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Twenty Questions To Understand Yourself

With Mark Rowland

How often do you pause long enough to hear your own answer? In this 20-day course, Mark offers one question each day, explored through a short teaching and guided meditation. You’ll begin by noticing how you feel, then explore the expectations and habits that influence your choices. Later lessons help you recognise what supports you and how you want to spend your attention. Each session lasts under ten minutes. You won’t need to find a perfect answer or reach a conclusion every day. Some questions will offer an immediate insight; others may become clearer as you go about your life. Together, these practices offer a thoughtful way to understand yourself and respond to your everyday needs with greater care.

A daily practice of honest reflection, helping you recognise your needs and make choices that reflect what matters to you.

20 Days

9 students

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10 min / day

English

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Mark Rowland

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Marlow, UK

Mark Rowland is a meditation guide and sound practitioner whose teaching brings mindfulness into everyday life. In this course, he offers twenty questions to help listeners explore their needs, notice familiar habits and make choices with greater self-awareness. His warm, practical guidance gives each question room to unfold, without pressure to find an immediate answer.

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20 Days

9 students

No ratings

10 min / day

English

Lesson 1

How Am I Really Feeling?

How are you really feeling today? In this first practice, you’ll pause and check in with yourself beneath the automatic “I’m fine.” Through gentle reflection and meditation, you’ll make space to notice what’s present and consider one small thing you might need today.

Lesson 2

What Is Taking Up Space In My Mind?

What has been occupying your thoughts lately? In this practice, you’ll take a gentle look at what’s on your mind, notice how it’s affecting you, and consider what deserves your attention today. You don’t need to solve everything; simply give yourself a little room to see more clearly.

Lesson 3

What Am I Asking Of Myself?

Explore the expectations you carry about what you should accomplish and how you should cope. This practice invites you to consider your current circumstances, recognise the demands you place on yourself, and find a more manageable way to approach something that matters to you.

Lesson 4

What Am I Putting Off?

Bring gentle attention to something you’ve been postponing and explore what makes it difficult to begin. This practice offers space to understand your hesitation, ease self-criticism, and identify a manageable next step that fits your energy and circumstances.

Lesson 5

When Do I Feel Most Like Myself?

Explore the moments when you feel comfortable being yourself. Through guided reflection, you’ll notice the people, activities or surroundings that help you feel at ease, and consider a manageable way to make more room for those experiences in your everyday life.

Lesson 6

What Is Supporting Me?

Notice a source of support that may have become easy to overlook. This practice invites you to explore how a person, activity or everyday resource helps you, acknowledge the difference it makes, and consider how you could stay connected with that support.

Lesson 7

How Do I Speak To Myself?

Explore the words and tone you use with yourself when something goes wrong. Through a gentle reflection on an everyday experience, you’ll notice how your inner commentary affects you and practise a fairer, more understanding response that still allows you to take responsibility.

Lesson 8

What Do I Need To Say No To?

Explore an everyday situation where you feel stretched or reluctant to agree. This practice helps you notice what makes saying no difficult, consider your available time and energy, and find a clear, respectful way to express a limit or pause before responding.

Lesson 9

What Am I Assuming?

Explore the meaning you’ve given to a recent, everyday situation. This practice helps you distinguish what you directly observed from what you inferred, consider another possible explanation, and become more comfortable leaving a question open until you know more.

Lesson 10

What Am I Trying To Control?

Explore a situation where you’ve been working hard to manage the outcome. This practice helps you recognise where your actions can make a difference, acknowledge what depends on other people or circumstances, and decide what counts as enough preparation for today.

Lesson 11

What Am I Curious About?

Reconnect with something you’d like to understand, experience or try. This practice invites you to notice what catches your interest, recognise judgements that discourage you from exploring, and consider a small first step without needing to make a larger commitment.

Lesson 12

Who Am I Comparing Myself To?

Explore a comparison that leaves you feeling behind or dissatisfied. This practice helps you recognise what you’re wishing for, consider your own circumstances more fairly, and identify a worthwhile next step based on what matters to you in your life.

Lesson 13

What Have I Outgrown?

Reflect on a familiar routine, goal or idea about yourself that may no longer fit your life. This practice offers time to acknowledge what it once gave you, explore what has changed, and consider a manageable adjustment without rushing into a decision.

Lesson 14

What Can I Give Myself Credit For?

Recognise an effort you may have overlooked or dismissed. Through reflection on a recent experience, this practice helps you acknowledge what a situation required of you and give yourself fair credit for how you responded, even when the outcome was imperfect.

Lesson 15

What Actually Helps Me Rest?

Explore what leaves you feeling refreshed and how that relates to the kind of tiredness you’re experiencing. This practice helps you reflect on your usual breaks, recognise what you need today, and choose a realistic opportunity for rest that suits you.

Lesson 16

What Do I Want My Choices To Reflect?

Explore a quality you value in how you live, such as kindness or honesty. This practice helps you connect that quality with something you already do and identify one ordinary moment where it could guide a clear, realistic choice in the day ahead.

Lesson 17

What Have I Left Unsaid?

Reflect on something you’d like another person to understand, from appreciation to an apology or an experience you’ve struggled to explain. This practice helps you clarify what you mean, recognise what makes expression difficult, and consider how you’d like to proceed.

Lesson 18

What Am I Rushing Past?

Notice an ordinary part of your day that receives little attention because you’re already thinking about what comes next. This practice explores the habit of hurrying and offers a simple way to stay with an experience long enough to register its details.

Lesson 19

How Do I Listen?

Explore what happens to your attention when another person is speaking. Through listening practice and reflection on an everyday conversation, you’ll recognise familiar distractions and consider how a pause or a thoughtful question could help you understand someone more fully.

Lesson 20

What Am I Waiting To Enjoy

Explore a simple pleasure you’ve been saving for later and the conditions you’ve placed around enjoying it. This practice helps you consider what truly needs to wait, find a realistic opportunity for enjoyment, and appreciate something comfortable in your present experience.