Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is the podcast for people looking for a little bit of slow in a world that runs very fast.

My name is Brooke McCallory and thank you very much for joining me and it is actually just me today.

I'm flying solo for the next three Monday episodes. The reason for that is, well, essentially, I've roped in a friend to help out

because he's an expert in the topic that I want to cover over the next three weeks.

So Kevin Jenks is from Centred Meditation in Sydney,

and he has been on the podcast before.

We've done a couple of full-length episodes

with him talking about meditation and his personal journey, but also answering a lot of

the most common questions about meditation. And he also took us through a short mini meditation

at the end of the last episode he did. But what I realized after I spoke to

Kevin last time was that my personal journey of learning and understanding meditation was

probably hampered by the fact that I didn't, I didn't study it so much as downloaded a few

apps and kind of found what I enjoyed in meditation. And that

was fine. And I think I've really found my groove over time. But I believe that had I taken a bit

of time and learnt from an expert just to get those basic foundational ideas and skills in place

before going on and, you know,

practicing in ways that suited me. I think I probably would have, would have progressed maybe

or come to an understanding a lot more quickly than I did. So what I've done is essentially

worked with Kevin to design three mini meditation workshops.

And that's what the next three weeks are going to entail.

Today's workshop is all about thoughts.

So Kevin's going to take you through the idea that we are not our thoughts.

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