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The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction, and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us from experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states. This audio introduces the hindrance of sloth and torpor, or dullness and heaviness, so we can understand how they function as negative mental states and what skills and methods we can learn and practice to let them go, reduce their intensity, and eventually abandon them completely.