6 - Some Thoughts About The Awakening Meditation

Let's talk about the Awakening meditation and go over some details to build confidence so that you know you are doing it properly, On the next podcast we will meditation together and I will talk you through it. By then you will have some experience to evaluate the guidance that you have considered in this podcast. This meditation starts to burn off all that covers your radiant Being so that you begin to experience yourself as the happiness, peace, well being, love, and bliss.

Transcript

Hello,

This is William Cooper.

Welcome to Awakening Together.

I trust you're feeling good today.

Let's talk about meditation.

How would it feel to you if you were your best self?

If everything distracting you or troubling you burnt off completely and was gone.

Every problem dissolved and disappeared.

All that was left is your beautiful shining self.

The shining qualities of your being.

Love,

Peace,

Well-being,

Happiness.

That's all there was and is.

How would that feel to you?

From there you would flow through life.

You wouldn't push yourself using willpower,

But rather you would flow.

It's quite a different experience,

Kind of like being in the zone permanently.

That's what this meditation is designed to do.

To bring you back to center.

To burn off everything that you don't need.

All that's not you.

See when you get caught in all that's not you,

It diffracts and diffuses your energies.

You're like a bright laser beam of love and happiness,

Just innately.

Just at your core.

Like a bright shining light that comes from the infinite.

And that light when it shines through all the stuff that has gotten stuck in your body and personality,

Your thoughts and emotions that are unnecessary,

The unnecessary ones.

When it shines through there,

It scatters your light and all that's left is a very dim trickle.

Trickle of what's left of your energy.

It's not very beautiful and it doesn't feel very good.

It can feel very depressing,

Really,

When you're cut off from yourself.

We talked about that a little bit last time.

Well,

This meditation is designed to bring everything back to center,

Back to normal.

It's to bring it back to factory setting,

So to speak.

So let's talk about this particular meditation and how it works.

It's very simple.

I'll call it an awakening meditation.

There are hundreds of different kinds of meditations.

Some counteract the negativities that you're feeling.

Some open up energy centers.

There are hundreds of different kinds of meditation.

This particular kind,

The awakening meditation,

Does bring you back to center and once you're flowing and re-centered,

Well,

Don't your energy centers naturally open back up?

Isn't all the negativities.

.

.

Don't they counteract it naturally?

Because the core problem is dissolved.

So that's why we're starting with this meditation.

Here's how you do it,

Very simply.

You just sit down in a very relaxed manner.

You don't have to be in any yoga pose.

You can if it's more relaxing to you,

But the key factor is just relax so that you can sit there for a long period of time.

If you wish.

You close your eyes.

You let your eyes focus gently ahead.

You don't put any emphasis on them.

And you simply experience whatever happens.

As we talked about before,

Like a rubber band that's been wound,

Wound,

Wound,

So tight,

So tight,

And then when you let go of one end,

It releases and unwinds.

It releases all that pent-up energy.

You may experience some of that.

Now why is that energy pent up?

Why is it stuck inside of you?

Because it's repressed.

Now I've never heard of anybody with giant pockets of repressed happiness.

They're always repressed.

Anxiety,

Hurt,

Anger,

Stuff like that.

That's why we hide from it and repress it.

So when it comes out,

It feels like what it felt like when it went in.

It hurts sometimes.

What can you do?

I don't know.

Just let it come out.

Take as much as you can.

And when you can't do it anymore,

Take a break.

Go for a walk.

But that's how it's dissolved out of your system.

Remember,

Awareness is curative.

So when these blocks come up,

Just the fact that you're watching them and not getting involved in them melts them like an ice cube under the sun.

It gently melts them.

I don't know how long it'll take.

How long have they been in there?

Because you can have all sorts of things release and come up.

Old things you haven't thought about in 20 years.

Don't get too involved with them.

Don't get involved at all.

In fact,

Your thoughts and emotions will be screaming for you to jump inside of them.

They will be desperate.

It's like an alcoholic wanting to jump inside of the bottle.

The bottle's screaming,

Drink me,

Drink me,

Drink me.

The thoughts are screaming,

Think me,

Think me,

Think me.

That's different from watching the thoughts just like it's different from watching a bottle.

Drinking from a bottle and watching a bottle are two different things.

Getting inside of a thought is quite different than watching a thought go by or watching a thought just think itself.

The same with emotions.

Emotions will be screaming.

Feeling is okay.

That's fine.

That's a release of energy.

But they'll be wanting you to jump in them and get involved with them.

Oh,

They did me wrong and it was so wrong and oh,

And this and that and oh,

And I was right and they were wrong and why aren't they doing.

.

.

That's getting involved.

You don't want to do that.

Because when you get involved,

You know what?

They don't melt.

They're not melting under the sunshine.

When you get involved,

They become more frozen,

Oddly enough.

You have the feeling like you're doing something.

Oh,

I'm working with them.

I'm doing something.

But you know what?

They stick into your system.

They don't release.

They don't dissolve.

So let them dissolve.

Don't get involved with them.

The place that you're watching all the thoughts,

That's an emotion and you're experiencing feelings and not getting involved but experiencing everything fully.

The place from which you're watching,

That's awareness.

You're aware of your thoughts but you are not the thoughts themselves.

You're aware of your problems but you're not the problems.

You're the one that's aware of the problems.

You're not your problems,

You're not your thoughts,

You're not your emotions.

You're aware of all of them.

Problems,

By the way,

Are made of thoughts and emotions,

Inner problems.

So you're not your problem.

You're aware of the problems.

The awareness,

The awareness,

You,

Your being,

That which is aware of it,

If you'll notice,

Is it's very quiet and calm.

It's the problems and the emotions and the thoughts that are screaming,

But you are not screaming.

You,

The awareness,

You're very calm.

You're simply watching.

What's going to happen over time with this meditation is your center of gravity is going to slowly shift from believing,

I am my personality,

I am my thoughts,

I am my problems,

To I'm awareness.

I'm aware of my personality.

I use my personality.

I'm aware of my thoughts.

I use thoughts.

I'm aware of my emotions,

But I'm none of them.

I'm not my problems.

I'm being,

And the qualities of being are peace,

Well-being,

Happiness,

And love,

Gentleness,

Things like this.

And as you sink into your beingness,

You'll notice it goes beyond this creation even.

It's a portal,

And that can only be known through your intuition,

But it's beyond all created things,

All feelings,

All bliss and well-being and love,

Although those qualities are so beautiful,

You go even beyond that,

And we'll talk about that at another podcast.

But the important thing is just watch.

In meditation,

You're sitting still,

Right?

So that means you can't distract yourself,

Which means it's hard to repress things,

Which means the thoughts and emotions are going to start to release.

That's the value of meditation,

Because otherwise you would just run to the refrigerator and eat a pie,

And it would freeze all the emotions in place inside of you,

And it would freeze your thoughts,

Or you would go for a jog.

That wouldn't be releasing them.

It would be distracting you.

Jogging's healthy.

It's a good thing,

But it's not dissolving your thoughts.

It's dissolving tensions.

It's a good thing,

But it's not the same as what we're doing.

Watching a movie doesn't dissolve anything.

It distracts.

Talking to a friend distracts.

Working on your problems doesn't dissolve them.

It counteracts them.

It manages them.

Quite a different thing.

We're going to talk about all this later,

But as you sit still and you don't get involved in your problems,

Your neural networks start to change and release.

Your old habits shift.

So sit still.

Just let things reform.

Let yourself start to flow from the peaceful core that you are,

From awareness.

Let yourself refocus from awareness.

How long should you meditate?

Well,

Don't make it painful,

Because if you make it painful,

You'll stop.

You won't meditate over a long period of time,

And consistency over a long period of time is very important.

Better to meditate five minutes a day than it is one hour on Saturdays.

So start small.

Start with,

Say,

Five minutes,

And when you get comfortable with that,

Work it up to 10 and 15 and so on and so forth.

And then you'll meditate eight hours a day,

10 hours a day.

So they get clear fast,

But we got to do what we can do,

And baby steps,

Right?

So do what you can do.

If you've been meditating for a long period of time,

And you can start meditating for a long period of time,

You can start meditating for a long period of time.

And if you're meditating for a long period of time,

You can start meditating for a long period of time,

You can start with more time,

Then do that.

Okay,

That's the meditation.

I'd like you to start it today if possible,

Because in the future we're going to talk a lot about so many different things,

And as you meditate,

You'll have different experiences,

And the things that we are going to talk about will make more sense.

So start meditating as soon as possible.

Also,

As you clear out all the clutter,

You're going to just start to radiate,

Radiant happiness and love and well-being,

And that's the point,

Right?

So start to meditate.

I've enjoyed so much talking with you,

And I look forward to doing it again soon.

See you soon.

Thanks.

Bye.

Reviews

I practice (meditation, walking meditation, “praying”, yoga, dancing) 2-3 hours a day, but find the quality of the rest of the day carries a meditative aspect to it. I still have things to let go of, but most of them I see. Others crop up and surprise me,
still, but at least then, I see them, too. These talks are an interesting review exercise, being so orderly and sequential. Building it throughout my years of practice felt much more haphazard and progress felt very stochastic.
Thanks for making the effort to organize all you’ve learned.
Donna

Hello William I am starting again listening to all the wisdom and kindness you have shared in these wonderful podcasts.
The teachings are so helpful, as others have shared in listening again I have many 'a ha' moments as I am learning.
I am tremendously grateful that you have willingly shared all you have learned, each time I listen it is like reconnecting with an old friend.
I am reading Michael Singer, listening to his teachings which I am finding very helpful.
Do you receive emails through your WordPress site as I have sent 2 mainly in deep appreciation of the work you have.
Thank you for sharing.
Jools

Hi William looking forward to seeing you live today 24/08/25 On speaking with Insight they don't share your email which I totally respect. The emails I sent were to the email account on your WordPress page but no worries.
My email was to acknowledge how truly grateful I am for all you have shared. I did have a question. I was brought up in a religion that believed prayer would heal sickness. I struggle to hear of all the illnesses people experience. You spoke of your dear friend called Sherrie who was found unconscious and seriously ill with cancer, I think you spoke of her as a shinning light. Why would she have such a negative experience. Deep down I think I understand the answer but it would be helpful to have further clarity.
Thank you - holding you in my thoughts in love and gratitude.

This was such a useful session thank you. I decided to let the time continue after you stopped talking and I found that 15 minutes of calm and sitting was a lot easier than my mind had thought it would be ! That makes me laugh just reading what I have written.

🙏

So glad I found these talks, fantastic addition to my mornings - thank you

Very clear explanation. It is good to know that persisting is important for clearing to take place.

Not sure if this talk is mirroring my reality or if in the awakening it's the awareness you speak of. A line that will stay with me, "don't engage with it, that won't allow it to melt away."
As hard, uncomfortable, and many tears shed...the beauty, love, radiance on the flip has been pure bliss. What I thought was a problem, now I am BEing a creative innovating dream getter 💫

Nice explanation. I am enjoying the small chunks. I am doing this along with ACIM. Interesting. ✨❤️

Thanks for the series, am listening one by one. Can one eventually, effectively meditate while running, jogging, hiking or fast walking?

Edit: thank you so much for the detailed response. I will check out those recommended talks. Also going to practice letting go of the disturbances as they arise, yet not to suppress or repress, but with the realization that my disturbances are my mind and emotions playing a scary movie that I don’t need to be afraid of or let grip me. I can discern any messages of needing to act I, and let the heaviness go.

Thank you again.

Insightful, clear, and practical! I feel certain with William's instructions that I'm now prepared to actually meditate, instead of the toxic mind stewing I've been up to. Cheers!

Excellent!! Thank you for all this insight that is complementing therapy.

Peace, well-being, happiness and love... What a rich experience. A powerful blend of specific steps to take mixed with science and radiance. I am new to meditation and almost up to an hour a day. Stillness is hard sometimes and this helps! Excellent!
Thank You, William.
~ Jennifer

I appreciate the clarity of being an aware observer of thoughts and feelings as they arise. I see that what I have been doing is "re-involving" myself with the issues, problems and thoughts to create solutions, but have merely been keeping them in the "freezer". An image of watching these things go by as ships passing on a river frees me up. i will do that. Thank you.