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 10-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 underpin the mindfulness and resilience practices I teach.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course-podcast/id1434349351?i=1000744378188
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UonjFTZu611jZLJuY5La6?si=Tvysd4GUTFGyD7MJfaK0lw
