Episode 24: How To Feel Steady In Unsteady Times

Exploring Awareness

How To Feel Steady In Unsteady Times

This episode consolidates many of the concepts of exploring awareness to bring together the ideas and tools we have discussed that would allow you to feel more steady in unsteady times. Inner calm, moving outside your comfort zone, equanimity and connecting to your core so you always feel at home no matter where you “go.” Our focus is always on the “how” with an emphasis on experience and an acknowledgement of the inadequacy of words and thoughts to describe the experience. Doing this work does require at least a hope that Peace and Love and Joy are inherent qualities we already possess and that they get “covered up” with thoughts and conditions and emotions. We’ve been working on finding our inner core that contains all those things, while non-judgmentally and compassionately becoming aware of those thoughts and emotions so we can respond instead of react. We are talking here about the present moment as a state of being-a very personal experience of the present moment and the steadiness that can be accessed in anybody at any time under any circumstance. There are many ways to practice awareness, we use meditation as an opportunity to connect to that experience of being a fully authentic human- and then rest as Awareness. Exploring awareness opens the possibility for a “realization” - the realization of oneness with the universe -the one thing that connects us all -it’s actually always been and always will be -We are a way for the universe to be aware of itself.