Update 1 on The Meditation Course Handbook
This is my first update on the serialised book. We now have a name for the book, a structure for the sections that the articles and episodes will appear in, and the first three episodes. Read on…
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Practice 1. Following The Breath
About the Foundational Practice of Mindfulness Meditation.
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Meditation Rule 4. Do Less Than You Can
The more we expect from meditation, the less likely we shall achieve it.
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Meditation Rule 3. Fix Your Roof in the Sunshine
Many people come to meditation due to some sort of crisis. They may also have read that meditation helps with stress. One of the biggest misunderstandings about meditation stems from this.
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Meditation Rule 2. Take Baby Steps
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Meditation Rule 1. You Are In Control
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About The Four Rules of Meditation
If you do choose to take up meditation, or return to an old practice, or deepen your practice with the meditations in this book, you really should follow these guidelines. I call them the five rules of meditation.
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The Purpose of Meditation
Important advice – read this before you read the book. Always keep this in mind.
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Fooled by Randomness - Book Review
A key book to understand the nature of change.
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3. How to meditate for beginners
The Practicalities of meditation.
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2. Getting started with meditation
The most important thing I can teach you isn't what to expect, it's what not to expect.
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1. About meditation
What meditation is, and more importantly, what it isn’t.
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Compassion, Sound and The Breath Combined as Mindfulness Meditation - New Podcast
This episode is a meditation which is a combination of the most frictionless ways to experience the passage of the present moment combined in a single meditation.
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An Appreciation Meditation - Podcast
Appreciation meditation from a Sunday Evening meditation class on this site.
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New Podcast Episode - Compassion, Self-Compassion, Anxiety and Trauma
In this class I explain how important compassion and self-compassion are to personal growth and recovery and teach compassion and gratitude meditations that enhance compassion in our minds and lives.
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New Podcast - Happiness and Calmness
"If your mind can't be calm, you can't be happy." In this class I teach some light Focus Meditation and explain how important it is in our modern world, and for our modern minds, to learn how to calm the mind.
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What is a Healthy Mind?
About the components of a healthy mind and the techniques we can practice to build it...
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Bromley Mindfulness
Bromley Mindfulness is Robert's Brand in the Bromley Area of London, England. Bromley Mindfulness offers courses, classes and training to organisations and the community in Bromley. Active since 2013.
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Mindfulness, Meditation, Growth and Wellbeing in the world of the Pandemic - New Podcast Episode
The class is an introduction to the tools, techniques, and practices we can use to help us reconnect effectively from the separation we have all experienced.
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A Guide to Learning Meditation
This is a short video aimed at those of you that are new to meditation or that have a meditation practice and are either trying to build it or maintain it.
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The Five Remembrances
The Five Remembrances
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Impermanence
About the Impermanence Topic
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Old German Proverb
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Podcast - The Starving The Wolf of Fear Meditation
The meditation is designed to help us notice the narrative of fear taking our attention and create an alternative to it that neutralises that fear:
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Rebalancing your Energy with Meditation and Sleep
In this class I explain the relationship between meditation, sleep, and energy. I teach meditations that can help our recovery and rebalance our energy levels.
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Meditating in Nature - New Podcast Episode
We’re back! A class I taught in-person after lockdown. First an explanation of the power of meditating in nature and a full relaxation body scan.
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Meditation and Connecting
On YouTube at 7.45 pm London time Wednesday 26 May 2021. The last class on connection to nature and connection to others will be a journey through all of the many layers of connection that meditation brings us.
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New Podcast Episode - Connection to Nature, Suffering, and The Basic Meditations
New Podcast Episode - Connection to Nature, Suffering, and The Basic Meditations In this class, I teach a set of the basic practices that are designed to help us calm our minds. I order them in order of efficacy for new meditators.
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Connection to Nature in the Present Moment
We are not in or out of nature, we are part of nature. In this session I focus on how deeply connected we are in the present moment through a sensory experience and through the air that we breathe. This is our heritage. It's our legacy and we can retrieve it so long as we spend the time to do so.
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Connection to Nature and The Cycle of Life - New Podcast Episode
A class from the Loving Awareness Meditation Course. Meditation, the present moment, connection, nature and the cycle of life.
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