Meditation Changes Everything
by Craig Hamilton
Latest episode
Hold On To Nothing: The Art of Letting Go in Meditation
Hold On To Nothing: The Art of Letting Go in Meditation
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 60 episodes
- Hold On To Nothing: The Art of Letting Go in Meditation · 40 min · Episode 60Have you ever noticed how much of your meditation is spent trying to get somewhere? When we sit down to practice, we often start steering right away, toward peace and stillness…
- Unconditional Happiness Meditation: Finding Contentment Beyond Your Feelings · 27 min · Episode 59In this episode, Craig invites us to look closely at our emotions — how they rise and fall, sometimes intense, sometimes mild, like weather moving through the sky. Most of us…
- Opening to Non-Duality: The Power of Spiritual Surrender · 35 min · Episode 58In this episode, Craig explores the spiritual practice of seeing beyond separation. Our everyday experience tells us that life is made up of separate people, separate events, and…
- Guided Meditation: Awakening Beyond the Limits of Self · 36 min · Episode 57One of the great challenges of spiritual awakening is that it requires us to let go of our identity, to loosen our attachment to the story we tell ourselves about who we are. At…
- Love Without Limits: Becoming a Conduit for the Infinite · 1 h 1 min · Episode 56There’s something many of us long for on the spiritual path—the ability to live with a more open heart. To care more deeply. To give more freely. To love without limits. As…
- How Do I Know If I’m Awakened? Measuring our Progress in Meditation · 30 min · Episode 55At some point in meditation, almost all of us ask the same question: Am I doing this right? In this episode, Craig responds to three listener questions that each circle around…
- The Mystery of Consciousness: Three Discoveries That Can Transform Your Meditation · 27 min · Episode 54There’s something remarkable about human life that we rarely pause to consider. Every moment we’re aware. Aware of thoughts. Aware of feelings. Aware of the world around us. But…
- Everything is Welcome: Embracing the Wholeness of this Moment · 33 min · Episode 53What if this moment — exactly as it is — is already whole and complete? In this 30-minute guided meditation, Craig invites you to explore this possibility. Instead of trying to…
- When the Mind Wanders: Rethinking Distraction in Meditation · 27 min · Episode 52Distraction is one of the most universal—and misunderstood—experiences in meditation. We sit down to practice with sincere intention, and before long the mind wanders. Emotions…
- The Practice of Inclusivity: Opening the Heart to Everything · 33 min · Episode 51Awakening is often described as the realization of wholeness—the recognition that nothing is separate from anything else, that all of reality is a single indivisible whole. But…
- Dissolving the Separate Self: The Practice of Emptiness · 55 min · Episode 50Most of us experience ourselves as solid and unchanging, as if there’s a stable “me” at the center of our thoughts, feelings, and actions. But in meditation, when we slow down…
- The Art of Being Natural: How to Let Go of the Struggle · 1 h 1 min · Episode 49In this episode, Craig explores what happens when we stop trying to reach a special state in meditation and allow the moment to unfold naturally, exactly as it is. Instead of…
- The Call to Awaken: Igniting the Flame of Intention · 30 min · Episode 48Spiritual awakening is the highest possibility for a human life—and also its greatest challenge. To meet that challenge, we need a motivation powerful enough to move us beyond…
- The Whole World Within You: Beyond the Illusion of Separateness · 40 min · Episode 47Most of us move through life feeling like we’re “in here,” looking out at a world that’s “out there.” There’s me—the one who sees—and then there’s the world, full of things to…
- Letting Go of Wanting: A Guided Meditation · 51 min · Episode 46Most of us come to meditation because we want something—peace, clarity, or even awakening itself. While natural, this approach can carry a subtle trap: meditation becomes another…
- Awakening Beyond the Mind: Freedom from the Trance of Thought · 36 min · Episode 45“The goal of spiritual life is to have a fluid mind, a mind like water, a mind that doesn't cling on to concepts in order to give us a sense of security rooted in the belief that…
- Awakened Awareness: Discovering the Self Beyond the Story · 39 min · Episode 44When we hear about spiritual awakening, it can often sound lofty or out of reach. We imagine it will take decades of practice, or that it belongs only to rare, extraordinary…
- The Perfection of This Moment: A Meditative Journey into Wholeness · 35 min · Episode 43Many 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…
- The Practice of Emotional Freedom: Feeling Without Resistance · 42 min · Episode 42In this episode, Craig turns our attention to an often-overlooked dimension of meditation practice: our emotional lives. We’re often taught that the biggest obstacle in…
- A Beginner’s Mind: The Practice of Living in the Unknown · 41 min · Episode 41“There’s perhaps nothing we can do that has as radical an impact on our consciousness as the meditation practice of completely letting go of the mind. Something extraordinary…
