Session 82 - Dealing with Difficult People_Meditation

1. Talk/Explanation starts at 30 seconds
2. Meditation starts at 6 minutes and 30 seconds

Basic Mindfulness Meditations - this collection of meditations have been recorded and released to help students to learn and practice the basic mindfulness meditations. The goal of mindfulness meditation is to train the mind to return to a neutral and non-judgmental present moment. These are the basic tools of mindfulness. Visit http://bromleymindfulness.org.uk to find out more.

The Following The Breath Meditation

A meditation designed for busy minds. Practice this to help you calm your mind if the other basic meditations don't work for you.

The Candle and the Breath Meditation

The Candle and The Breath Meditation

The best way to learn to meditate... is to not meditate.
These practices, which I learned from the great meditation master Mingyur Rinpoche, when he visited London in 2018, are the ideal way of building a sustainable meditation practice.
I have adopted these practices and teach them regularly in my classes. They are almost universally frictionless and massively assists new and experienced meditators. 
The practices can both be done almost anywhere and any time, bringing a useful mindfulness practice into our lives.
For more information on how and why they work listen to Episode 19 of the 'more than just mindfulness' podcast entitled Meditation, what is it, why would I want it and how do I get it?

The Meditations of no Meditation

1. The Meditations Of No Meditation

Meditation, what is it, why would I want it and how do I get it?
In this important first session of the Mastering Meditation series, Robert explains some of the history of meditation, what the purpose of meditation is, why most people wish to learn to meditate and how we can learn to meditate.
Robert explains how there is a frictionless way to learn to meditate and to build a minimal meditation practice.
There is also homework that will be picked up on and extended next week.
Meditations are the 'meditation of no meditation' and the following the breath meditation. Both are guided and explained from the perspective of learning to build a practice.

Meditation, what is it, why do I want it and how do I get it?

1. Meditation , What Is It, Why Would I Want It And How Do I Get It?

The human stress response is part of our fight/freeze and flight survival system. The stress response elevates blood pressure, heart rate and alters our physiology in a number of ways. A key element of this response is muscular tension. Our body prepares us for the life and death conflict that this system is designed for.
Relaxation is the flip side of the stress response. While we are relaxed, we cannot remain in the stress state. Relaxation and stress are mutually exclusive. The human body can only be in one or the other. You have never been angry and relaxed.
We can hack this system and trigger a return to relaxation from stress by training ourselves to relax some key areas where muscular tension is maintained while the stress response lasts.
The Four Tens Meditation targets these areas and in time, the level of tension becomes within our control allowing us to relax in even the most stressful experiences.
This is also a really useful practice to use to enhance sleep.
Visit https://therestfulmind.com to learn more.

The Four Tens Relaxation Meditation

Four Tens Meditation

The Modern Mind Meditation is a series of meditations designed to help us experience deep awareness of our mind in a comfortable and insightful way.
The Modern Mind isn't a separate part of our minds, or our brains, it is the overload of content that continuously fills ever waking moment in the modern world.
Much about the mind is a paradox if we compare it to the external world. 
The way to become aware of your modern mind is to instead become closer to your ancient mind. This aligns completely with Mingyur Rinpoche's concept of meditation being the process of becoming familiar with our minds.
Practicing the Modern Mind Meditation will help you to discover the depths of thought, experience thought arising in your awareness and become comfortable with it in a frictionless way.
The Modern Mind Meditation moves comfortably through the layers of thought and awareness until we can witness the surface of our subconscious minds by noticing the undercurrent of thought that we experience on the verge of sleep.
This meditation has been designed by Robert using his 'Labelling the Quality of Thought' meditation and other mindfulness practices.
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You can learn more by visiting https://therestfulmind.com

The Restful Mind

The Modern MInd Meditation

The Modern Mind Meditation

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