Awakening Together, Relaxing into Happiness with William Cooper, Master of Theology, Licensed Professional Counselor
Experience Awakening....Relaxing into your Being and, therefore, Happiness. William earned a 4 year on campus Master of Theology from Harding Theological Seminary. He was a Unity board president and, later, a Oneness trainer. In 1994 he went into private practice as a Licensed Psychotherapist. He has been to India 14 times averaging 3 months per visit to explore awakening with gurus and awakened beings. Also, Bhutan, Nepal, Thailand, Brazil, etc. In this series, William attempts to encapsulate and convey what he feels to be most important in his 50 plus years of direct experience on the path of Awakening. This series explores the hows of awakening and encourages the direct experiencing of the flow of your Being, (love, peace, happiness, fulfillment and joy). A practical blending of East and West. Meditation, yoga and Energy meet psychotherapy and awakened Beings...and beyond All. For more info and writings on the subject, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com
Episodes
168 episodes
1 - Introduction - Awakening Together, Relaxing into Happiness
This is an introduction to the series, Awakening Together, Relaxing into Happiness with William Cooper, Master of Theology, Licensed Professional Counselor. In this series we are exploring a distillation of what he has found most helpful ...
2 What Is Our Endpoint?
This podcast lays out the direction we will be going. We will be experiencing our true Selves and dissolve the false. We explore the basis of meditation and an Awakened life where we will begin to flow into a more integrated persona...
3 Seeing our inner clutter
Before talking deeply about and experiencing awakening let's look at how we experience our inner selves. Let's look at who we are and what we are not. So we can begin to clear out the clutter to better see and appreciate our clear B...
4 Experiencing the truth of who we are
In the last episode we looked at who we are not. Now we begin to look at who we are! We are taking a step by step approach in our awakening into our Selves. Our awakening into Happiness.
5 "Why Can't I Meditate Easily?" How Meditation Works.
Our Being is always intensely happy. But we don't always feel powerfully happy and Calm. Why? And can meditation help dissolve what is blocking us and feeling so bad? How? Most are meditating mistakenly thinking it shoul...
6 - Some thoughts about the Awakening Meditation
Let's talk about the Awakening meditation and go over some details to build confidence so you know you are doing it properly, On the next podcast we will meditation together and I will talk you through it. By then you will have some exper...
7 Lets meditate correctly... starting to experience the Awakening Meditation
In this podcast we are making sure we are meditating correctly. This will be a balance of principles of meditation and meditation itself. More meditation in the next podcast.
8 Practicing the Awakening meditation together with a bit more instruction
Practicing the Awakening meditation together again. This time a little longer. Continued instruction....just to make sure we are confident in our meditation. We, also, talked some about not leaving our center which is the radi...
9 Direct experience vs beliefs - and the anatomy of suffering
Listen to your self and have your own direct experience...question everyone and thing. Believe only if you don't really know. In this podcast we are going to begin to look more deeply at our Being and what motivates our thoughts.&nb...
10 We're Hypnotized! What to do?
Following up on the last Podcast. Our psychological thoughts are endlessly running because they are fueled by the hurt, fear, and anger underlying them. The hurt fear and anger is launched because we have betrayed ourselves. W...
11 - Counteractive Positivity can have its problems.
Direct experience dissolves beliefs yes. But often we resort to counteractive positivity or counteractive actions to distract, relax, relieve, suppress, or repress symptoms. We overlay something on the problem rather than diss...
12 - Coherence Therapy explains why meditation works?
We explore the basic principle behind successful therapies and, more importantly, awakening meditation as found in Coherence Therapy. We can't hold two opposing viewpoints at the same rime. The less true will dissolve away. When we ...
13 - You are a Love Explosion
We connect to who we are. How is Awareness (Being) experienced in clarity? Like a rainbow. One end stretches beyond creation in what might be called empty/fullness. As you come into creation there is an explosion of Ligh...
14 - How Thoughts And Emotions Work
An exploration on both the creative and blocking aspects of thoughts. The utility of using them when they are helpful and letting them go with they are not. How thoughts and emotions work and what they do.
15 The Unawakened Personality and the Enneagram
The unhealthy personality is not us but, rather, the thoughts and emotions that we have created to get what we mistakenly think we do not have. Because we are separated from our Being we no longer fully experience true Love, Peace, and Ha...
16 Importance of Physical Releasing in Awakening
We hold so much tension and stress in our body. It is one of the places we store repressed material, blocks, distress, etc. Often meditation and other spiritual exercises can't reach this material stored in the body nearly as well a...
17 - Recapping thus far and pulling it all together
Let's pause for a moment and pull together what we have covered thus far. So many meditate for years without much progress. Usually this is because they do not have a clear vision of what they are doing and how to do it. Clear...
18 - But what about my life, Ramana?
We all want to find our True Selves...why is it so hard? And how do we "find" our True Selves?
19 - Letting go of what troubles you
Exploring the importance of letting go in ways that work vs counterproductive letting go. We are looking at how to dissolve inner thought and emotional structures in this and the podcast that follow. Later, we will look at how to integrate our ...
20 - Noticing what's happening in your awakening
We discuss a combination of things that are or will happen in your awakening at this stage in our podcasts. We will explore most parts of this combination much more deeply in future podcasts but are exploring the broad strokes now in this...
21 Notice how you are, then be how you want to be.
Close your eyes and feel your self. What is going on inside? Do you feel tension? Pain? Hurt? Stress? Nothing? Racing thoughts? Troublesome emotions? Anticipation? Love and Peace? What are you experiencing? Don't c...
22 - Inner Exploration
We do a meditation to start to explore and be in touch with all the Energy, Bliss, Peace, Love, Happiness, etc that we are....even if it is in a trapped state at the moment. In our meditation we explore what might loosen the bounds of our...
23 - You are Oneness and Happiness now.
Taking a pause from practices we look at what we are now and always. We are One. In fact there is no us....only Happiness. There is no connection because there is no two and, therefore nowhere to flow and connect to. The...
24 - Baby steps - Listening to your Self.
Awakening is often a two part process. We extract ourselves from all of our distractions and put our attention back on our Selves. We take our foot off the brake and accelerate. In this podcast our attention is on accelerating...
25 - Integration - Relaxing into your Awakening
Perhaps one of the most important and overlooked aspects of awakening is integration of the old personality from the inside out. Receiving and relaxing into Happiness is crucial. The traumatized part of our personality was created w...