Waking Up to Life with Cynthia

Waking Up to Life with Cynthia

Cynthia Bampton is the co-founder of the Awakened Life Project in Portugal and in this podcast series she will be bringing a deeper spiritual context into our everyday lives. For recordings of her webinars and if you want to make a donation please visit our website www.awakenedlifeproject.org/en/audiosvideos-webinars-cynthia-bampton Please hit the follow button if you want to get notified about new episodes.

Episodes

July 24, 2020 23 mins

Cynthia illustrates through two examples how simple and joyful it is to leave space for surprises.

She takes you right into the Heart of the Unknown. The Unknown simply IS, reality itself. Nobody knows what is going on right now and nobody knows what will happen tomorrow. Why? Because things are constantly changing- However, we have the illusion of control and knowing.

Leaving space for surprises means to re- cognize that you don't...

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What would it be like to respond to life without the interpretation and projection of the separate self?  Cynthia speaks about the separate self in a way that it is the 'middle man' filter that we see and project our experience from. Another way to see the 'middle man' filter is to recognize that the middle man is ego, is the focus of 'me' -  me' being the story that you create through the identification of thought and fe...

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This podcast is a talk from Cynthia’s recent webinar “What Does It Mean to Embrace Life As It Is?”. Most people are constantly trying to change or avoid the experience they are having, which results in a state of discontent and a feeling of something is always wrong.  If you look, you might notice that throughout your day you want your experience to be different then it is.  Our ideas of what we should feel and experience...

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Cynthia speaks about taking more responsibility for the decisions we make in our lives.  Most of the time we think we don't want people to tell us what to do but underneath we find ourselves indecisive or in avoidance of what is happening. Are we open to new ideas or ideas outside of our conditioned beliefs?  Or are we afraid to step beyond the barriers of these beliefs?  If we are then we are allowing fear to inform...

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May 29, 2020 25 mins

In this episode, Cynthia takes you right into the storm: where everything is changing. Inevitably there are hard times in life and challenging moments during the day. How we relate to the intensity of change will determine how much you suffer. Usually  when times get 'stormy' we run away from the emotional ups and downs of our experience. Why do we do this?  It is because we have ideas of what is enjoyable and what is not...

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In this podcast, Cynthia invites you to discover your inherent Happiness. Take  the risk to drop your mask, allow yourself to be happy, to smile to  move!  Cynthia's encouragement to be happy here and now is infectious,  she gives exercises to help you find inherent happiness beyond all  situations.  To  Live True Happiness is revolutionary in our times of self-improvement  so take ...

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When we come together for a purpose beyond the individual's opinion or  position we can tap into a deeper dimension of ourselves. Individually  this can be very powerful but when this happens in a collective then  something stronger and more beautiful than the individual parts emerge.    Cynthia speaks about how collective emergence can occur and the power  that emerges when a collective comes tog...

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The truth is everything is always new, but unfortunately we don't see this as we are too busy projecting what we think we already know out into the world.  What happens when we project our fears and desires onto other people?  Do we see them clearly?  Do we see ourselves clearly? Do we suffer, do we cause others to suffer? Do we have an image of ourselves that we are expecting others to continuously support? Do we ge...

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Overwhelm is a common experience for almost everyone,  

Have you ever asked yourself, 'What is the root of the overwhelming experience of being overwhelmed?' 

Most people haven't really looked very deeply into why they are so overwhelmed.  

They know that overwhelm is usually accompanied by strong emotions, a feeling of contraction, an internal voice screaming, I can't take anymore, followed by a sense of hopelessnes...

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April 17, 2020 23 mins

Who am I? How shall I live?

In this podcast, Cynthia explores what it takes to ask those questions with an open Curious Heart.

Nobody can control where we put our attention. If we put our attention on what is real and true in this world, something already changes. We all have unlimited possibilities when we don't go with fear. You have a body, you have a mind, you have a mouth and you have a voice.

This is the moment to create a ne...

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Cynthia speaks about the challenge and the liberation that comes with the decision to open up to new ideas and narratives.  Opening up to something we don't already know, or opening to something that challenges our strongly held beliefs will usually, if not always cause fear to arise.  Cynthia shares her own experience and understanding that when one opens to something new, it is not the thing itself that liberates one, i...

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April 3, 2020 18 mins

Cynthia invites you to explore a deeper dimension of being in relationship with others. We usually assume that we are separate, isolated human beings defined by stories of our past. When two human beings relate to each other beyond the limitations of 'our stories' , beyond the imposition of separation, a new kind of relationship is possible. Join Cynthia for this enlightening podcast and learn about a new possibility in relationshi...

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April 2, 2020 25 mins

In this Podcast Cynthia is guiding a meditation.

She is inviting you to consciously decide to stop, relax and breathe.

The simple act of sitting still can get us in touch with a deeper dimension of ourselves that is prior to the movement of mind or the sensations of the body.

Just set a side a few minutes of the day and sit quietly, relax and breathe.

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March 29, 2020 18 mins

How much of life are you denying? Do you have a nagging feeling of discontent and agitation? Most of the time, most of us are running away, trying to avoid or change what is unpleasant or painful and look for good feelings where we know we are ok.

In this podcast, Cynthia guides us through a process of recognizing that accepting the experience we are having is the doorway to freedom, when we no longer seek to have a different exper...

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In this podcast, Cynthia highlights our capacity to respond with freedom  and an open heart to any crisis. Even though, we might be  quarantined, our world does not need to become contracted and  corona virus centered. Our world will get very small if we loose connection with that which is always true and beautiful and always free. Cynthia explores the conditioned responses that keep us bound  during this time o...

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What is the effect of the corona virus on us as a society? The information we are receiving is changing daily – we have to be open to what is happening without any fixed ideas. There is a lot of unknown in this situation.

In a strange way the corona virus can be a catalyst for deep change in ourselves: If you understand that how you relate to what is happening with the virus is how you relate to things most of the time- there is a ...

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Cynthia speaks about slowing down in the face of the coronavirus quarantine. 

In the Western World most of us are plugged in, goal oriented and focused on ourselves and our story. So what if we use this time of quarantine to slow down, stop and go back to simplicity? 

Join Cynthia in this inquiry and see where it can take you.

Watch Cynthia's Webinar on insecurity and control to find out more on how to respond to life in ...

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Cynthia is looking into the opportunities that this virus brings to us. Are we going to respond in a self centered way or are we going to open our view towards community. Are we casual about this situation or are we panicking?

It is a huge opportunity to find a deeper dimension for ourselves. If we actually are all one – how real are you going to respond? This pandemic is pushing us all together and forcing us to see that what I do...

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Many people are freaking out about Coronavirus - and fair enough - as there is a lot of information and its difficult to know what is true and what is not. So we are in unknown times and its a chance to rise up or to crash down. 

In this episode Cynthia is speaking about the Coronavirus and how we can relate to it in a different way. Cynthia faces the reality of the situation and suggests a larger context on how to respond fro...

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