The Meditation Course Podcast

The Path to Optimistic Resilience Through Meditation

This episode is a recording of a class I taught on my online meditation course on Thursday, the 8th of January 2026. There is a 15-minute talk explaining how our cultural perspectives on gratitude and optimism work against us, and how we can adopt a different perspective that's more helpful by training our minds through meditation. We then moved on to 30 minutes of focused-attention meditations, which form the foundations of the mindfulness and resilience practices I teach.Click below to learn more and join us. https://meditationcourse.live

Mindfulness Meditation Explained

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 LearnMindfulness is noticing the present moment without getting lost in mental narratives about the past or the future.The practice trains your subconscious to alert you when your attention has wandered, giving you a choice about where to focus.Stress reduction and relaxation are side effects of becoming aware of your internal state.You learn that you are the observer of thoughts—recognising this neutralises the intensity of inner narratives and mental movies.Connection isn't something to seek. It's what emerges when we break the cycle of distraction and mental chatter.The session then moves into a guided journey through focused-attention, calmness, and open-awareness meditations—simple yet powerful practices you can return to anytime.📣 About The Meditation CourseThe Meditation Course is delivered as four live, online group-guided meditation classes each week via meditationcourse.liveThe course teaches practical, science-based practices to retrain your mind for resilience, focus, calmness, and connection.🔗 Resources & LinksJoin a live class → meditationcourse.liveFollow on social channels for daily micro-learning postsExplore upcoming retreats and courses📌 If You Liked This EpisodeShare it with someone who feels "too busy to meditate"Try practising the guided section daily for a weekListen to our Mindful Walking - Guided Mindful Walk episode (most popular so far)

Beditation - The Art of Meditating at Night

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 on what I've learned from teaching thousands of meditation students over the past 12 years, as well as in my regularly scheduled sleep courses. If you'd like to learn more about my online training or if you're in the southeast of the UK and you'd like to attend some of our courses, classes and workshops. Visit the meditation course website at ⁠https://meditationcourse.live⁠Happy Beditation!

Loving Awareness

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 for the better. The combination of practices I teach, from mindfulness to forgiveness and gratitude, appreciation, and others enable us to break through the barriers that our culture forms to experience the joy that this connection can bring.  This podcast episode is a recording of one of the classes I recently taught on the meditation course. Click the link below to join us together four times a week to meditate together.https://meditationcourse.live

Reconnecting in a Fragmenting World

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 https://meditationcourse.live for 4x classes each week for the same price as a weekly Starbucks coffee. Zero commitment, first month free, easy unsubscribe and real human customer support. Me! 🤗