Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris

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What's Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris about?

Dan Harris is a fidgety, skeptical ABC newsman who had a panic attack live on Good Morning America, which led him to something he always thought was ridiculous: meditation. He wrote the bestselling book, "10% Happier," started an app -- "10% Happier: Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics" -- and now, in this podcast, Dan talks with smart people about whether there's anything beyond 10%. Basically, here's what this podcast is obsessed with: Can you be an ambitious person and still strive for enlightenment (whatever that means)? New episodes every Wednesday morning.

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An Acronym To Keep You Sane...

10.30.2020

Use Roshi Joan’s GRACE tool to not just engage with difficult people in your life, but genuinely know your personal integrity along the way. We hope you enjoyed this meditation. If you're thinking, "You know, I could've kept going for ...

Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris episodes:

10.30.2020 An Acronym To Keep You Sane \| Bonus Meditation with Roshi Joan Halifax Use Roshi Joan’s GRACE tool to not just engage with difficult people in your life, but genuinely know your personal integrity along the way. We hope you enjoyed this meditation. If you're thinking, "You know, I could've kept going for ...
10.28.2020 #295: How To Be Grateful When Everything Sucks \| DaRa Williams In the face of the seemingly unremitting horrors of 2020, is it possible -- or wise -- to generate gratitude? My guest today argues: yes. DaRa Williams is a longtime practitioner and teacher of meditation. She is one of the ...
10.26.2020 #294: Vitamin E: How To Cultivate Equanimity Amidst Political Chaos \| Election Sanity Series \| Roshi Joan Halifax #294: Vitamin E: How To Cultivate Equanimity Amidst Political Chaos \| Election Sanity Series \| Roshi Joan Halifax It’s part four in our Election Sanity series. Throughout October, we have been trying to help you stay engaged in current events ...
10.23.2020 Earth, Wind, and Fire (Not the Band) \| Bonus Meditation with Tuere Sala Find resilience and self-regulate by connecting with physical sensations that evoke the universal elements of fire, earth, & wind. Quick reminder: our Free Election Sanity Meditation Challenge starts in the Ten Percent Happier app in a few days. We're really ...
10.21.2020 #293: A Star, Utterly Unguarded \| Brett Eldredge We’ve backed away from celebrity interviews on the show of late, because we got a lot of feedback from listeners saying they had trouble relating to some of our more famous interviewees. I am confident that is not going to ...
10.19.2020 #292: The Opposite of Schadenfreude \| Election Sanity Series \| Tuere Sala There’s an old expression: “Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little bit.” I love that saying, because it speaks to how hard it can be to take pleasure in other people’s happiness. That said, while it may be ...
10.16.2020 Increasing your Attention Awareness \| Bonus Meditation with Rev. angel Kyodo Williams In this potent meditation on one point, hone your capacity to direct your attention where you want without shutting out the rest of the world. Good News everyone, our Free Election Sanity meditation challenge starts in the Ten Percent Happier ...
10.14.2020 #291: Three Mindfulness Strategies from Joseph Goldstein There will be no talk of election or pandemic on this episode. This is a straight-up, meat-and-potatoes meditation talk from the one and only Joseph Goldstein. In this chat, we explore three profoundly useful mindfulness strategies, including: mindfulness of thinking, ...
10.12.2020 #290: The Immense Power of Giving a Crap \| Election Sanity Series \| Rev. angel Kyodo williams Do you remember that band, The Shins? They had a popular song that appeared on the soundtrack for that Zach Braff movie Garden State. Anyway, they also had a song called “Caring is Creepy.” I always thought that was kinda ...
10.09.2020 Reset Your Nervous System \| Bonus Meditation with JoAnna Hardy If you enjoyed this meditation, sign up for our Election Sanity Series email guide. It will recap all of the podcast episodes each week. It’ll include helpful tidbits such as key terms and concepts; highlights from the immense wisdom our ...
10.07.2020 #289: Fun Is a Trainable Skill (And It Doesn't Involve Your Phone) \| Catherine Price At a time like this, fun may seem frivolous. But our guest today is going to argue — convincingly, in my opinion — that fun is absolutely essential to a well-lived life. She has thought deeply about what actually constitutes ...
10.05.2020 #288: What's Love Got To Do With It? \| Election Sanity Series \| JoAnna Hardy In an election season characterized by misinformation, mistrust, and now a positive covid test from the President-- we’ve been plunged headlong into a black hole of uncertainty. So here at the Ten Percent Happier podcast, we’ve decided to serve up ...
10.02.2020 Fear Itself \| Bonus Meditation with Sharon Salzberg When you’re stuck in fear and other strong emotions, intentionally feeling what’s happening with acceptance can be a game changer. To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, visit https://10percenthappier.app.link/FeelingFearPod In the Ten Percent Happier app, you'll find ...
09.30.2020 #287: Can You Change Your Relationship With Fear? \| Dr. Abigail Marsh There’s no shortage of fear these days -- the virus, the climate, racial injustice, political tumult… I could go on. But can you change the way your brain reacts to fear? Moreover, can you train courage? Abigail Marsh says yes; ...
09.28.2020 #286: Feeding the Mind \| Dr. Mark Hyman Today we’re going to get a deep take on the old cliche, “You are what you eat.” Usually that expression speaks to the impact of food on our bodies, but what is often overlooked is the impact nutrition has on ...
09.25.2020 Happiness Doesn't Have to be an Accident \| Bonus Meditation with Diana Winston Happiness doesn't have to be an accident. In this session from Diana, train your mind to become more and more joyful. To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, visit https://10percenthappier.app.link/OpeningToJoyPod About Diana: Diana Winston is the Director ...
09.23.2020 #285: What’s the Point of Joy Right Now? \| James Baraz In my opinion, purveyors of joy can come off as oily and unctuous, even in the best of times. Like walking impersonations of Rainbow Brite. But in hard times, arguing for joy can seem pollyanna-ish or downright clueless. Our guest ...
09.21.2020 #284: How To Handle A Narcissist (Including, Maybe...Yourself) \| Keith Campbell “Narcissist” is a word that gets thrown quite a bit, including by me -- often, semi-facetiously, about myself. But until this conversation, I didn’t actually know what the word meant. My guest today is Keith Campbell, who’s been researching narcissism ...
09.18.2020 Anxious? Listen to This. \| Bonus Meditation with Joseph Goldstein During major life transitions your emotional and mental world can kick into overdrive. Learn how to stay in the eye of the hurricane. In the Ten Percent Happier app, you'll find this same meditation in different lengths to suit your ...
09.16.2020 #283: The Buddha’s Foundational Listicle \| Phillip Moffitt Way before Buzzfeed, the Buddha was creating listicles: The Seven Factors of Enlightenment, The Three Jewels, The Eight Worldly Winds... I could go on. He wasn’t using these lists as clickbait, obviously; they were teaching tools -- ways to understand ...
09.14.2020 #282: The “Lifequake” Survival Guide \| Bruce Feiler We have another themed week for you, with two episodes about how to navigate major life changes-- clearly a resonant theme, given the various dumpster fires that are raging in our world right now. Coming up on Wednesday, we’re going ...
09.11.2020 What To Do When You Get Angry? \| Bonus Meditation with Jessica Morey Go from "seeing red" to seeing the value in anger without being carried away by it and doing or saying things you'll regret later. About Jessica Morey: Jess Morey is the executive director and lead teacher of Inward Bound Mindfulness ...
09.09.2020 #281: What a Buddhist Monk Learned from Nearly Being Assasinated \| Bhante Buddharakkhita When you first encounter Bhante Buddharakkhita, the wise and affable Abbot of the Ugandan Buddhist Center, you might be tempted to think: this guy’s been a meditator since shortly after exiting the womb. But his story of finding the dharma ...
09.07.2020 #280: One Man’s Planetary Quest for Happiness \| Ravi Patel How do you strike work/life balance when you feel overwhelming pressure to provide for your family? How do you balance gender roles in a modern marriage? How close should we live to our parents when they retire? These are questions ...
09.04.2020 Try This Meditation Before You Try to Change the World \| Bonus Meditation with Sharon Salzberg Following on from our episode with Sharon Salzberg on Wednesday we’re dropping a bonus meditation from the set of new meditations she has within the Ten Percent Happier app related to her new book Real Change. This meditations is a ...
09.02.2020 #279: How To Stay Politically Engaged Without Losing Your Mind \| Sharon Salzberg In the heat of an election that is both incredibly nasty and hugely consequential, it might be tempting to try to shut out all the feelings of anger, frustration, and powerlessness. But my guest today makes a compelling argument for ...
08.31.2020 #278: How To Stay Centered When You’re Skiing Off a Cliff \| Angel Collinson Angel Collinson is a badass in every sense of the word. She’s one of the world's best extreme skiers, a meditator, and a climate activist. In this conversation we explore Angel's mindfulness practice and how it helps her stay centered ...
08.28.2020 Reflecting on Your Life \| Bonus Meditation with Sebene Selassie Growing up, Sebene felt like a big weirdo. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and raised in white neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., she was a tomboy Black girl who loved Monty Python and UB40. She never believed she belonged. Thirty years ...
08.26.2020 #277: This Conversation Actually Explains Oneness With The Universe \| Sebene Selassie I grew up with that famous Groucho Marx joke, “I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that would have me as a member.” It always resonated with me. As my grandfather would say, “I resemble that remark.” We all ...
08.24.2020 #276: Are We All Traumatized? \| Dr. Pat Ogden It’s a human urge to return to normalcy after a cataclysmic event. But if we rush back to normalcy without taking a beat, without metabolizing what we’ve all been going through, that can create profound psychological issues. Dr. Pat Ogden ...
08.21.2020 How Not To Be Yanked Around By Your Emotions \| Bonus Meditation with Joseph Goldstein Joseph Goldstein is one of the most respected meditation teachers in the world -- a key architect of the rise of mindfulness in our modern society -- with a sense of humor to boot. In the 1970's, he co-founded the ...
08.19.2020 #275: Improving Your Relationships, Buddhist Style \| Martine Batchelor This episode is a mix of the technical, the practical, and the delightful. We’re talking about a meditation technique that can impact relationships, your biases, and how you handle things such as lying, sex, alcohol, and social media. The key ...
08.17.2020 #274: The Case for Optimism \| Dr. Jonathan Salk The virus has exploited so many weaknesses of our culture. But having exposed the weaknesses, such as inequities and reckless individualism, could the current crisis lead to a fundamental shift for humankind? That may sound utopian, but our guest today ...
08.14.2020 Three Resilience Tools for Stressful Times \| Bonus Meditation with Sebene Selassie About Sebene: Growing up, Sebene felt like a big weirdo. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and raised in white neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., she was a tomboy Black girl who loved Monty Python and UB40. She never believed she belonged. ...
08.12.2020 #273: A Master Class in Resilience \| George Mumford Today we have a master class in resilience. My guest is George Mumford, who has overcome some towering difficulties in his own life, including an addiction to drugs. He went on to become a legendary meditation teacher who has worked ...
08.10.2020 #272: The Secrets of Gritty People \| Angela Duckworth This week on the show, we’re exploring the interrelated themes of grit and resilience -- both massively resonant and relevant issues in the era of Covid and BLM. Today, my guest is Angela Duckworth. She’s a psychologist who was deemed ...
08.07.2020 You Are Not Your Thoughts \| Bonus Meditation with Joseph Goldstein Joseph Goldstein is one of the most respected meditation teachers in the world -- a key architect of the rise of mindfulness in our modern society -- with a sense of humor to boot. In the 1970's, he co-founded the ...
08.05.2020 #271: The Antidote to Burnout \| Leah Weiss At a time when work has become more challenging than ever, we’re going to explore one myth and one revelation. The myth -- which many of us, myself included, have consciously or subconsciously incorporated into our lives — is that ...
08.03.2020 #270: You Don’t Exist. But You Actually Do. Wait, What? \| Guy Armstrong In this episode, we take a simple, useful, and down-to-earth stroll through one of the most confounding -- but liberating -- concepts in Buddhism. On the one hand, Buddhists tell us the self is an illusion: “You don’t exist!” On ...
07.31.2020 Soothe Anxiety to Sleep \| Bonus Meditation with Matthew Hepburn Today (7/31) is the last day to join the Summer Sanity Challenge: a free 21 day meditation challenge. The goal here is to help you build resilience so that you are less buffeted by circumstances you can’t control -- and ...
07.29.2020 #269: The Sex Episode \| Devon and Craig Hase Buddhists don’t tend to shy away from talking about body parts -- but usually it’s more along the lines of meditating on things like spittle, defecation (otherwise known as poop) and the inevitable decay of the body. So where do ...
07.27.2020 #268: How to Get Sleep in Anxious Times \| Dr. Donn Posner I don’t know about you guys, but my sleep has suffered quite badly during the last few months. Today’s guest really got me thinking about this issue in a whole new way. First, he normalizes the sleep problems many of ...
07.24.2020 Performance Anxiety \| Bonus Meditation with Oren Jay Sofer On July 27, we're launching the Summer Sanity Challenge: a free 21 day meditation challenge. The goal here is to help you build resilience so that you are less buffeted by circumstances you can’t control -- and are therefore calmer, ...
07.22.2020 #267: How Do You Optimize Your Performance When Everything Sucks? \| Pete Carroll & Michael Gervais How do you optimize your performance when life is utterly disrupted by a pandemic? Are optimism and confidence trainable skills? Can we get over our fear of other people’s opinions? These are some of the questions we tackle in this ...
07.20.2020 #266: The Case for "Doing Nothing" in a Time of Crisis \| Sebene Selassie & Jeff Warren At a time of multiple, mutually-reinforcing dumpster fires, meditation can seem counterintuitive. Instinctively, many of us might prefer to rush to the barricades, or Twitter, or the fetal position. But there is immense value in “doing nothing,” and we are ...
07.17.2020 How Not to Be Owned by Desire \| Bonus Meditation with Joseph Goldstein Learn how to become mindful of desire, creating more room for choice instead of automatically reaching for the thirtieth cookie. You can find Joseph's meditation and much more on our app. Visit tenpercent.com to download the Ten Percent Happier app ...
07.15.2020 #265: The Upside of Desire \| Cara Lai In Buddhism/meditation circles, desire or wanting is often considered a no-no. But is this line of thinking sometimes taken too far — or simply misunderstood? Can we turn our desires — for food, sex, etcetera — into areas to apply ...
07.13.2020 #264: The Brain Science of Enlightenment \| Rick Hanson Today we’re going to nerd out about what enlightenment (or, if that word is triggering, let’s just call it “high doses of meditation”) can do to your brain — and, more practically, how we can derive these benefits even if ...
07.10.2020 An Infinitely Portable Meditation Technique \| Bonus Meditation with JoAnna Hardy You can find meditations on relaxation and much more on our app. Visit tenpercent.com to download the Ten Percent Happier app and kickstart your meditation practice. Visit tenpercent.com to sign up today. Listen to Joanna's meditation on the app here: ...
07.08.2020 #263: The Buddha's Four-Part Strategy for "Ultimate Happiness" \| Sally Armstrong "Mindfulness" has become a buzz phrase. There are books on mindful parenting, mindful lawyering, even mindful sex. But what does the word even mean? And how do you actually do it? In one of his most famous and foundational discourses, ...

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