<p>Twelve written lessons on guided meditation, mindfulness and transcendental meditation — what each one actually asks of you, and where the claims run ahead of the evidence. The course ends with a twenty-question quiz; the pass mark is 80% and you may retake it as often as you like. Finishing it earns a course completion attestation signed by KEVALEX Group.</p>
<p>Meditation is a practice, not a treatment. This course does not diagnose, treat or cure anything.</p>
Lessons
Three families, and why the labels matter
An honest map of guided, mindfulness and mantra practice, and why loose labels cause most of the confusion beginners meet.
Guided meditation: what a recording actually does
A recording does four specific jobs for your attention, and understanding them explains both its usefulness and its limits.
Why some voices work and others make you tense
Pace, register, grammar and honesty determine whether a guiding voice settles you or quietly winds you up.
Weaning yourself off the recording
A staged method for practising without audio, built around taking back the four jobs a recording was doing for you.
Mindfulness: where it comes from
The word mindfulness carries a long Buddhist history and a short clinical one, and the two are frequently confused.
What MBSR is, and what it is not
The eight-week MBSR curriculum described plainly, with an honest account of what its trial evidence does and does not show.
Mindfulness away from the cushion
What informal practice actually consists of, why most attempts at it fail, and how to build one anchor that holds.
Transcendental meditation: what the technique involves
A plain description of TM practice, how effortless repetition differs from mindfulness, and where the secrecy sits.
TM: the cost, the courses, and the claims
TM is taught commercially through a tiered course structure, and its most expansive claims sit far ahead of the evidence.
Reading the research without being fooled
Seven practical checks that let a non-specialist judge how much weight a meditation study can actually carry.
Choosing a method for the obstacle you actually have
Name the specific thing that goes wrong in your sitting, then match a method to that obstacle rather than to a mood.
Mixing approaches, and when mixing becomes avoidance
How to combine methods deliberately, and four honest tests for telling productive variety from drifting away from difficulty.