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# New Podcast Episode 🎙️ The Path to Optimistic Resilience
- URL: https://www.meditationcourse.live/blog/new-podcast-episode-the-path-to-optimistic-resilience/
- Published: 2026-01-09T18:47:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-09T18:47:30.000Z
- Description: Links in this article to the Podcast
- Author: RobertMitchell
- Tags: #blog-col

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.

### Listen on your favourite podcast player

[https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course-podcast/id1434349351?i=1000744378188](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course-podcast/id1434349351?i=1000744378188&ref=meditationcourse.live)

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### Or listen on Spotify, our podcast host

[https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UonjFTZu611jZLJuY5La6?si=Tvysd4GUTFGyD7MJfaK0lw](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UonjFTZu611jZLJuY5La6?si=Tvysd4GUTFGyD7MJfaK0lw&ref=meditationcourse.live)