Bob Stahl, PhD

Guest Teacher

Bob Stahl has founded eight Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Programs in medical centers in the SF Bay Area. He serves as a Senior Teacher for Brown University Mindfulness Center and formerly at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Bob teaches Insight Mindfulness Meditation retreats worldwide and is the former guiding teacher at Insight Santa Cruz and a visiting teacher at Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society. He is coauthor of 5 books: A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Living With Your Heart Wide Open, Calming the Rush of Panic, A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook for Anxiety, and MBSR Everyday.

For more information about Bob’s current offerings and teaching schedule visit his website.

Bob Stahl, PhD

Dharma Library

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Articles

January 1, 2016

How to Work with Challenges that Arise during Meditation

Bob Stahl, PhD

When you formally practice mindfulness meditation, from time to time you’ll experience challenges that are considered hindrances to your growing practice. You will experience wandering mind and at times you will be occupied with states of wanting this or that, aversion, restlessness, sleepiness, or doubt. These challenges are very common and even predictable for all meditators both new and old. The good news is that you can learn skills to transform these hindrances into deeper learnings.
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