Most of the influences that operate in the mind are actually quite simple and obvious. They can mainly be explained simply and without recourse to constructing new beliefs. These influences are self-evident to anyone that spends the time, through meditation, to become familiar and comfortable with the mind.
This class teaches breath meditation that assists in Emotional Processing.
A Chakra Meditation combined with Connection Meditation
Online Meditation Class teaching Loving Awareness. Loving Awareness is living with a sense of connection to nature and to all other living beings. In this class, I go some way to explaining why this is and lead some meditations that will help you to reconnect.
The Meditation of No Meditation
The first #LovingAwareness Meditation for #LovingAwarenessMonth
A 28-minute meditation focusing on awareness, focus, the body, and the self...
A Non-Religious Summary and meditations based on the Bhagavad Gita.
"Rest in Natural Great Peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helplessly by Karma and neurotic thoughts. Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of Samsara." Natural Great Peace is resting in nature. Natural rest is calm and relaxed. Karma is what we do to ourselves through any action that denies our humanity, our natural compassion, connection and collaboration. Samsara is the natural cycle of life and death. This is a poem by Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche a great and now decea...
The class is a 10/15 minute talk on the subject and 30 minutes of meditation and mindfulness-based resilience practices. The Skill of Meditation is how we achieve the Art of Meditation. The Art of meditation is how we craft a Vision of the Self that is authentic and unburdened. The Science is what helps and guides our Skills. 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 M...
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 have been teaching a version of this meditation since I began to teach meditation to a group of friends in London in 2013. It is a visualization meditation but works for those that are not highly visual as it is largely about how we feel. The connection meditation is a journey within and also a journey into the connection that we all have with ourselves, with the present moment, with others and with all of the beings that we share our planet with - our extended family. This is a recording of a...
If you wake up with an alarm clock, you are sleep deprived.The symptoms of sleep deprivation are low mood, grumpiness, fuzzy memory, brian-fog, stress and anxiety.Humans sleep better at a core body temperature of 19°C. When we get warmer, getting to sleep becomes more difficult. If we are cold, we can adjust our temperature by removing the coverings. If we are hot, cooling down becomes more difficult.We are having a bit of a British heatwave at the moment with temperatures up to 35°. We don’t ha...
Meditating in nature elevates the experience of meditation.Even better if we can find a place where we are completely comfortable.If we are visual people, we can visualise being in nature. If we are not visual thinkers, we can still experience the sense of being in nature.This brings with it the stillness and calmness that we experience when we are in nature. There is nothing special about the experience. We don’t need to do anything. We only need to bring the most evocative natural experiences ...
In 2009, I picked up a book called The Power of Now. It taught me three things that I already knew but had not realised. In other words, it was knowledge but they had not become deep intuitive realisations that formed my model of my reality and on which I acted and made choices.These three things were: The Present Moment is all there is, I Am Not My Thoughts, and I Am Not My Emotions.Realising this was transformative.Over time, I learned that these were not the concepts of the author, Eckhart To...
In open awareness meditations, we allow ourselves to experience our present moment experience and everything that arises in itOpen awareness meditation is distinct from focused attention meditations like following the breath where we are focusing on a single element of our experienceIf the mind is busy, we can move from focused attention to open awareness until the open awareness becomes more comfortable.In this session taken from The Meditation Course, Robert teaches three open awareness medita...
Clarity meditation is a mandala meditation where are we focus our attention on an object.This isn't like Trataka meditation however, where we focus on a single point. Instead, we are resting our awareness on the entire object patiently, and noticing what arises as part of this experience.To practice this, it is best to use an object that has some meaning to you and is either shiny or translucent. This isn't essential, but it is helpful.As we rest our awareness on the object, thoughts and memorie...
At the heart of all meditation is Focus. Our awareness and where it is focused is everything. Focus in almost entirely unconscious so we can often only work with it by influencing future focus having learned where out minds take our attention. Mindfulness is essential for this. If we are not aware that our attention is being taken and where and how we can't train ourselves to change it to a more helpful point.This meditation takes the meditator on a journey through focused attention, single poin...
Human beings are genetically programmed from 2 billion years of evolution.Physiological and psychological responses are fine-tuned for the threats that have been predominant throughout this 2 billion years.Often these threats are existential. They are threats to our life such as predators, venomous insects and snakes, precipices, hazards and hostile competitors.The system that has evolved to negotiate this landscape of threat is unconscious and uncompromising in its response to a potential threa...
Healing is a process of reconnectionHuman suffering arises from a sense of disconnection of rejection.I am not keen on the concept of 'advanced' meditation but you will probably need to have meditated for some time to be comfortable with this meditation. Humans We are adaptable and resilient. We inhabit the most hostile places on our planet, and the inhabitants can thrive there. We can endure cruel and inhuman punishments just so long as we have a sense of purpose and meaning. Connection to a hi...
A meditation for the moment that we find ourselves in.Right now, we need to find practices to restore some balance to our lives.For most people, for most of the time, the present moment is overwhelmingly good. It is the contents of the mind as it searches for potential threats that pollutes our present moments.Gratitude in the context of meditation is actually a translation of Metta Bhavana, a Pali word which is actually a collection of practices that use positive emotions to help us understand ...
Sitting in meditation, what arises most commonly in our experience is sound, physical sensations, thoughts and emotions.In this meditation, Robert guides the student through the process of allowing ourselves to be aware of these phenomena (As they are called) while they arise in our awareness, to acknowledge them, to note them, and to witness them passing out of our awareness to be replaced by another phenomena.Noting, or labelling, is one of the most frictionless ways to deal with these experie...
Noting or labelling practice was developed by Mahasi Sayadaw, a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of Vipassana (Insight) meditation in the West and throughout Asia.Labelling practice brings a number of benefits:- It provides a relatively frictionless focus for a distracted mind which is calming and relaxing.- It helps us to become more aware of our present moment sensory experience which is particularly useful with walking meditati...
This podcast is largely a talk on, yoga, choice, action, mindfulness and meditation but includes some meditations designed to help us to become aware of choices arising.Karma Yoga is described as the yoga of action. It is an ancient Hindu philosophical concept explained in the Bhagavad-Gita and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.Both of these are ancient texts, written hundreds of years before the time of Christ, are deeply involved with the issue of choice, decision, action and discipline.Choice and ...
This Walking and Labelling Meditation introduces 'Noting' or 'Labelling' practices into the walking meditation training.Noting or labelling practice was developed by Mahasi Sayadaw, a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of Vipassana (Insight) meditation in the West and throughout Asia.Labelling practice brings a number of benefits: It provides a relatively frictionless focus for a distracted mind which is calming and relaxing. It hel...
This meditation is a favourite among my student base and has evolved over the time that I've been teaching it.It originally began as the typical and famous mountain meditation and developed over time because I needed a metaphorical illustration to contrast the experience of focused awareness of something that is static and seemingly unchanging in nature against the experience of the awareness of the continuous flow of time past the seemingly static observer.The sense of the static nature of the ...
The Modern Mind Meditation is a mediation that I teach that helps us to become aware of the modern mind working - by it's absence...This practice is a set of ancient techniques taught in a modern way and designed to create a frictionless experience.You will be able to find the stillness and space that is in the present moment that allows you to leave the chattering of your modern mind behind. It is an experience without comparison and judgement and boredom and frustration and all of the multitud...
Welcome to the Sleep Meditation. An evidence-based practice designed to enhance your sleep.I have taught many meditations in the past that help with sleep. I have taught them on the basis that everyone is different and what works for one person doesn't work for another.There are many meditations that purport to assist in sleep but they are actually more like adult bedtime stories that are actually visualisations rather than meditations. That is of no benefit for the 50% or so of society that fin...
This episode guides you on your mindful walk. You can pause at any point and move between the sections. Timestamps 00:00 Preparing to leave for your mindful walk (5 mins) 05:00 Connecting to your senses before you set out (1.30 mins) 06:32 Setting out for your walk, Â connecting to your breath and your body. (5.28 mins) 12:00 Â Connecting to what you can see. (2.12 mins) 14:12 Connecting to your environment through your body. (1.43 mins) 15:55 Connecting to sound. (1.07 mins) 17:02 Connecting to...
Episodes 19 and 20 of Series 3 of The Meditation Podcasts are dedicated to teaching mindful walking. In the previous podcast, number 18 we learned walking meditation which consisted of three practices, focusing on the breath, focusing on our feet as we walk, and allowing ourselves to be aware of our present moment experience. That final element of last week's practice is expanded for these two podcasts into a mindful walking practice. Episode 19 consists of a short introductory talk explaining m...
