. The anxiety disorder fell away and, unexpectedly, there was an awakening from thought identification to a nondual, rather vaporous, world of incredible beauty. To learn more about Keith & his teachings:  acimwithkeith.comAs always, thank you for listening — and for taking this moment to come back to what’s true.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard is joined by Keith Kavanagh, known for his uncompromising clarity and direct approach to A Course in Miracles and nondual awakening.This isn’t a traditional interview. It’s a space to slow down, listen deeply, and let insight land — not as theory, but as lived recognition.Together, Jody and Keith explore one of the most misunderstood teachings in spirituality: forgiveness.Not forgiveness as something moral or personal — but forgiveness as ACIM points to it: a shift in purpose, a release of misidentification, and a willingness to stop fixing the dream and let truth reinterpret everything.In this conversation, you’ll hear about:Why forgiveness has nothing to do with other peopleHow to apply forgiveness to money stress, health issues, and relationship conflictWhy awakening can feel clear… then seem “lost”How the mind quietly reasserts control through effort and identityWhat embodiment actually looks like in ordinary lifeKeith also shares about his upcoming teaching series at Center for Awakening:Stillness Wars: Awakening, Clarity, Forgiveness & Embodiment — a 4-part live series for those who’ve had glimpses of truth but feel caught between awakening and the mind’s management.If you’re tired of efforting, fixing, or trying to “hold” awakening, this series is an invitation to let truth live you instead.✨ Click here for full details and registration for Keith's teaching series. About Keith Kavanagh:Though Keith first started reading A Course in Miracles thirty years ago, it was only after eight long years of a severe generalized anxiety disorder that he threw himself into the Course’s process of unbinding identity from thoughts and the meeting of the shadow of sin, guilt and fear in the mind with the Course’s forgiveness practice: undoing projections and bringing the unprotected shadow to non-judgmental Awareness, meeting emotion without story. The anxiety disorder fell away and, unexpectedly, there was an awakening from thought identification to a nondual, rather vaporous, world of incredible beauty.  To learn more about Keith & his teachings:  acimwithkeith.comAs always, thank you for listening — and for taking this moment to come back to what’s true.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

For years, many of us have poured energy into “healing” ourselves — the inner child, the trauma, the thoughts, the beliefs. It feels noble and empowering at first… until it begins to feel endless. Like there’s always another wound to fix or another version of ourselves that isn’t quite enough yet.In this episode, Jody Agard explores the deeper invitation of non-dual healing — as the remembrance of wholeness. You’ll be guided through a deeply spacious meditation that reveals the peace that’s already here, beneath all effort and self-fixing.This isn’t about bypassing pain; it’s about discovering the awareness that gently holds all pain, and realizing that this awareness — your true nature — has never needed healing.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's January 2026 teaching series:👉🏼 The Disappearance of Old Habits: Living the Truth of What You Are, a four-week invitation into self-inquiry, allowing, and the gentle dissolving of the false self — without forcing, fixing, or efforting, featuring beloved teacher Lisa Natoli.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

Everything in life changes — relationships, health, plans, even the thoughts that move through our minds.For most of us, peace seems tied to those shifting conditions. But when we look closely, we find something deeper — a quiet, changeless awareness that never moves.In this gentle nondual meditation, Jody Agard guides you to rest in that unmoving stillness, the Divine Presence that remains steady through every rise and fall of life.No effort, no control — simply noticing what has always been here.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's January 2026 teaching series:👉🏼 The Disappearance of Old Habits: Living the Truth of What You Are, a four-week invitation into self-inquiry, allowing, and the gentle dissolving of the false self — without forcing, fixing, or efforting, featuring beloved teacher Lisa Natoli.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard sits down with Lisa Natoli for a grounded, relieving conversation about a common spiritual struggle: you have a real moment of peace or clarity… and then it feels like you “lose it.”Lisa reframes the whole storyline. Awakening isn’t a Hollywood moment where the mind goes silent forever and life becomes trigger-free. What you are is already constant — but old identity and conditioning can take time to unwind.Together, they explore:Why “backsliding” is often just the natural momentum of old habitsThe unplugged fan / cooling oven metaphor for how patterns wind downWhy you don’t need to stop thoughts — you can notice thoughts appearing and disappearing in awarenessHow suffering sticks around when we hold a story in place (“I have no money,” “I’m sick,” “I’m guilty”)Lisa’s down-to-earth mind-body doorway: feet on the floor, sensations, presence — without judgmentA practical experiment: what changes when you stop labeling life as “problems” and “difficulties”?This conversation also highlights Lisa’s upcoming January 2026 teaching series:✨ The Disappearance of Old Habits: Living the Truth of What You Are, a four-week invitation into self-inquiry, allowing, and the gentle dissolving of the false self — without forcing, fixing, or efforting.About Lisa Natoli:Lisa Natoli shares her story of healing and awakening in a way that is down-to-earth and easily understood. She was an alcoholic, cigarette smoker, food addict, type-A personality with roller-coaster mood swings which all got healed with A Course in Miracles. In 2013, she got sick with an incurable autoimmune disease... After trying everything to heal with no success, she began to welcome the pain and symptoms. This practice of welcoming led to an interest in nonduality teachings and practices of self-inquiry, which gradually led to the recognition of Consciousness as the true Self, our real Self which is complete happiness with no suffering or sorrow. She writes on the topics of mind-body healing, transformation, enlightenment, and consciousness. ✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite you to join Evolve — Center for Awakening's online member community. Your Evolve membership includes Lisa Natoli’s series "The Disappearance of Old Habits: Living the Truth of What You Are," and much more. In Evolve, you'll find a supportive space for weekly live meditations, book studies, and community sessions, as well as a new in-depth teaching series each month — featuring some of the most respected and beloved nondual wisdom teachers of our time. If you’re ready to deepen your practice and connect with others walking this path, we’d be honored to welcome you. Learn more & join us inside Evolve.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

Every time we identify with the personal story — the “me” who’s hurt, striving, fixing, or defending — suffering begins.And yet, the moment we notice the identification, awareness is already here — whole, untouched, and free.In this gentle healing nondual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to explore what happens when attention fuses with the idea of “me,” and how peace naturally returns when you rest as awareness itself.No fixing. No striving. No self-improvement — only remembering the truth of what you are: Pure Presence.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite you to become part of Evolve — Center for Awakening's online member community. In Evolve, you'll find a supportive space for weekly live meditations, book studies, and community sessions, as well as a monthly in-depth teaching series featuring some of the most respected and beloved nondual wisdom teachers of our time offering guidance, inspiration, and practices you can return to again and again. If you’re ready to deepen your practice and connect with others walking this path, we’d be honored to welcome you. Membership is open now until December 31st.Learn more & join us inside Evolve.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

Sometimes, when life feels like it’s falling apart, it’s really just rearranging itself for truth to be seen.In this gentle non-dual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest in the simplicity of Being — beyond all labels, roles, and stories of “me.” Together, you’ll rest in what remains when everything false is released: the effortless peace of Pure Presence.There’s nothing to fix, nothing to become — only the quiet recognition of what’s always been here.A remembering of the healing simplicity of I Am.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite you to become part of Evolve — Center for Awakening's online member community. In Evolve, you'll find a supportive space for weekly live meditations, book studies, and community sessions, as well as a monthly in-depth teaching series featuring some of the most respected and beloved nondual wisdom teachers of our time offering guidance, inspiration, and practices you can return to again and again. If you’re ready to deepen your practice and connect with others walking this path, we’d be honored to welcome you. Membership is open now until December 31st.Learn more & join us inside Evolve.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

True meditation isn’t something we do — it’s what we are.In this gentle nondual healing meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest in the simplicity of being itself — beyond effort, beyond thought, beyond the idea of a separate self.You’ll be guided to notice the awareness that’s already here before any breath, sensation, or story of “me.” Through quiet recognition, the peace you’ve been seeking reveals itself as what’s never left.This is a soft returning — not to a new state, but to the natural presence that holds all states.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite you to become part of Evolve — Center for Awakening's online member community. In Evolve, you'll find a supportive space for weekly live meditations, book studies, and community sessions, as well as a monthly in-depth teaching series featuring some of the most respected and beloved nondual wisdom teachers of our time offering guidance, inspiration, and practices you can return to again and again. If you’re ready to deepen your practice and connect with others walking this path, we’d be honored to welcome you. Membership is open now until December 31st. ***EARLY BIRD BONUS! (through December 14th): With an annual membership registration, you get on-demand access to ​The Infinite I Am Conference​ — an epic 3 days of clear nondual teachings, captured live on November 14-16, 2025. Includes the entire collection of 24+ sessions. And, the annual membership allows you to receive a full suite of offerings at a fraction of what you’d pay individually.  Learn more & join us inside Evolve.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

There are seasons in life that feel full — of emotion, expectation, or quiet heaviness.In this gentle non-dual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest beneath the stories of “me in this season,” and return to the stillness that never comes or goes.Whatever this moment holds — joy, fatigue, grief, or gratitude — you’ll be guided to rest as the sky itself: open, unchanging, and free.✨ Another way to go deeper… If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite you to become part of Evolve — Center for Awakening's online member community. In Evolve, you'll find a supportive space for weekly live meditations, book studies, and community sessions, as well as a monthly in-depth teaching series featuring some of the most respected and beloved nondual wisdom teachers of our time offering guidance, inspiration, and practices you can return to again and again. If you’re ready to deepen your practice and connect with others walking this path, we’d be honored to welcome you. Membership is open now until December 31st. ***EARLY BIRD BONUS! (through December 14th): With an annual membership registration, you get on-demand access to ​The Infinite I Am Conference​ — an epic 3 days of clear nondual teachings, captured live on November 14-16, 2025. Includes the entire collection of 24+ sessions. And, the annual membership allows you to receive a full suite of offerings at a fraction of what you’d pay individually.  Learn more & join us inside Evolve.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

Beneath every role we play lies something deeper — the quiet awareness that never comes or goes.In this meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest beyond the mind’s labels and rediscover the peace that remains when every “I am this” falls away.A simple practice of noticing, allowing, and resting as the presence that contains it all.✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer). 👉 Access Now.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

When the mind tries to understand or control life, it’s only doing what it knows — searching for safety through thought. But true peace isn’t found in figuring things out.In this gentle non-dual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest beyond the analyzing mind and return to what’s always here — the still, open awareness that never changes.Through simple guidance and reflection, you’ll rediscover what true letting go really means: the effortless dissolving of the imagined “me”, who’s trying to manage life.✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer). 👉 Access Now.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

As life changes, so do the roles we play — parent, partner, friend, or professional. In this gentle non-dual meditation with Jody Agard, experience what happens when you stop identifying with the roles and stories and rest as the awareness that witnesses them all. This is a space to release control, soften into change, and remember the peace that’s always been here.✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer).👉 Access now.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this week’s meditation, Jody Agard invites you to experience the deeper meaning of surrender — beyond effort, beyond letting go of circumstances, and into the effortless resting as what you already are.Most of us think of surrender as something we do — releasing control, accepting what is, or yielding to life’s challenges. But true surrender isn’t an act of the separate self. It’s the dissolution of the illusion that there ever was a separate self to begin with.This meditation is an invitation to stop trying to surrender to something, and instead experience the surrender of the one who tries.✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer).👉 Access Now.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

We’ve been taught to believe that peace is something we have to chase — through practices, routines, or fixing what feels broken. But what if peace doesn’t come later? What if it’s already here, beneath every thought, every sensation, every moment of striving?In this guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to soften the body, meet what arises with gentle awareness, and rest as the wholeness that never leaves. Together, you’ll experience peace that asks nothing of you — not a perfect body, not quiet emotions, not more effort. Just Presence, as it isTake this time to remember: you are not the seeker of peace. You are the peace.✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer).👉 Access Now.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this guided meditation with Jody Agard, you’re invited to set down the weight of what you’ve been carrying and rest in the vast presence that holds it all.Instead of trying to fix, control, or perfect this moment, you’ll be guided to gently notice the play of thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they arise — without judgment and without effort. Together, we’ll return to the boundless awareness that remains untouched by it all.This practice is an invitation to remember: you are not the heaviness, the story, or the struggle. You are the stillness that holds it all.Take this time for yourself, and let yourself be held.✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer).👉 Access Now.Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast or subscribe to the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

When life feels heavy — whether from pain in the body, emotional weight, or the stress of the world — you don’t have to carry it all yourself. In this guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to soften the body, release effort, and rest in the Pure Presence that holds every experience without judgment. Discover the peace that’s already here, beyond pain and beyond the stories of the mind.✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer).👉 Access Now.Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast or subscribe to the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this week’s episode of The Awareness Podcast, join Jody Agard for a guided meditation that invites you to release the mind’s search for peace and simply rest in awareness itself.Instead of waiting for life to change, the body to heal, or the mind to quiet down, this meditation points you back to what is always here — the stillness that holds every thought, sensation, and experience.In this session, you’ll experience:• Letting go of striving and future expectations• Meeting the body and mind exactly as they are• Resting in the presence that is untouched by circumstances• Remembering that true peace is not found — it’s what you already areThis is an invitation to step beyond seeking, and discover the effortless wholeness of simply being.✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer).👉 Access Now.Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast or subscribe to the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

So often the mind believes it has to “do” more to find peace — to relax better, to meditate properly, to fix the body or control time. But true rest begins when the doer falls away. In this guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to soften, release striving, and rest in the effortless presence of the eternal now. Here you’ll discover that peace is not something you create — it’s what you already are.✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer)..👉 Access Now.Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast or subscribe to the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

The body is always changing — sometimes tired, sometimes energized, sometimes full of aches or ease. But who you are is not limited to the body’s story. In this guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest as the awareness in which every sensation, thought, and feeling appears. Instead of striving to fix or heal the body, discover the freedom of resting in what is already whole, spacious, and untouched.✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer).👉 Access Now.Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast or subscribe to the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

True healing isn’t about effort — it’s about allowing. In this episode, Jody Agard guides you to relax the body, release striving, and notice the awareness that is untouched by pain or problems. Rest here, and remember: you are already whole.✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer).👉 Access Now.Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast or subscribe to The Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Susan Telford welcomes transpersonal psychologist, best-selling author, lecturer and spiritual poet, Steve Taylor, PhD.Steve shares his own personal awakening experiences that began at a young age and that ultimately led him to devote his life to the study, investigation and process of spiritual awakening.In his newest book, The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Steve explains, through his research of hundreds of people who had a profound spiritual awakening, that these experiences are not mystical or extraordinary, but rather they are more common than we realize. Many people may not even know that they are living their lives in a natural state of awakening or enlightenment.Steve explains what he believes are the eight essential aspects of spiritual awakening that anyone can cultivate, and he discusses how guided meditations, contemplative exercises, and other practices can bring about spiritual transformation in our everyday lives.Steve also shares a bit about his upcoming four-part live series for Center for Awakening beginning on July 8th entitled Four Steps to Awakening: Cultivating the Qualities of Spiritual Enlightenment.For details on how you can join Steve for this interactive and experiential series visit: https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/steve-taylor Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati was born in the USA and her spiritual journey took her to India, where she has lived for many years in the Parmarth Niketan Ashram ashram.In this edition of the Awareness Podcast, Bill Free chats to Sadhviji about her recently published memoir, Hollywood to the Himalayas: A Journey of Healing and Transformation.Sadhviji speaks about her very conventional American life that was turned upside down by a vacation to India when she was 25 years old and in the middle of a PhD at Stanford.It was there that she met her guru, HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji and her life changed forever.For more on Sadhviji, visit her website: https://sadhviji.org/Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Susan Telford sat down with Heena Vasani to discuss Heena’s life and work using Dr Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry.Heena had a kidney transplant 27 years ago, a topic she discussed with Jenny Beal here: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/blog/episode87In this conversation with Susan, Heena shared how she almost refused the transplant,because of a deep seated sense of unworthiness.In finally accepting the donated kidney as a priceless gift, only made possible the deathof another young woman she never met, Heena stepped onto a path of nurturingherself on all levels.Heena talks about divine motherhood and how motherhood became her primary spiritual path and led her to examine all her previously undigested childhood trauma and the effects such trauma has on the body and mind.Heena also speaks passionately about her work using Compassionate Inquiry and describes what happens in a session.Finally, Heena describes the 4-part workshop she is facilitating for Center forAwakening in May, entitled Self Inquiry: A Meditative Approach. For full details of this series of live workshops with Heena and to register, visit:https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/heena-vasaniSupport the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this new episode of The Awareness Podcast, Susan Telford sits down with award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Awaken the World Initiative, Daniel Schmidt to discuss spiritual awakening. Learn about what Dan describes as a "pattern interrupt" and how that has played out in his own life.Susan and Dan discuss what is meant by the term "spiritual ego" and how effort on the spiritual path can take us further from the Truth of who we are. Dan speaks eloquently about the importance of what he calls "the conditions of  no escape" and "the surrender paradox".Dan also describes what he will be teaching in his 4 part series, Letting Stillness Reveal Itself, exclusively available in Center for Awakening's Evolve Community in March. To learn more and to register for Dan's classes, visit: https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/daniel-schmidtABOUT DANDaniel is the creator of the award winning film “Inner Worlds Outer Worlds” the “Samadhi” film series and is also one of the creators and speakers in the Awakening Mind series. It is Daniel’s intention to convey the one perennial teaching that is inherent within all of the spiritual traditions. Daniel created the Samadhi Center in Ontario Canada and the Awaken the World Initiative as an outer reflection of his inner world. His approach combines self-inquiry with traditional forms of meditation so that participants have the opportunity to simultaneously realize their transcendent nature, and to purify themselves of conditioned patterns so that the human vessel becomes permeable to their true nature. Daniel emphasizes that Samadhi can be experienced not merely as a temporary “state” but as a “stage” of development. Check out this interview with Daniel from the Awakening Mind film.The “pathless path” is to realize an ever-deepening development process within the self-structure, and to simultaneously realize the emptiness of the self-structure. When these are realized as one, it is Samadhi.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this final episode of Living an Awakened Life, Susan Telford sits down with Angelo DiLullo to discuss:What is really meant by “awakening”.The importance of shadow work How to tell if you have made spiritual awakening into a hobbyWhy it is important to have a teacher The practical way to approach teachings such as there is no choice and there is no doer. The meeting of the relative and the absolute that occurs in deep stage realizationAngelo also describes the 4 classes he will be teaching for the Journey of Awakening Teaching Series in January, entitled The Four Major Movements on the Awakening Journey. These classes will point out the pitfalls along the way as well as the important insights at each stage of awakening. To learn more and to join Angelo live for his 4-Part series exclusively in our Evolve Community  CLICK HERE Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

What does using the Tools for Awakening look like in day to day life?Join Rona and Cyndi as they:Summarize the tools discussed over the past 11 episodesDescribe real life examples of how these tools can be usedExperience the peace and joy that comes from fully committing to this work.Join Cyndi and Rona as they put it all together.Would you like to join Cyndi and Rona live each week and explore spiritual awakening in the company of like-minded men and women? We invite you to join our online spiritual Community called Evolve. Learn more and register here: https://www.teachersofgod.org/evolve-communitySupport the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In her final episode for the Awareness Podcast, Jenny talks with Joost Vanhove about his spiritual journey which involved exploration of a very wide range of ideas, methods and teachings. His keen interest in spirituality was initiated by repeated childhood experiences of expansion and oneness. It wasn’t until his teens that by chance he discovered the writings of a 14th Century Belgian mystic which confirmed for him the reality of what he had experienced.Joost describes and gives examples of the way language influences our thought processes. Jenny and Joost discuss the role of language in the spiritual path and difficulties and pitfalls in trying to understand the ancient texts and the writings of non-living sages. We agree that much more can be transmitted in face-to-face communication with a living teacher.Joost goes on to share how over a long period he came to create his self-development model using ideas from many different traditions and from friends on the spiritual path. He describes the meaning and content of the four pillars of this model – Perception, Acceptance, Vision, Action. We discuss how this fits with the Direct Path teaching of his teacher, Francis Lucille, and the principle of living in not-knowing.If you've enjoyed Jenny Beal, we invite you to join her live for her new weekly sessions: The Path to Understanding, exclusively in our Evolve Community. Jenny will use a mix of guided contemplations, experiments, meditation and dialogue to explore and deepen our understanding of our true nature, and discover what happens when we live our normal lives from that understanding. Visit here for details and to join: https://www.teachersofgod.org/evolve-community  Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of Conversations in Truth, Bill and his guest Amy Haible come together for a lively discussion of A Course in Miracles and how Advaita integration can be so helpful to students of ACIM and nonduality.Amy shares what A Course in Miracles has meant to her and gives us more details about her weekly, live sessions in our Evolve Community exploring this enlightening subject.And, if you'd like to join Amy Haible to explore the text on A Course in Miracles with an emphasis on non dual teachings? Then check out her new, live weekly class Advaita in ACIM.This class is suitable for beginners as well as those already steeped in non dual teachings. The class will be delivered every Thursday live at 4:00 pm Eastern time, exclusively in our online spiritual Community, Evolve.To check out all the details for Amy’s class and to join a Community of spiritually awakening men and women around the work please visit: https://www.teachersofgod.org/evolve-communitySupport the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

Join guest host Rona Marren as she turns the tables and interviews Susan Telford.Listen in as Rona and Susan discuss:Why Susan calls the burnout that ended her career as a high school teacher “Fierce Grace”Susan’s journey of awakening through different spiritual traditionsWhat Susan means by 'The Seventh Sense'The unexpected arrival of poetry in Susan’s lifeSusan also shares a bit about her upcoming Masterclass in our Evolve Community this December titled: Enter the Stillness: Live from the Silent Heart, when she will guide participants to a direct experience of the profound stillness and silence beyond words, thoughts, and concepts, that is the true nature of reality.To learn more about our Evolve Community and to join Susan live for her 4-part Masterclass beginning December 4th, please visit: https://www.teachersofgod.org/evolve-communitySupport the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode, Jenny and her guest Ellen Emmet explore the interplay between the vertical, here-and-now dimension of the spiritual path, and our human experience in space and time.They discuss:The role of exploration of the body in the spiritual pathWhether freedom, truth and authenticity are prerequisites for happinessBody-mind conditioning as universal patterns of the mental realm, analogous to the patterns of the physical realm that are the subject of scienceDealing with traumaWhen shadow-work is neededHow to protect ourselves from developing ‘spiritual ego’The importance of spiritual friendshipsThe podcast ends with Ellen describing how difficult circumstances in her life have resulted in a surrender to not-knowing and an understanding that surrender is not-knowing.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

What does it mean to be Open Minded?During this conversation with Rona and Cyndi you will learn…The Open Mind is an empty mindHow the Open Mind is an effect – it is never a “cause” and it can never be forced.How the Open Mind is the gift received from willingness and intentionJoin Cyndi and Rona for this discussion and set the intention to empty the mind.Would you like to join Cyndi and Rona live each week and explore spiritual awakening in the company of like-minded men and women? We invite you to join our online spiritual Community called Evolve. Learn more and register here: https://www.teachersofgod.org/evolve-communitySupport the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of Conversations in Truth, Bill and his guest Rosalyn Rourke discuss Rosalyn’s new book, When Wisdom Arrives:  From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom. Tune in to hear...How Rosalyn felt when her daughter died unexpectedly at the age of 39What prompted Rosalyn to write this book Rosalyn explains her favorite sentence in the book: "If thoughts and feelings were truth, they would be called facts.”What Rosalyn means by “okayness” and how you can live there alwaysLearn more about Bill's One Year Masterclass for Awakening here. Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

Join Susan and Jac O'Keeffe for a wide-ranging conversation about what it really means to live an awakened life. Susan and Jac discussWhat it means ( and what it doesn’t mean) to be awakened The importance of dealing with our humannessHow to wake up and grow up spiritually How there is no final destination in awakening That even after awakening, there is still work to be done How Jac’s own journey has been all about finding out the truth for herselfWhat attachment to non duality is and what it signifiesTo learn more and to join Jac for her 4-Part live Masterclass: The Gifts and Perils of Power beginning on November 6th, 2023 in Evolve, visit here. Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

A great working definition for patience is being here Now without focusing on outward future goals.When you join Rona and Cyndi you will discover…The gift in being OK with the present moment just as it is.How natural patience becomes when you Trust.An invitation to watch for the subtle signs you are believing something has to change for you to be okay.Instruction on how to bring the “wanting things to change” to present moment awareness and what once may expect as a result.Join Cyndi and Rona as they continue to offer insight on how to use all the Tools for Awakening in your day-to-day life.About Rona Marren:Rona Marren is currently a student of A Course in Miracles and non duality. She spent 20 plus years as a spiritual seeker and in 2020 had her first glimpse of awakening. Rona is a wife, mother, daughter and caregiver. She integrates Knowing the truth of Who I Am into her daily activities continuing to attend courses, workshops, and retreats, volunteering with the Teachers of God Foundation, and by frequent moments of resting as awareness.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode, Jenny's guest, Heena Vasani describes how her mother abandoned her at a very young age, and Jenny and Heena discuss how the trauma from that experience led to inner work over many years to find resolution and healing.Heena describes how her spiritual journey started in her early 20’s with a profound glimpse of her true nature that occurred when she was about to undergo a kidney transplant.Jenny and Heena also discuss:The importance of fully facing the feelings that are a residue of trauma.How the fact that we don’t choose our thoughts means that we don’t choose our conditioning, and our parents didn’t choose their conditioning either. That understanding removes a huge amount of anger and blame.How motherhood provided Heena with the lessons she needed for her non-dual understanding to become fully integrated with her everyday life. Children are very good at pushing our buttons and they instantly detect any lack of authenticity.The uncertainty of life.The freedom that comes with living in not-knowing.The joy of continuing to learn and discover.Support the showDeepen your spiritual awakening experience with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. Listen + SubscribeStay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org