Deep Psychology

I explore persistence, failure and success, with no script. I open up and share the challenges I've faced this week, month and year so far. I hope you take away some lessons on success, failure and persistence.Train with me: https://deep-psychology.com

Let’s discuss and practice choiceless awareness, a particular meditation state in which we give up control of our attention. This is also a meditation practice in its own right, and we’ll look at a couple of varieties of it.Skip to 11:30 for the guided meditation!I often see choiceless awareness talked about as a philosophy or doctrine. But to me it’s much more immediate than that. It’s a first-person meditative state. You don’t have to believe that it exists: you just need to experience it for yourself.That said, this work is best suited to people with some experience with meditation, particularly mindfulness or vipassana-style practices. This is a delicate, nuanced art. If you’re a beginner, feel free to check out my free guided meditations on the channel.Accompanying article with extra tips and second meditation: https://deep-psychology.com/choiceless-awareness/Train with me: https://deep-psychology.com

Let’s talk about walking meditation, how to practice it, why we practice it, and the obstacles involved.If you do meditation for some time, you’ll naturally begin to bring it into everyday life, and walking meditation is a powerful way to systematise this process. In my local classes I teach it from day one to accompany our sitting work. My students discover that it’s possible to meditate whenever, wherever.Practice it enough, and you’ll realise you can enter meditative awareness whenever you want. This is life-changing.Accompanying article: https://deep-psychology.com/moving-meditation/Free guided meditations: https://deep-psychology.com/category/meditation/guided-meditations/Learn more techniques: https://deep-psychology.com/category/meditation/learn-meditation/Train with me: https://deep-psychology.com

Exploring 5 common limiting beliefs that hinder personal growth and success. Challenging misconceptions about talent and emphasizing the power of practice. Overcoming beliefs about lack of time and resistance to change. Encouraging listeners to take action and embrace positive transformation in life.

Welcome to this 5-minute sleep meditation, guided by Ross Edwards BSc DipBSoM. I suggest you do this lying down with a pillow under your head, keeping the body symmetrical.My accompanying post (link below) includes this free audio along with tips on how to get the most from it.This is perfect for both beginner meditators, who can get a taste of mindfulness meditation, and for experienced meditators, who can use it to supplement their existing habit.In this 5-minute sleep meditation, we intentionally relax the body then bring attention to the feelings of relaxation that result from it.In this way, we begin to enter a sleep-ready state while also cultivating the essential skills of meditation.Sleep meditation: Tips and next stepsTrain with me: https://deep-psychology.com

Beginners often enter meditation with misconceptions that hinder their practice. Key tips include releasing expectations and viewing meditation as a journey. Attention training is crucial, focusing on elements while accepting distractions. Acknowledge thoughts without judgment, fostering personal growth. Meditation is both a practice and a natural state—consistency is essential. Embracing this path nurtures awareness, enriching daily life and promoting deeper understanding.

MIND is my bespoke 10-week online mindfulness coaching programme that empowers you to bring mindfulness into your day-to-day and have it transform how you face life’s challenges, overcome your blocks, and gain greater authenticity and fulfilment.I'm Ross Edwards BSc DipBSoM, founder, teacher and coach.In my 10-week online coaching programme, you not only learn essential mindfulness techniques – you learn how to adapt them to your own needs for maximum personal growth. You start incorporating them into your daily life as soon as possible, meaning you get maximum leverage from your practice.You craft your own coaching goals, get personalised guided meditations to help you reach them, and work with me to strategically improve your life using mindfulness as the main tool. You simply don’t get this level of attention in standard meditation classes or on the popular apps.In this episode, we dive deeper into my programme and why it’s powerful.Free guided meditation: https://deep-psychology.com/online-mindfulness-coach/Book your free 30-minute taster: https://bit.ly/calendlyrossedwardsTrain with me: https://deep-psychology.com

Jean Gebser's work on the structures of consciousness illuminates the deep emergent structures of human psychology and how they play out in culture, society, religion, science and systems of meaning across human history, back to time immemorial.This is psychoactive philosophy. We're not analysing these structures of consciousness as separate entities far removed from them. We're steeped in these structures of consciousness.In fact, our psychology morphs and evolves through these structures as we grow and develop – in both an individual and collective sense. And their vestiges can be seen strewn across both our inner world, our objective world, and our planet.Here are Jean Gebser's Five Structures of Consciousness, which he calls mutations:1) Archaic2) Magic3) Mythic4) Rational5) IntegralIntegral is being born right before our eyes. Can we step up and embody this aperspectival, multi-viewed, flowing, flexible consciousness and take the world beyond the limited Rational perspective that has dominated for the last few hundred years? To be spiritual yet worldly and inclusive, rational yet integrative, and healthily selfless and selfish. This is our challenge as modern humans.Train with me: https://deep-psychology.com

Delve into Ken Wilber's Four Quadrants, examining our wellbeing, values, desires, and developmental journey. Explore balancing personal and collective desires, integrating inner growth in education, and exploring human development stages and quadrant bias. Understand the importance of four-quadrant balance for healthy functioning and personal growth.

A crucial part of learning how to learn is becoming acutely aware of the obstacles that block our path to excellence.Here we look at three dysfunctional characters – the Dabbler, the Hack, and the Obsessive. These are the three learner profiles you want to avoid. Together they’ll give you a spookily accurate assessment of how you prevent yourself reaching true competence and expertise.And in my article "Learning How To Learn + Skill Up: The Four Learner Types", we expand on these three learner types and look at the gold-standard learner: The Master. This character avoids all the learning pitfalls and ultimately prevails.You can use the exemplary archetype as a template for improvement in any area of your life, from your relationships, hobbies and career, to your overall approach to life.Train with me: https://deep-psychology.com