Meditation Starts Here: An Expert’s Guide

A Meditation Expert’s Secrets on Creating a Mindful Meditation Habit

Susan Piver runs the world’s largest Sangha or online meditation community. We talk about mindfulness meditation and the benefits of meditation not as a self-improvement hack but rather as self-discovery method. Loving-kindness meditation and letting go of the stories we tell ourselves. Building confidence, kindness, love and gratitude while practising meditation consistently are all things Susan shares her insights on. We end the meditation-based conversation with a special 5-minute guided meditation exercise led by Susan. This was a hugely rewarding conversation with many special moments of meditation wisdom so I encourage you to listen and relisten to fully integrate these lessons into your own mindfulness meditation practice and visit The Open Heart Project, Susan’s online community for guidance and clarity on your own path.

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You’ll find something great in this episode if you’re:

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• Looking to try mindfulness meditation for the first time
  
• Wanting to deepen your meditation practice
  
• Hoping to focus on building consistency in your meditation habit
  
• After a guided meditation from a meditation expert
  
• Looking for a new self-discovery podcast to add to your list!
  
• Practising loving-kindness meditation
  
• Into trying a 5-minute meditation
  
• Struggling to Meditate
  

This episode’s guest: Susan has an international reputation for being an exceptionally skillful meditation teacher. She teaches workshops and speaks on mindfulness, resilience, communication, relationships, and creativity. She has been a student of Buddhism since 1995, graduated from a Buddhist seminary in 2004 and was authorized to teach meditation in 2005.

Known for her insight, clarity, and humor, Susan is as comfortable giving a 60-minute keynote to an audience of thousands as she is leading a day-long offsite for a small group. Whether in talks at Procter & Gamble, Google London, Google Paris, the Harvard Medical School Mindfulness and Psychotherapy conference or in interviews with Oprah, Ann Curry, Katie Couric, the New York Times, O Magazine, Redbook, and others, Susan’s mission is to teach everyone how to open up, give deeply, and create a life of wisdom, compassion, and courage.

Susan Piver is also the New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including The Hard Questions, the award-winning How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life, The Wisdom of a Broken Heart, and Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation. Her new book, The Four Noble Truths of Love: Buddhist Wisdom for Modern Relationships, is out now.

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• YouTube channel to help develop focus: www.youtube.com/todaydreamer