The Meditation Course Podcast

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 med...

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:...

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...

In which Robert explains how to be aware of our minds and how to calm our busy minds by intervening at the level of our physiology, the emotions and the mind. Meditations include: the meditation of no meditation for sound and for the breathfollowing the breaththe destress meditationthe compassion and self-compassion meditations.   This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awaren...

In which we investigate the nature of thought, the nature of worry and how they relate. We learn some meditations developed by the great Buddhist Vipassana teacher Mahasi Sayadaw and learn how we can build practices that enable us to neutralise unhelpful thought patterns. Meditations and practices today are: labelling the breath, labelling our present moment experience, labelling the thoughts, lab...

In which Robert explains that meditation and mindfulness both consist of learning to focus our awareness. Essentially Presence (mindfulness) is focusing *on* the experience of the sensory present moment and practising certain meditation helps us to focus *within* the sensory present moment. We also learn to notice what is part of our common experience and what we personally bring to the present mo...

In which Robert explains what anxiety is, why we feel anxious and teaches some practices that help us regulate our anxiety, manage our stress and calm our mind. He explains how we can train ourselves to make these practices intuitive without the need to find the time in our busy lives.   This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -Three live-streamed c...

In which Robert meanders through the concept of connection through meditation while teaching at the mansion in Beckenham Place Park Practices train connection to the present moment, connection to the body and connection to others. The meditations are the meditation of no meditation for sound and for the breath, following the breath, the destress meditation and the connection meditation.   This is...

In which Robert explains about the recent science on loneliness and guides a key gratitude and compassion meditation that helps us to understand our emotional responses to Loneliness. Robert clarifies how mindfulness and meditation can help lonely people to reconnect to the present moment and find the goodness in both our neutral experiences and our interactions with others. Practices this week ar...

In which Robert explains why relaxing doesn't need deserted beaches, waving palm trees and hazy sunsets, teaches how to meditate without finding the time to meditate and how to relax by changing your posture. Including the counting the breaths meditation, following the breath, checking in, the destress meditation and the relaxation response.   This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The...

The first session of the ‘modern life' mini-series. In which the regular Saturday meditation session was cancelled in favour of a noisy event in The Mansion and so we meditated in Beckenham Place Park in the Indian summer sunshine.   During the session, the noisy event could be heard in the background and we were visited by a dog adorned with many bells. Topic: Stress. Meditations: The meditation...

This session is an introduction to thought and calming or silencing the mind Meditations are: - The meditation of no meditation for sound - The meditation of the next thought - Counting the breaths - The meditation of no meditation for the breath - Following the breath   This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -Three live-streamed classes each week....

From a session taught at The Mansion in Beckenham Place Park. Mindfulness and Meditation is an introduction to both subjects and an explanation of how to use frictionless techniques to enable you to build a sustainable practice. Practices: - The meditations of no meditation. - Following the breath. - The Pyramid meditation. - Counting the breaths.   This is a recording of a live-streamed class fro...

In this session, Robert explores open awareness meditation in the natural context. This is a recording I made when we meditated in the park just recently. When any of our venues are unavailable in the summer, we often meditate in the park. There is a different sense when we meditate closer to nature. We can connect with our environment more deeply and meditation has a different quality.   This is...

Mindfulness-Based Resilience is the name I give to the set of practices that I teach which are designed to build resilience through a combination of mindfulness, emotional resilience and stress management training.