Inner Awareness Podcast

Ep. 47 – More Insights Into Karma

This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast looks at how karma from past lives influences someone’s present life and explains that it can be confused with influences from early childhood. From the time in the womb, a child is affected by projections from their mother, family members, and traumatic experiences. In addition, the “poisons of the ancestors” and the collective karma of the family, tribe, or nation can influence the child. Karma is both a principle that declares that you will reap what you sow and it’s a substance known as karmic baggage stored in the subtle field. It does not fully emerge in early childhood, because the I has not yet developed. As the I forms, karmic patterns begin to express themselves through an individual’s personality and relationships. The people in the birth family and the relationships a person forms are predetermined by karma, they’re not accidental, but connected to past life attachments. It some cases an individual will be compelled to interact with people in order to learn lessons or how to follow their Dharma. The episode emphasizes that nobody alive has been incarnated with a blank slate. To liberate yourself from Self – limiting attachments you need to look inward, develop discernment, and learn to recognize and release karmic baggage within your subtle field.The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at office.delight@yahoo.de for further information. Get full access to Inner Awareness Newsletter at keithsherwood.substack.com/subscribe

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Ep. 46 – Are People Stupid?

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This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast looks at why people act in ways that seem unintelligent and explains that this is not inherent, but connected to identification with the I and attachment to the field of Maya. Although human beings are eternal, enlightened, and divine, they ignore this by pursuing life strategies that gratify the I, often supported by culture and society where qualities like entitlement, competitiveness, and arrogance are valued over patience, perseverance, and non-harming. Stupidity in this sense is giving up of responsibility and refusing to see clearly. It is reinforced by fear, the desire for comfort, social pressure, karma, and the influence of non-physical beings, all of which make it difficult to change patterns or shift perspective. In addition, everyone enters life with different priorities, and unless transcendence becomes their highest priority, progress remains limited. The episode also emphasizes how difficult this process is: the mind can deceive you, the body is not prepared for higher levels of energy, and old karma and attachments create resistance. By paying attention and looking at yourself honestly, you begin to see what is actually happening, that makes room for self-knowledge to emerge from within.The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at office.delight@yahoo.de for further information. Get full access to Inner Awareness Newsletter at keithsherwood.substack.com/subscribe

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Ep. 45 – Out of Your Comfort Zone

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This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast is about the comfort zone as a familiar field within the I, where patterns feel safe but keep a person in the field of Maya. Although it feels comfortable, it limits access to the authentic mind and to energy and consciousness with universal qualities. Especially in moments of stress or when change is required, there is a tendency to return to this comfort zone instead of dealing with what needs to be faced. This can interfere with intimacy with another human being, as well as clarity and progress, and it can even be mistaken for something higher simply because it feels familiar or subtle. Through discernment, it becomes obvious that a comfort zone consists of fields with individual qualities that are not nourishing and do not support love, joy, real human connection, or spiritual growth. As this is seen more clearly, the attraction to the comfort zone begins to diminish, and it becomes possible to reject it and choose fields with universal qualities, shortening the path of self-realization.The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at office.delight@yahoo.de for further information. Get full access to Inner Awareness Newsletter at keithsherwood.substack.com/subscribe

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Ep. 44 – You’re not the I: So Give up the I Idea.

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This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast questions the idea of “giving up the I idea,” explaining that the issue is not the existence of the I, but the attachment to it. The I is necessary to function in the physical world and cannot simply be removed, since physical reality requires some participation in duality. The real problem is that the I, identified with the individual mind and ego within the field of Maya, is trying to get enlightened, even though you are already enlightened. This creates a contradiction, because trying to achieve enlightenment reinforces the I and maintains its existence. Through knowledge and understanding of what enlightenment is and what prevents it, it becomes clear that effort and trying do not work, since enlightenment is not something to attain or change. By recognizing the truth and repeatedly affirming it, the attempt to become enlightened gives way to the recognition of already being enlightened. This requires surrender, letting go of control, and developing faith in what cannot be known or conceived. As attachment to the individual mind and ego diminishes, it becomes possible to move beyond the constant interference of the I and remain less identified with it.The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at office.delight@yahoo.de for further information. Get full access to Inner Awareness Newsletter at keithsherwood.substack.com/subscribe

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Ep. 43 – Involution, Not Evolution

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This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast explains that as long as a person is identified with the I – the individual mind and ego – they remain trapped in the field of Maya, going in circles while believing they are making progress. Everything they think, feel, and seek happens within this same field, so all attempts to “get out” fail. Self-realization is not about evolution or gaining something new, but about involution, a return by giving up identification with the I. The I constantly seeks qualities like pleasure, joy, and identity, but what is real has no qualities and does not change. Moments of natural joy can arise when the influence of the I diminishes, but the mind immediately captures them, assigns a cause, and turns them into something conditional, reinforcing the same pattern. The essential shift is not through effort, but through surrender. As long as there is a desire for experiences, feelings, or identity, one remains in the I. Letting go of these attachments allows that to happen which has no qualities and does not belong to the field of Maya.The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at office.delight@yahoo.de for further information. Get full access to Inner Awareness Newsletter at keithsherwood.substack.com/subscribe

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Ep. 42 – You’re Not the Hero of Your Personal Drama?

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This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast challenges your desire to be the hero of your personal drama and explains that identification with the “I” and the ego is the core spiritual problem. As long as a person believes they are the good guy and protects that self-image, they cannot see clearly what they have become or what is compelling them to act. Both Christian and Yogic teachings emphasize humility, the recognition that, as long as you’re identified with your individual mind, and ‘I’ there is nothing inherently good within you. Everything that is truly good comes from Universal Consciousness. By giving up the need to justify or validate yourself you can begin to see that you’re a divine being who has identified with dark fields that create Self–limiting patterns that coalesce into the ‘I’ and the individual mind and ego that supports it. This recognition may feel shocking or uncomfortable at first, but it allows you to transcend duality and experience union with Universal Consciousness.The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at office.delight@yahoo.de for further information. Get full access to Inner Awareness Newsletter at keithsherwood.substack.com/subscribe

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Ep. 41 – How to Deal With Projections

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This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast explains how you can respond to the distorted consciousness, energy and subtle matter filling the collective field of humanity. As long as a person identifies with the individual mind and ego within the field of Maya, they remain trapped in evolving fields with individual qualities and have little defense against projections from other people and non-physical beings. These influences as well as attachments and karmic baggage are Self–limiting because they create confusion, self-doubt, and make it difficult to sustain intimacy. The solution is to participate in a process of transcendence – and with the help of a facilitator learn to release your attachments to karmic baggage and Self–limiting intrusions that trap you in the field of Maya and make it impossible to identify with Paramatman, the universal Self. By releasing your attachments and enhancing the flow of energy with universal qualities through your subtle field you will experience more pleasure, love, intimacy, and joy. As you progress you will develop discernment and learn to identify blockages and attachments. You will also learn how karmic baggage and non-physical beings influence you. With practice you can then release Self–limiting fields of consciousness, energy and subtle matter that block the natural flow of prana, chi, and transcendent energy through your subtle field. Working with an appropriate facilitator, who can help you develop inner vision and mental disciplined, the ability to discern the difference between subtle fields that are life affirming and fields that are Self–limiting, will help you step out of the field of Maya and gradually regain access to life-affirming fields that support your relationship to your Self, your loved ones and Universal Consciousness.The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at office.delight@yahoo.de for further information. Get full access to Inner Awareness Newsletter at keithsherwood.substack.com/subscribe

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Ep. 40 – Advanced Energy Work

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This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast looks at advanced energy work, in particular the process of bringing a field into congruence, it’s appropriate position in your subtle field of consciousness and energy. The central challenge is that an authentic field of consciousness or energy that is no longer congruent cannot be directly seen and in some cases even sensed, because it is obscured by distorted fields, attachments and non – physical beings. Trying to force congruence can create confusion and opens the door to mistakes and missteps. That’s why the recommended approach is to center yourself in your authentic mind and use your intent to program that the particular field you’re working with becomes congruent. Remain centered, attentive, and detached by using this approach repeatedly blockages will gradually be released, hard spots will soften. Subtle shifts of awareness signal progress. Advanced energy work therefore emphasizes detachment over effort, requiring experience, character, and respect for the complexity of advanced energy work.The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at office.delight@yahoo.de for further information. Get full access to Inner Awareness Newsletter at keithsherwood.substack.com/subscribe

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Ep. 39 – Staying in a Relationship or Ending It?

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This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast questions the expectation that a partner must “complete” you and challenges the idea of needing someone for fulfillment. It suggests that if you enjoy being with a person, get along easily, share intimacy, and are free to pursue your own interests and spiritual work, there may be no real problem to solve. Yoga recognizes two valid paths — the monk and the householder — and being in relationship can support Dharma and character development. A partner can help reduce narcissism, strengthen patience and perseverance, and shift the focus from “me” to “we.” The episode also questions the idea of a single soul mate, explaining that compatibility is largely about shared life vibration, and that many people could potentially fulfill that role. Rather than feeling intellectually compelled to leave a stable relationship in search of something “better,” it encourages you take an insightful look at what you actually needed, especially later in life when security, validation, or spiritual support may no longer depend on a partner.The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at office.delight@yahoo.de for further information. Get full access to Inner Awareness Newsletter at keithsherwood.substack.com/subscribe

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Ep. 38 – Raising a Child in Modern Society

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This episode of the Inner Awareness Podcast discusses how to raise a child with good character in a modern, patriarchal society. According to Yoga, good character begins with mental discipline, the ability to distinguish between fields of energy and consciousness that have universal qualities and those that are changing and have individual qualities. Universal qualities do not create attachment or karmic patterns they allow a person to function in both the physical and non-physical universe with equanimity. Good character also includes patience, perseverance, faith, loyalty, long-suffering, non-harming, and courage. A child must learn to be centered in their authentic mind, to live according to their Dharma, to endure hardship with equanimity, and to avoid harming others in thought, or emotion since negative thoughts and emotions can be projected from one person to another. Parents should teach their children that Karma and the non-physical universe are real, that information is not knowledge, and that success is not defined by wealth, power, or popularity, but by personal integrity. Above all, moral courage is essential, since the world is not always supportive or just. Moral courage is closely aligned with personal integrity and the ability to follow Dharma; without personal integrity Shakti won’t support your child with life-affirming consciousness and energy or the insight they need to make appropriate decisions.The episodes of the Inner Awareness Podcast were recorded during seminars, which take place on a regular basis. If you would like to learn more about Keith Sherwood’s work, please contact us at office.delight@yahoo.de for further information. Get full access to Inner Awareness Newsletter at keithsherwood.substack.com/subscribe

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All episodes

Ep. 47 – More Insights Into Karma

Ep. 46 – Are People Stupid?

Ep. 45 – Out of Your Comfort Zone

Ep. 44 – You’re not the I: So Give up the I Idea.

Ep. 43 – Involution, Not Evolution

Ep. 42 – You’re Not the Hero of Your Personal Drama?

Ep. 41 – How to Deal With Projections

Ep. 40 – Advanced Energy Work

Ep. 39 – Staying in a Relationship or Ending It?

Ep. 38 – Raising a Child in Modern Society