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The Meditation Course

Written by: Robert Mitchell
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  • The Meditation Course Podcast is meditations from the regular, weekly meditation classes that I teach in-person or online. The classes offer continuous training rather than just an introductory course. So if you are learning meditation, or returning to meditation, you can pick up where you left off and always find new and engaging content. I run live-streamed meditation classes and there will be at least one new meditation each week. Subscribe now to my course websites for free to be notified when I post new content. The Meditation Course is at https://meditationcourse.live.
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Episodes
  • The Loving Awareness Meditation

    The Loving Awareness Meditation
    May 18 2021
    The classes consist of a 10/15 minute talk on the subject and 30 minutes of meditation and mindfulness-based resilience practices. This class is extracted from The Meditation Course which you can learn more about or subscribe to here: https://www.meditationcourse.live/
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    22 mins
  • The Art of Meditation

    The Art of Meditation
    May 15 2021
    "Beauty is the purgation of superfluities." - Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 - 1564). An Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance. He exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. From a letter to Rene Lui Descartes XIV (6 March 1540) Michelangelo clarifies here how he believes that art, rather than adding beauty, removes that which is not beautiful. A sculptor chisels away the waste to reveal the form that lies within a block of marble.  A meditator builds their skill to release layers of psychological waste. All of the unhelpful beliefs and fears that form over a lifetime and undermine our happiness. We build our skills through continuous practice. Skill with the mind allows us to explore the nature of our minds. Over time we become familiar and comfortable with the mind. Our quirks, and the quirks of others, become clear and lose their intensity. In time we identify with a sense of self that isn't dependent on anything anyone else believes. It isn't a product of our cultural narrative. We can finally discover our personal truth. This week's meditation explores our boundaries. These are boundaries of touch, sensation, emotion, and feeling. In the process, we also can more aware of the very process of awareness. This helps to reveal a sense of self rooted in the Present Moment and grounded in Presence. Free from the endless perambulations of the mind as it searches endlessly for future suffering. From a training session in the Loving Awareness Meditation Course. https://lovingawareness.fm This class is extracted from The Meditation Course which you can learn more about or subscribe to here: https://www.meditationcourse.live/
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    29 mins
  • The Mind-Body Connection Meditation

    The Mind-Body Connection Meditation
    May 11 2021
    When I first began meditating seriously, I found that over time, I became more and more connected to my body. I became more aware of how I felt. Once I had became more familiar with my physical sensations I found it easier to identify my emotions. This connection has a scientific name which is Interoception. Interoception is the source of a great deal of scientific study at the moment, much of it in connection with mindfulness. I found that when I sat and meditated, once I silenced my thoughts, I could experience my predominant emotion directly as a sensation in my body. This was uncomfortable, but not immensely so. I discovered a number of emotional resilience techniques which caused my negative emotions to subside and finally to dissolve completely. These techniques became valuable life tools and the process of releasing my negative emotions became, and remains, part of my daily experience. When I began teaching meditation, I discovered that many of my students were meditating to help them understand their inner experiences and learn how to find happiness despite the painful complexity of thoughts, emotions and behaviours. I have since learned that this connection to the emotions into the body is one of the foundations of meditation and in fact it is the first element of meditation that we experience when we sit and do a body scan or focus on the breath or any other body-based meditation. I taught this meditation to experience this connection... This class is extracted from The Meditation Course which you can learn more about or subscribe to here: https://www.meditationcourse.live/
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    29 mins
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