Episode 275: Suck at Meditating? Listen to This!
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! I have a really cool episode for you today. Meditation is a tool that I use often and is one of the most important things in my personal mental health toolkit. But for a lot of people, meditation just doesn't do the trick. Or it's too hard. Or it's actually scary.
In this episode, I share my best tips for meditation. I hope to get you to loosen your interpretation of meditation and the high expectations you put on yourself.
Have a listen and let me know what you think!
As always you can send me questions for future episodes to duffthepsych@gmail.com and show notes are available at duffthepsych.com/episode275
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| 0:00.0 | and that's a practice. You're not going to be great at it when you first start, but you will get better at it, right? So if you lose the visualization, you lose touch with it, or you lose the focus on your breath or whatever you're watching, that's okay. Just try to work your way back, try to work your way |
| 0:14.7 | back gently. And if you lose it once and you can't possibly find your way back and then eventually |
| 0:20.5 | your timer is off, you're done meditating. Okay, that's fine. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple |
| 0:26.3 | disclaimers. |
| 0:27.4 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:31.7 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:33.4 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave and consuming difficult content but |
| 0:38.2 | also respect and recognize your limitations so please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. If you need to skip, that's okay, but you know, feel free to give it a shot first. I also need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:54.0 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:59.2 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for |
| 1:03.4 | professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right, hello. All Right. |
| 1:24.0 | Hello, Friends of All Varieties. This is the Hardcore Health Health Podcast episode 275. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm here on's Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:32.9 | I make mental health content for real people, just like you. |
| 1:36.4 | And today we are not doing a question and answer. |
| 1:38.7 | I wanted to cover a specific topic for you guys. |
| 1:42.2 | And that topic is meditation so today we're going to be |
| 1:45.6 | talking about my personal tips for meditation things that you can try if you know |
| 1:51.1 | meditation hasn't really worked out too well for you in the past you |
| 1:54.8 | know if you kind of feel like you suck at meditation or have a hard time with it I hope |
| 1:58.7 | that I can you know share some tips and tricks that that may help you out here. |
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