{"podcast":{"title":"Awareness Explorers","slug":"awareness-explorers-939256","podcast_index_feed_id":939256,"rss_url":"https://awarenessexplorers.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.awarenessexplorers.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/9/2/1/f/921f16b9c35042d8/Awareness_Explorers_Green_Sky_GIMP_2_80pct_487kb.jpg","author":"Jonathan Robinson","episode_count":214,"summary":"If you want to awaken peace and love in daily life, pure awareness is always available as the background of all experience. Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor explore ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awareness-explorers-939256"},"episode":{"title":"189: Trauma and Awakening","slug":"189-trauma-and-awakening","published_at":"2025-06-20T12:24:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awareness-explorers-939256/189-trauma-and-awakening","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awareness-explorers-939256","url":"https://awarenessexplorers.libsyn.com/189-trauma-and-awakening","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/awarenessexplorers/AE_Episode_189_Trauma_and_Awakening.mp3?dest-id=640914","summary":"In this episode, we discuss the relationship between trauma and spiritual awakening, and how trauma can not only obscure awareness but can also catalyze awakening. We also describe some effective trauma healing approaches. • Includes a guided meditation helping us to see an upsetting incident from the past within the larger peaceful space of pure awareness, which is unshaken by traumatic experience, and which holds and supports everything. The YouTube playlist mentioned in this episode: Spiritual Laughter Particularly, \" Jeff Foster - All That's Left is Laughter \" Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. NEWS: Awareness Explorers has made the following top listener charts on Goodpods: # 5 in the Top 100 awakening All time chart # 6 in the Top 100 joy All time chart # 5 in the Top 100 awareness All time chart # 7 in the Top 100 consciousness All time chart # 44 in the Top 100 meditation All time chart To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z Or on our Awareness Explorers website: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the \"Donate\" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers NOTE: If you are a Patreon supporter and have not been receiving our bonus material, please check to make sure that the email address you have on Patreon is an active one. To learn more about Jonathan Robi…","meta_description":"In this episode, we discuss the relationship between trauma and spiritual awakening, and how trauma can not only obscure awareness but can also catalyze a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2973,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/awareness-explorers-939256/episodes/189-trauma-and-awakening/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awareness-explorers-939256/189-trauma-and-awakening.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}