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Meditation for Beginners... Without the Fluff!
Rating: 4.8 out of 5(1,275 ratings)
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Meditation for Beginners... Without the Fluff!

Learn 3 Meditation Techniques to Help Master Your Mind
Created byMichael Hetherington
Last updated 10/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • Establish an ongoing meditation practice
  • Understand how meditation works
  • Come out of the madness of obsessive thinking and worry
  • Become the master of your own mind
  • Have more control of your emotions

Course content

4 sections • 20 lectures • 2h 2m total length

  • Quick Video Disclaimer1:01

    Deliver a brief disclaimer about older audio and video, affirm that the meditation principles remain applicable and valuable, and direct learners to updated programs on the instructor's website.

  • Introduction2:05

    Explore practical meditation methods without spiritual dogma, learning three techniques and their benefits to apply daily. By course end, you'll understand meditation and confidently practice three main techniques.

  • What is Meditation?3:06
  • Meditation Myths8:03

    Debunking myths

    1. Mediation is about stopping the mind from thinking.

    2. Having positive thoughts means that I am happy and having negative thoughts means that I am unhappy.

    3. Meditation is all about feelings of bliss, peace and love...

  • Quick Update Announcement0:48

    I've moved my website to michaelhetherington.com and invite you to connect for personalized guidance on anxiety, stress, depression, and physical pain, with options to schedule a talk.

  • The 4 Most Common Techniques of Meditation You Will Come Across6:53

    Discover the four common meditation types—concentration, observation, visualization, and metta—learning how each sharpens focus, observes thoughts, engages imagery, and cultivates loving-kindness, with practical daily applications.

  • The Basic Science of Meditation6:09

    Discussing various brain wave patterns and their relationship to meditation.

  • Fundamentals Quiz

Requirements

  • A digital device to download the audio meditations on, a cushion, chair and/or bed
  • No previous knowledge of meditation required

Description

Are you easily tired, exhausted or emotionally shaken by the world around you?

Do you find it difficult to relax and calm your mind?

Do you want to become the master of your mind?

In this course, we cut through common new age teachings to deliver a simple and direct method for establishing an ongoing meditation practice.... without all the fluff!

We discuss what meditation is, what it isn't and why many people find it so difficult. Best of all, inside the course you will have 3 downloadable audio meditations that you can use anytime to help you establish an ongoing meditation practice.

For those who may find it difficult to sit in traditional meditation postures than this course offers an introduction into a unique style of meditation with a downloadable, audio meditation so that you can practice meditation lying down! (Perfect for beginners)


In this course we explore:
- What is meditation

- 3 very powerful, simple, practical meditations

- Common myths about meditation

- The basic science of meditation

- How to start mastering your mind instead of being mastered by your mind

Some benefits of meditation include:

- Reduced anxiety and stress

- Better quality sleep

- Enhanced creativity and intuition

- Enhanced feelings of calm, confidence and relaxation

- And much more...

Who this course is for:

  • Any with a general interest in meditation
  • Anyone from any religious background
  • People interested in psychology and counsciousness
  • Anyone interested in practicing meditation without all the "new age" language
  • Beginners
  • People with some experience of meditation already

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