Learn Meditation For Beginners With Dr Toh Wong

Begin your Meditation Journey Here and Now!

What you'll learn
Know some of the Evidence-based benefits of Meditation
Understand what Meditation is
Know the 3 broad categories of meditation and the benefits each may confer
Learn how to incorporate meditation into your daily life
Requirements
This is a beginners programme and an introduction to scientific meditation so any one can participate
Description
Optimise your brain! Heard about Meditation? Can you afford not to level-up in today's competitive world. High functioning elite performers and leaders from all over the world share a common practice - meditation. This course is an evidence-based yet easy walk through of the 3 broad categories of meditation and a review of how to do each practice and make it part of your daily life.  Mental stress is a global health epidemic being linked to more than 23 million worldwide deaths each year (Fink, 2016; Go et al., 2004). Chronic stress is associated with impairments to the brain region that regulates memory and learning and with negative physiological effects including increased inflammation and reduced immunity.Meditation has shown therapeutic benefit for managing pain, improving mental and emotional health, and addressing health behaviors such as overeating and substance dependence. Mindfulness Meditation has also been linked to increased creativity, slowing age-related cognitive decline, and improved behavior and attention in educational settings. Imagine what your life could be like once you can improve all these things. Dr Toh Wong MBChB (Hons) MRCGP DCH DRCOG LMCC PGCCE is a medical doctor and one of the leading doctors on Integrative Health in the UK. He has practised acupuncture, NLP, hypnosis and Meditation for many years and spoken and taught on these subjects both in the UK and internationally at Universities, Conferences, and other Educational Institutions making him well-qualified to take you through this programme. He is also the creator of the YouTube Channel Animate Educate which promotes Meditation through animated videos with over 600,000 views.If you are interested in Meditation and the science behind it, come learn a scientific yet Beginner-Level Meditation in a short time with walk-through meditations that can change your physiology and your brain for the better. A life skill that will take you far on your journey.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Why should you learn Meditation from me?

Lecture 2 What are the scientific benefits of meditation?

Lecture 3 Mindfulness Neuroscience Animated ( The neuroscience of Meditation)

Lecture 4 What is meditation?

Lecture 5 The 3 broad categories of Meditation - Meditation Types and Course Structure

Lecture 6 What is mindfulness?

Section 2: How to Empty your Mind - Animated Video

Lecture 7 How to Empty Your Mind

Section 3: Concentrative Meditation (Focused awareness meditation)

Lecture 8 An introduction to Concentrative Meditation

Lecture 9 Breathing Meditation

Lecture 10 Breathing Meditation Debrief

Lecture 11 Mantra-based Meditation Introduction

Lecture 12 The Relaxation Response exercise

Lecture 13 Spiritual Meditation

Section 4: Open Awareness Meditation

Lecture 14 Open Awareness Meditation Introduction

Lecture 15 Open Awareness Meditation Exercise

Lecture 16 Open Awareness Meditation Debrief

Section 5: Guided Meditation

Lecture 17 Guided Meditation Introduction

Lecture 18 Loving Kindness Meditation Introduction

Lecture 19 Loving Kindess - Guided Meditation Exercise

Section 6: Problems of meditation

Lecture 20 Problems of Meditation

Lecture 0 Making meditation a daily habit

Section 7: Conclusion

Lecture 21 Conclusion lecture

Beginner meditators and the scientifically and spiritually curious