127 Letting Go, My Healing Heals My Child?, Jesus Appears, Q & A

In this recorded live Q & A we discussed the 3 steps in letting go of That which keeps us from Awakening and enjoying life fully, What happened when Jesus appeared to William, question about Catholic guilt and how to let it go and know Jesus as a friend.  A mother asked if her awakening could help her troubled child.  Lots more as well.

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Welcome everybody My name is william cooper And this is our podcast awakening together relaxing into happiness Hi claire I see your faces. Hi jennifer I trust you've had a Good week Or two. Hi yvonne. Good holidays Hey blossom Welcome Happy new year. Yes. Happy new year. Everybody a fresh new year Hey marty, happy new year In these live sessions, it's a Opportunity for anybody that is listening in to ask questions to guide our discussion questions about your spiritual path your path of awakening Perhaps you've had some Questions or obstacles that you'd like to talk about Hi kai. Hi nancy. Hi everybody And this would be a good time to do it. Hi debu first time here. Welcome Good to see you While you're thinking of your questions, well, let me ask what are we all looking for? We know We really know that we are an explosive force an explosive energy of light of love of well-being Of peace of happiness and that shines through at different times in our life We know that and often our spiritual path is guided Because we don't always feel it and sometimes we're overcome with stress and worry And anxiety depression Anger frustration Unhappiness we don't feel like we're getting where we want to get in life. We don't feel whole Yet I'm here to tell you that we are all Whole and you know that underneath all of the obstacles all of the troubles Is the pristine you? Awakening is simply letting go of the obstacles That either distract or block us from ourselves We are What we're looking for And that sounds trite in a way, but as many of you know So It could be an intellectual comment. Hey, you are what you're looking for. That sounds good But what i'm talking about is a visceral Explosion of light It's like you're a spotlight. You're the brightest light you have ever seen that the universe has ever seen coming through you And there's nothing you have to do to achieve that it already is happening And that light is made of Or amidst the qualities of your being love peace well-being happiness An inner knowing an inner confidence A fulfillment all the things that we are looking for that's already there Boom a light an explosive Light it Nothing you have to do. It just is like a floodlight beaming out yet We don't feel it because we're covered up and often distracted by old things That we've created and we're holding them in place the key to all of this to Experiencing ourselves fully Is simply to stop it Stop covering ourselves up. We are actively doing it It doesn't feel that way though Because we've gotten used to it And we've set certain things in motion Decades ago we've even forgotten how to let go so The letting go Is the Challenge stopping hurting ourselves That is the challenge Because when we're so blocked, we don't feel that we're love. We don't feel that we're peace. We don't feel that we're fulfillment So we start looking and trying to grab it on the outside Inside But the problem is then we set up other blocks and obstacles that further cut us off from ourselves And that's the dilemma So The way to what we're looking for ourselves Is to go the other direction not out but in and inside when we sit still or Even as we're going through our day, but are still inside and we observe We see these obstacles we feel them So what to do And there's some simple steps to do to help them melt away. Very simple the first thing is Life will find the things that we're using to block ourselves to hurt ourselves life Will find those things and bring them to the surface You'll find in your life somebody will say something and suddenly You feel far angrier than you need to or far more frustrated or far more afraid or anxious That's an old obstacle coming to the surface So, what do you do Rather than first of all, how did it get there to start with we created it We have continued to create it underneath the surface And hold it there and we've never released it We don't release it because it hurts Nobody represses happiness. We don't find big pockets of repressed happiness inside We are happiness itself that is our being but emotionally we don't repress happiness We do repress anger and fear and hurt Because it doesn't feel good and we don't want to feel it. We can't handle it. So we push it under We don't want to experience it and let it out because it hurt going in and it sure hurts coming out So, what do we do these simple things can be very helpful When life teases something up when it brings it to the surface If you can Don't get involved. Just let it come and let it expend its energy. It's like a twisted wound up rubber band and here i'll Just twist this rubber elastic band and you see it gets tighter and tighter and it gets not and then What do I need to do to? Release it Nothing. I just don't need to get in the way. I need to just let it release on its own And that when life brings something up it will hurt It will because it's the repressed hurting stuff that's coming up. It will feel very angry or afraid or Anxious don't get in the way You don't think about you don't have to jump in and analyze it and work on it because that will freeze it back in place When you get involved, how did it get formed to start with? We take pure pristine consciousness and we use the focus of our mind To create an object called a problem In this case we create a problem now That's inside of us if we use our mind to get involved in it again that same freezing power that condensed consciousness into an object will Condense this back into the original problem. So you just want to feel it Experience it and watch it and that's the core of mindfulness, isn't it? You just watch things Now As you go through life and things come up start with the easy things Somebody says something to you and you Rather than react you just let it flow Through you and you just release anything that you're feeling but don't comment on it. Don't Be negative about it. Maybe just smile This person's having trouble and so they're taking that out on you just Let whatever goes on inside of you release it's like that rubber band releasing If life is too distracting though, there's too much stuff going on too much stimulation What can be helpful is meditation because you do the same thing you sit down And You just watch you're aware of your thoughts and your emotions As they rise as they come up and when you're sitting still you can't it's very difficult to distract yourself So it becomes very difficult to repress things And they come up naturally So you watch them you let them unwind release And they'll feel terrible You relax And let them feel terrible As they because that terrible feeling is the energy That they're made of that's what got repressed. So let it release They'll also stimulate lots of thoughts trying to distract you. So meditation can be a very uncomfortable process that's why a lot of people don't stick with it very long because You're releasing all that poison and it doesn't feel so Good at first but every layer that is released feels better and better and better You feel better and better and better I should say Now the second thing the first thing is you just let what comes up you don't get involved with it You just let it release out of your system The second thing I don't I never heard much about and it's what makes All the difference what I found makes all the difference Is okay The problem has released its energy And now it's much looser and more Limp and loose. However It doesn't release completely until it Breathes in until it connects and soaks up The well-being that's all around you. Let me give you an example Let's say if you were growing up and somebody is treating you very poorly And you're all tense inside and when somebody says something negative to you you get all wound up and tense and You feel anxious When they say something to you today What comes up is a little bit of what they said today But a lot of that reaction is the old stuff that's been pent up inside So it comes up you don't get involved you let it release Unwind unwind unwind and then at some point the next step is to breathe in well-being you might and You're the one that's tense inside. So you want to embody it. You don't want to make it like oh I have a problem over here That's releasing i'm watching it and it's releasing and it's a problem over there Rather you want to and because if you keep it at a distance and you Dissociate from it is what that's called. You you say it's over there But if you think about it, there's only one person inside of you and that's you So you want to reassociate? What maybe previously you disassociated from you want to reassociate it own it I'm tense I'm anxious not this problem is emitting anxiousness. It's I'm tense. I'm anxious. I've been holding on to anxiety Now Since it's you you have control of it and now you want to ask yourself You want to notice does it feel better that i'm here today rather than when I was growing up and being hurt and Attacked and bullied or whatever it was Does it feel better that i'm here today? Than it did then This sounds very simplistic but it allows this Part of me Me as a that hasn't matured me as a young child to connect with today and notice. Oh, wait a second It's okay Things are okay now Ah Because they're okay now you invite yourself To breathe that in to receive that this is the second step Receive to drink in at least a drop of the well-being that's all around you You want to take it in Feel it And why is that? Well, let's use the analogy of getting a massage When you have a tension and you get a massage it can release it can release it can release but for that knot in your shoulders to completely Disappear for that tension to completely disappear It takes in Relaxation it breathes in relaxation. It absorbs it And when it absorbs it it melts away into nothingness. It no longer exists Same with your problems remember problems were formed from consciousness and consciousness is made of well-being and peace And love and all the things that the problem is looking for so At first it's not able to breathe it in because it's too wound tight. That's why you let it release a little bit But at some point you'll notice. Oh, you know I think i'm ready to just bring to take in The facts that it's okay now Because it is okay, let me look around it's okay. That's what em em dr does by the way this rapid eye movement Um, and oh by the way, I am a psychotherapist, but this none of this podcast is psychotherapy So if you need a psychotherapist, uh, find a good one in your area but I talk a bit about psychotherapy and from time to time and Em dr that does the rapid eye movement What they'll have you do is they'll have you be in touch with that which is stressing you out the problem Oh, I feel bad. I feel bad. I feel bad and then you Look at something in the present moment. You connect to it a dot or a or a the tip of a pencil and you Keep your eyes moving and you look at another at a dot form over on the other side and then the Dot over at the other side or you look at a metronome going back and forth so what happens is you stay connected to your problem and the This is you that has created this problem the young you And you're connecting to today Because you're the dot or the metronome is here today And your eyes are moving so you can't get lost in your thoughts And you stay in the present moment and you start to absorb well-being. Oh, it's okay. Now. It's okay. Now. It's okay now until the quote-unquote problem releases And I talk about this in an earlier podcast probably Probably Sometime somewhere around podcast 15 probably and coherence therapy is a little bit similar to that That's also around podcast 15 Point is you need to drink in take in connect to the present and enjoy in joy take in The reality that it's okay now Just like that tension in the massage when your problem takes in The experience that it's okay now It starts to melt and melt and melt and then poof it's gone Now that obstruction once it relaxes releases and lets go No longer exists So it is no longer Blocking the enormous light that you are So these two things When you release something let it expend its energy a bit and come out And then let it breathe in the fact that everything's okay Let me give you a last step that sometimes can be helpful and you use these Intuitively in the order that works for you But as you go deeper and deeper and deeper you may find That a very important part of releasing Is clear seeing my friend bhagavan always used to say to see is to be free When you see clearly it releases a lot when you see clearly That it's not a cobra in the corner Rather. It's a rope You release a lot of tension You're no longer afraid that a cobra could bite and kill you because it's simply a rope in the corner so When you see your problem at a deep level As what it is, it's really light that's been frozen or twisted into the shape of anxiety or anger When you see that clearly That will go a long way Into Releasing it. You still may need to let it breathe in the fact that it is being And let me give you an example of that You're a bright light Your aura right now Is just as strong as it ever will be even when you have no obstacles or let me say your light is just as strong your aura may not be that which is Emitting from you may not be very strong because it might be covered up with obstacles right now or distracted or The energy diffracted in a thousand different directions through lots of sub personalities Which are basically these little problems that we just talked about that dissolve and then are released forever But right now they might not be released and you might have a pile of them So It's all consciousness when I say it's All of the light that you are is there some of it has been frozen into shapes Just like if you wanted water if you needed life-giving water It could be frozen into the shape of a knife And it's water, but it's been frozen into ice and it has sharp edges and it hurts Well consciousness is just like that it's very pliable it's made of love and well-being and peace but it can be frozen into shapes called problems or sub personalities or Grudges or angers or all these things and when you watch them When you just are aware of them in meditation or in life itself They melt Just like the ice melts The knife melts back into life-giving water so same on your inside so If deep inside you feel anxiety like I don't feel being all I feel is anxious I just feel a lot of anxiety first of all notice how intense that energy is that anxiety energy Is very powerful, isn't it? Well, that's how powerful you are And once the anxiety melts it's even more powerful the light that's emitted is even more powerful But that intensity of the anxiety you feel sometimes You don't want to get rid of that. You just want to melt it back into water So if you feel a lot of anxiety Sink deep into the middle of it And notice it's really being it's really light, isn't it? On some level you'll be able to sense that some level you might say oh, it's so Hurtful and I can barely feel it but on some level You will feel you will see that it's light that's been frozen into anxiety It's like light that has been given an attitude an anxious attitude Or anger is like light power That's been given an attitude It's power with an attitude Uh, it's life force with an attitude hurt is life force with an attitude When you can see that it helps some of these things release So use these different tools As they're needed the first one is just let it release its natural energy nothing you have to do to make Uh an obstacle release its energy just like a wound up rubber band Just quit helping it stay wound up. Just get out of the way let go and it will unwind itself Oh, i'm anxious. I'm anxious. I'm anxious. How do I stop it from unwinding? I could go Oh, I don't want to feel this anymore or I want to watch tv because I can't stand it or i'm gonna Do something to interrupt the process Now A lot of times it's just fine to interrupt the process because whatever you have melted Is still melted so you might have half an anxiety left a half an anxious obstacle But if you push yourself too hard and too long You might get yourself overwhelmed And shut down clamp up in my podcast number 26 through 30 I talk about Something that I think most people Have experienced and that is ptsd It's when you find Something an obstacle inside of you locked and it won't release it's just like a muscle cramp the normal things you do Won't help it release back into light And you've been meditating for 20 years and that stuff is still there That's ptsd And one of the key marks of releasing ptsd is you go slowly Well that applies to a lot of obstacles We just go slowly Don't get yourself overwhelmed I would listen to those if you haven't those podcasts 26 through 30 Because that's a lot of release and the last one 30 is on internal family systems, which is another way to release troubles problems It's these sub personalities. It's a way to release them. And as I said, none of this is Psychotherapy You can get a psychotherapist any time if you need one But this will go a long way for most people to help them If you're new to all this, I would definitely listen to podcasts one through ten just for an orientation Almost everybody could listen to 26 through 30 and then all of them We work with all of this stuff in different ways So all of the podcasts I think are good if you find Something in one of the podcasts that doesn't resonate with you then just disregard it maybe later it will or maybe it won't maybe you'll see no i'm clearer than that and This podcast isn't really As clear as I as I already am so I don't need to listen to this Okay, so as this stuff releases You don't have to wonder what order is it going to release or what do you need to work on? Life will bring up something in your life that will pop up very naturally or in your meditations Things will come up very naturally and just work with them and as they release you'll start to experience yourself as I'm going to use some metaphors maybe but it's like a spotlight. You're like the light now you also if you Go into yourself as light You'll find that you expand you you reach beyond this creation into something. That's uncreated And is infinite but you can't describe it in words because they only describe Created things but you'll know what i'm talking about and many of you already do So you'll experience yourself as that You'll experience yourself as you come into creation as bright light as an explosion This isn't it's not intellectual. It's not philosophical It's an explosion. So it's more like uh I'll say an explosion. How about that? visceral Now this will at first you might not feel it that powerfully because you have a lot of things Obscuring you but as you go through this process that we talked about of releasing things Everything that you release Dissolves a layer that's been covering you or diffracting your energy So you get brighter and brighter and brighter and brighter and you don't have to wait until the last thing is released before you experience yourself as an explosion You'll start feeling that in between the cracks and the crevices Because your being is there all the time These obstacles that you created and there's only one person inside i'll repeat that you're the only one creating them It's your pleasure to hold them into place and I don't think anybody does it on purpose I think We just don't know how to let it go And that's what these podcasts are about is how to let them go. So Suffering is optional. You don't need to suffer You're not your problems. You're the one that's observing your problems If the problem disappears, you'll still be here. So, you know, you're not your problems By process of elimination, you're not your thoughts if you had a moment without thinking you'd still be here So you're not your thoughts same with emotions. You're not your emotions Personality is made of thoughts and emotions that are trying to get things because you're cut off from yourself You're already what you're looking for. You're already the love That the personality thinks that you're not and therefore is trying to get or the safety or the well-being So as these things melt out You just shine You know all the old paintings of jesus or buddha and they have the halos or they're all shining. That's you They're no different than you And thank you for your comments because we're all in the same boat me You and everybody here and everybody that's not here The good thing is that you all are working on yourself and your troubles so Your outcome is assured you're there. It's just you're working You're working through what's what's uh holding you up right now So ivan says I got off track and was becoming annoyed with myself, but I listened to your last podcast I was able to relax and just allow myself to do nothing Very good, ivan Wonderful. Yes In the end I I had a monk tell me once he said To do a monk in india. He said to do Not to do anything anything at all is to do too much And what he meant by that is When we get re-involved and things like I was saying before we freeze it into place So it can seem like i'm doing something when i'm just letting the obstacle Release release release and I don't get involved and but what am I doing? I'm really stopping Maintaining it i'm stopping keeping it in creation. I to have a problem. I have to keep it there Inside it doesn't feel that way because I've forgotten i'm even doing it. I set it in motion and I keep giving it energy, but I Forgot that i'm the one doing it So When he said do nothing What he meant was quit stop Making these problems Stay in place instead. Just watch them. That seems like i'm doing something. Hey, i'm watching it but rather What it is is i'm watching it Rather than keeping it in place. So i'm Stopping doing something so by doing nothing When everything melts away then i'm this bright light i'm talking about and then I get done. I don't do things I get done life flows through me and I intuitively Know what my path is and I follow it not as work But as a flow as a joy as something I can't wait to do So that's quite different than doing something so ivan, I really appreciate Your comment and that's the value Uh that I see in these podcasts one of them is they do help It's a fine line sometimes and it helps keep us centered until it's just automatic Uh, laura says hello william first time here as well Curious about your experience with god or the divine Or whoever you believe in extent to which you feel it or see it or how do you experience it? As the light you are describing now, what a good question laura and welcome Uh Yes, i've evolved in my um Experience of the divine and I have a master of theology. I Went to school for four years A theological school lived on campus Talked every day with all the students and the professors and as a child. I used to talk to jesus a lot I trusted And we would have conversations and He is continues to be my friend. I I think in around podcast 80 something You'll see in the title. It says jesus and archangel michael Something like that Somebody asked me in one of these live sessions to describe when jesus appeared to me And archangel michael And it was a very unusual event Energy went through my body three different times. I passed out three different times jesus First michael showed up. I didn't know who it was then He introduced me to jesus. He had me change A part of my home to be receptive for jesus a lot of stuff is in that podcast, so Yes, I I i'm acquainted, uh, he's my friend jesus is my friend one of the things he he he he conveyed to me was that well, michael told me he said, um You'll hear it in the podcast but just out of the blue I didn't even know it was michael but um he said jesus said to say hi and Because I was talking to michael And I didn't know I said why why did he say hi? What's he? Why and he says well you were his friend before he was famous so, uh that caught me by surprised and I I just laughed and um, anyway when jesus appeared total love Total caring this would be true for anybody All of you He wasn't a christian. He was he was jesus Christianity came later. So whatever you think of christianity pros or cons How how well it expresses jesus or not has nothing to do with jesus And as he said the father and I are one he was a clear conduit for the divine And jesus would say, you know, the father and I are one and I am the vine you're the branches and I in the father and He said you'll do greater things than I after me and my disciples will and so on and i'll show you the way He had such a great sense of humor When I talked to him, he just laughed and laughed and laughed no judgment Now as you open up and that's what we've talked about in this podcast as you open up and let go and let go and let Go in the christian word all these blocks and obstacles would be called sins Those are that which separates you from the infinite those would be called sins in The eastern thought that's called ignorance. It's also a separation same thing jesus Was in the desert. He let go of his obstacles. He suffered quite a bit for a very very long time He's happy to show people what to do and he talked to me when he appeared to me as well As you let go deeper and deeper just as jesus did just as He instructed everybody else to do just as buddha did just as every Awake being has done as you let go more and more What is letting go? it's your Me me me your selfish you is letting go more and more and more I'm not saying it Let's go completely all at once but little at a time little at a time little at a time And to the degree it lets go what replaces it It's the infinite comes down and now can come through you now. There is room to flow. That is the light That is the infinite that is the light now in french They call they call god do Mondo my god in english. It's god in Hindu that might be shiva or krishna. They have a lot of different Names for god because some people are repelled by females. Some are repelled by males Some are repelled by this or that and they can't get close to god if there's only one form So they have lots of forms you take the one you resonate with and you open up with that form In buddhism you keep opening opening they have a lot of different gods But as you open open up open and open and you open so much that there's no you left There's only god and that's when what jesus said The father and I are one that means there's no jesus. There's only one, right? We know god doesn't disappear. So jesus disappears and only god is left flowing through jesus Yogananda says it's not quite right to say I have become god as you let go It's more correct to say god has become me You're gone God now, it's only god As you let go further and further and further What you find? Is even god is a creation even the concept god is too little You have to let go of that so It's way beyond this concept of god God is not A concept it's way beyond that So if you use the word god and you mean way beyond anything anybody can conceive yet What as jesus or buddha or all the rest of them says Is what is shining through us as we open up if that's what you mean, then i'd say that is my current concept of god It's beyond any concept. There is no quote-unquote god It's beyond that and even when it goes out of creation. It's not even it doesn't exist Because everything out of creation hasn't been created yet So it doesn't by definition exist but yet it does exist but You can't talk about it because It's beyond words So this is a direct experience. It's something that we experience both viscerally In this world through our body and then when we go beyond it To the part that doesn't exist we experience that intuitively Which is very very very powerful So I hope that answers that question and in some of my later podcasts around podcast 90 I talk about releasing christian guilt and things like that and um, so I both talk about my experience with jesus in one podcast, but Sometimes religion has not Been very accurate and very helpful and a lot of people have carried Ironically, it's the religion that's keeping them from god rather than jesus, so we talk a little bit about that and all these things are just for you to Think about and some of them will apply and some you'll agree and some you won't so Anyway, that might be of interest I hope that helps laura. Thank you. Great question marty says Also distracted by life in general sometimes Thank you for that comment marty Life is very distracting pretty much all the time and I agree with you There's a difference between letting things flow if you keep When when you're distracted by life You'll notice Somewhere deep in that distraction is some kind of fear anxiety anger or unfulfillment You might say oh wait a second. No, i'm distracted because it's so much good stuff so much pleasure so much Sensation that i'm enjoying that's distracting me. Well, you'll notice That the reason why you go after those things is because underneath because those pleasures are actually distracting you From a deeper fear or a deeper Anxiety or hurt as you sit still in meditation you let the mud settle and your clarity becomes sharper and sharper and You notice these things underneath Everybody's desire for pleasure. I have it. You have it. We all have But it's something to work with it's something to enjoy But like jesus said be in the world, but not of it to enjoy it, but allow it to flow allow it to flow Rather than to grab it When i'm centered in myself fully As this explosive light that is more powerful than any pleasure So it doesn't have the same distracting capabilities As it would if i'm not centered in myself So to the degree that we're all distracted by life It's an indicator that we still have work to do To become clearer and more centered in who we are Because as I said who we are is everything we're already looking for so It's hard to get so distracted if I am what the distraction is Telling me it would give me if I follow it Now the distraction is always a delusion or an illusion Because it's never pure love anything on the outside even if it is loving Is not the pure energy of love that you feel directly on the inside Nothing is as powerful as that so Most distractions aren't even that high quality. They're they're less than that. It's like Something else So I hope that helps a little bit great observation Marty says old wounds from childhood can really block you sometimes. Yes Marty, thanks again That's what As you wrote that that's what I was talking about earlier these old wounds We went through how to release them and again I would listen to podcasts 26 through 30 to the degree that you'd really like to hone in on those things But this podcast Will be helpful too Claire said since you taught me to understand meditation isn't relaxing At first while it all plays out all this inner stuff unwinds I'm able to relax into it more. Thank you. Claire. Yes that's so important because sometimes the Promotions and the ads and you know, maybe a guided meditation take a deep breath begin to relax They portray it as being very relaxing and relaxing They can be certain guided meditations can be relaxing But they're not necessarily dissolving the troubles that lie underneath and therefore you have to keep doing Guided meditations every day and relax and relax and relax because you're stressed out every day Because what has been stressing you hasn't relaxed out These guided meditations can be very good though to rest your nervous system or give you perspective Sometimes we just need to get out of the pounding surf. That's the first step If it's at all possible get out of the pounding surf and sometimes that's just relaxing to music or a meditation Let your system rest but don't also neglect let the obstacles melt out of you And that's what we're talking about So, thank you for that claire Lisa says enjoy. Yes Enjoy That is taking in as we talked about breathing in soaking up that dry part of you that's been tense Uh that that's releasing its energy releasing its energy. You let it expend its energy and then it takes in a drop of Joy a drop of well-being. Everything's okay in joy It's like a dry sponge You ask it. Can it soak up one drop of water one drop of joy? It's important not to push your inner self because the inner self can be Like a child and maybe it can only take a thimble of water Maybe one drop of water you could drink a gallon But it can only drink a drop so you don't come from your perspective you now Embody you associate with that hurting part and you Notice what you can take in if you're doing yoga Which is another way to to take in an energy Maybe you only do one pose Maybe you just stop there and you just spend an hour just soaking up the energy that comes in Because it's that part that you're Reassociating with that's soaking it up and that's what's healing so this process It's simple once you get the hang of it, but it's very intricate at the same time Lisa says just did seven days of reset challenge with sarah blondin I got so deeply connected to my inner self soul so good to discover you here now william, oh welcome lisa and Wonderful wonderful and you know it that's the spiritual path. It's a direct experience that you Experience it like you said lisa I got so deeply connected to my inner self soul. That's an experience You feel it. That's how you know You're on the right path But it's working for you and and the paths change they change all the time because you change So what works today, maybe you might do something Next week or next month. I found meditations pretty consistent though. That's always good There are so many good teachers on Insight timer and out there everywhere Oh claire says this is wonderful. Lisa. I just started it listening to william from episode one The healing is huge Thank you. Claire I love that because really The way i've laid this out is from episode one all the way. I think we're in the 125 or so now I try to get the building blocks Step by step and although each podcast stands on its own When you do them in in order They can be very very powerful in their design As the title said awakening together My intent is that you awaken We are awakening together. It's not just a nice little title. It is a fact So you should be feeling that If you don't if after 10 p.m. Podcast, you're not feeling that or you're not feeling you're going in the right direction Get another pod find somebody else Uh that works for you But the intent is you should feel it Boom visceral Lisa says I love that life force with an attitude. Yes Everything your complete energy that complete divinity that complete Explosion is here right now. It's not that you do something and you achieve it. It's here right now It's just some of it has been frozen It's just been frozen into different shapes and you can't feel it It's like you can't drink water when it's ice. You can't drink it, but it's all water. It's there So you are just as brilliant as jesus just as brilliant as buddha right now It's just some of it That attitude is what freezes it. That's the mental component that freezes consciousness into objects That's what I call the attitude That's what you feel in an emotion. That's what makes it feel like powerful Not light but powerful anger the attitude or powerful fear or powerful anxiety And yes, let it release You let it release Lisa says I try and lift principles over personality and shine Yes That is very powerful Principles over personality now. The next step is let the personality not even be there. It will always be there But let it not be formed around separation And in separation, there's anxiety separation anxiety Abandonment i'm separate i'm abandoned. So I have hurt And unfulfillment i'm separated from everything that I should ever want Which is the infinite? So, of course i'm not fulfilled even try as I might so let that part dissolve and then the personality reforms around The infinite well-being peace Emily says what is the name of your podcast or are they on the app? We'd love to listen Thank you, emily the name of the podcast is awakening together Relaxing into happiness with william cooper. They are on insight timer Um all of them And live sessions when you follow me, you'll be notified Every time I release a podcast And every live session I do you'll get advanced notice If you go to any platform and just google William cooper awakening or awakening together william cooper or something like that You'll get it on any platform anywhere, but they're all on insight timer and insight timer is A force for good in the world, so i'm very happy to support them. They're all free Lisa my question is If someone texts you and takes you off guard, is it a judgment? Do you think it's okay not to reply right away? Yeah, no, no, no uh, if if they Uh text you and it's judgmental or something You don't ever have to reply lisa ever You can It's polite, but you know Um The feel what I would look at and what you're as you delve into this deeper and deeper Is what will start releasing is the energy that? Feels like you must reply. That's an old programming Or the fear that if you the fear that comes up If you don't reply or things like that instead You'll be guided by your intuition and you may reply just because it's a good thing to do or you want to do that uh, but you'll reply when you want and When it's good for the whole for the whole thing. We're all one. So Maybe the person needs to hear from you. I don't know but Your intuition will know Thank you for this question because it does bring up one other thing In your releasing of things the flip side of releasing is trust It's hard to release if you don't trust that everything's okay Ironically the more you release the more you'll trust So in the beginning, it's harder to trust because you haven't released as much Because what you're releasing is blocking you from the trust, but the point is We are all one and as you release more and more you feel that and As you feel that we are one you Intuitively know that the universe is on your side or if you want to use the word divine You can't the divine is on your side And so you've got the wind at your back So when something comes to you intuitively when I said you'll do what's good for the whole You'll trust Ah, that feels good And I trust this is the way to go and it feels good to me, too Because i'm a person too i'm a part of this too Okay Um, thank you. And let's see. Um Oh Lisa says I do want to feel jesus as a friend. I always kept a distance because of catholic dogma Well, then definitely just listen to my podcast on releasing Christian guilt and fear something like that. I'll just start looking around podcast 80 85 90 It will be very helpful for you. I Grew up very in a very conservative situation got involved Take too long to talk about it and all sorts of stuff. That's what drove me to seminary for four years to sort it out Learn greek learn the bible it It was the best seminary I think in the country at the time. It was amazing Jesus is your friend and everything I say I would listen to the podcast about when jesus and michael appeared to me That's what it would feel like if they appeared to you because I didn't expect it. It was out of the blue and he loves everybody and There is no judgment. So he is your friend. It's not Can he be your friend? He is your friend. I can guarantee you that Again the part of us that thinks that's not true. That's what we release in meditation Because that's the old fear and separation and guilt and we've I had that for decades. So listen to those podcasts And I think that'll be helpful Lisa says what do you think of a course in miracles? Wonderful. I think the course in miracles is wonderful If you're doing it do it Keep doing it and I would listen to these podcasts keep listening to these podcasts and do the course of miracles. That's good um seeds What's helped me our jesus nature our god nature our buddha nature our stardust nature absolutely seeds Our nature. Yes, that's it. That's what i'm also saying Our nature, it's all one. It's all one taboo. I have a question as we are all whole and one Can we heal our pain to heal our children? My daughter is in deep psychological pain Yes You are connected to your entire family you're connected to everybody, you know, you're connected to people you don't know, but Fundamentally, you're connected to your children and as you heal They heal That will help them immensely and even just on a rudimentary Psychological level talk to any therapist and as the parents heal the children Innately heal and that is a fundamental bedrock of family therapy, by the way Systems therapy as you heal your family heals. So absolutely on every level energetic spiritual emotional incredibly powerful Because we're out of time I'll just say this one thing on even a deeper level Back in the 1940s or something. There was a very deeply awakened Guru named Ramana Maharishi and Tara of Annamalai India and I go to that ashram quite a bit Somebody asked him it was world war ii. He said Ramana. Why don't you do social action to protest the war and Nazis and fascism and stuff like that. Why don't you speak out? And he said well if you think that's a good idea you should do that, absolutely it is a good thing however Just by me being still and being quiet and being an infinite light I do more to heal the world than anything I can do externally So that was his take on it and that definitely will affect your family Finally since you referenced that your child has psychological issues I'm assuming your child is seeing a therapist or the family or you or all of you especially your child but if not Please consider seeing a psychotherapist as well of course Let's see what else I don't want to leave anybody else out Yes, we're all one seeds. You're right. We don't focus on the individualities Individualities You're so right. It's all one Uh claire, I released something recently. It was emotional and I felt so happy and sad all at the same time Like they were the same feeling see claire. You're always happiness itself. You are innate joy. You are innate happiness That's there all the time that emotional thing that you release got a little bit or completely out of the way So you felt the pain that it emitted as it dissolved and you also at the same time felt that The happiness that has always been there underneath this obstacle So they you can feel all of these things at the same time because obstacles are always there until you Deconstruct them and your being is always there. There's nothing you can do about that. And that's happiness. So yes Uh, beautiful beautiful comment Yes holding two emotions at once laura says holding two emotions at once claire. I hear that's great personal progress it is and Happiness is actually not an emotion. It is the qualities of your being emotions are things you create Can't create happiness. You can only get out of its way So just as a small Aside, thank you for the donations. Um Yvonne and Kai I will say They're just beautiful acts of giving and insight timer sends them directly to feed orphans in bali so when you donate to this podcast, so I feel infinitely happy and so did the orphans. So thank you for that Jennifer yes, jennifer went to india for the first time and we saw ramana Ashram together and she says love ramana Anyway, thanks so much our time's up and I better get going I look forward to talking to you next time and thank you so much for all being here I love you, and you all are wonderful And the very fact that you're interested in this topic assures your awakening Consistent baby steps just keep at it do what you can don't overwhelm yourself Bit at a time bit at a time bit at a time clarity clarity clarity poof boom awake And it does happen a bit at a time, too Okay. I love you all. Take care. Bye