meditation
5 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 30, 2020 by Andy Puddicombe · across every show →
Everything said about meditation, oldest first
May 30, 2020 positive
Puddicombe: Meditation does not alter external reality, only our relationship to it
“It's not going to fix anything. It's not going to change everything around us. But it will change our relationship with those things. So whether we're in work, or whether we've recently kind of lost, lost our job, whether we are in good health, whether we kind…”
May 30, 2020 positive
May 30, 2020 positive
Puddicombe: Anchoring meditation to daily habits increases consistency
“Second one is tied to something that you already do. So most people just either forget about it or something else takes priority. So tie it to something like if you have a shower every morning, tie it to that. So it's shower and meditation or it's coffee and m…”
May 30, 2020 negative
Puddicombe: Short-term problem solving fails as sustainable motivation for meditation
“If your motivation is to quickly solve a problem in your life, then once that problem is solved or sort of resolves itself in some way, you're unlikely to continue. So kind of set up a more of a kind of a, I'm going to do this for a long period of time.”
Jan 3, 2022
Puddicombe: People Rarely Continue Meditating For The Same Reasons They Started
“The reality is, as I've seen over kind of a lifetime, is that very often the reason people start meditating isn't the reason they necessarily continue meditating, and that they might begin it because they want to be better on the football pitch, but over time …”