611: Getting Started with Meditation with Ann Swanson
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
If you’re interested in meditation and have downloaded an app or purchased a book, yet fail to consistently follow through, this week’s podcast is for you. We’ll discuss meditation for average people living in the real world with recurring guest, Ann Swanson.
Listen and learn:
- Meditation practice vs. meditative practices
- How to manage rumination
- Why different meditation practices can serve you in different scenarios
- How to start small and link your practice to an existing habit
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Ann Swanson is a certified yoga therapist and author of the best-selling book, Science of Yoga. She specializes in helping people manage stress, pain and arthritis. Her new book is called, Meditation for the Real World: Finding Peace in Everyday Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone is Lucas here. Today's show is called Getting Started with |
| 0:04.9 | Meditation. I'm here with returning guest Anne Swanson and is a certified |
| 0:09.1 | yoga therapist. She's the author of the best-selling book, Science of Yoga. |
| 0:13.2 | We use this in our 200-hour teacher training program. |
| 0:15.6 | It's a really beautiful book accessible and simple but not light. |
| 0:20.4 | There's actually tons and tons of information in there. |
| 0:22.3 | It's just presented in a way that's very |
| 0:23.8 | accessible, which I really am a fan of, and her new book, which is what we'll be chatting about today, |
| 0:28.4 | really follows along that same vein. Really simple but very dense as well well and it is called meditation for the real world |
| 0:34.8 | finding peace in everyday life. You can find the book and all of Anne's work at |
| 0:39.5 | meditation for the real world.com and welcome back. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you so much. I'm glad to be back with you. |
| 0:47.0 | If I understand correctly, you started out as a bit of a meditation skeptic and then became a fan and now an educator can you speak a little bit about your |
| 0:53.9 | journey? Yeah I would go to the yoga classes and at the end we'd meditate or |
| 0:58.7 | maybe just lie in Chivasana and do a relaxation I'd be literally looking at my watch. Like I have things to do. I have places to go. I already did my thing. And then in time I started to |
| 1:11.1 | experiment with different techniques |
| 1:12.8 | that teachers gave me and get those glimpses of like, |
| 1:15.5 | oh, this is what really relaxing feels like. |
| 1:18.3 | This is what it feels like to focus on something. |
| 1:22.0 | So over time, I started to warm up to meditation, |
| 1:24.8 | but it did not come natural to me. |
| 1:26.5 | I am not a naturally chill person. |
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