The Meditation Course Podcast

Acceptance is much misunderstood. It is often defined as accepting our circumstances. That is just plain wrong. We can’t just allow ourselves to suffer circumstances that are intolerable or unacceptable if we can change them. Acceptance is actually allowing ourselves to feel how experiences *make us feel*. Robert explains how meditation helps to allow uncomfortable experiences into our lives and how we can, over time, learn to become more comfortable with being uncomfortable.The meditations are taught from the perspective of acceptance.This session includes the following meditations: the meditations of no meditation, the following the breath meditation and the destress meditation.

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

On the 19th of December I ran a webinar for an international organisation.The goal was, in the course of 45 minutes, to introduce and explain some meditation, mindfulness, stress management and emotional regulation techniques that the delegates could learn from and use in their stressful day-to-day professional work.I briefly explained mindfulness and taught the following practices: The meditation of no meditation of sound, the meditation of no meditation of the breath, the 4-6 breaths and the destress meditation followed by a meditation of no meditation to round it off.

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

On the 19th of December I ran a webinar for an international organisation.The goal was, in the course of 45 minutes, to introduce and explain some meditation, mindfulness, stress management and emotional regulation techniques that the delegates could learn from and use in their stressful day-to-day professional work.I briefly explained mindfulness and taught the following practices: The meditation of no meditation of sound, the meditation of no meditation of the breath, the 4-6 breaths and the destress meditation followed by a meditation of no meditation to round it off.

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

This week at The Mansion, a student asked: "What to do when nothing else works?"At some point in our modern lives, we will either feel overwhelmed or close to it. We feel our emotions and mood driving us in a way that is clearly unhelpful for our happiness or the happiness of those we care about. this can be anything from uncontrolled angry responses to depressed mood, anxiety, unhelpful or inappropriate behaviour or whatever response that we engage in when it all gets too much.Motivation is a combination of beliefs, emotions, habits and external factors. Our behaviour or emotion takes over. It is not possible to work with this effectively when we are are in such a high stress situation.Robert explains the practices for responding to this along with the reasons that living in the modern world make us all liable to overwhelm.

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

This week at The Mansion, a student asked: "What to do when nothing else works?"At some point in our modern lives, we will either feel overwhelmed or close to it. We feel our emotions and mood driving us in a way that is clearly unhelpful for our happiness or the happiness of those we care about. this can be anything from uncontrolled angry responses to depressed mood, anxiety, unhelpful or inappropriate behaviour or whatever response that we engage in when it all gets too much.Motivation is a combination of beliefs, emotions, habits and external factors. Our behaviour or emotion takes over. It is not possible to work with this effectively when we are are in such a high stress situation.Robert explains the practices for responding to this along with the reasons that living in the modern world make us all liable to overwhelm.

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

What is Happiness? Ask a thousand people and you'll get a thousand answers.In this episode, recorded at the mansion on Saturday 1 December, Robert explains a scientific and spiritual perspective on Happiness and how we can experience it in a practical way through mindfulness and gratitude practices.Robert explains how these work together to enable us to experience happiness.Meditations: the meditation of no meditation for sound and the breath and a simple mantra for following the breath, following the breath and a gratitude meditation.

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

What is Happiness? Ask a thousand people and you'll get a thousand answers.In this episode, recorded at the mansion on Saturday 1 December, Robert explains a scientific and spiritual perspective on Happiness and how we can experience it in a practical way through mindfulness and gratitude practices.Robert explains how these work together to enable us to experience happiness.Meditations: the meditation of no meditation for sound and the breath and a simple mantra for following the breath, following the breath and a gratitude meditation.

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

Session 9 of the ‘modern life’ mini-series is on sleep.Most of us are sleep deprived at least some of the time.80% of our #mindfulness course participants sleep better.Listen to this podcast to hear how meditation practices can help you get to sleep or get back to sleep if you wake up at night.Meditations: The meditation of no meditation for the breath at 19 minutes, following the breath at 21:30, noting the breath at 28:30, counting the breaths at 33:00, four tens meditation for sleep at 43:00

 

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

Session 9 of the ‘modern life’ mini-series is on sleep.Most of us are sleep deprived at least some of the time.80% of our #mindfulness course participants sleep better.Listen to this podcast to hear how meditation practices can help you get to sleep or get back to sleep if you wake up at night.Meditations: The meditation of no meditation for the breath at 19 minutes, following the breath at 21:30, noting the breath at 28:30, counting the breaths at 33:00, four tens meditation for sleep at 43:00

 

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

When I teach, it is spontaneous. I never know exactly what I'm going to say. I also rely on feedback from my students on the usefulness of what I teach.This is the talk from a session that I taught last Saturday at Beckenham Place mansion. I was asked by a couple of students if I could make it available to them online and as the simplest way for me to do that is by adding it to the podcast, here it is:. Why are our minds so busy and what can we do about it?

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