Awareness and Consciousness

By Gary van Warmerdam

Health Self-Help Religion & Spirituality Spirituality

What's Awareness and Consciousness about?

Explore changing beliefs, discovering unconscious beliefs, emotions, and how your mind works. Using conscious awareness to step outside your mind and ego patterns you will have methods of change that were unimaginable.

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Awareness and Consciousness episodes:

03.13.2024
#87 Changing Beliefs
Changing Beliefs using the Self Mastery Course from PathwayToHappiness.com is explained by Gary van Warmerdam. I outline the beliefs at the root of negative thoughts and emotional reactions affecting behavior. Then I outline how the Self Mastery practices guide you...
12.17.2023
#86 Beliefs and Attention
When you use your attention to control your beliefs, you can identify the assumptions you live by, and consciously choose another thought, interpretation, belief, or behavior about what is happening. There is a lot of great advice about not letting...
11.30.2023
#85 Beliefs are the Key to Change
Changing beliefs will allow you to change your narrative story and emotions. Beliefs are also the foundation for how economic, political, monetary, and social systems work. If you want to understand any one of those aspects, you will...
09.20.2023
84 Divided Will and Consciousness
Your Will and Consciousness was divided early in your life during emotional events and repetition. This creates a fragmented mind. Recover those separate parts to feel whole and live in integrity.
08.30.2023
#83 How To Change a Belief
In this session, I guide Greg, a Self Mastery subscriber, through changing a belief. The narrative of the belief is "I'm not ready." However, the roots of that narrative story are based in the emotional experiences of a young child...
08.29.2023
#82 Journey of the Soul from Fear to Love
We knew how to be happy as children. It was natural for us. We learned to be stressed, judgmental, fearful, and in our head disconnected from the world and others through repetition. To break that partner requires a conscious intent...
08.08.2023
#81 Spiritual Power Journey Teotihuacan Mexico
This Spiritual Power Journey is intently created so that you experience unconditional love and acceptance for yourself. That experience might come to you in a ceremony, a breathwork process, a meditation, a conversation with others, or while laughing and singing...
07.28.2023
#80 What Are We? – An Exploration in Self Awareness
As humans we are: Spiritual, Physical Body, Consciousness, Mind, Gender Energy, Emotions and a Soul. Getting all of those energy aspects working together can be quite a process
06.09.2023
#79 Why you don’t see reality
You don't see reality. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, it does not make a sound. Even if someone is there, it still doesn't make a sound. You are the one that creates...
01.04.2023
#78 Your Attention is a Force
Your attention is not just your focus, but a force with which to steer your life, thoughts, emotions, and personal change.
01.06.2022
#77 Relationship Connection the Secret Ingredient
I got listened to and understood in a way that I felt important and valued. What I didn't know was that this wasn't an accident. The person listening to me was doing some very conscious and skillful things in their...
01.04.2022
#77 Relationship Connection the Secret Ingredient
I got listened to and understood in a way that I felt important and valued. What I didn't know was that this wasn't an accident. The person listening to me was doing some very conscious and skillful things in their...
12.28.2021
#76 Relationship Connection is Possible
we have these strategies of giving a good impression and hiding the stuff we fear they will judge us for. And so our relationship is made "comfortable" in that space of keeping up a false impression and hiding our negative...
12.17.2021
#75 Relationship Connection – The Struggle
I gathered all sorts of habits and false beliefs in my childhood that later led to disconnection, disappointment, frustration, and heartbreak in a relationship. One example was from the fairy tales and movies growing up. They painted a picture of "happily...
11.05.2021
From Misery to Happiness
Daniel's journey from misery to happiness took a lot of work. There were many ingredients essential to making his transformation happen and he shares it here in this interview with him.
08.19.2021
Why am I Unhappy
The narrative story in our mind is what produces those negative thoughts, self-judgments, and emotions. It arises from the core beliefs we acquired earlier in life, and that can be re-programmed with awareness.
05.03.2021
#72 Conscious Dreaming
The mind is dreaming all the time. It is dreaming when you are awake, and when you are asleep. The consciousness process involves waking up from these dreams that run through your head. Most often they appear as narrative stories....
03.16.2021
#71 The Dream of Maya
I've been doing a digital detox. I gave up news and social media for lent. I wanted to pull my attention out of the habitual cycle of opinions, fears, needing to be informed, emotions, and addictive social media scrolls. I...
02.25.2021
#70 Mastering the Mental Game
Pauline Victoria was born without arms or legs, Despite this physical challenge, she has done what many would think impossible. I wanted to know how she did things like drive, swim, and scuba dive. She said it was how she...
12.08.2020
#69 Self Awareness – Why do people believe crazy lies, conspiracy theories, and illusions?
Figuring out the truth isn't straightforward. Consider this; the mind is the mechanism that we use to discern the truth. However, this is the same mind that generates stories, false narratives, daydreams, and fictional realities in our heads. These two...
10.26.2020
#68 Voices in your Head
The voices in your head are normal. They are the patterns of thoughts arising from unconscious beliefs. They can be funny, frightening, random or chaotic, and possibly cause deep suffering.
08.31.2020
#67 Consciousness and moving Beyond the Mind
Eva Beronius and Gary van Warmerdam explore moving from identifying with the mind to realizing our Self as Consciousness.
08.25.2020
#66 Trauma symptoms and treatments
Trauma is often the cause of anxiety, depression, ADHD, anger, harsh self judgment, suicidal thoughts, and other mood disorders. It is much more common than you think. You don't just get PTSD from wartime combat. Your brain and...
07.28.2020
#65 Beliefs I’m Broken and Unlovable that Produce Shame
To change a belief sometimes it helps to understand where and how it came to be. When you understand why and how you started to believe your thoughts about being wrong, bad, unlovable, or broken, you have new perspective on...
07.21.2020
#63 Overcoming Trauma and Living Happy
My interview with Anna and her journey out of trauma reactions using the skills and perspectives she learned in the Self Mastery practices. Combining them with EMDR treatments and other modalities to go from anxiety, depression, anger and suicidal...
06.16.2020
#62 Overwhelmed with Emotions – Why am I so Angry?
Where do you start making changes when you are overwhelmed with emotions? Understanding the deep sources of emotions help us move into compassion, and decrease the impact of the Inner Judge. Beginning steps include acknowledging where you are, accepting...
03.23.2020
#61-Fear Virus – Live Self Mastery Get Together
There is a fear virus going through people's minds and emotions at the same time there is a biological Corona virus infecting people's physical bodies. The spread of fear is a lot faster and more widespread. There are things...
02.24.2020
#60 Emotional Wounds and Relationship Baggage
Emotional wounds show up as our "baggage" in relationships. They are our unhealed emotions and beliefs from past experiences and affect our current relationships. Physical wounds can be seen but emotional wounds are invisible. They are experienced as emotional reactions,...
11.12.2019
#59 Self Mastery Interview with Eva
Interview with Eva, a Self Mastery Course subscriber who worked her way out of panic attacks, anxiety, depression, and career burnout to build a completely different life. Letting go of fears and eventually feeling joy and love was a surprise...
11.05.2019
#58: How to Relax
This podcast will guide you through a breathing practice using specific techniques to relax your nervous system and brain. There are reasons that breathing techniques can help you relax. Breathing. When done properly it bypasses your intellect and directs your...
12.26.2018
Feeling Unworthy and Beliefs about Perfection
What constitutes your image of perfection? Take the judgmental thoughts you have and look at the criteria of expectation that is behind the judgment. In other words, what criteria do you have to attain in order for the Inner Judge...
12.26.2018
Feeling Unworthy and Beliefs about Perfection
What constitutes your image of perfection? Take the judgmental thoughts you have and look at the criteria of expectation that is behind the judgment. In other words, what criteria do you have to attain in order for the Inner Judge...
12.26.2018
Changing Core Beliefs
Changing Core Beliefs Changing a core belief doesn’t happen in a day. It may not happen in a week, month, or year! Everyone goes through the steps of changing core beliefs at a different pace. However, they almost always follow...
12.26.2018
Changing Core Beliefs
Changing Core Beliefs Changing a core belief doesn’t happen in a day. It may not happen in a week, month, or year! Everyone goes through the steps of changing core beliefs at a different pace. However, they almost always follow...
12.26.2018
The Mind Creates Irrational Fears
The Mind Creates Illusions About Money that we React to with Fear People will often refer to their emotions or fears as irrational. But if we learn how emotions are created, we can see that they are not irrational. They...
12.26.2018
The Mind Creates Irrational Fears
The Mind Creates Illusions About Money that we React to with Fear People will often refer to their emotions or fears as irrational. But if we learn how emotions are created, we can see that they are not irrational. They...
12.26.2018
Overcoming Low Self Esteem and Insecurity
Want to know where your low self esteem and insecurities come from? It’s based on emotion, not self-image. To build self confidence and overcome low self esteem is to change how we feel emotionally about ourselves. To change our emotion...
12.26.2018
Overcoming Low Self Esteem and Insecurity
Want to know where your low self esteem and insecurities come from? It’s based on emotion, not self-image. To build self confidence and overcome low self esteem is to change how we feel emotionally about ourselves. To change our emotion...
11.06.2018
#57: Critical voice in your head
The critical voice in your head telling you whether you are succeeding or failing at things is actually pretty stupid. It sounds smart, acts confident, and pretends to be an expert. However, it hasn't actually done any of the things it...
08.23.2018
#56: Social anxiety from unconscious beliefs
A man shares what he discovers as the source of his social anxiety that began when he was in 3rd grade. In this podcast I describe a process to dig into the layers of your unconscious beliefs, and release the emotional...
11.12.2016
#55: Origin of ego and false beliefs of identity
What are the false beliefs that form our Ego? Where do our false beliefs come from? When did we begin to get these false beliefs o our identity and lose touch with our authentic self?
11.07.2016
#54: How do you recognize the truth?
From a consciousness perspective, even statements that are factual are still not the Truth. Words are what we use to describe a thing, or facts. But words are not the thing itself.
10.30.2016
#53: Why lie to your self?
Lying to your self can cause a response in the reasoning part of your brain that makes you feel good. Sometimes people confuse this good feeling with being right, or feeling that they have just agreed with an explanation that...
08.03.2016
#52: Self loathing
Self loathing is a strong hatred towards oneself. You will also find with it a lot of internal thoughts of criticism and self judgment. Underneath that there will be a layer of beliefs relating to worthlessness.
07.20.2016
#51: Unconscious beliefs
Unconscious beliefs are agreements we have in our mind that we have no awareness we are holding. In spite of not having any intellectual knowledge of our own beliefs, they can still cause us to have emotional reactions and sabotaging...
06.12.2016
#50: Personal power and responsibility
When you take responsibility for your life, you also accept a power over it. Taking responsibility for the good stuff is easy, it is the not so good stuff that feels uncomfortable. But this is what you want the power...
02.23.2016
#49: Anxiety – understanding it differently
Attempts to overcoming or at least reduce anxiety tend to fail. Perhaps our efforts fail because we are applying the wrong understanding, and therefore the wrong model for changing it.
01.07.2016
#48: Becoming the observer – mindfulness practice
When we act in the way of a neutral observer we notice different things. We notice when thoughts are arising from parts of our ego and the emotions they produce. We can also notice the idealized version in the background...
12.10.2015
#47: Reality, projections and illusions
Once you realize that the mind that is distorting things is at the beginning of our perception and interpretation of events, you become aware that perceiving reality is much more difficult.
11.16.2015
#46: Affirmations can backfire
Sometimes people get poor results with affirmations. When they say positive things about themselves the dialogue of thoughts in their head pushes back with harsh negative comments.

What's Awareness and Consciousness about?

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Awareness and Consciousness episodes:

#87 Changing Beliefs

#86 Beliefs and Attention

#85 Beliefs are the Key to Change

84 Divided Will and Consciousness

#83 How To Change a Belief

#82 Journey of the Soul from Fear to Love

#81 Spiritual Power Journey Teotihuacan Mexico

#80 What Are We? – An Exploration in Self Awareness

#79 Why you don’t see reality

#78 Your Attention is a Force

#77 Relationship Connection the Secret Ingredient

#77 Relationship Connection the Secret Ingredient

#76 Relationship Connection is Possible

#75 Relationship Connection – The Struggle

From Misery to Happiness

Why am I Unhappy

#72 Conscious Dreaming

#71 The Dream of Maya

#70 Mastering the Mental Game

#69 Self Awareness – Why do people believe crazy lies, conspiracy theories, and illusions?

#68 Voices in your Head

#67 Consciousness and moving Beyond the Mind

#66 Trauma symptoms and treatments

#65 Beliefs I’m Broken and Unlovable that Produce Shame

#63 Overcoming Trauma and Living Happy

#62 Overwhelmed with Emotions – Why am I so Angry?

#61-Fear Virus – Live Self Mastery Get Together

#60 Emotional Wounds and Relationship Baggage

#59 Self Mastery Interview with Eva

#58: How to Relax

Feeling Unworthy and Beliefs about Perfection

Feeling Unworthy and Beliefs about Perfection

Changing Core Beliefs

Changing Core Beliefs

The Mind Creates Irrational Fears

The Mind Creates Irrational Fears

Overcoming Low Self Esteem and Insecurity

Overcoming Low Self Esteem and Insecurity

#57: Critical voice in your head

#56: Social anxiety from unconscious beliefs

#55: Origin of ego and false beliefs of identity

#54: How do you recognize the truth?

#53: Why lie to your self?

#52: Self loathing

#51: Unconscious beliefs

#50: Personal power and responsibility

#49: Anxiety – understanding it differently

#48: Becoming the observer – mindfulness practice

#47: Reality, projections and illusions

#46: Affirmations can backfire