The Meditation Course Podcast

In this episode, recorded live during a guided meditation class in Bromley, Robert explores what mindfulness really is—and why it's far more than a stress reduction technique.

We look at how the mind automatically creates narratives about the past or future and how a single thought can derail our day—unless we spot it early. Mindfulness meditation is the training ground for that awareness.

What You'll Learn

• Mindfulness is...

In this class, which I ran as one of my year-round online live group guided meditation classes on Tuesday, the 12th of August, I explained about meditation at night. 

Beditation can be practised before you go to bed, if you wake up in the night and also while meditating in bed in the morning. 

I also teach three meditations that I have learned help students to relax, calm their minds and drift off to sleep.

This is based o...

The Eastern Wisdom traditions have gifted us a legacy of thousands of years of mental training.

This isn't just noticing the present moment, it's an immense library of meditations, skills, techniques, and training, that combine to work together.

These practices help us to construct a map of our inner landscape so we can to navigate our lives more helpfully.

Science gives us a mountain of evidence you can transform your life...

From a class I taught on The Meditation Course on Thursday 16 January.

I have learned over the last decade of teaching mindfulness, meditation and resilience that disconnection and social fragmentation are among the greatest challenges that people face in the modern world.

The Mind fulness-Based Resilience practices are fine-tuned for this landscape and I explain the scenario and guide some techniques in this class.

Join us at http...

In this class, we explore the effect of 'The Marketplace of Fear' the modern media has become and learn how to change our mindset so that our attention is no longer drawn consistently towards a place of anxiety.
This needs a toolkit of practices that we can use to manage our stress, redirect the focus of the mind, intervene in repetitive thoughts and take beneficial actions.

To join us on our live meditations 4x each week, subscribe...

In this episode, I teach a set of practices that people have been using for at least 3,000 years to cut through all of these layers of uncomfortable, unhelpful baggage and return us to an experience which is our evolutionary legacy. It's how human beings can live when we are liberated from all of the expectations that the modern world heaps on us.

This is a recording taken from a class on Saturday, 28 December, on The Meditation ...

Hi everyone,

This is another meditation only episode. I will add a small number more of these then probably, depending on the response, return to the full episodes including the talk.

In any case I intend to add a few more of these meditation only episodes as they have been requested by students.

There is quite a lot happening in January so I suggest that you subscribe, at least for free, to The Meditation Course at: ⁠https://medit...

Understanding Awareness, The Perception Zone, and Witness Consciousness

This meditation is designed to cultivate mindful awareness and Witness Consciousness. It is also a deep and calming practice.

In our fast-paced world, we often find ourselves rushing through life on autopilot. Yet beneath this surface-level experience lies a deeper capacity for awareness that can transform how we experience each moment.

The Three Levels of Awar...

Another Meditation only today.

The perception zone is our nexus in space and time. We need to be aware of our presence in the space around us, and we also need to be aware of the passage of time. When we're in nature, this gets switched on. Walk into a forest, especially if you're alone, especially if there's low visibility, and you will be plugged into your environment, receiving all of that sensory information and processing it i...

This Episode is a meditation only.

Apologies for the delay in posting. I have been focused on the pilot for a private podcast for subscribers to The Meditation Course. This has almost all of my classes on it so there are three or four episodes each week. This will be available as an extra tier in January, 2025.

Change of Format

Normally my podcasts are recordings of my classes which all start with a talk.

This is the first of a ...

This is a recording from a class on Thursday, November 7. The topic of the class talk is Meditation and connection. In it, I explain how some Meditation practices (including the practices in the Seven Keys to Clarity program running on The Meditation Course) help us release the burden of beliefs that form our mental model and cause us to feel separate from nature and each other.

This sense of separation, almost universal in our co...

Meditation is mental training. It's easy to become diverted into the meditative experience itself and think that is the end of it. 

It's important to remember that meditation is mental training for life. We can learn many skills from our meditation practice that can benefit us in different ways.

It's never too early to put what we learn in meditation into use as during our day. Then we can integrate these practices into our life an...

The direction of the mind is a combination of thoughts and emotions that lead us into an inner narrative. This narrative can be unhelpful or even distracting.

In this class I taught on Saturday, 12 October, we explored the relationship between the mind and emotion. We practised some meditations that help us work with the mind when its direction is powerful and intense. The meditations include meditating on the body and also using ...

We can't predict our future mental states or how we'll think or feel because we can't predict the events and experiences that will create those thoughts and feelings.  

Because of this uncertainty, it is unwise to rely on a single meditation practice, however cosy and comfortable, or even a tiny selection that gives us what we need right now.  

Meditation is mental training. When we meditate, we build our inner re...

In our culture, we often suppress our emotions, leading to repression and unhealthy "emotional leakage." But there is an alternative!

In this powerful new episode, we explore:

- 😞 How society encourages emotional suppression

- 🎭 Healthy ways to express & process emotions

- 🧘‍♀️ Meditation practices to regulate emotional responses

- 😌 Handling difficult interactions with calm and focus

Tune in to le...

The first meditation of the month is Following The Breath.

In this class, we learn how focusing on the breath enables us to connect to the present moment. We also learn how to practice this and how this skill can work for you during your day to help you switch on mindful awareness and step out of the craziness of the modern world.

Meditation of the Month

We will have a meditation each month and then have some support for that ...

This episode is a recording of a class on The Meditation Course on Thursday, 15 August.

I am posting more regularly but on a private podcast. Contact me for details.

In this class I explained about mantra and we practiced a variety of mantra meditations.

A mantra is something you say aloud or in your mind that you repeat.

Mantra meditation is a truly ancient practice that goes back to the Rig Veda, which was written about 1,500 yea...

After our meditation and nature connection retreat at the weekend, I thought it was a good idea to run a class on the meditations that we did in nature.

Connection in nature is all about allowing natural environment into an our experience. All the sensations and smells and sounds become part of the totality of the experience of the present moment, which is what mindfulness is.

To experience this, we need to learn to open our awaren...