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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.
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Hold On To Nothing: The Art of Letting Go in Meditation
Have 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, and away from the restless thought or the uncomfortable feelin
Unconditional Happiness Meditation: Finding Contentment Beyond Your Feelings
In 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 exert a great deal of energy trying to steer our feelings: chasin
Opening to Non-Duality: The Power of Spiritual Surrender
In 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 separate things. But what if that isn't the whole story? What
Guided Meditation: Awakening Beyond the Limits of Self
One 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 first, that invitation can feel unsettling. If we stop identif
Love Without Limits: Becoming a Conduit for the Infinite
There’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 spiritual practitioners, we often try to sense into the heart and f
How Do I Know If I’m Awakened? Measuring our Progress in Meditation
At 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 this theme in a different way. How do we know if we’re “there” y
The Mystery of Consciousness: Three Discoveries That Can Transform Your Meditation
There’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 the awareness itself, the consciousness that makes all of this
Everything is Welcome: Embracing the Wholeness of this Moment
What 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 change your inner experience, you’re guided to rest in the vast
When the Mind Wanders: Rethinking Distraction in Meditation
Distraction 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 pull us in. Sounds and events from the world around us intrude.
The Practice of Inclusivity: Opening the Heart to Everything
Awakening 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 how is this understood in lived experience, and can it be pract
Dissolving the Separate Self: The Practice of Emptiness
Most 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 and look more closely, that sense of solidity begins to soften.
The Art of Being Natural: How to Let Go of the Struggle
In 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 resisting certain thoughts or feelings and grasping for others, h
The Call to Awaken: Igniting the Flame of Intention
Spiritual 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 comfort and resistance, again and again. In this episode, Craig
The Whole World Within You: Beyond the Illusion of Separateness
Most 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 see. It’s such a familiar way of perceiving that we rarely quest
Letting Go of Wanting: A Guided Meditation
Most 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 project of the separate self, another way of trying to get so
Awakening Beyond the Mind: Freedom from the Trance of Thought
“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 we know something. An awakened mind is a mind that's ever ope
Awakened Awareness: Discovering the Self Beyond the Story
When 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 people. But what if the very thing we’ve been seeking has never be
The Perfection of This Moment: A Meditative Journey into Wholeness
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 epi
The Practice of Emotional Freedom: Feeling Without Resistance
In 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 meditation is our thinking mind—our thoughts, beliefs, and judgments. B
A Beginner’s Mind: The Practice of Living in the Unknown
“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 happens when we’re willing to still for a period of time every da
Let It Be: Discovering Freedom Through Surrender Meditation
Surrender is central to every spiritual tradition. But what does it actually mean to surrender—and how do we begin to practice it in a real and grounded way? In this episode, Craig invites us into a direct exploration of that question. Rath
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 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
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
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
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
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 bec
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 sensatio
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
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 i
