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Meditation Changes Everything

Craig Hamilton

43 episodes

4 days ago

Many of us come to meditation with subtle expectations—hoping for stillness, clarity, or a familiar sense of calm. When our experience doesn’t match those hopes, we often assume something is missing or that we’re doing it wrong. In this episode, Craig offers a meditative exploration of what it means to meet the moment as it is. Rather than trying to fix or improve our experience, he invites us to try on a simple but radical stance: to relate to the moment as already whole and complete. Throug...

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Many of us come to meditation with subtle expectations—hoping for stillness, clarity, or a familiar sense of calm. When our experience doesn’t match those hopes, we often assume something is missing or that we’re doing it wrong. In this episode, Craig offers a meditative exploration of what it means to meet the moment as it is. Rather than trying to fix or improve our experience, he invites us to try on a simple but radical stance: to relate to the moment as already whole and complete. Throug...

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Religion & Spirituality,

Self-Improvement

Episodes (20/43)

Meditation Changes Everything

The Trap of Tranquility: Breaking Free from Trance States in Meditation

Meditation can lead us into some extraordinary states of consciousness—moments of stillness, spaciousness, or bliss that feel like a doorway has opened inside us. These states can be deeply nourishing, offering glimpses of something beyond the ordinary mind. But over time, even these expansive experiences can start to feel familiar. When meditation begins to drop us into the same place again and again, it’s worth asking: Are these states actually transforming us, or simply soothing us? In thi...

1 week ago

29 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

The Deepest Yes: How Radical Acceptance Gives Rise to Transformation

“Authentic spiritual awakening is not about getting to a place where we’re above all the pains and tragedies of life. The transformation I’m pointing to is one where we’re able to stay rooted in the direct knowledge of the sacred essence of reality that is the truth of every moment. It’s the fundamental truth that is immutable in every moment. It never changes, even when our own life may be difficult. The goal is to get to a place where your relative experience of the ups and downs of life ne...

3 weeks ago

27 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

Beyond the Story of Self: Four Meditations to Loosen the Ego's Grip

In Beyond the Story of Self, Craig guides a series of meditations that gently loosen the structures that define who we think we are. Most of us move through life with an unspoken assumption—that we are someone, somewhere, located within the edges of our skin. We assume there’s a boundary between “me” and everything else. But in meditation, a different possibility begins to reveal itself. The edges soften. The sense of inside and outside starts to dissolve. And for a moment, ther...

1 month ago

1 hour 7 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

Obstacles to Awakening - Part Three: Spiritual Bypassing

“Many of us begin the spiritual path because we simply want to feel better. And this desire to feel good can take us some distance on the path. It will get you meditating daily, it will get you into workshops and retreats, and you’ll start to grow and change and evolve as a result. But, ultimately, spiritual awakening requires much more from us. It requires us to let go of the need to feel any particular way. It’s not possible to truly awaken, to really go all the way on our path when we’re t...

1 month ago

38 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

Awakening in Daily Life: Turning Meditative Insights into Action

“Meditation is ultimately about getting out of the way so that a greater intelligence and a higher set of capacities can begin to show up within us. We meditate so that we can unlock a deeper care, a deeper strength, a deeper willingness to trust and ultimately a completely different order of consciousness than anything we can cause through our willful effort. As we awaken, this higher consciousness then begins to express itself in all kinds of ways organically and naturally in every aspect o...

2 months ago

28 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

Unlocking the Power of Stillness: Equanimity Meditation

In a world where uncertainty, conflict, and emotional triggers seem to be everywhere, staying rooted in stillness can often seem out of reach. In Unlocking the Power of Stillness: Equanimity Meditation, Craig explores how meditation can become a powerful ally in helping us stay centered and grounded, even in the midst of life’s most difficult challenges. This quality of inner balance is often called equanimity. And it doesn’t mean staying calm all the time, or acting like we’re unaffe...

2 months ago

27 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

Direct Awakening: Four Meditations to Illuminate the Way

“Awakened consciousness is always deeply at ease. It's very open and fluid and flexible. And that's something we can sit down and practice. We don’t have to focus on our breath or repeat a word, or try to be mindful of every little sensation. Instead, we can use our meditation as a dynamic, active experiment in consciousnesses where we are making space for spiritual awakening to happen, to reveal itself.”—Craig Hamilton We’ve all had moments of deep clarity and peace—only to watch them slip ...

3 months ago

33 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

The Paradox of Practice: When Effort Becomes the Obstacle

“From one point of view, spiritual practice is always a postponement of awakening, because awakening is about embracing our true nature exactly as we are right now. Yet, from another point of view, if we don’t practice with intensity, if we don’t undertake a conscious effort to embrace the truth of our inherent freedom, then awakening is probably only going to ever show up in fleeting glimpses because the habit of denying our true nature is so strong.” —Craig Hamilton For so many of us...

3 months ago

40 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

The Undivided Heart: Releasing Our Resistance to Awakening

“The reason spiritual awakening is so incredibly rare on this planet isn't that nobody wants to awaken. It's that those of us who want to awaken also want something else that's in conflict with awakening. We want security. We want to stay in control. We want to keep our self-image intact. As long as this division is in operation within us, we will not be a space within which awakening can truly occur and take root. This is why it’s so important to resolve this inner conflict and unlock the tr...

4 months ago

22 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

The Power of Not Knowing: Awakening Beyond Certainty

“If we want to live our lives immersed in the mystery of awakened consciousness, we need to give up the idea that we could ever know this mystery with our mind. This means we have to give up trying to know it with the mind, trying to get a handle on it in any way. If we want that extraordinary dimension to become the source of our life, we must learn to live in the innocence of a beginner’s mind.”—Craig HamiltonWe’ve all heard it said that spiritual awakening requires us to leap into the unkn...

5 months ago

37 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

The Audacity to Be Free: Two Meditation Mindsets to Fuel Your Practice

“The practice of Direct Awakening is always only about this moment. It's always only about awakening in this moment of practice. So we need to come to our practice with the full optimism and audacity that this moment is the moment that I awaken. There's nothing that could get in my way.” —Craig HamiltonIn this episode, Craig sheds light on an often-overlooked aspect of meditation—the mindset we bring to the practice.While technique gives us the structure, it’s the mindset that brings energy...

5 months ago

26 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

Obstacles to Awakening - Part Two: The Mind

“An awakened life is a life in which we're no longer centered in the cognitive mind, we're no longer centered in the thought stream. Ultimately, the spiritual path means trusting enough to let go of the mind and allow a deeper consciousness, a deeper wisdom, a deeper kind of guidance system to start to operate within us that isn't something you can control, and isn't something you can understand with your mind.” —Craig HamiltonThis episode is the second in our series exploring the most common...

6 months ago

28 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

Natural Meditation: Being Yourself Without Effort

“One reason meditation is such a powerful tool on the spiritual path is that it’s a safe place to completely give up control. You can sit down, and just let go…and let go…and let go. You can let go of every attempt to control reality, every attempt to control your inner experience, every impulse to control how you feel, every attempt to control the mind. This radical practice of relinquishing control in meditation is a very direct way to start to get a taste of what it means to be truly natur...

6 months ago

22 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

Open Heart, Spacious Mind: The Practice of Unbounded Freedom

“Spiritual awakening brings us into direct contact with reality. When we’re awake, our lens is no longer distorted, and our heart is no longer shut down and defended. We are now fully here, which means that our awareness is fully present, our heart or feeling sense is fully available, and all of our humanity is able to show up in each moment.” —Craig HamiltonIn this episode, Craig dives into a profound question: What would it mean to be fully in contact with life? Is it possible to meet each ...

7 months ago

24 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

Meditation Can Be Simple: Three Doorways to Awakening

In today’s world, it can feel like there are endless options for meditation—each promising a slightly different path. With so many different meditation techniques available to us, it’s easy to feel a bit uncertain about what to actually do when we sit down to meditate.In this episode, “Meditation Can Be Simple: Three Doorways to Awakening,” Craig clears away the noise and shares a 3-step approach that’s both powerful and easy to follow. He distills the practice of meditation into three simple...

7 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

Obstacles to Awakening - Part One: The Ego

“Awakening is the discovery of consciousness without limits, of a self without limits. It's the discovery that what we are is much vaster than our mind can contain. So if we're attached to a small little story of self that we're invested in maintaining, there's no room and there's no way for us to really open to and let go into the enormity of the super consciousness that is our true nature.”—Craig HamiltonThis episode is the first in our "Obstacles to Awakening" series, where we explore the ...

7 months ago

56 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

A Transformed Life: Meditation as a Catalyst for Exponential Growth

“When we're in touch with the higher spiritual potential of our lives, it’s natural that we want to express that potential as fully as we possibly can. We’re no longer worried about what that will demand from us or what others will think about us. Our heart is now yoked to this greater possibility that we’re called to realize. We’re awake to the great mystery of universal consciousness and that is going through a process of higher evolution that we have to participate in to be true to it.”—Cr...

8 months ago

39 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

Spiritual Freedom: Discovering Unconditional Happiness

Spiritual awakening is the discovery of a sacred dimension of our own being that is unconditional, meaning it’s not dependent on something else. We’re discovering that life, existence, our very own being, who we are in our essence is sacred, divine, extraordinary, and beautiful beyond comprehension. When we accept that that’s what this life always already is, it transforms our entire experience of being alive. —Craig HamiltonIn this episode, Craig dives deep into the true meaning of happiness...

8 months ago

35 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

Beyond Duality: Seeing the Sacred in Everything

Non-dual spiritual practice and non-dual spiritual awakening isn’t only about coming to know awareness or consciousness in its pure form. That’s just the first step. Ultimately, real non-dual practice and non-dual awakening is a practice of recognizing that everything that arises in your meditation is equally an expression of that sacred essence. Everything that arises in your meditation is already enlightened. It’s a manifestation of the enlightened mind. —Craig HamiltonIn “Beyond Duality: S...

9 months ago

23 minutes

Meditation Changes Everything

The Practice of Emptiness: Dissolving the Illusion of Solidity

“Emptiness doesn’t mean there’s not a self. It doesn’t mean you’re not a person. It’s the discovery that what we really are is an interdependent web of complex processes that arise in our body, in our emotional being, in our minds and in the cultural patterns in which we are enmeshed. We tend to experience ourselves as a solid, stable, independent self. But the practice of emptiness shows us that we are part of a much greater process of interdependencies that are constantly changing, moving, ...

9 months ago

49 minutes