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Ep. 1: Why is Everyone Meditating?
- Length: 19 mins
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Ep. 1: Why is Everyone Meditating?
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Summary
Alice Fraser starts this series by telling a story about how the world is speeding up. How did we get to a place where everything is so fast all the time? A place where we have no time to slow down. She chats to Robert Colville, an author who has written about the history of speeding up.
Ash talks to Brigid Schulte. She wrote a book called Overwhelmed: How To Love Work And Play When No One Has The Time. She says technology and time management are taking over our lives and making us more and more distracted. And that is actually changing our brains. The episode will end with the author and journalist Robert Wright talking about the idea of the red pill in the Matrix. He tells Alice we have deluded ourselves for too long but there is a way out: meditation.
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- Steve
- 06-01-19
okay-ish
found it a bit staged, and repetitive despite the jovial delivery. Sorry but not entirely new.
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- Justine Appleby
- 06-05-19
interesting topic, cringeworthy presenters
I found the topic interesting, the interviews were good but I was so put off by the presenters trying to be cute and funny. Just stick to the plot.
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- S Berry
- 25-01-20
Easy listening
Easy to follow, relevant to life and interesting seeds of what it sows to consider in outlook and to more episodes.
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- D A Turner
- 07-12-18
Excellent download
This is the first in the series of advice and research in respect of meditation.
It explains in layman’s terms the benefits and the science behind why meditation is an important part of 21st century life.
Highly recommend this series.
The presenters make it fun but very informative
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- Topala Alexandru
- 19-02-19
A giant ad
This seems like a giant ad for a product: meditation and for the producer. Disappointed.
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- Brogan Rose Lynde
- 02-02-19
Try meditation
Great for people of all levels of meditation if you want to know a little more about the history and medical benefits. Would definitely recommend to those who's minds may wander
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- Stuart Personal
- 23-12-18
annoying click track made this unlistenable
i was really looking forward to this, but whatever made the producers think that adding that annoyingly intrusive click track in the background adds anything to the production? sorry, i just couldn't enjoy this, or listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-05-23
Background music and noise
Strange that people with knowledge of meditation and the brain have produced an audio with so much irritating background beat and other noises that my brain found it too exhausting to listen too. What happened to calm and informative ?
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- Ian Worcester
- 06-03-19
Annoying
I really didn’t like the presentation style of this topic.
The music; the presenters, pretty much all of it I found awful. I won’t be going past episode 1 I’m afraid.
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- A
- 09-07-19
Bold editing choices, for sure
I guess whoever produced this really wanted to move away from the traditional soothing voices and sounds generally used by audio productions about meditations and Buddhism, but I rather think they overdid it. I dropped out of listening after about 5 minutes because the editing was so jarring that it was making me feel agitated. It was like listening to a scurry of chipmunks having a sugar rush in a recording studio.
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