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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05.07.2021 A Non-Obvious Way to Relax \| Bonus Meditation with Anushka Fernandopulle Using the practice of gratitude, you can learn to relax your body and settle your mind. About Anushka Fernandopulle: Anushka teaches meditation, works as an organizational consultant, and does leadership coaching with individuals and teams. She has practiced meditation for ...
05.05.2021 #344: How to Handle Anger, Uncertainty, and Self-Loathing \| Mushim Patricia Ikeda When somebody wrongs you, what is the wise way to handle your anger? Is forgiveness possible? What about friendliness? My guest today has a lot of thoughts about how to handle anger and how to respond to people who mean ...
05.03.2021 #343: What Everyone Who Meditates Should Know \| Chenxing Han and Duncan Ryūken Williams If you meditate (or do yoga, for that matter), you may have been taught by a Westerner, but you owe a gigantic debt of gratitude to the giants and geniuses in Asia who developed these practices. This fact can be ...
04.30.2021 A Deep Hack for Dealing with Family \| Bonus Meditation with Anushka Fernandopulle Develop the skill and sensibility of kindness, warmth, and goodwill by bringing your loved ones to mind. About Anushka Fernandopulle: Anushka teaches meditation, works as an organizational consultant, and does leadership coaching with individuals and teams. She has practiced meditation ...
04.28.2021 #342: The Science of Building Better Relationships \| Marissa King The idea of networking can be fraught. For some people, it might, at times, seem either icky or pathetic to deliberately try to make friends, either in a personal or professional context -- especially since so many of us may ...
04.26.2021 #341 The Art and Science of the World’s Gooiest Cliche \| Barbara Fredrickson One of our primary missions on this show is to rescue vital ideas that have lapsed into cliches. There are so many important concepts out there that many of us might be tempted to dismiss because they are encrusted with ...
04.23.2021 What’s Good \| Bonus Meditation with Oren Jay Sofer Counteract negativity bias by appreciating the goodness in life: simple acts of kindness, moments of beauty, and even your own good efforts. About Oren Jay Sofer: Oren Jay Sofer teaches mindfulness, meditation and Nonviolent Communication. He has practiced meditation since ...
04.21.2021 #340: The Science of Hope \| Jacqueline Mattis Today we’re talking to a renowned psychologist who has come up with five strategies for cultivating hope. Dr. Jacqueline Mattis is a clinical psychologist from Rutgers University, where she is also a Dean of Faculty. As you will hear, she ...
04.19.2021 #339: Why Buddhism Is Inherently Hopeful (Despite All the Talk of Suffering) \| Oren Jay Sofer Buddhism can get a bad rap as being hopelessly pessimistic -- in no small measure because one of the Buddha’s first principal pronouncements was, “Life is suffering.” But if you listen to the rest of his spiel, you will hear ...
04.16.2021 How to See Hope in the Everyday \| Bonus Meditation with Sebene Selassie Learning to trust life moment-to-moment is a powerful practice. Check it out. About 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 ...
04.14.2021 #338: Discomfort: A Counterintuitive Source of Hope \| Sebene Selassie As you may know, we are in the midst of a two-week series on hope – a concept we are trying to rescue from the realm of rote cliche and empty bromides. Our belief is that hope, when properly understood ...
04.12.2021 #337: Hope Is a Skill \| George Mumford Spring is here. Vaccines are entering arms. But for many of us, hope can feel slippery and fleeting. Even with the pandemic seeming to abate, there's still a lot of uncertainty and suffering. That’s why, starting today, we’re launching a ...
04.09.2021 How to Handle Restlessness \| Bonus Meditation with Joseph Goldstein In this guided meditation, Joseph unpacks what restless energy is all about, showing you how to go from restless to restful. About Joseph Goldstein: Joseph is one of the most respected meditation teachers in the world -- a key architect ...
04.07.2021 Three Mindfulness Strategies from Joseph Goldstein To inject a little sunshine, perspective, and wisdom, we thought it might make sense to repost one of our favorite conversations of the last year. This is a straight up meat-and-potatoes meditation talk from the one and only Joseph Goldstein. ...
04.05.2021 #336: How Your Emotions Are Made \| Lisa Feldman Barrett Today’s guest is at the forefront of understanding human emotions: what they are, why humans evolved to have them, how they’re different from feelings, and what science says about how to manage them (rather than get yanked around by them ...
04.02.2021 What’s Good \| Bonus Meditation with Oren Jay Sofer Counteract negativity bias by appreciating the goodness in life: simple acts of kindness, moments of beauty, and even your own good efforts. About Oren Jay Sofer: Oren Jay Sofer teaches mindfulness, meditation and Nonviolent Communication. He has practiced meditation since ...
04.02.2021 A Great Way to Relax \| Bonus Meditation with Oren Jay Sofer Learn to use mindfulness of your natural breath as a way to create relaxation for yourself, any time, any place. About Oren Jay Sofer: Oren Jay Sofer teaches mindfulness, meditation and Nonviolent Communication. He has practiced meditation since 1997, beginning ...
03.31.2021 #335: A Pressure Cooker for Insight \| Bart van Melik The great meditation teacher Ram Dass once said, “If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family.” My guest today comes with tools to help you keep your cool when interacting with family -- or anyone else. ...
03.29.2021 #334: Three Lessons from Happiness Research \| Emma Seppälä People in the mindfulness meditation world often note that what we’re teaching is not a breathing exercise; the goal is to just feel the breath as it naturally occurs (if you’ve chosen the breath as the thing you want to ...
03.26.2021 Mindfulness in the Body \| Bonus Meditation with Sebene Selassie Is your mind racing to the past or future? Practice bringing awareness to the body and breath as a way to reconnect to the present. About Sebene Selassie: Growing up, Sebene felt like a big weirdo. Born in Addis Ababa, ...
03.24.2021 #333: The Self-Interested Case for Examining Your Biases \| John Biewen Too often, the process of looking at your biases can be presented like eating your vegetables. But one of the most fascinating and rewarding things I have attempted to do in recent years is to take a good, hard look ...
03.22.2021 #332: The Profound Upside of Self-Diminishment \| George Saunders There is a powerful scene in a novel called Lincoln In the Bardo, where President Abraham Lincoln has come to the cemetery where his young son, Willie, is soon to be buried. Willie had passed away at the White House ...
03.19.2021 Getting Out of Your Own Head in Everyday Life \| Bonus Meditation with Alexis Santos When we're busy, we can get caught up in thoughts about what we're doing. Instead, you can practice bringing your attention to the doing itself. About Alexis Santos: Alexis has practiced and taught Insight Meditation in both the East and ...
03.17.2021 #331: How to Understand Oneness \| Roshi Norma Wong Today we’re diving into a concept that is simultaneously one of the oldest contemplative cliches and one of the most profound head scratchers — oneness. Can you be one with everything if you don’t really exist? And, even if we ...
03.15.2021 #330: How This Plague Ends (and What It Tells Us About Human Nature) \| Nicholas Christakis We all remember that fateful week, almost exactly a year ago, when it all seemed to sink in for so many of us–when Tom Hanks got sick, the NBA suspended games, and the (now former) President addressed the nation in ...
03.12.2021 How To Handle It When People Let You Down \| Bonus Meditation with Diana Winston Feeling let down is hard. We can’t control others, but practicing equanimity will help you feel more ease and acceptance. About Diana Winston: Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, where she also ...
03.10.2021 #329: How to Break Your Anxiety Habit \| Judson Brewer To mark the first anniversary of the week in March 2020 when Covid fundamentally altered our lives, we’re launching a special two-part series. Today, we’re going to be talking about anxiety, which has been spiking during the pandemic. My guest ...
03.08.2021 #328: A Conversation about Abuse, Agency, and Mindfulness \| Tanya Selvaratnam Before we dive in, a warning: this conversation includes descriptions of abuse and violence. As you may know, March 8th, the day we’re dropping this episode, is International Women’s Day. We have a story today about intimate violence, which has ...
03.05.2021 Coming into Balance \| Bonus Meditation with Sebene Selassie Coming into balance is about accepting that balancing is a process, not a destination. Sebene will help you make the most out of the process. About Sebene Selassie: Growing up, Sebene felt like a big weirdo. Born in Addis Ababa, ...
03.03.2021 #327: Uprooting Your Delusions \| Andrea Fella I know you guys, and it is pretty clear you love deep dharma episodes. Today we’ve got a dharma episode that is quite timely. As you all know, we live in a time when most people are getting their news ...
03.01.2021 #326: How to Make a Masterpiece \| Pete Docter We’re all creatives, whether we think of ourselves that way or not. In so many aspects of your life, from planning your future to planning a meal to curating your social media, you need to be able to both envision ...
02.26.2021 Freedom Anywhere \| Bonus Meditation with Joseph Goldstein In this guided meditation (which you can do anywhere), Joseph helps you relax the habit of personalizing everything, so you can live with more ease. About Joseph Goldstein: Joseph is one of the most respected meditation teachers in the world ...
02.24.2021 #325: A New Way to Think About Addiction \| Annie Grace The stereotypical depiction of fighting addiction makes it seem highly unpleasant: White knuckling, sweating it out, detoxing, going cold turkey–you get the picture. This applies to classical addiction, and also to the less dangerous (but nonetheless nettlesome) unhealthy habits and ...
02.22.2021 #324: Your Craving Mind \| Kevin Griffin This is an episode about our craving, grasping minds. Whether you have struggled with a classic addiction or not, we all have addictive tendencies; we all wrestle with desire. I often think about a provocative question once posed by my ...
02.19.2021 Forgive Yesterday and Reset \| Bonus Meditation with Sebene Selassie Sometimes we get stuck in yesterday’s mistakes. Reset by using the freshness of each new breath and start your morning with ease. About Sebene Selassie: Growing up, Sebene felt like a big weirdo. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and raised ...
02.17.2021 Making it RAIN \| Tara Brach Today we’re going to talk about a massively useful acronym, which can be used both on the cushion and in your free-range living. The acronym is RAIN -- R-A-I-N -- and rather than explaining it myself, I will leave that ...
02.15.2021 Holding it Together When Things Fall Apart \| Pema Chödrön We’re now almost a full year into the era of Covid restrictions, and I suspect that many of you, as I am, are starting to internalize the fact that, notwithstanding the vaccines, there’s likely a ways to go yet. And ...
02.12.2021 You Are Not Alone \| Bonus Meditation with Joanna Hardy Use meditation to connect to how you’re feeling and to unlearn the habit of abandoning yourself when you most need to feel connected. About Joanna Hardy: JoAnna Hardy can talk about meditation to pretty much anybody. She not only teaches ...
02.10.2021 #323: How (and Why) to Hug Your Inner Dragons \| Richard Schwartz How do you relate to the more difficult— and even ugly— aspects of your personality? How do you feel about yourself when you are, say, in a judgmental or vengeful or jealous mode? Is that an opportunity for self-laceration? My ...
02.08.2021 #322: A Deeply Healthy Kind of Perfectionism \| Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo We have talked a lot on this show about how perfectionism can have pernicious impacts on your psyche. Today we’re going to talk about how, by contrast, a certain kind of perfection is very much worth aiming for. We’re diving ...
02.05.2021 I Don’t Want to Meditate \| Bonus Meditation with Matthew Hepburn Is meditation the last thing you want to do right now? This one’s for when closing your eyes and watching your breath sounds like torture. About Matthew Hepburn: Matthew Hepburn is a straightshooting, clear thinking, and dedicated meditation teacher. His ...
02.03.2021 #321: The Joy of Being Wrong \| Adam Grant My guest today makes a fascinating and potentially life-changing case. He argues that we need to reconsider how we view intelligence. He says that instead of viewing intelligence as the ability to think and learn, we should view it as ...
02.01.2021 #320: The Buddha’s 8-Part Manual for a Good Life \| Brother Pháp Dung Today we’re talking about one of the Buddha’s first and most important lists: the Eightfold Path. I’m kinda surprised we’ve never done a deep dive into this list on the show before, but better late than never. Some context before ...
01.29.2021 The Upside of Impermanence \| Bonus Meditation with Joseph Goldstein Take a moment to pay attention to the good things that are already here, and get in touch with the basic satisfaction of being alive. About Joseph Goldstein: Joseph is one of the most respected meditation teachers in the world ...
01.27.2021 #319: How to Do Nothing \| Jenny Odell For an audience of meditators (or aspiring meditators), the idea of doing nothing shouldn’t be foreign. But, speaking from personal experience, it is very possible, especially for Type A people, to approach meditation with an agenda. In which case, sitting ...
01.25.2021 #318: A New Way to Think About Your Time \| Ashley Whillans For many of us, in this pandemic, our relationship to time has become particularly fraught. You may be noticing that, with no limits on your work time, you are going into overdrive and feeling more crazed than ever. Or you ...
01.22.2021 Everything You Wanted to Know About Self-Love But Were Afraid to Ask \| Bonus Q&A with Jeff Warren and Susan Piver Today, expert meditation teachers Jeff Warren and Susan Piver return to respond directly to the questions that you, our listeners, have been submitting to us about self-compassion. It’s a tricky concept, so it’s no surprise that you’ve sent in more ...
01.20.2021 #317: Non-Preachy Ethics \| Jozen Tamori Gibson We’re diving in on another Buddhist list today. One of the many things I like about the Buddha is that, as far as I can tell, he pretty much always aims his messages, even the hard-to-swallow ones, at the pleasure ...
01.18.2021 #316: How to Call People In (Instead of Calling Them Out) \| Loretta Ross On this Martin Luther King day, it’s tempting to fear that America, and the world, may never have been further away from the kind of inclusive society that Dr. King called for so eloquently. So today, we are, I hope, ...
01.15.2021 How to Work with "The Comparing Mind" \| Bonus Meditation with Jeff Warren Nothing compares to now. Let Jeff help you find freedom and ease from constant comparing by embracing this very moment. Take a few minutes to help us out by answering a survey about your experience with this podcast! The team ...

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