The Awareness Podcast

“This shouldn’t be happening.”
It’s one of the mind’s most automatic reactions.
To stress.
To noise.
To discomfort.
To unexpected moments life places in front of us.

In this episode of the Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard gently explores what happens when we stop resisting what’s arising… and begin noticing the deeper peace that remains underneath the reaction.
This guided meditation becomes an invitation to let everything arise naturally; the thoughts, emotions, sensations, resistance, even the sense of “me”, without needing to fix, suppress, or control any of it.

This meditation may support you if you’re experiencing:

• Overthinking
• Emotional overwhelm
• Stress or anxiety
• Frustration with life circumstances
• Mental noise or racing thoughts
• Resistance to what’s happening
• Spiritual awakening or self-inquiry
• A longing for deeper peace and acceptance

This isn’t about becoming emotionless. It’s about recognizing that what you truly are remains untouched beneath every passing experience.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
Every moment of life reflects a deeper choice — love or fear. In his new two-part live series, “LOVE OR FEAR, THE CHOICE IS YOURS,” Oliver Blue guides a powerful exploration into the two root perceptions that shape all experience. You’ll begin to recognize fear as a learned pattern — not who you are — and discover how to meet life with greater clarity, peace, and freedom. Because beneath every struggle, every story, and every moment of contraction… love has been present all along. The choice is simple. The experience is Infinite.
  👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.

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This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this special bonus episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard sits down with Lisa Natoli for a heartfelt conversation about the transformational journey of the 40-Day Program — a FREE, community-based experience rooted in the teachings of A Course in Miracles, healing, inner peace, and awakening to our true nature.

Together, Jody and Lisa explore what makes this journey so powerful and why the 40-Day experience is less about adding more to yourself… and more about gently undoing the layers of fear, struggle, old stories, and false identification that keep us feeling separate from peace.

In this conversation, they discuss:

• Why true transformation comes through embodiment, not just information
• The gentle “undoing” that naturally unfolds during the 40-Day journey
• Releasing old beliefs, emotional patterns, and limiting stories
• Finding peace in the middle of external chaos and uncertainty
• Why this work feels deeply supportive during difficult seasons of life
• The power of community, consistency, and daily practice
• What participants can expect throughout the 40 days

Whether you’re brand new to this work or returning again to deepen your experience, this episode offers a beautiful introduction to the spirit and intention behind the 40-Day Program.

The 40-Day Program for Transformation with Lisa Natoli is a free guided journey designed to support healing, inner peace, self-inquiry, and a direct experience of the truth of what you are. And yes — it’s completely FREE.
Begins on June 10th, 2026 — registration will remain open through June 14th.
✨Join the 40-Day Group Journey here.✨

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In this deeply grounding episode, Jody Agard guides you through a gentle guided meditation for surrender, emotional healing, and true inner peace.

Life can sometimes feel heavy.
There are transitions, change, and plenty of uncertainty.
Trying to hold everything together.
And yet beneath all of it… there is something here that does not move.

This meditation is an invitation to notice any resistance to what’s arising and gently rest as the awareness that is already whole, already present, and already at peace.

In this meditation, you’ll be guided to:

• Release the pressure to control or fix life
• Allow thoughts and emotions without resistance
• Explore the difference between awareness and experience
• Gently inquire, “Who am I without the story?”
• Rest in the unchanging presence beneath fear, sadness, and uncertainty
• Experience surrender as openness rather than defeat

This is the heart of non-dual meditation,
not escaping life, but recognizing the peace that is your true nature and that which remains untouched in the middle of it.

This meditation is especially supportive if you are:

• Moving through change or transition
• Feeling emotionally overwhelmed or heavy
• Supporting someone you love through difficulty
• Struggling with fear, uncertainty, or helplessness
• Longing for peace that isn’t dependent on circumstances

You don’t need to “become” peaceful.
You are the presence in which peace already exists.
And you are already home.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
What if the struggle you’ve carried isn’t actually who you are? What if beneath the roles, conditioning, and expectations placed upon you… there remains something untouched, whole, and waiting to be remembered?
In his new two-part live series, “THE CRUCIAL IDENTITY SHIFT,” Alan Cohen guides a compassionate yet profound return — from the conditioned self you were taught to be… back to the truth of who you’ve always been. Through practical insight and grounded spiritual guidance, you’ll explore how to live from that deeper identity in everyday life — navigating challenges with greater clarity, peace, and presence. As this deeper identity becomes more embodied, even ordinary moments begin to feel different. This series offers a practical path for bringing spiritual truth fully into daily living.  👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.

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This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

Reconnect with inner peace through this deeply calming guided meditation into pure presence and awareness with Jody Agard.

So many of us move through life believing something is wrong with us.
That we need to heal more.
Fix more.
Improve more.
Become someone better.

But what if the deepest healing comes not through effort…
but through recognizing what has always been whole?

This guided meditation is a gentle invitation to release the constant inner fixing and rest as the pure awareness that exists before thought, before identity, and before the story of “me.”

In this meditation, you’ll be guided to:

• Let go of the pressure to heal or improve yourself
• Notice thoughts and emotions without identifying with them
• Rest in the quiet presence of “I Am”
• Experience awareness beyond the body-mind
• Allow fear, discomfort, and emotions without resistance
• Recognize the stillness that remains untouched beneath all experience

Thoughts may come and go. Sensations may rise and fall.
But what you truly are remains unchanged.

This meditation is especially supportive if you:

• Feel emotionally exhausted from constantly “working on yourself”
• Struggle with anxiety, overwhelm, or self-judgment
• Long for a deeper sense of peace and wholeness
• Are exploring awareness, awakening, or non-duality

✨ Another way to go deeper…
What if the struggle you’ve carried isn’t actually who you are? What if beneath the roles, conditioning, and expectations placed upon you… there remains something untouched, whole, and waiting to be remembered?
In his new two-part live series, “THE CRUCIAL IDENTITY SHIFT,” Alan Cohen guides a compassionate yet profound return — from the conditioned self you were taught to be… back to the truth of who you’ve always been. Through practical insight and grounded spiritual guidance, you’ll explore how to live from that deeper identity in everyday life — navigating challenges with greater clarity, peace, and presence. As this deeper identity becomes more embodied, even ordinary moments begin to feel different. This series offers a practical path for bringing spiritual truth fully into daily living.  👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.

Support the show

Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard guides you through a 30-minute guided meditation designed to help you discover something unexpected:

Stillness isn’t found away from life… it’s found within it.

So often, we believe peace requires silence, space, or stepping away from the noise of everyday life. But what if the stillness you’re seeking has never been disturbed?

In this meditation, you’ll be gently guided to:

• Notice the presence that exists before thought
• Recognize the silence that remains even when the mind is active
• Release the need to “get meditation right”
• Rest as the awareness, the eternal I AM that is already here
• Experience peace without needing to change your circumstances

This is the essence of non-dual meditation, by simply discovering that what you are is never touched by the noise.

Thoughts may come and go.  Sounds may rise and fall. Life continues moving.

And yet… something here remains still.

This meditation is especially supportive if you:

• Feel overwhelmed by a busy or noisy mind
• Think you need perfect conditions to feel peace
• Struggle to “quiet” your thoughts in meditation
• Want a more natural, effortless way to experience presence

You are the stillness that holds it all.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
What if every desire you’ve ever had — for love, for peace, for something you couldn’t quite name — has been pointing to the simple recognition of I AM… that Eternal, ever-present  awareness within… the very ground of being itself? Not something to find. Not a future state. Not a higher level… but what’s here now.
In his new four-part series, “Remembering the Self: I AM the I AM,’” Bill Free offers a clear and practical exploration of this awareness — and how to live from it in the midst of everyday life. That recognition is possible. Not someday. Now.
👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.

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Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

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This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard guides you through a gentle guided meditation for overthinking and a busy mind.

When life feels full; responsibilities, decisions, constant movement… the mind seems to become more active with planning, remembering, problem-solving, replaying conversations, or thinking about what’s next.

It can feel like the mind never stops.
But what if the thoughts aren’t the problem?

What if something deeper… is already still?

In this meditation, you’re invited to:

• Notice the natural movement of the mind
• Recognize the awareness that is always present
• Rest as the simple sense of “I Am”
• Experience stillness without effort or control

This is the heart of non-dual meditation. It’s not about trying to quiet the mind, but discovering that you are not the mind.

Thoughts can continue.
Life continues.
But something here… does not move.

You are the stillness in which everything appears.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
What if every desire you’ve ever had — for love, for peace, for something you couldn’t quite name — has been pointing to the simple recognition of I AM… that Eternal, ever-present  awareness within… the very ground of being itself? Not something to find. Not a future state. Not a higher level… but what’s here now.
In his new four-part series, “Remembering the Self: I AM the I AM,’” Bill Free offers a clear and practical exploration of this awareness — and how to live from it in the midst of everyday life. That recognition is possible. Not someday. Now.
👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.

Support the show

Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard offers a deeply compassionate guided meditation for grief, rooted in non-dual understanding.

Grief is something every human being encounters. It may come through the loss of a loved one, a change in a relationship, or the quiet ache of something that once was. And when grief arises, the natural impulse is to understand it, fix it, or move through it.

But what if grief doesn’t need to be solved?

What if it can be gently held… in something much larger?

Through soft guidance and spacious pauses, this meditation invites you to:

• Allow grief and emotion to be present without resistance
• Notice sensations, memories, and feelings as they arise
• Explore the awareness that knows grief
• Recognize the quiet presence that remains unchanged
• Rest as the space that holds all experience

This is the essence of non-dual meditation, not removing emotion, but recognizing that what you are is never limited by it.

Grief may move.
Tears may come and go.
Memories may arise.
And yet…
There is something here that does not move.
The same presence that has always been here.

This episode is a gentle invitation to rest as that — the open, loving awareness in which grief appears… and is held.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
What if every desire you’ve ever had — for love, for peace, for something you couldn’t quite name — has been pointing to the simple recognition of I AM… that Eternal, ever-present  awareness within… the very ground of being itself? Not something to find. Not a future state. Not a higher level… but what’s here now.
In his new four-part series, “Remembering the Self: I AM the I AM,’” Bill Free offers a clear and practical exploration of this awareness — and how to live from it in the midst of everyday life. That recognition is possible. Not someday. Now.
👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.

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Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

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Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody is joined by Bill Free, co-founder of the Center for Awakening.

Together, they explore a deeper understanding of desire and how it can become a doorway to recognizing the Self.

Many of us spend years chasing fulfillment through relationships, achievements, or experiences… only to find that something still feels incomplete. 

In this conversation, Bill points to what’s actually being sought beneath all desire and how that recognition changes everything.

This conversation is clear, grounded, and deeply practical...

✨ Another way to go deeper…
What if every desire you’ve ever had — for love, for peace, for something you couldn’t quite name — has been pointing to the simple recognition of I AM… that Eternal, ever-present  awareness within… the very ground of being itself? Not something to find. Not a future state. Not a higher level… but what’s here now.
In his new four-part series, “Remembering the Self: I AM the I AM,’” Bill Free offers a clear and practical exploration of this awareness — and how to live from it in the midst of everyday life. That recognition is possible. Not someday. Now.
👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.

Support the show

Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard offers a calming guided meditation rooted in non-dual understanding, helping you discover the stillness that is already present, even when the mind feels busy or overwhelmed.

The world seems uncertain or loud and often, the instinct is to try to calm it… to fix it… to quiet the mind.

But stillness isn’t something we create, it’s already here, even in the middle of the swirl.

This episode is an invitation to rest as what you truly are, even in the midst of everything.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out CFA's brand new offering:
The Imperturbable I Am with Jenny Beal — an experiential 4-part series. For those who’ve glimpsed clarity but feel pulled back into thought, emotion, and the challenges of life — this is an invitation to rest in the unchanging presence within — where a natural steadiness and peace remain, regardless of what arises.
👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.

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This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard offers a gentle guided meditation rooted in non-dual understanding, inviting you to discover that the peace you’ve been seeking is already present.

So much of life can feel like a movement toward relief, trying to feel better, fix what’s uncomfortable, or become a more peaceful version of yourself.

But peace isn’t something you arrive at, it’s what you are… before the story of who you are begins.
Before memory.
Before identity.
Before the mind says, “This needs to change.”

Through spacious pauses, simple guidance, and quiet self-inquiry, this meditation creates space to notice the pure presence that is already here — aware of every thought, sensation, and experience.

This episode is an invitation to stop searching… and gently come home to the peace that 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 upcoming brand new offering:
The Imperturbable I Am with Jenny Beal — a 4-part live series starting April 6th. For those who’ve glimpsed clarity but feel pulled back into thought, emotion, and the challenges of life — this is an invitation to rest in the unchanging presence within — where a natural steadiness and peace remain, regardless of what arises.
👉🏼 Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.

Support the show

Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org