The Awareness Podcast

What happens when pain, physical symptoms, or changes in the body begin demanding your attention?

When the body is struggling, it can be difficult not to become consumed by it.

How long will this last?
What if it gets worse?
How am I supposed to keep living my life while this is happening?

In this deeply personal guided meditation for physical pain, fear, and difficult symptoms, Jody Agard shares from the midst of her own experience with ongoing pain and changes in her vision.
This isn't a meditation about pretending the body isn't hurting, denying symptoms, ignoring the body's need for care, or telling yourself that pain is “just an illusion.”
Instead, Jody offers a gentle invitation to look more deeply:
Is what is happening in the body... what I am?

Through spacious silence and gentle non-dual self-inquiry, you'll explore what happens when an experience becomes an identity, when pain becomes my pain, when fear becomes my fear, and when something appearing in the body begins to feel as though it is happening to a separate me.

The body may need care. And sensations may be intense. Fear may arise.
And nothing about this meditation asks you to push any of it away.
Instead, you're invited to notice the quiet Presence that knows the entire experience.
Does this Presence have an age?
A diagnosis?
A history?
Is Presence itself afraid, or is fear appearing within it?
Is Presence itself in pain, or is pain being known by that which is completely untouched?

This is not about escaping the human experience. It's an invitation to stop asking the human experience to define what you are.
Beneath every label, diagnosis, sensation, fear, and story remains the effortless Being that has never come or gone.
The open Presence.
The Infinite I AM.
👉🏼 Interested in going deeper?
You can read the books, listen to the teachers, and understand the spiritual concepts — yet still find yourself caught in the same fears, self-doubt, and familiar patterns. In her new four-part series, Awakening to Truth: An Embodied Realization, Helen Hamilton offers a practical path from understanding the teachings to experiencing these truths for yourself. Through meditation, contemplation, and self-inquiry, you’ll learn how to break free from conditioned thinking, discover a greater sense of freedom and inner peace, and bring that realization into your relationships, responsibilities, and everyday life.
  ➡️ Learn more and reserve your spot.
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This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

What if healing isn't about fixing what's broken, but recognizing that what you truly are has never been broken at all?

So often, we approach meditation and healing with an agenda. We want the uncomfortable feeling to leave. The mind to become quiet. The body to feel different. The circumstances to change. We imagine peace will arrive once something about this moment has been corrected.
But what if nothing needs to leave for peace to be here?

In this spacious guided meditation for inner peace, wholeness, and spiritual healing, Jody Agard invites you to let this moment be exactly as it is.
Sounds and sensation can appear.
Thoughts can come and go.
Even silence itself appears and is known.

Rather than trying to change what is appearing, you'll gently turn toward That which knows it all — the boundless Pure Presence, Being, the Infinite I AM that does not come and go with experience.

This meditation isn't asking you to deny the human experience or convince yourself that everything feels good. Everything is included. Nothing needs to be pushed away, and nothing needs to be held onto.
Healing, from this perspective, is not making the person become whole.
It is recognizing what has never been anything else.
Already here.
Already whole.
Already free.
Nothing needs to be added to what you are.
👉🏼 Interested in going deeper?
You can read the books, listen to the teachers, and understand the spiritual concepts — yet still find yourself caught in the same fears, self-doubt, and familiar patterns. In her new four-part series, Awakening to Truth: An Embodied Realization, Helen Hamilton offers a practical path from understanding the teachings to experiencing these truths for yourself. Through meditation, contemplation, and self-inquiry, you’ll learn how to break free from conditioned thinking, discover a greater sense of freedom and inner peace, and bring that realization into your relationships, responsibilities, and everyday life.
  ➡️ Learn more and reserve your spot.
Support the show
Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 
Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.
This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

How often do we wake up and immediately ask the body, mind, or emotions to tell us who we are?

I'm tired.
I'm anxious.
I'm sad.
I'm in pain.
I'm peaceful.

But before “I am this” or “I am that,” there is simply: I AM.

In this gentle guided meditation for self-inquiry, healing, and spiritual awakening, Jody Agard invites you to explore what remains when you stop consulting the body, thoughts, and emotions for information about what you truly are. Beginning with a simple experience of waking up tired and noticing the thought “I'm tired,” Jody asks a deeper question: Who is this “I” that's tired?

The body may experience fatigue. Emotions may move through. Thoughts may arise. Pain, anxiety, sadness, restlessness, or even happiness may be present.
None of it needs to be denied or disappear.

Through spacious silence and gentle non-dual self-inquiry, you'll be invited to notice that every sensation, thought, feeling, and bodily experience is already known, and then turn attention toward the knowing itself.

This isn't an invitation to deny the body or pretend difficult feelings aren't happening. The body and mind can have its experience. Feelings are allowed to move through. But before you claim any of it as me, pause.

What is already here?
What you truly are does not become more whole when the body feels good or less whole when the body struggles. Beneath every description and before every thought is the simple, formless Presence of I AM.
👉🏼 Interested in going deeper?
You can read the books, listen to the teachers, and understand the spiritual concepts — yet still find yourself caught in the same fears, self-doubt, and familiar patterns. In her new four-part series, Awakening to Truth: An Embodied Realization, Helen Hamilton offers a practical path from understanding the teachings to experiencing these truths for yourself. Through meditation, contemplation, and self-inquiry, you’ll learn how to break free from conditioned thinking, discover a greater sense of freedom and inner peace, and bring that realization into your relationships, responsibilities, and everyday life.
  ➡️ Learn more and reserve your spot.

Support the show
Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 
Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.
This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

You may experience a profound recognition of your true nature through meditation, self-inquiry, or even an unexpected moment in ordinary life. 

And then... Someone triggers you, fear arises, money becomes stressful, or the body does something you don't like. Suddenly, you seem to be right back inside the experience of being a separate person.

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard sits down with nondual spiritual teacher Helen Hamilton for an intimate and practical conversation about spiritual awakening, nonduality, self-inquiry, meditation, and what it actually means to live from the recognition of what you are.

Helen shares why awakening is not necessarily a single moment after which the human experience disappears. Instead, an initial glimpse or recognition can gradually deepen into a more stable, abiding way of living.

Together, Jody and Helen explore some of the questions spiritual seekers don't always talk about:
What is spiritual awakening, and what actually awakens?
Why can we recognize our true nature and still get triggered?
Why do old patterns of separation return after an awakening experience?
Is spiritual practice still necessary after awakening?
What is the relationship between self-inquiry, meditation, and abiding realization?
Is it actually safe to awaken? What happens to the self-image we’ve built for many years?
Will awakening change your relationships, ambitions, family life, or ability to function in the world?
Do thoughts and difficult emotions disappear after awakening?
What does nonduality look like in ordinary everyday life?
Can awakening help us respond differently to fear, conflict, and suffering in the world?
Helen also speaks candidly about her own fear that awakening might cause her to lose interest in her children, relationships, or everyday responsibilities. Instead, she found something very different: a greater capacity to love, to be present, and to participate fully in life.

This conversation brings awakening down from the mountaintop and into the reality of emails, grocery shopping, relationships, work, parenting, dishes, laundry, exhaustion, difficult emotions, and random Tuesday afternoons when life seems to be going sideways.

Because perhaps awakening isn't an escape from being human. Perhaps it allows us to participate in our humanity more fully.

Helen’s upcoming four-part live series with the Center for Awakening, Awakening to Truth: An Embodied Realization, begins October 5. Through meditation, contemplation, and practical exploration, Helen will guide participants deeper into recognizing their true nature, seeing through the patterns that pull us back into separation, and discovering what it means to actually live this recognition.

If you've experienced glimpses of awakening but wondered why you still get triggered, struggled with spiritual seeking, questioned whether you're "doing it right," or simply want to understand what living nonduality actually looks like in modern life, this conversation is for you.
👉🏼 Interested in going deeper?
You can read the books, listen to the teachers, and understand the spiritual concepts — yet still find yourself caught in the same fears, self-doubt, and familiar patterns. In her new four-part series, Helen Hamilton offers a practical path from understanding the teachings to experiencing these truths for yourself. Through meditation, contemplation, and self-inquiry, you’ll learn how to break free from conditioned thinking, discover a greater sense of freedom and inner peace, and bring that realization into your relationships, responsibilities, and everyday life.
  ➡️ Learn more and reserve your spot.

Support the show
Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 
Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.
This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org

Have you ever walked away from a conversation and immediately started replaying everything you said?

Why did I say that?
I should have explained that differently.
Why didn't I mention this?
Did I get it wrong?

Suddenly, one thought becomes another, regret and self-judgment appear, and before you know it, you're caught in a full-blown thought storm.

In this gentle guided meditation for overthinking and racing thoughts, Jody Agard shares a recent experience of getting completely hooked by her own mind after recording an interview with Bill Free, and the simple recognition that changed everything.

The thoughts were moving.
The emotions were moving.
The storm was moving.

But something remained completely untouched.

Through spacious silence, non-dual meditation, self-inquiry, and awareness, you'll be invited not to stop your thoughts or calm the mind, but to recognize the open presence in which every thought, emotion, sensation, and story appears.

Whether you're struggling with overthinking, racing thoughts, anxiety, rumination, self-judgment, regret, or a busy mind, this meditation offers a different approach.
You don't have to stop the storm, or become more peaceful.
Just as the sky remains untouched by every storm that passes through it, what you truly are remains untouched by every movement of the mind.

The storm may come and go, but what you are remains.
👉🏼 Interested in going deeper?
In her new four-part live series — True Meditation: The Recognition of the Infinite I AM, Jody Agard offers a radically different approach: meditation isn’t about controlling your experience, but discovering the pure presence that’s already here. Through self-inquiry, guided meditation, and practical exploration, you’ll discover how to relate to your thoughts with less struggle, experience greater ease and clarity, and carry that grounded awareness into relationships, decisions, and daily challenges.
➡️ Click here to learn more and reserve your spot.
Support the show
Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 
Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.
This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org