In this week’s episode I’m joined by special guest, Carmella Whitehead, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, for a conversation that explores the nature of consciousness in our day to day lives, personal realizations that lead to inner change, and awakening to our own awareness and the affects it has on our emotions.

Visit Carmella online at: http://www.carmellawhiteheadmft.com

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In this week's episode I explore the illusion of free will, revealing that all of our actions are almost entirely predetermined, shaped by the conditioning of our consciousness and minds.

Our life is a projection of consciousness in consciousness—it is not unlike a dream—whose outcome is determined by our level of awareness and whatever we perceive our 'self' to be.

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This week's episode is an inquiry of sorts into Awareness, which is the source of the "I" we refer to ourselves by.

Your "I" gives you the sense of "I am", which is the very presence of being that has never left you.

It is your relationship to this "I am", Awareness, that determines how you perceive your life and the world around you.

In this episode, I reflect on the reflection of Awareness, as it appears in the perceivable world.

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This week's episode is about recognizing the mistakes in our perceptions that create a dreamlike world of ignorance and delusion—a world that leads to nothing but suffering.

When we see through this illusion of mind however, we become able to free ourselves from a false reality that would otherwise ensnare us in a world of imagined pain, chaos and needless drama.

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In this week's episode I discuss perceiving our perceptions and being cognizant of the false duality that arises when we believe ourselves to be the perceiver, or rather, the subject to which experience occurs to.

The truth of reality however, is that neither the perceiver nor the perceived actually exist—both are illusions that co-arise within the unified, non-dual act of perceiving.

Rather than identifying ourselves with that which we perceive (our thoughts, beliefs, opinions, emotions, memories, sensations, experiences and knowledge) we should identify with the very act of perceiving—which is a reflection of awareness, within awareness—our true self nature.

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In this week's episode I discuss the natural law of impermanence and how its presence underlies all things.

From our thoughts and feelings, to our possessions and way of life, to the ones we love—no thing can escape death or transitional change.

This episode comes from an incredibly personal place as I just lost one of my best friends only five days ago, Iggy the cat. If you've recently experienced a loss of any kind, I hope you find some peace through these words I share...

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This week's episode is about getting rid of our preconceived notions, opinions, beliefs, and judgements—both about ourselves and the world around us—so that we can just BE.

When we choose to ignore all of the subjective imaginings from our minds, we become able to dip into the boundless flow of our being where our natural state of acceptance, love, and happiness can be fully realized.

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In this week's episode I discuss the knowing that is our True Self, Awareness.

There's an incredible spiritual breakthrough that's available to anyone, simply through realizing that "you" are not the contents of your mind, but rather, "you" are that which is aware of the contents of your mind.

You are the knowing that knows. You are the consciousness in which all things occur.

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This week's episode is about understanding consciousness and understanding how we experience our own experiences.

What is the nature of our moment-to-moment experiencing? What is it composed of? What part does the self play in interpreting our sense perceptions?

Where does suffering come from, and what is the source of our happiness?

Press play and find out.

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This week I discuss how simply observing and questioning our every thought and can lead to a freedom we've never before experienced.

Once we recognize and realize the subjective futility of our thinking, we can begin to distance ourselves from believing any of it.

Free of the belief in our thoughts, our hearts and minds then become open to the peace that's found by abiding in the pure awareness of the present moment.

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