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Meditation Changes Everything

We’ve all heard that meditation is good for us — studies show that it reduces stress, improves concentration and makes us more resilient to life’s challenges. But what if these benefits are just the tip of the iceberg? What if meditation could actually change everything


Pioneering meditation teacher Craig Hamilton has been practicing meditation for 40 years and teaching it over the past two decades to students in more than 90 countries. In this podcast, Craig reveals how this powerful, ancient practice can transform every aspect of human life. He shares key insights from his personal practice as well as on-the-ground research at the leading edge of spiritual practice and inquiry. As a listener, you’ll discover a mix of in-depth talks from Craig on key aspects of meditation, his responses to common questions from students and guided meditations, so you can experience a variety of meditation practices for yourself. 

If you appreciate what you hear in the podcast, Craig invites you to download his free ebook, Unlocking the Power of Meditation, to learn about the five common mistakes most of us make in meditation and how you can avoid them. Download your free ebook at 5meditationmistakes.com.


Spirituality Religion & Spirituality Education Buddhism Self-Improvement Meditation Mindfulness
Update frequency
every 13 days
Average duration
35 minutes
Episodes
44
Years Active
2023 - 2025
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Obstacles to Awakening - Part One: The Ego

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 li…

00:56:48  |   Thu 03 Oct 2024
A Transformed Life: Meditation as a Catalyst for Exponential Growth

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 de…

00:39:53  |   Thu 19 Sep 2024
Spiritual Freedom: Discovering Unconditional Happiness

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 b…

00:35:16  |   Thu 05 Sep 2024
Beyond Duality: Seeing the Sacred in 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 practic…

00:23:29  |   Thu 22 Aug 2024
The Practice of Emptiness: Dissolving the Illusion of Solidity

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 ou…

00:49:00  |   Thu 08 Aug 2024
Embracing This Moment: Meditation Without a Future

Embracing This Moment: Meditation Without a Future

Awakened consciousness is none other than our own true nature. It’s never anywhere but right here. You can’t get to it somewhere in the future.  The part of you that imagines it’s somewhere in the fu…

00:18:52  |   Mon 22 Jul 2024
Foundations of Meditation - Part Three: Concentration Practice

Foundations of Meditation - Part Three: Concentration Practice

This is a concentration practice that you can have in your spiritual toolkit for when you're in a period of intense distraction with a lot on your mind. If you ever have difficulty staying focused du…

00:30:50  |   Mon 08 Jul 2024
The Leap of Faith: How Trust Transforms Your Spiritual Path

The Leap of Faith: How Trust Transforms Your Spiritual Path

“When we are on a path of spiritual awakening, we are going to be required at some point to take a leap of faith. The spiritual path is a path of learning to trust in something that we cannot see, th…

00:33:12  |   Tue 25 Jun 2024
A Mind Like Water

A Mind Like Water

“From one point of view, the only reason our thoughts are a distraction in meditation is that we're interested in those thoughts. We're more interested in thought than we are in what's beyond thought…

00:29:53  |   Mon 10 Jun 2024
Freedom from Spiritual Materialism: Coming to the End of Wanting

Freedom from Spiritual Materialism: Coming to the End of Wanting

“When we let go of our attachment to the separate self, we can begin to discover who and what we really are, which is so much bigger, so much deeper, so much more extraordinary than we could have ima…

00:22:11  |   Tue 28 May 2024
Four Portals to Enlightenment: A Guided Meditation Workshop

Four Portals to Enlightenment: A Guided Meditation Workshop

“Meditation isn’t something we generate. It’s not something we make happen. It’s something we make room for. It’s something we open to. When you really get this, meditation will be the easiest thing …

01:05:20  |   Tue 14 May 2024
Foundations of Meditation - Part Two: Commitment, Humility, Environment, and Posture

Foundations of Meditation - Part Two: Commitment, Humility, Environment, and Posture

“Spiritual awakening is a force that turns our world upside down. It reveals to us that everything we thought we knew, and every way we thought things worked, and what we thought was important was in…

00:33:28  |   Mon 29 Apr 2024
Opening the Heart: Meditation as a Doorway to Emotional Freedom

Opening the Heart: Meditation as a Doorway to Emotional Freedom

“Meditation offers us a rare opportunity to practice having an open heart in a truly safe environment where there's nothing we need to protect ourselves from. In meditation, we can practice letting d…

00:33:58  |   Mon 15 Apr 2024
Awakening to Non-duality: The Mystery of Oneness

Awakening to Non-duality: The Mystery of Oneness

“As people awaken, they become ambassadors for good. For an evolved morality that cares infinitely, and burns with a deep love for the greater good. Inherent in that care is an impulse toward oneness…

00:37:46  |   Mon 01 Apr 2024
Foundations of Meditation – Part One: Motivation, Intention, and Nonjudgment

Foundations of Meditation – Part One: Motivation, Intention, and Nonjudgment

“Anybody who aspires to awaken to their true nature must be willing to let go of everything that provides them with security, certainty, and familiarity . It doesn’t mean it all goes away. We just ha…

00:32:14  |   Mon 18 Mar 2024
Unlocking Our Superhuman Nature

Unlocking Our Superhuman Nature

“Spiritual awakening or enlightenment is about the discovery that we don't just have a human nature and an animal nature. We have a supernature. Which means there's another dimension of who and what …

00:41:15  |   Mon 04 Mar 2024
In the Eye of a Hurricane – How to Stay Centered and Grounded Amidst Life’s Challenges

In the Eye of a Hurricane – How to Stay Centered and Grounded Amidst Life’s Challenges

“Spiritual equanimity is not about feeling content with the world, it’s about being content no matter what you’re feeling. It’s about being at ease whether you feel easeful or not. And we all have ac…

00:29:12  |   Mon 19 Feb 2024
The Life-Changing Power of Letting Go – Part Two [Guided Meditation]

The Life-Changing Power of Letting Go – Part Two [Guided Meditation]

“As we get deeper into it, we begin to realize that the real benefits of meditation ultimately transcend any of our personal wants, needs, and desires and we’re really awakening and evolving as part …

00:23:49  |   Tue 06 Feb 2024
The Life-Changing Power of Letting Go – Part One

The Life-Changing Power of Letting Go – Part One

“Spirituality is no longer about leaving the world. It's about letting go of the world inwardly so we can become a spiritual revolutionary in the world. So we can bring forth a revolution of the huma…

00:48:30  |   Tue 23 Jan 2024
What Happens After Spiritual Awakening?

What Happens After Spiritual Awakening?

“When you’re awake to your true nature…there’s a fundamental satisfaction that’s untouched by anything that happens. It doesn’t stop you from being an evolutionary force in the world — quite the oppo…

00:45:36  |   Tue 09 Jan 2024
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