Finding Your Right Mind — with Vanessa Potter
Join my 'consciousness road-trip' where I delve into the many ways we can help ourselves live less frenetic and stressed-out lives. With regular guests, I'll discuss different 'mind practices' from mindfulness, yoga, compassion, bodywork, forest bathing psychedelics — no practice is off bounds. I'll talk about the science behind each practice, what it's really like to experience, the pitfalls and challenges and how we can discover our own wisdom. If you want to find out what made me quite so curious about mind and body practices, check out my book "Finding My Right Mind: One Woman's Experiment to put Meditation to the Test", (Welbeck 2021) Got questions or topics you'd like me to cover? contact me at www.vanessapotter.com
Finding Your Right Mind — with Vanessa Potter
50 Shades of Meditation — How "meditation" is not one-size-fits-all.
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Vanessa Potter
Today I talk to Karin Matko, a meditation researcher who has investigated over 300 different meditation styles as part of a study that asked meditators: "what do you do when you meditate?" in an attempt to re-categorise "meditation techniques". We talk about body-centred methods, movement meditations, Sufi whirling and meditating on death. If you thought mindfulness was the only way to meditate — we have news for you!