Have you ever felt the quiet heaviness of being a “me” — the effort of holding together roles, stories, and identities that seem to define who you are?

In this deeply gentle nondual meditation, Jody Agard invites you into a simple yet profound exploration: what remains when the structure of “me” is no longer held in place.

Guided by a powerful inner image of a box — representing the personal self, its roles, labels, and memories — this meditation allows the walls of identity to soften and collapse naturally. There’s no force, no fixing, and no attempt to silence the mind. Thoughts may still arise. Sensations may still move. And yet, something vast, still, and untouched remains.

Through long, open pauses and effortless inquiry, you’re invited to:

• Notice the weight of personal identity without judgment
• Rest as the awareness in which thoughts and sensations appear
• Allow the story of “me” to quiet without resisting it
• Sense what remains when identity loosens
• Discover the stillness that cannot be moved by life’s motion

This is not about becoming someone new.
It’s about recognizing what was here before the box.
Before the stories.
Before the effort of being “someone.”
Let the box fall away.
And rest as what remains.

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 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's upcoming brand new offering:
Stillness Wars: Awakening, Clarity, Forgiveness & Embodiment with Keith Kavanagh — a 4-part live series for those who’ve had glimpses of truth but feel caught between awakening and the mind’s management. If you’re tired of efforting, fixing, or trying to “hold” awakening, this series is an invitation to let truth live you instead.

✨ Click here for full details and registration for Keith's 4-part series. 

About Keith Kavanagh:
Though Keith first started reading A Course in Miracles thirty years ago, it was only after eight long years of a severe generalized anxiety disorder that he threw himself into the Course’s process of unbinding identity from thoughts and the meeting of the shadow of sin, guilt and fear in the mind with the Course’s forgiveness practice: undoing projections and bringing the unprotected shadow to non-judgmental Awareness, meeting emotion without story. The anxiety disorder fell away and, unexpectedly, there was an awakening from thought identification to a nondual, rather vaporous, world of incredible beauty.
To learn more about Keith & his teachings:  acimwithkeith.com

As always, thank you for listening — and for taking this moment to come back to what’s true.

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In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard is joined by Keith Kavanagh, known for his uncompromising clarity and direct approach to A Course in Miracles and nondual awakening.

This isn’t a traditional interview. It’s a space to slow down, listen deeply, and let insight land — not as theory, but as lived recognition.

Together, Jody and Keith explore one of the most misunderstood teachings in spirituality: forgiveness.

Not forgiveness as something moral or personal — but forgiveness as ACIM points to it: a shift in purpose, a release of misidentification, and a willingness to stop fixing the dream and let truth reinterpret everything.

In this conversation, you’ll hear about:

• Why forgiveness has nothing to do with other people
• How to apply forgiveness to money stress, health issues, and relationship conflict
• Why awakening can feel clear… then seem “lost”
• How the mind quietly reasserts control through effort and identity
• What embodiment actually looks like in ordinary life

Keith also shares about his upcoming teaching series at Center for Awakening:
Stillness Wars: Awakening, Clarity, Forgiveness & Embodiment — a 4-part live series for those who’ve had glimpses of truth but feel caught between awakening and the mind’s management.

If you’re tired of efforting, fixing, or trying to “hold” awakening, this series is an invitation to let truth live you instead.

✨ Click here for full details and registration for Keith's teaching series. 

About Keith Kavanagh:
Though Keith first started reading A Course in Miracles thirty years ago, it was only after eight long years of a severe generalized anxiety disorder that he threw himself into the Course’s process of unbinding identity from thoughts and the meeting of the shadow of sin, guilt and fear in the mind with the Course’s forgiveness practice: undoing projections and bringing the unprotected shadow to non-judgmental Awareness, meeting emotion without story. The anxiety disorder fell away and, unexpectedly, there was an awakening from thought identification to a nondual, rather vaporous, world of incredible beauty. 
To learn more about Keith & his teachings:  acimwithkeith.com

As always, thank you for listening — and for taking this moment to come back to what’s true.

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For years, many of us have poured energy into “healing” ourselves — the inner child, the trauma, the thoughts, the beliefs. It feels noble and empowering at first… until it begins to feel endless. Like there’s always another wound to fix or another version of ourselves that isn’t quite enough yet.

In this episode, Jody Agard explores the deeper invitation of non-dual healing — as the remembrance of wholeness. You’ll be guided through a deeply spacious meditation that reveals the peace that’s already here, beneath all effort and self-fixing.

This isn’t about bypassing pain; it’s about discovering the awareness that gently holds all pain, and realizing that this awareness — your true nature — has never needed healing.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's January 2026 teaching series:
👉🏼 The Disappearance of Old Habits: Living the Truth of What You Are, a four-week invitation into self-inquiry, allowing, and the gentle dissolving of the false self — without forcing, fixing, or efforting, featuring beloved teacher Lisa Natoli.

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Everything in life changes — relationships, health, plans, even the thoughts that move through our minds.

For most of us, peace seems tied to those shifting conditions. But when we look closely, we find something deeper — a quiet, changeless awareness that never moves.

In this gentle nondual meditation, Jody Agard guides you to rest in that unmoving stillness, the Divine Presence that remains steady through every rise and fall of life.

No effort, no control — simply noticing what has always been here.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's January 2026 teaching series:
👉🏼 The Disappearance of Old Habits: Living the Truth of What You Are, a four-week invitation into self-inquiry, allowing, and the gentle dissolving of the false self — without forcing, fixing, or efforting, featuring beloved teacher Lisa Natoli.

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In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard sits down with Lisa Natoli for a grounded, relieving conversation about a common spiritual struggle: you have a real moment of peace or clarity… and then it feels like you “lose it.”

Lisa reframes the whole storyline. Awakening isn’t a Hollywood moment where the mind goes silent forever and life becomes trigger-free. What you are is already constant — but old identity and conditioning can take time to unwind.

Together, they explore:

• Why “backsliding” is often just the natural momentum of old habits
• The unplugged fan / cooling oven metaphor for how patterns wind down
• Why you don’t need to stop thoughts — you can notice thoughts appearing and disappearing in awareness
• How suffering sticks around when we hold a story in place (“I have no money,” “I’m sick,” “I’m guilty”)
• Lisa’s down-to-earth mind-body doorway: feet on the floor, sensations, presence — without judgment
• A practical experiment: what changes when you stop labeling life as “problems” and “difficulties”?

This conversation also highlights Lisa’s upcoming January 2026 teaching series:
✨ The Disappearance of Old Habits: Living the Truth of What You Are, a four-week invitation into self-inquiry, allowing, and the gentle dissolving of the false self — without forcing, fixing, or efforting.

About Lisa Natoli:
Lisa Natoli shares her story of healing and awakening in a way that is down-to-earth and easily understood. She was an alcoholic, cigarette smoker, food addict, type-A personality with roller-coaster mood swings which all got healed with A Course in Miracles. In 2013, she got sick with an incurable autoimmune disease... After trying everything to heal with no success, she began to welcome the pain and symptoms. This practice of welcoming led to an interest in nonduality teachings and practices of self-inquiry, which gradually led to the recognition of Consciousness as the true Self, our real Self which is complete happiness with no suffering or sorrow. She writes on the topics of mind-body healing, transformation, enlightenment, and consciousness. 

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite you to join Evolve — Center for Awakening's online member community. Your Evolve membership includes Lisa Natoli’s series "The Disappearance of Old Habits: Living the Truth of What You Are," and much more. In Evolve, you'll find a supportive space for weekly live meditations, book studies, and community sessions, as well as a new in-depth teaching series each month — featuring some of the most respected and beloved nondual wisdom teachers of our time. If you’re ready to deepen your practice and connect with others walking this path, we’d be honored to welcome you. Learn more & join us inside Evolve.

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Every time we identify with the personal story — the “me” who’s hurt, striving, fixing, or defending — suffering begins.

And yet, the moment we notice the identification, awareness is already here — whole, untouched, and free.

In this gentle healing nondual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to explore what happens when attention fuses with the idea of “me,” and how peace naturally returns when you rest as awareness itself.

No fixing. No striving. No self-improvement — only remembering the truth of what you are: Pure Presence.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite you to become part of Evolve — Center for Awakening's online member community. In Evolve, you'll find a supportive space for weekly live meditations, book studies, and community sessions, as well as a monthly in-depth teaching series featuring some of the most respected and beloved nondual wisdom teachers of our time offering guidance, inspiration, and practices you can return to again and again. If you’re ready to deepen your practice and connect with others walking this path, we’d be honored to welcome you. Membership is open now until December 31st.
Learn more & join us inside Evolve.

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Sometimes, when life feels like it’s falling apart, it’s really just rearranging itself for truth to be seen.

In this gentle non-dual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest in the simplicity of Being — beyond all labels, roles, and stories of “me.” Together, you’ll rest in what remains when everything false is released: the effortless peace of Pure Presence.

There’s nothing to fix, nothing to become — only the quiet recognition of what’s always been here.

A remembering of the healing simplicity of I Am.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite you to become part of Evolve — Center for Awakening's online member community. In Evolve, you'll find a supportive space for weekly live meditations, book studies, and community sessions, as well as a monthly in-depth teaching series featuring some of the most respected and beloved nondual wisdom teachers of our time offering guidance, inspiration, and practices you can return to again and again. If you’re ready to deepen your practice and connect with others walking this path, we’d be honored to welcome you. Membership is open now until December 31st.
Learn more & join us inside Evolve.

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True meditation isn’t something we do — it’s what we are.

In this gentle nondual healing meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest in the simplicity of being itself — beyond effort, beyond thought, beyond the idea of a separate self.

You’ll be guided to notice the awareness that’s already here before any breath, sensation, or story of “me.” Through quiet recognition, the peace you’ve been seeking reveals itself as what’s never left.

This is a soft returning — not to a new state, but to the natural presence that holds all states.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite you to become part of Evolve — Center for Awakening's online member community. In Evolve, you'll find a supportive space for weekly live meditations, book studies, and community sessions, as well as a monthly in-depth teaching series featuring some of the most respected and beloved nondual wisdom teachers of our time offering guidance, inspiration, and practices you can return to again and again. If you’re ready to deepen your practice and connect with others walking this path, we’d be honored to welcome you. Membership is open now until December 31st.
***EARLY BIRD BONUS! (through December 14th): With an annual membership registration, you get on-demand access to ​The Infinite I Am Conference​ — an epic 3 days of clear nondual teachings, captured live on November 14-16, 2025. Includes the entire collection of 24+ sessions. And, the annual membership allows you to receive a full suite of offerings at a fraction of what you’d pay individually.  Learn more & join us inside Evolve.

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There are seasons in life that feel full — of emotion, expectation, or quiet heaviness.

In this gentle non-dual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest beneath the stories of “me in this season,” and return to the stillness that never comes or goes.

Whatever this moment holds — joy, fatigue, grief, or gratitude — you’ll be guided to rest as the sky itself: open, unchanging, and free.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite you to become part of Evolve — Center for Awakening's online member community. In Evolve, you'll find a supportive space for weekly live meditations, book studies, and community sessions, as well as a monthly in-depth teaching series featuring some of the most respected and beloved nondual wisdom teachers of our time offering guidance, inspiration, and practices you can return to again and again. If you’re ready to deepen your practice and connect with others walking this path, we’d be honored to welcome you. Membership is open now until December 31st.
***EARLY BIRD BONUS! (through December 14th): With an annual membership registration, you get on-demand access to ​The Infinite I Am Conference​ — an epic 3 days of clear nondual teachings, captured live on November 14-16, 2025. Includes the entire collection of 24+ sessions. And, the annual membership allows you to receive a full suite of offerings at a fraction of what you’d pay individually.  Learn more & join us inside Evolve.

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Beneath every role we play lies something deeper — the quiet awareness that never comes or goes.

In this meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest beyond the mind’s labels and rediscover the peace that remains when every “I am this” falls away.

A simple practice of noticing, allowing, and resting as the presence that contains it all.

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