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The Lockdown Meditation

Back to the basics with this straightforward mindfulness practice. Ideally try to do this sitting, either on a floor or on a chair with the back straight - good habits like this will pay dividends in the long run! The essentials to using the breath as an anchor.

Preventing Collateral Damage

This episode was recorded in response to the fear that was present in the hospital around April. Although the situation was dire and not without hazard, the fear was palpable and out of proportion to the danger we faced, worst of all it was contagious. Fear is another emotion that arises when thoughts take you…

New Week, New Challenges

You've just had a lovely relaxing weekend, it's a new week and before you've even gone back to work anxieties start to build about the perceived challenges that you may face. This is such a familiar situation to us and it comes as a result of projecting anxieties about a possible future. A future that…

Doing and Being

Doing always seems to require some effort even if its trivial. Just being, on the other hand seems rather effortless. What if you could achieve the same, allowing your actions to arise more spontaneously. Mindfulness helps us to achieve the state of 'just being'.

Incorporating Mindfulness Into Everyday Life

The peace that meditation gives you does not have to be restricted to the time that you are sitting in meditation. Everyday life can provide the same peace through mindfulness. This episode is about cultivating a mindful lifestyle. With this approach, gradually, being mindful will become your default state.

Facing Uncertainty

If the events of 2020 have taught us one thing, it is that no one can predict the future. Uncertainty is not to be feared, fear about a projected future is a mere thought form arising in present moment awareness and has no inherent reality of their own. This meditation is about embracing uncertainty by…

Dealing With Emotions Through Self-Observation

'The cure for pain is in the pain' ~ RumiHave you ever observed what an emotion is? Emotions are thoughts that have recruited body sensations (usually felt in chest or abdomen) to amplify their messages. Try to observe your body sensations quietly without the overlay of thought and see what happens to the emotion.These guided…

Attention!

Our human experience consists of perceptions of the world, body and mind. We can rest our attention anywhere but like an addiction our attention tends to rest on whatever is going through our mind. This in meditative traditions is said to be the cause of unhappiness and 'suffering' we have seen throughout time but something…

The Power of Imagination

Imagination is one of the greatest attributes of the human being and its creative potential is behind most if not all the advances made in the history of mankind. Left unchecked imagination can have negative consequences. We often don't observe the bubbling of random thoughts that arise in our consciousness but if we did, we…

Meditation Anchors

Meditation anchors, return you to the present moment when lost in thought. This recognition that develops early, after starting a regular practice of meditation correlates to structural and functional changes in the brain that have been detected as early as four weeks after starting a daily practice on MRI and brain blood flow imaging studies.
Exploring Consiousness with Vikas Pandey

Introduction

Welcome to the exploring consciousness podcast. The Exploring Consciousness Podcast is dedicated to discussion on meditation, mindfulness and nonduality (the philosophy of Oneness, also known as 'The Perennial Philosophy' or 'The Worlds Wisdom') and the positive impact they can bring both to individuals and humanity. It is brought to you by Vikas Pandey, consultant surgeon,…