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 experience to evaluate the guidance that you have considered in this podcast.

This meditation starts to burn off all that covers your radiant Being so that you begin to experience yourself as the happiness, peace, well being, love, and bliss that you are. 

These podcasts are meant to supplement your personal path of awakening whatever that might be. They are a compilation of what I have found to be the most helpful over the last 50 years on my path of awakening. I feel these podcasts are most powerful when listened to in sequence from podcast one forward because each is built on the last.  Though they, also, all stand on their own.  Since we are each a bit different, if anything does not resonate, please disregard it and follow your heart. All my podcasts and website are free. Enjoy!

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Transcript

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Hello, this is William Cooper. Welcome to Awakening Together. I trust you're feeling good today. Let's talk about meditation. How would it feel to you if you were your best self? If everything distracting you or troubling you burnt off completely and was gone? Every problem dissolved and disappeared. All that was left is your beautiful shining self. The shining qualities of your being, love, peace, well-being, happiness, that's all there was and is. How would that feel to you? From there you would flow through life. You wouldn't push yourself using willpower, but rather you would flow. It's quite a different experience, kind of like being in the zone permanently. That's what this meditation is designed to do, to bring you back to center, to burn off everything that you don't need, all that's not you. See, when you get caught in all that's not you, it diffracts and diffuses your energies. You're like a bright laser beam of love and happiness, just innately, just at your core, like a bright shining light that comes from the infinite. And that light, when it shines through all the stuff that has gotten stuck in your body and personality, your thoughts and emotions that are unnecessary, the unnecessary ones, when it shines through there, it scatters your light. And all that's left is a very dim trickle, trickle of what's left of your energy. It's not very beautiful and it doesn't feel very good. It can feel very depressing, really, when you're cut off from yourself. We talked about that a little bit last time. Well, this meditation is designed to bring everything back to center, back to normal. It's to bring it back to factory setting, so to speak. So let's talk about this particular meditation and how it works. It's very simple. I'll call it an awakening meditation. There are hundreds of different kinds of meditations. Some counteract negativities that you're feeling. Some open up energy centers. There are hundreds of different kinds of meditation. This particular kind, the awakening meditation, does bring you back to center. And once you're flowing and re-centered, well, don't your energy centers naturally open back up? Isn't all the negativities, aren't they counteracted naturally? Because the core problem is dissolved. So that's why we're starting with this meditation. Here's how you do it. Very simply, you just sit down in a very relaxed manner. You don't have to be in any yoga pose. You can if it's more relaxing to you. But the key factor is just relax so that you can sit there for a long period of time if you wish. You close your eyes. You let your eyes focus gently ahead. You don't put any emphasis on them. And you simply experience whatever happens. As we talked about before, like a rubber band that's been wound, wound, wound, so tight, so tight. And then when you let go of one end, it releases and unwinds. It releases all that pent-up energy. You may experience some of that. Now, why is that energy pent up? Why is it stuck inside of you? Because it's repressed. Now, I've never heard of anybody with giant pockets of repressed happiness. They're always repressed. Anxiety, hurt, anger, stuff like that. That's why we hide from it and repress it. So when it comes out, it feels like what it felt like when it went in. It hurts sometimes. What can you do? I don't know. Just let it come out. Take as much as you can. And when you can't do it anymore, take a break. Go for a walk. But that's how it's dissolved out of your system. Remember, awareness is curative. So when these blocks come up, just the fact that you're watching them and not getting involved in them, melts them like an ice cube under the sun. It gently melts them. I don't know how long it'll take. How long have they been in there? Because you're going to have all sorts of things release and come up. Old things you haven't thought about in 20 years. Don't get too involved with them. Don't get involved at all. In fact, your thoughts and emotions will be screaming for you to jump inside of them. They will be desperate. It's like an alcoholic wanting to jump inside of the bottle. The bottle screaming, drink me, drink me, drink me. The thoughts are screaming, think me, think me, think me. That's different from watching the thoughts, just like it's different from watching a bottle. Drinking from a bottle and watching a bottle are two different things. Jumping inside of a thought is quite different than watching a thought go by or watching a thought just think itself. The same with emotions. Emotions will be screaming and feeling is okay. That's fine. That's a release of energy. But they'll be wanting you to jump in them and get involved with them. Oh, they did me wrong. And it was so wrong. And oh, and this and that. And oh, and I was right. And they were wrong. And why aren't they doing that's getting involved. You don't want to do that. Because when you get involved, you know what, they don't melt. They're not melting under the sunshine. When you get involved, they become more frozen. Oddly enough, you have the feeling like you're doing something. Oh, I'm working with them. I'm doing something. But you know what, they stick into your system. They don't release, they don't dissolve. So let them dissolve. Don't get involved with them. The place that you're watching all the thoughts, that's an emotions and you're experiencing feelings and not getting involved, but experiencing everything fully. The place from which you're watching, that's awareness. You're aware of your thoughts, but you are not the thoughts themselves, right? You're aware of your problems, but you're not the problems. You're the one that's aware of the problems. You're not your problems. You're not your thoughts. You're not your emotions. You're aware of all of them. Problems, by the way, are made of thoughts and emotions, right? Inner problems. So you're not your problems. You're aware of the problems, the awareness, the awareness, the you, your being that which is aware of it. If you'll notice is it's very quiet and calm. It's the problems and the emotions and the thoughts that are screaming, but you are not screaming. You, the awareness, you're very calm. You're simply watching. What's going to happen over time with this meditation is your center of gravity is going to slowly shift from believing. I am my personality. I am my thoughts. I am my problems to I'm awareness. I'm aware of my personality. I use my personality. I'm aware of my thoughts. I use thoughts. I'm aware of my emotions, but I'm none of them. I'm not my problems. I'm being and the qualities of being are peace, well-being, happiness, and love gentleness, things like this. And as you sink into your beingness, you'll notice it goes beyond this creation. Even it's a portal and that can only be known through your intuition, but it's beyond all created things, all feelings, all bliss and well-being and love. Although those qualities are so beautiful, you go even beyond that. And we'll talk about that at another podcast. But the important thing is just watch in meditation. You're sitting still, right? So that means you can't distract yourself, which means it's hard to repress things, which means the thoughts and emotions are going to start to release. That's the value of meditation because otherwise you would just run to the refrigerator and eat a pie and it would freeze all the emotions in place inside of you. And it would freeze your thoughts or you would go for a jog that wouldn't be releasing them. It would be distracting you jogging's healthy. It's a good thing, but it's not dissolving your thoughts. It's dissolving tensions. It's a good thing, but it's not the same as what we're doing. Watching a movie doesn't dissolve anything. It distracts talking to a friend, distracts working on your problems, doesn't dissolve them. It counteracts them. It manages them quite a different thing. We're going to talk about all this later, but as you sit still and you don't get involved in your problems, your neural networks start to change and release your old habits shift. So sit still, just let things reform. Let yourself start to flow from the peaceful core that you are from awareness. Let yourself refocus from awareness. How long should you meditate? Well, don't make it painful because if you make it painful, you'll stop. You won't meditate over a long period of time and consistency over a long period of time is very important. Better to meditate five minutes a day than it is one hour on Saturdays. So start small, start with say five minutes. And when you get comfortable with that, work it up to 10 and 15 and so on and so forth. If at some point you can get to an hour a day, that's wonderful in our society. Now, in other societies, say in India, they might meditate eight hours a day, 10 hours a day. So they get clear fast, but we got to do what we can do and baby steps, right? So do what you can do. If you've been meditating for a long period of time and you can start with more time than do that. Okay. That's the meditation. I'd like you to start it today if possible, because in the future, we're going to talk a lot about so many different things. And as you meditate, you'll have different experiences and the things that we are going to talk about will make more sense. So start meditating as soon as possible. Also, as you clear out all the clutter, you're going to just start to radiate radiant happiness and love and wellbeing. And that's the point, right? So start to meditate. I've enjoyed so much talking with you and I look forward to doing it again soon. See you soon. Thanks. Bye.