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    In this episode we talk about the similarities between the creative and spiritual process, including what opens us up to each, and what tends to block their full fruition.

    Includes a guided meditation to help us open up to the creative spark and let it manifest in daily life.

    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

    Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts:
    https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/

    To learn more, please visit:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

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    • Includes a guided meditation helping us to connect the space of our body with the environment, allowing us to experience both as the same space.

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    NEWS:
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    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: 
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    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: 
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    Or on our Awareness Explorers website: 
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    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: 
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    and 
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    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: 
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    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: 
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    Or on our Awareness Explorers website: 
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    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: 
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    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit 
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    and 
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    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: 
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    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit 
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    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: 
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    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: 
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    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit 
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    and 
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: 
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    • Includes a guided meditation that helps us notice that what we hear and what we feel are simply appearances in the larger field of awareness.

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    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

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    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: 
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    Or on Facebook:
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    Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: 
    #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart 
    #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart 
    #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart 

    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
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    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
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    • Includes a guided meditation about deciding to abstain from a distracting habit in order to notice your experience more directly.

    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

    NEWS:

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    Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:
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    #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart
    #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart

    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: 
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: 
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website: 
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: 
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    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit 
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and 
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: 
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    Enjoy,
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    Awareness Explorers
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    148: Patricia Dennison, Guest Explorer

    148: Patricia Dennison, Guest Explorer

    In this episode, our guest, Patricia Dennison, offers something different. Five songs about nonduality, along with our discussion of putting nondual lyrics within the heart opening sound of simple guitar music and vocal harmony.

    To learn more about Patricia Dennison, please visit:
    dennison-music.com

    LYRICS TO THE SONGS IN THIS EPISODE:

    THERE IS NO END
    There is no end to who I am.
    I must manage 'till the end.
    To make a story once again, 
    With a me I must defend.

    This self creation keeps me safe.
    This is just how I know my place.
    Even if there is the pain, 
    At least I know just who I am.

    Sometimes I feel the flow 
    Of something I can't know.
    It takes a simple thing.
    A miracle it brings; 
    A unity, 
    But then it fades, you see.

    In this world I can see, 
    This clever mind deceiving me.
    With each story I renew, 
    I push away from life and you.

    The more I try, the less I see.
    A way to change this mind made me.
    If I could stop, then I would not, 
    And something else might come to be.

    Sometimes I feel the flow
     Of something I can't know.
    It takes a simple thing.
    A miracle it brings; 
    A unity,
    But then it fades, you see.

    ℗ 2010 Patricia Dennison

     

    WHO'S WATCHING
    Am I here? 
    In this moment All alone? 
    Wishing to disown 
    What I've become 
    There are so many voices.
    They all imprison me.
    And I can't seem to see 
    Who’s watching? 

    If you think you know 
    The mind and its desires.
    Think again and know 
    The consciousness required 
    Even though my love seems true 
    There's claiming and possession too 
    True love can never find me 
    Who’s watching? 

    If you wish to live 
    A life of sinless virtue 
    There is no one here 
    Who can begin to teach you 
    Virtue makes abundance flow 
    Then desire begins to grow 
    Then peace can never reach you 
    Who’s watching?

    ℗ 2010 Patricia Dennison

     

    SARVE PRAYER
    Sarve bhavantu sukhinah 
    Sarve santu niramayah 
    Sarve bhandrani pasyantu 
    ma kascid duhkhabhagbhavet 

    (Translation) 
    All be Happy 
    All be free 
    All be free of disease 
    All creatures have well being 
    All creatures have no misery

    ℗ 2010 Patricia Dennison

     

    SHADOW
    (Instrumental)

    ℗ 2010 Patricia Dennison

     

    I BELIEVE
    I Believe for every drop of rain that falls, 
    A flower grows; 
    As life must flow. 

    I believe that somewhere in the darkest night, 
    A candle glows; 
    And we all know.

    I believe for everyone who goes astray, 
    Someone will come To show the way. 

    I believe, I believe. 

    I believe above the storm, the smallest prayer 
    Will still be heard; 
    By us all 

    I believe that someone in the great somewhere, 
    Hears every word; 
    We all can hear 

    Every time I hear a newborn baby cry, 
    Or touch a leaf, 
    Or see the sky The I know why; 

    We need to flow 
    With life we know 
    We know...

    ℗ 2010 Patricia Dennison

     

    I AM

    I Am... 
    I Am Light 
    I Am All 
    I Am One

    ℗ 2010 Patricia Dennison

     

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    NEWS:
    Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:
    #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart
    #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart
    #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart

    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian 

     

    Awareness Explorers
    enNovember 24, 2023

    147: Beyond Belief

    147: Beyond Belief

    In this episode, we explore how limiting beliefs happen and how to go beyond them into a more expansive experience of life.

    • Includes a guided meditation and exercise for softening or doubting limiting beliefs so that new possibilities can open up.

    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

    NEWS:
    Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:
    #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart
    #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart
    #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart

    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website: 
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: 
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit 
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and 
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: 
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian 


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    Awareness Explorers
    enNovember 10, 2023

    146: Sam Gow, Guest Explorer

    146: Sam Gow, Guest Explorer

    In this episode we talk to Sam Gow about the nature of awareness, the experience of the sense of self, and how to soften doing, so that you rest in being.

    • Includes a guided meditation helping to relax our grasping, in order to open into a field of no preferences, and open awareness.

    To learn more about Sam Gow, please visit: 
    https://www.sam-gow.com/

    Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.

    NEWS:
    Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods:
    #3 in the Top 100 Spirituality chart
    #5 in the Top 100 Religion & Spirituality chart
    #32 in the Top 100 Meditation All time chart

    To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

    If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z

    Or on our Awareness Explorers website:
    https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations

    To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter:
    https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers

    To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit
    https://findinghappiness.com/
    and
    https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

    You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n

    Enjoy,
    Jonathan and Brian 

    Awareness Explorers
    enOctober 24, 2023