Watching
Meditation videos
Talks and interviews about the practice — not recordings to practise along with. For those, use the library.
Two different things called "meditation videos"
Search the phrase and you get a blend of two genres that want opposite things from you. It's worth separating them:
- Practice recordings — you close your eyes and follow. The video part is irrelevant; audio would do. These live in the big list.
- Talks and interviews — you keep your eyes open and learn something. That's this page.
Mixing them is why people end up watching an hour of someone talking about stillness instead of being still for ten minutes.
On this site
- Why David Lynch became Transcendental Meditation's most famous advocate — what he actually said across forty years, and what to make of it.
How to tell a useful video from an algorithmic one
| Good sign | Bad sign |
|---|---|
| A named person with a checkable background | A faceless channel with a stock-image thumbnail |
| Says what it doesn't know | Promises a specific outcome in the title |
| Under twenty minutes, or clearly chaptered | Eight hours of looping ambience with a claim attached |
| Posted by the institution that made it | Re-uploaded with no attribution |
| A human voice, with breath in it | Flat synthetic narration over slideshow footage |
Turn autoplay off. The single most useful setting change for anyone using video around a practice. Being dropped into an advert at the end of twenty settled minutes undoes the twenty minutes.