Inner Awareness Podcast

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast examines how everyday life and its distractions can interfere with the process of self-realization. To receive the benefits of your a priori enlightenment, you need to remain centered in your authentic mind, remain detached, and discern the difference between what is real and has universal qualities and what is only conditionally real because it has individual qualities and is changing all the time. Relationships, inauthentic emotions, inappropriate goals, distorted projections, egregores, and identification with the individual mind and ego can all disrupt your subtle field and the flow of universal feminine energy through it. Since Shakti brings you to Shiva the challenge is to integrate Jivatman, which allows you to function in the physical-material world, with Paramatman, the universal self that experiences union with Universal Consciousness. By developing mental discipline, following Dharma, making appropriate decisions, and seeking relationships based on universal, life-affirming qualities, you can participate fully in everyday life without it preventing you from achieving your spiritual goals.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at onewholelove.com for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast is about the importance of mental discipline, detachment, and non-reactivity. When you react emotionally or mentally to betrayal, negative projections, or other challenges, you get trapped in your individual mind and the field of Maya. By developing mental discipline, you can enhance your intuition, insight, and discernment. They will allow you to recognize what is real and what is only apparently real; they will help you to avoid bad company, and respond appropriately to life challenges. Mental disciple and performing activities that are appropriate won’t prevent you from having satisfying, intimate, relationships. The foundation of intimacy is the ability of people to share universal feminine energy and consciousness without attachment. By remaining centered in your authentic mind, integrating the principles of Vedanta and Yoga into your life, and by learning from life’s challenges without dwelling on them, you will become capable of meeting challenges with strength and detachment.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at onewholelove.com for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast explores why an aspirant must abandon the pursuit of transitory pleasure, and release their attachments to fields that have individual qualities. Fields with individual qualities emerge from the field of Maya, and to experience the benefits of their a priori state of enlightenment an aspirant must release their attachment to them. As long as an aspirant remains trapped in dualistic relationships and identified with the individual mind, they won’t experience any of those benefits. Sooner or later, everyone will choose to release their attachments because they will recognize that freedom is preferable to the prison created by dualistic relationships. Once they’ve recognized that they will begin to enjoy the freedom, truth and love which is their birthright. Although this decision does not immediately eliminate every karmic pattern, and blockage, it enables an aspirant’s awareness to radiate freely through both the manifest and unmanifest fields that compose the Akasha, (the world). Without attachments universal feminine energy and pure consciousness in the form of love, intimacy, joy, and bliss will radiate through the aspirant’s subtle field and they will transcend the limitations that had previously trapped them in the dance of Shiva.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at onewholelove.com for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast examines how hope can interfere with the process of Self-realization by keeping you focused on the future rather than centered in the ever-present now. While, it’s true that everyday hopes, like hoping to find a convenient parking spot, that are relatively harmless, those concerning your well-being or spiritual development can become counterproductive because they encourage striving and reinforce your misplaced identification with Jivatman, (the individual self). The truth is that there is nothing substantive to hope for because you are already in union with Universal Consciousness, which means you’re already enlightened. Rather than hoping to improve yourself or become enlightened, you should observe until you know, develop discernment, engage in appropriate activities, and allow Shakti to guide your spiritual journey. By abandoning hope and shifting your identification from Jivatman to Paramatman, you will remain centered in eternal time and bliss will saturate your body-mind on both the physical-material and subtle dimensions.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at onewholelove.com for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast explores how fear, passivity, and self-limiting patterns can prevent you from accessing your personal power and radiance. Rather than allowing negative energy to dominate your field, you need to stand your ground, maintain your boundaries, and recognize that universal feminine energy and bliss are more powerful than energy with individual qualities. As an eternal, interdimensional being, you have access to pure consciousness, in the form of bliss and Shakti’s energy which has universal qualities. By centering yourself in your authentic mind and transcending fear you can use your innate powers to overcome distorted fields and release anything that blocks your radiance and inner joy.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at onewholelove.com for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast explores the difference between universal masculine and universal feminine energy and how polarity influences the flow of energy through your subtle field and your relationships. Polarity manifests in three primary ways: back–front, right–left, and up–down. Masculine energy generally moves upward through the Governor meridian in the back of the body, while feminine energy moves down the front through the Conceptual meridian. Right–left polarity determines whether you assert energy primarily through your right or left side of your body, while up–down polarity plays an important role in intimate relationships because it influences gender orientation which in turn influences your assertiveness, receptivity, empathy, and emotional availability. Blockages, in your subtle field can disrupt all three forms of polarity. Through the process of self-realization, you can enhance the flow of energy through the microcosmic circuit. Once you’ve done that you won’t project energy forward or receive energy from outside; instead, energy will circulate freely through your subtle field which will allow awareness and Atman to come into direct contact and bring you into a state of bliss.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at onewholelove.com for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast is about attachments and how they prevent you from achieving a state of permanent bliss and self-realization. Eastern spiritual traditions distinguish between what is real, which is permanent and remains the same in the beginning, the middle, and the end, and what is only apparently real, which emerges from the field of Maya and changes as it progresses through time-space. Since all attachments emerge from the field of Maya, you can become attached to people, possessions, institutions, ideas, and non-physical beings. All attachments emerge from the field of Maya and only have individual qualities, nonetheless, they can influence your relationships, success, and spiritual development. One way to overcome their power is to no longer identify with Jivatman, the individual self, and instead come into union with Paramatman, the universal self. You can accelerate the process even more by developing the skill, knowledge, and wisdom to recognize attachments, understand how they limit you, and actively release them.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at onewholelove.com for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast examines the process of self-realization through the restoration of an intimate relationship with Universal Consciousness, using Brother Lawrence as an example of the foundation shared by both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. The process of Self–realization demands that you begin by integrating the principle of non-harming into your life. In the West it’s possible to traverse the same path as adepts do in the East by taking personal responsibility and by abandoning self–deception through honest confession, penance (repentance), and restitution. This process will gradually restore discernment, and empathy as well as the elements of good character, including mental discipline, patience, perseverance, courage, long suffering, loyalty, and non–harming. As universal feminine energy radiates more freely and Shakti reunites with Shiva empathy for Universal Consciousness will be restored and like Brother Lawrence you will experience the presence of God, which is fundamentally the same state experienced by Yogic and Tantric adepts.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at onewholelove.com for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast examines the nature of the intuitive mind. The brain is only one part of the mind, the greater part is the subtle field that interpenetrates your physical-material body. The mind is connected to the minds of other sentient being and Universal Consciousness. Intuition and insight flow into a mind that is receptive to them. Thinking in words and trying to understand rather than observing till you know disrupts the process and interferes with the intuitive mind. The power of the intuitive mind has been demonstrated by the personal experiences of extraordinary people. Everyone has access to the same abilities they displayed, but access depends on your ability to become the observer of the movie of your mind; you must substitute your ability to observe for the habit of thinking in words, you must reduce the influence of distorted fields, and allow intuitive knowledge to flow freely through your mind without thinking about it or judging it.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at onewholelove.com for further information.

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast focuses on the influence of projections, in the form of distorted fields, Egregores, impressions (Chit), vehicles, that can be violently intrude into someone’s subtle field of consciousness, energy and subtle matter. People can unknowingly accept these projections as normal since they provide them with power, and–or a false sense of identity and belonging. The dark side can also use more subtle projections to seduce an unwary individual. Contrary to a direct attack, the projection of seductive energy and consciousness can gradually create a false, Self–limiting identity that an individual accepts as part of their evolutionary process. Resisting these influences requires good character, especially mental discipline, patience, perseverance, courage, loyalty, and non-harming. By remaining centered in life-affirming consciousness and universal feminine energy rather than in the field of Maya, an individual will be able to withstand projections no matter how violent or seductive. As a result they will be able to remain true to themselves and their Dharma.

The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at onewholelove.com for further information.