Tools: Awareness Based Meditation

Awareness begins by noticing what is already here

Awareness is the foundation of Thriving and Awakening. These meditations invite you to rest as the compassionate awareness that notices thoughts, emotions, sensations, and experiences without becoming lost in them. As you practice, awareness becomes less about observing an object and more about recognizing the open presence in which all experience arises. This shift naturally cultivates greater freedom, compassion, and clarity in everyday life.

Some of these meditations begin with a focusing practice before naturally transitioning into awareness. As awareness deepens, we begin to experience ourselves less as the contents of consciousness and more as the awareness in which life unfolds. This subtle shift in perspective supports the natural unfolding from Thriving into Awakening.

Being Awareness Meditations

Self-Gratitude

This is a meditation on self-gratitude for showing up and recognizing you are Awareness.

Ego Illusions

Clearing the mind of our illusions allows us to experience Awareness.

Embodied as Joy

Experience embodiment as a celebration, the joy of Awareness.

Clear Minded Awe

Experience Awareness as Awe when the mind clears to reveal the wonder and mystery of Oneness.

Love is Doing the Loving

Love is our nature. The ego takes credit for the loving and is offended when it’s not returned. By being embodied and clear-minded, Love emerges and express itself.

Release the Stories, Be the Nothingness

The ego gets lost in the stories around its identity. These are driven by thoughts such as, “Am I safe?”, “Am I enough?”. Being embodied, then clearing the mind of such thoughts, allow you to face the emotional stories that keep you in Survival Mode. This meditation is about being with the Nothingness that is experienced without the stories.

Being the Joy, Awe, & Love

Be the embodiment of the Universe. It’s an amazing time to be Joyful. Be the emptiness of the mind, open to a grander knowing. It’s amazing to be Awe. Be the openhearted gift of life so unique and precious. It’s amazing be the Love that is your deepest nature. Let each egoic story be a doorway into Being, your infinite awareness. Be the Love you seek.

Being Embodied

Being embodied allows us to experience Awareness.

Awe, Joy, & Love

As we are embodied, clear minded, & open hearted we Experience Awareness as Awe, Joy & Love

Releasing Resistance & Seeking

We seek what is missing–our nature as Joy, Awe, and Love. This meditation is recognizing and releasing the seeking then returning to Awareness.

Being the Emptiness of Awareness

Your mind fills up the emptiness and void of Awareness. This meditation helps experience the peace of the emptiness.

Awareness is the Source of Doing

The ego feels good when it takes credit for doing, achieving, and being creative. Be embodied and clear-minded, then have compassion for your ego wanting to take credit for the doing. Then be grateful and humble that Oneness is achieving and creating through you. Be the creativity being creative.

Releasing Fears by Immersing in Love

Fears are based on stories we’ve created as an instinctual way to be safe and connected. Embracing these fears includes having compassion and appreciation for them, while releasing them if not in a life threatening situation. You release them by returning and residing in your True Nature. The meditation allows you to experience the fear and then let it naturally dissolve as you immerse yourself in love, an intimate embrace of your True Nature.

Being--I Am what I Seek

The essence of the work is learning to reside as Being. The ego is oriented around an identity of doing and accomplishing which leads down a hole of reactivity. You are a verb not a noun…Being present experiencing yourself as your deepest nature. Meditate on Being…You are what you seek.