The Meditation Course Podcast

The Meditation Course Podcast

By Robert MitchellEducationSelf-Improvement
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The Meditation Course Podcast episodes

  • Meditation and the Breath

    This is an example of the sort of content I will upload into the Meditation Course.

    I have added it to the Meditation Podcast so that the course students can listen and practice.
    Visit https://www.meditationcourse.live/ for more information.
    The following the breath meditation is an ancient practice that was taught in India about 2500 years ago.
    The way I teach it is essentially the same.
    Following the breath is the key mindfulness meditation training practice that helps us learn how to return our attention to the present moment in our day through the gentle repetition of returning to the breath in our practice.
    Following the breath also becomes the practice transforms into the silent meditation of open awareness where we allow ourselves to experience all of the internal and external phenomena that we can be aware of as part of our sensory present moment.

    This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -

    Three live-streamed classes each week.

    You can subscribe to The Loving Awareness Meditation Course website for free to be updated
    with new podcast episodes, offers and information on training.
    https://lovingawareness.fm/

    If you want to just listen to meditations without the guidance, visit The Meditation Course
    Podcast here:
    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course/id1549271245

    1 hr
  • The Four Tens Meditation
    You can practice the Four Tens Meditation to help you to learn to relax.It is also a mindfulness practice as when your attention wanders, you return yourself to the present moment by starting again.
    Focus your attention on the area of your eyes: forehead, eyebrows, eyes and cheek. Relax this area on ten successive out-breaths.
    Focus your attention on the area of your jaw: mouth and lips, jaw and throat. Relax this area on ten successive out-breaths.
    Focus your attention on the area of your shoulders: shoulders and the back and side of your neck. Relax this area on ten successive out-breaths.
    Focus your attention on your hands. Relax this area on ten successive out-breaths.
    If you lose where you are, just go back to start again with your eyes.The practice takes around four minutes.
    This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -Three live-streamed classes each week.
    You can subscribe to The Loving Awareness Meditation Course website for free to be updatedwith new podcast episodes, offers and information on training.https://lovingawareness.fm/
    If you want to just listen to meditations without the guidance, visit The Meditation CoursePodcast here:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course/id1549271245
    17 min
  • The Four Tens Meditation

    You can practice the Four Tens Meditation to help you to learn to relax.

    It is also a mindfulness practice as when your attention wanders, you return yourself to the present moment by starting again.

    1. Focus your attention on the area of your eyes: forehead, eyebrows, eyes and cheek. Relax this area on ten successive out-breaths.
  • Focus your attention on the area of your jaw: mouth and lips, jaw and throat. Relax this area on ten successive out-breaths.
  • Focus your attention on the area of your shoulders: shoulders and the back and side of your neck. Relax this area on ten successive out-breaths.
  • Focus your attention on your hands. Relax this area on ten successive out-breaths.

    • If you lose where you are, just go back to start again with your eyes.

    The practice takes around four minutes.

    This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -

    Three live-streamed classes each week.

    You can subscribe to The Loving Awareness Meditation Course website for free to be updated
    with new podcast episodes, offers and information on training.
    https://lovingawareness.fm/

    If you want to just listen to meditations without the guidance, visit The Meditation Course
    Podcast here:
    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course/id1549271245

    17 min
  • The 4-6 Breaths Meditation
    The first meditation taken from The Meditation Course.This training is from Month 1, Unit 1 - 'How to Meditate - Building the Foundations of a successful practice'When we breathe in, we are activating the sympathetic (fight and flight) nervous system. When we breathe out, we are activating the parasympathetic (relaxation) nervous system.By increasing the ratio of time spent in the out-breath (relaxation) we relax the body. This sends a much-needed signal to the brain that *all is well*.By breathing regularly and smoothly we are sending signals to the brain that all is well.This results in a state known as Coherence. Our heart and breath become synchronised.The 4-6 Breaths Practice is something we can do anywhere. It takes two minutes and is useful for rebalancing our physiology in stressful situations.
    This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -Three live-streamed classes each week.
    You can subscribe to The Loving Awareness Meditation Course website for free to be updatedwith new podcast episodes, offers and information on training.https://lovingawareness.fm/
    If you want to just listen to meditations without the guidance, visit The Meditation CoursePodcast here:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course/id1549271245
    6 min
  • The 4-6 Breaths Meditation

    The first meditation taken from The Meditation Course.

    This training is from Month 1, Unit 1 - 'How to Meditate - Building the Foundations of a successful practice'
    When we breathe in, we are activating the sympathetic (fight and flight) nervous system.
    When we breathe out, we are activating the parasympathetic (relaxation) nervous system.
    By increasing the ratio of time spent in the out-breath (relaxation) we relax the body. This sends a much-needed signal to the brain that *all is well*.
    By breathing regularly and smoothly we are sending signals to the brain that all is well.
    This results in a state known as Coherence. Our heart and breath become synchronised.
    The 4-6 Breaths Practice is something we can do anywhere. It takes two minutes and is useful for rebalancing our physiology in stressful situations.

    This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -

    Three live-streamed classes each week.

    You can subscribe to The Loving Awareness Meditation Course website for free to be updated
    with new podcast episodes, offers and information on training.
    https://lovingawareness.fm/

    If you want to just listen to meditations without the guidance, visit The Meditation Course
    Podcast here:
    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course/id1549271245

    6 min
  • 2020 And Beyond
    First of all I’d like to say thanks to all the supporters of the restful mind podcast and the More than just mindfulness podcast. It’s been a source of constant inspiration to me to check my stats and discover people all over the world listening to the podcast, some of you quite regularly. I want to explain my plans for future podcasting, and also, for future meditation training online. Throughout 2020 and beyond, I will be offering the following things:
    Free of charge, an online meditation class that you can attend real-time, and which will be broadcast once or twice a month.
    And also free of charge is access to some sample content from my new Meditation Course.
    Don’t be concerned if you’re a regular listener though, as the meditations on the podcast will be added to at the rate of about one per week.The purpose of the Meditation Course is to provide the consistent level of support that meditation students need throughout an entire year. To discover how to join the Meditation Course, or access any of the free resources, visit https://www.meditationcourse.live/. From there you can subscribe to our mailing list and you will be updated with information on how to join the course, how to access the free resources, the free online classes, and the free sample meditation class from the course that I’ve made available. You’ll also be updated when a new podcast episode is published.
    This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -Three live-streamed classes each week.
    You can subscribe to The Loving Awareness Meditation Course website for free to be updatedwith new podcast episodes, offers and information on training.https://lovingawareness.fm/
    If you want to just listen to meditations without the guidance, visit The Meditation CoursePodcast here:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course/id1549271245
    6 min
  • 2020 And Beyond

    First of all I’d like to say thanks to all the supporters of the restful mind podcast and the More than just mindfulness podcast. It’s been a source of constant inspiration to me to check my stats and discover people all over the world listening to the podcast, some of you quite regularly.

    I want to explain my plans for future podcasting, and also, for future meditation training online.
    Throughout 2020 and beyond, I will be offering the following things:

    • Free of charge, an online meditation class that you can attend real-time, and which will be broadcast once or twice a month.
  • And also free of charge is access to some sample content from my new Meditation Course.

    • Don’t be concerned if you’re a regular listener though, as the meditations on the podcast will be added to at the rate of about one per week.
    The purpose of the Meditation Course is to provide the consistent level of support that meditation students need throughout an entire year. To discover how to join the Meditation Course, or access any of the free resources, visit https://www.meditationcourse.live/. 
    From there you can subscribe to our mailing list and you will be updated with information on how to join the course, how to access the free resources, the free online classes, and the free sample meditation class from the course that I’ve made available.
    You’ll also be updated when a new podcast episode is published.

    This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -

    Three live-streamed classes each week.

    You can subscribe to The Loving Awareness Meditation Course website for free to be updated
    with new podcast episodes, offers and information on training.
    https://lovingawareness.fm/

    If you want to just listen to meditations without the guidance, visit The Meditation Course
    Podcast here:
    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course/id1549271245

    6 min
  • Meditation, Habits and Building a Meditation Habit
    Human beings are creatures of habit. To build a new practice such as meditation, it is necessary to do two things. We need to build a habit, and more difficult, we need to intervene in the habits we already have.
    Intervening in our habits is difficult because they become combined. One habit brings another and this fills our day with a subconscious process I call the Autopilot. The Autopilot consists largely of instinct and habit. Throughout most people’s days in the modern world, control of their actions is passed between these subconscious processes which is why we can have a day that we get to the end of to discover we can hardly remember any of it. It becomes like a Groundhog Day.
    In addition to instinct and habit, we also have awareness. When we are experiencing mindful awareness we can observe these systems operating through our actions, thoughts and emotions.
    The process of building a meditation practice supports itself by returning us to awareness so we can intervene in the Autopilot and make conscious choices.
    This is the process of meditation:
    We somehow find the time to repeat the basic practices.
    They consist of us training our subconscious to return control to our awareness.
    This allows us to consciously initiate further practices that reduce our stress, intervene in unhelpful thought patterns, calm the mind and allow us to relax.
    Robert provides insight into this in this podcast.
     
    Meditations:
    15:13 - A guided meditation on sound, time, the mind and the breath.
    27:35 - The Four Tens Meditation
    41:17 - The 4-6 Breaths
    44:45 - Tactical Breathing
    49:15 - Counting the Breaths
     
    This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -Three live-streamed classes each week.
    You can subscribe to The Loving Awareness Meditation Course website for free to be updatedwith new podcast episodes, offers and information on training.https://lovingawareness.fm/
    If you want to just listen to meditations without the guidance, visit The Meditation CoursePodcast here:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course/id1549271245
    59 min
  • Meditation, Habits and Building a Meditation Habit

    Human beings are creatures of habit. To build a new practice such as meditation, it is necessary to do two things. We need to build a habit, and more difficult, we need to intervene in the habits we already have.

    Intervening in our habits is difficult because they become combined. One habit brings another and this fills our day with a subconscious process I call the Autopilot. The Autopilot consists largely of instinct and habit. Throughout most people’s days in the modern world, control of their actions is passed between these subconscious processes which is why we can have a day that we get to the end of to discover we can hardly remember any of it. It becomes like a Groundhog Day.

    In addition to instinct and habit, we also have awareness. When we are experiencing mindful awareness we can observe these systems operating through our actions, thoughts and emotions.

    The process of building a meditation practice supports itself by returning us to awareness so we can intervene in the Autopilot and make conscious choices.

    This is the process of meditation:

    We somehow find the time to repeat the basic practices.

    They consist of us training our subconscious to return control to our awareness.

    This allows us to consciously initiate further practices that reduce our stress, intervene in unhelpful thought patterns, calm the mind and allow us to relax.

    Robert provides insight into this in this podcast.

     

    Meditations:

    15:13 - A guided meditation on sound, time, the mind and the breath.

    27:35 - The Four Tens Meditation

    41:17 - The 4-6 Breaths

    44:45 - Tactical Breathing

    49:15 - Counting the Breaths

     

    This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -

    Three live-streamed classes each week.

    You can subscribe to The Loving Awareness Meditation Course website for free to be updated
    with new podcast episodes, offers and information on training.
    https://lovingawareness.fm/

    If you want to just listen to meditations without the guidance, visit The Meditation Course
    Podcast here:
    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course/id1549271245

    59 min
  • The Yoga of Meditation
    The Yoga of MeditationReferences:The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Swami SatchidanandaBhagavad Gita - Stephen MitchellInner Engineering - Sadhguru
    This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course.You can join us for four live-streamed guided meditation classes on most weeks of the year for the price of a weekly Starbucks latte.
    https://meditationcourse.live
    59 min

About The Meditation Course Podcast

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Welcome to The Meditation Course Podcast. I am Robert Mitchell. I teach meditation, mindfulness and resilience in London, England. The podcast episodes are recordings of classes I run on my online meditation course called The Meditation Course.