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

In this podcast we review and practice the Awakening Meditation.  This meditation is much like a mantra meditation except there is no verbal mantra.  Instead, the mantra is your Being.  You stay connected and aware of your Being while you watch everything else and let it either pass or dissipate and melt back into the same Bliss that you are. Let go of thoughts, emotions and melt back into your Self.

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 we explore and practice one type of mantra meditation.  This is a very easy yet powerful meditation and a great starting meditation for those new to meditation.  This meditation utilizes mantras or sounds that have no meaning, therefore, the mind can't get involved with them.  Sit down, relax, take a nice breath with your eyes closed and repeat your mantra silently.  Now every time a thought comes up, rather than become involved with it you simply repeat your mantra instead and let both your mantra and your thought go.  Since you are not being captured by your thoughts you are free to relax deeper and deeper into your Being. Other variations on this meditation are the "Relaxation Response" and the Christian version called "Centering Prayer". 

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 explore power of mantra content, vibration, effects, and give examples.  Seed Mantra meditation to open your chakras and centering prayer with your personal mantras.   Mantras to replace negative self-talk, mantras to manifest, Toning for healing, Root mantras, etc. We discuss Ramana's suggestion for use of mantras and all spiritual practices. We'll practice some of these mantra based meditations in the following podcasts. You pick which ones work best for you. 

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.

What are mantras and how do we use them?  First, in part 1 we explore one kind of mantra meditation and its' use of mantra sounds with no meaning.  Next we look at the awakening meditation's use of mantras from the heart.  Sathya Sai Baba observed, "A pure thought from a pure heart is better than a mantra".   We explore this heart mantra in relation with the Unity Church mantra, "There is one presence and one power moving in and through us - in divine and perfect order."  We'll practice some of these mantra based meditations in the podcasts following part 2.  You pick which ones work best for you. 

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.

Psychotherapy is not awakening but it can help release places inside that are blocking Awakening.  Carl Jung, Ramana, and Carl Rogers and spiritual bypasses are discussed.  For those who feel that therapy could be useful different ways of access are discussed including free methods of co-counseling not limited to Reevaluation Counseling, Co-counseling international, al anon, adult children of Alcoholics, psychotherapeutically assisted psychedelics, Enneagram, etc.  All designed to give everyone options based on need and usefulness to themselves. Finally, remember local spiritual groups for support as well. Great place to meet others and to support you on your path. 

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.

After years of intensive practice, I discovered two very obvious and simple truths of Awakening.  The first is that the deepest part of me is beyond existence so can't be found through the mind or senses.  I can only know this deepest aspect of my center through my intuition.  Not knowing this I looked in the wrong places including aspects of my personality.  Second, awakening in the body requires me to let go of every vibration that is not happiness, peace, or love.  Awakening through my body flows with qualities of Being.  Match what I feel, hold on to, and flow with what I Am.  Let everything else go.  I explain all this in this podcast.

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 discussion and listing of a number of powerful books that help you on your path of awakening.  Examples are, The Infinite Way, The Untethered Soul, The Surrender Experiment, Living Untethered, Autobiography of a Yogi, In Search of a Secret India, I am That, Pointers from Nisargadatta,  Any book by Thich Nhat Hahn, Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, Essential Rumi, Tibetan book of Living and Dying, Power of Now, There is a River, and Loving What Is. Not included in the podcast but good, easy, and fun is Ram Das's book, "Be love now" 

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.

Many have been and are interested in the purpose of their life.  Is there such a thing?  Bhagavan has said that, "Life is for living" and "Life is relationships" and "To see is to be free".  Joseph Campbell suggests that we match our heartbeat with that of the universe, match our nature with Nature.  Bhagavan feels that whatever is destined will happen regardless of your efforts.  Jesus and Buddha have their perspectives as well.  We look within to find our own answers and harmonize all these and other observations.

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 recording of a live session has been edited for length, clarity, and to be helpful. 

In this last live question and answer session before India we discussed the usefulness of being triggered during the holidays to see and work on one's reactions, shadow work, journaling, forgiveness, psychotherapy is different yet complimentary to awakening, inauspicious awakening, difference between release and repression, working with the inner child, treating our inner self the way Jesus treated me when he appeared to me, Possibility of live sessions from India on insight timer, 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.

Unfortunately millions of people experience "Christian" fear and guilt.  As a college student I came to church with an open heart hoping and trusting for a deeper opening and Christian support.  Love quickly turned into guilt and fear of what I was taught could be a severe and punishing God.  After two years I knew something was wrong so I enrolled in a 4 year residential theological program at Harding School of Theology to sort things out. There, I received an incredibly high-quality education culminating in a Masters of Theology.  In this podcast I relate what helped me release my Christian guilt and go deeper on my path to eventual 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.