Awakening Together, Relaxing into Happiness with William Cooper, Master of Theology, Licensed Professional Counselor

So many on the spiritual path are curious about India.  Many have considered going but it can seem like a daunting task.  Where to begin?  Where to go?  This is the first of a 4 part series on traveling to India.  I have traveled to India 14 times for around 12 weeks per trip.  In these podcasts I give you my sense of India, perspective and a place to start.  In the last of this series I give  you practical travel tips.  The book that best conveys my experience in India is "A search for a secret India" by Paul Brunton.  And of course, there is the old classic, "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Yogananda.  I would read them in that order.

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 here and free. Enjoy!

Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy.  If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.

www.williamecooper.wordpress.com for more support.  You may, especially, enjoy the short contemplations and the resource page which gives you some supportive material.

This is a recording of a Live Q & A which has been edited for clarity, length, and helpfulness.

The live sessions are an opportunity for anyone to ask questions that come up during their awakening process.  It supports the previous 74 podcasts but does not require that you have listened to them.  We discussed the 3 steps of awakening meditation, the process of awakening, various practices, the hypnotic trances we live and how to dissolve them, awakening through a guru or not, mantra meditation, etc.

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 here and free. Enjoy!

Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy.  If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.

www.williamecooper.wordpress.com for more support.  You may, especially, enjoy the short contemplations and the resource page which gives you some supportive material.

We are fractured into 1000 inner voices and personalities.  When one comes up, step into it and own it.  Then let it update its files and notice that something has changed since it was created.  Life is much better, and You (it) are the ground of all Being....Peace, Happiness and Love.  Ask your small inner hurting personality if that is better or worse than when it was created under painful circumstances.  If it says yes, then invite it to drink it in and melt into Your Well Being.  Take baby steps and pendulate from the hurt to the wellness until all that was hurting melts into Your (its) Wellness.  The intensity of the pain is the same intensity as the radiance it melts and transforms into.  As always, if things are too intense consider a psychotherapist to give you balance in your transformation.  Otherwise, baby steps.  Easy does it.

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 here and free. Enjoy!

Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy.  If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.

www.williamecooper.wordpress.com for more support.  You may, especially, enjoy the short contemplations and the resource page which gives you some supportive material.

Periodic live Q&A sessions are to give the listeners a forum to ask questions they have about their process of awakening.   In this edited session we discussed the process of awakening, letting go, Maya, illusion vs delusion, grief, trust, manifesting those things you want and don't want, books supporting the awakening process, etc.   "The Infinite Way" by Joel Goldsmith on seeing clearly.  And, "In Search of a Secret India" Paul Brunton, "Bhagavad Gita", Jack Hawley. Etc.

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 here and free. Enjoy!

Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy.  If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.

www.williamecooper.wordpress.com for more support.  You may, especially, enjoy the short contemplations and the resource page which gives you some supportive material.

As we meditate and go through our day how do we keep from getting lost in our dramas.  It is easy to escape through our daydreams, thoughts, wallowing in our emotions, relational drama, etc.  It is one thing to be aware of our dramas and it is another to be captured in our dramas.  How can we be in this world but not of it?  Enjoying everything yet being attached to nothing.  How can we stay in our center?

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 here and free. Enjoy!

Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy.  If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.

www.williamecooper.wordpress.com for more support.  You may, especially, enjoy the short contemplations and the resource page which gives you some supportive material.

Edited recording of live session to support our path of awakening.  Listeners submit questions during this live podcast that they have regarding their path or the previous 70 podcasts.  Questions included, how to cope with great inner pain, why no awakening after decades of meditation, use of marijuana, psychotherapy assisted psychedelics, do I need a guru, how to find a guru, etc. 

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 here and free. Enjoy!

Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy.  If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.

www.williamecooper.wordpress.com for more support.  You may, especially, enjoy the short contemplations and the resource page which gives you some supportive material.

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." Lao Tsu.  In awakening is clarity and in clarity the power of You (the One and infinite) shines through. Creation reforms around your clarity in a whole and flowing way. We explore clarity and creation in this podcast.  In this podcast I referred to one of my writings called "Miracles".  In it I describe "Miracles" I have personally experienced.  This writing is on my website www.williamecooper.wordpress.com  under the writings tab.

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 here and free. Enjoy!

Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy.  If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.

www.williamecooper.wordpress.com for more support.  You may, especially, enjoy the short contemplations and the resource page which gives you some supportive material.

Is it necessary to meditate to awaken.  Nope!  The common theme of most awakening practices is one of connection.  Connecting to nature or your breath or your feelings.   Or, best, connecting to everything.....life as it is.  

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 here and free. Enjoy!

Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy.  If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.

www.williamecooper.wordpress.com for more support.  You may, especially, enjoy the short contemplations and the resource page which gives you some supportive material.

Does the unconscious mind exist?  What happens in meditation?  What's the best way to meditate?  What dissolves in meditation?  How?  This is an edited version of a live Q & A with these and other questions discussed supporting past podcasts and/or one's individual path of awakening.

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 here and free. Enjoy!

Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy.  If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.

www.williamecooper.wordpress.com for more support.  You may, especially, enjoy the short contemplations and the resource page which gives you some supportive material.

In this podcast William responds to a listener who wrote, "I am on my awakening journey.  It has been amazing the last few months.  Deep awareness during waking hours.  The silence has been so beautiful.  Now I seem to have regressed.  Meditation continues to be amazing flowing with acceptance, surrender and kundalini, etc.  But when my eyes are open, I'm procrastinating, avoiding doing things, etc.  Why can I experience myself as Awareness during meditation but not when I am active?  I seem to be holding back or something.  It used to be so easy."

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 here and free. Enjoy!

Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy.  If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.

www.williamecooper.wordpress.com for more support.  You may, especially, enjoy the short contemplations and the resource page which gives you some supportive material.