This course is for you if:
- You want to learn some skills and techniques to improve your mental health
- You're stressed, depressed, anxious or burnt out
- You're curious to learn more about what meditation and mindfulness are
- You're sceptical of meditation being a 'real' way to help your mental wellbeing
- You want to start meditating but don't know where to start
I'm biased, but I think there is truly something for everyone in this course!
Learn to meditate
This course contains 4 different types of meditation to get you started: Breath, Mindfulness, Visualisation and Loving Kindness. We'll go into detail about what these techniques are, ways to practise them including in a 'stealthy' way for your day-to-day life, as well as doing guided meditations together in the course itself.
Understand your mind
This course comes with a PDF download Meditation Journal, designed to help you write reflections on your meditation experiences as you go through the course. Reflecting and journalling is a great way to help you better understand your own mind - how you tend to think and respond to things, so that you can see any behaviours or thoughts that are not helping you, and take measures to change them.
Understand and experience the benefits of meditation
There are a huge number of benefits to having a regular meditation practice - benefits to our bodies, our minds and also to other people. This course looks into these and also explains some of the science behind why meditation can bring about these benefits.
An Overview of the Course Content
- Breath Meditation 1 (12:18)
- The Science of the Relaxation Response (5:02)
- Breath Meditation 2 (9:12)
- Stealth Breath Meditations (3:55)
- Effects of Meditation on the Brain 1 (5:19)
- Mindfulness Meditation (17:13)
- History of Meditation (7:42)
- Mindfulness in Daily Life (7:00)
- Psychological Benefits of Meditation (5:43)
- Visualisation Meditation (14:21)
- Effects of Meditation on the Brain 2 (5:33)
- Visualisations for Daily Life (16:56)
- Physical Benefits of Meditation 1 (7:33)
- Loving-Kindness Meditation 1 (14:57)
- Dealing with Distractions (8:23)
- Spiritual Benefits of Meditation (3:28)
- Loving-Kindness Meditation 2 (13:31)
- Physical Benefits of Meditation 2 (9:04)
- Breath Meditation 1
- Breath Meditation 2
- Breath Meditation 3
- Breath Meditation 4
- SOS/stealth technique: Box Breathing
- SOS/stealth technique: 4-7-8 Breathing
- Mindful Body Scan
- Mindful Walking
- Mindfully Eating
- Visualisation - throwing rocks into the pond
- Visualisation - climbing above the clouds
- Loving-Kindness towards a loved one and all living things
- Loving-Kindness towards a loved one, a stranger and all living things
- Loving-Kindness towards ourselves, a loved one, a stranger and all living things
- SOS technique: 5-4-3-2-1 grounding