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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#223: Jon Kabat-Zinn | Medi...

01.22.2020

Jon Kabat-Zinn has been a key player bringing mindfulness meditation to the mainstream. In 1979, he introduced the now world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, a meditation therapy used to treat a variety of illnesses. In this episode, Kabat-Zinn talks about ...

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01.22.2020 #223: Jon Kabat-Zinn \| Meditation as a Love Affair Jon Kabat-Zinn has been a key player bringing mindfulness meditation to the mainstream. In 1979, he introduced the now world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, a meditation therapy used to treat a variety of illnesses. In this episode, Kabat-Zinn talks about ...
01.15.2020 #222: How to Become a Regular Meditator (and More) \| Alexis Santos While in medical school in the mid-90's, Alexis Santos found himself in the midst of a spiritual crisis. At one of the top medical schools in the country, he felt unfulfilled and disillusioned by the stress and unhappiness around him ...
01.08.2020 #221: All Your Sleep Questions, Answered \| Dr. Matthew Walker Dr. Matthew Walker is a sleep scientist with a PhD in neurophysiology. His research investigates the impact of sleep on human health and diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and cancer. In this episode, Dr. Walker shares significant findings on what happens ...
01.06.2020 Bonus Talk: How to Build a Meditation Habit That Sticks \| Dan Harris Dan shares four best practices to help you build and keep up the meditation habit. Join the Free New Years Meditation Challenge: https://10percenthappier.app.link/IpETZ7CAX1 Have a question for Dan? Leave us a voicemail: 646-883-8326
01.01.2020 #220: The Anti-Diet \| Evelyn Tribole Award-winning registered dietitian Evelyn Tribole inspires people to rethink their relationship with food and enjoy eating. In today's diet culture, people have stopped trusting their bodies and are ignoring its cues. In her nutrition counseling practice, Evelyn helps people tune ...
12.26.2019 #219: Making and Breaking Habits, Sanely \| Kelly McGonigal For as long as she can remember, Kelly McGonigal has felt motivated to understand the causes of pain and suffering and find ways to relieve them. This motivation led her to pursue a career in psychology and cultivate a meditation ...
12.18.2019 #218: The Profound Upsides of Mortality \| Nikki Mirghafori, PhD Nikki Mirghafori has been an Artificial Intelligence scientist for nearly three decades. She never intended to become a Buddhist teacher, but after establishing herself in her AI career, she devoted her time to extensive meditation training. She now teaches Dharma ...
12.11.2019 #217: The World's a Mess, But Don't Freak Out \| Norman Fischer Norman Fischer is a poet, writer, and Zen priest who has dedicated his life to studying, practicing and teaching Zen Buddhism. After graduating from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he moved to San Francisco to learn how to practice meditation in ...
12.04.2019 #216: How to Thrive Under Stress \| Elizabeth Stanley, PhD Elizabeth Stanley has a long history of stress and trauma. In this episode she talks about the adversities she has suffered, which include a near death experience and losing her eyesight for extended periods of time from contracting Lyme disease ...
11.27.2019 #215: What's Your Motivation? Thubten Chodron Thubten Chodron was born in Chicago and grew up near Los Angeles. She felt her life's calling was to help others, so she became a teacher, landing her first job in the inner-city schools of Los Angeles. Looking for something ...
11.20.2019 #214: The Case for Devotion, Kittisaro and Thanissara Kittisaro graduated from Princeton as a Rhodes Scholar and went on to Oxford before going to Thailand to ordain with Ajahn Chah in 1976. He was a monk for 15 years. Thanissara started Buddhist practice in 1975, decided to ordain ...
11.13.2019 #213: Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of todays most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Perel provides her insight on such topics as: how to make a relationship work in todays society, ...
11.06.2019 #212: The Likeability Trap, Alicia Menendez Our guest this week is Alicia Menendez, an award-winning journalist, who finds herself in a common position for many women: caring way too much about what others think of her. Be nice, but not too nice. Be successful, but not ...
10.30.2019 #211: How to Make it in Hollywood (and everywhere else), Brian Grazer Brian Grazer is a Hollywood giant! Hes made more than 100 films including Splash, Apollo 13 and the best-picture-winning A Beautiful Mind. He tells Dan this week how he has used his own curiosity in others to build powerful relationships. ...
10.23.2019 #210: Meditation, Therapy, and "Murderous Rage", Dr. Susan Pollak Dr. Susan Pollak found refuge in meditation at a young age, introduced to it by a family member. Describing herself as an anxious and neurotic kid, she noticed how meditation offered her some relief. Pollak has remained fascinated with meditation ...
10.19.2019 Bonus Meditation, Self-Compassion Break, Kristin Neff, PhD Self-compassion may not be your strong suit, but with this introductory training, youll develop more resilience, kindness, and ease in life. Plug Zone https://self-compassion.org/category/exercises/#guided-meditations
10.16.2019 #209: Kryptonite for the Inner Critic, Self-Compassion Series, Kristin Neff, PhD Life can be challenging. Its comforting to have kind, supportive people around you to help you through it. Dr. Kristin Neff believes its equally important to cultivate a kind, supportive inner voice. In her last year of graduate school Neff ...
10.12.2019 Bonus Meditation, See Yourself Compassionately, Jessica Morey Self-Compassion may not be your strong suit, but with this introductory training, youll develop more resilience, kindness and ease in life. Plug Zone See Yourself Compassionately: https://10percenthappier.app.link/ZHqOD1TNv0 Jessica Morey Meditations on the Ten Percent Happier App: https://10percenthappier.app.link/weTJGm1Nv0
10.09.2019 #208: Doing Diversity Work Without Shame, Self-Compassion Series, Sydney Spears Dr. Sydney Spears is a professor at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare and holds a PhD in Clinical Social Work from Smith College. As a woman of color, she tells us she has experienced layers of oppression ...
10.05.2019 Bonus Meditation with Sharon Salzberg, Self-Compassion Bonus Meditation with Sharon Salzberg, Self-Compassion Plug Zone Self-Compassion Meditation: https://10percenthappier.app.link/pRxEZhPgk0 Sharon Salzberg Courses & Meditations on the Ten Percent Happier App: https://10percenthappier.app.link/NOCqrWwik0
10.02.2019 #207: A Radical Approach to Productivity, Self-Compassion Series, Jocelyn K. Glei We are all guilty at times of taking on too much. Our guest this week, Jocelyn K. Glei, explains some of the benefits of taking a step back. She discusses the importance of slowing things down to prevent burnout and ...
09.28.2019 Bonus Meditation with Joseph Goldstein, Be Simple & Easy Life is already complicated enough. Meditation doesnt have to be, if we learn to be simple and easy. Plug Zone Be Simple & Easy: https://10percenthappier.app.link/6WVKqYJV6Z Joseph Goldstein Courses & Meditations on the Ten Percent Happier App: https://10percenthappier.app.link/x9Q0TCy36Z
09.25.2019 #206: Finally... The Joseph Goldstein Episode One of the first American Vipassana teachers and the co-founder of Insight Meditation Society, Joseph Goldstein, is a highly recognized name to many in western meditation. He has studied and practiced various forms of Buddhist meditation under world renowned teachers ...
09.18.2019 #205: Living on Overtime, David C. Fajgenbaum David Fajgenbaum, a young, promising medical student, could not have imagined he would become a patient in the same hospital he was serving his residency. After being diagnosed with a very rare illness, he came close to death on multiple ...
09.11.2019 #204: Love, Death, Tech and Psychedelics, Jack Kornfield, Meditation O.G. As far as meditation teachers go, they don't come more highly regarded than our guest this week, Jack Kornfield. Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 ...
09.04.2019 #203: Civility Pays, Christine Porath For Christine Porath, meditation was one way of coping with a toxic work environment. Her own experience, paired with watching her father suffer a serious health scare tied to his own harmful workplace atmosphere, led to her interest in researching ...
08.28.2019 #202: Can Meditation Prolong Your Life?, Dr. Peter Attia Peter Attia is the founder of Attia Medical, PC, a medical practice focusing on the applied science of longevity. In other words, his practice aims to increase the length of one's life, while simultaneously improving the quality. He explains how ...
08.24.2019 Bonus Meditation with Sharon Salzberg, Walking Meditation Bonus Meditation with Sharon Salzberg, Walking Meditation
08.21.2019 #201: Doing "The Work," Byron Katie At 43 years old, Byron Katie was unhappily married, suffered from depression and agoraphobia and was addicted to codeine and alcohol. In fact, she felt so much self-hatred, she slept on the floor believing she did not deserve a bed. ...
08.14.2019 #200: Sharon Salzberg, A Meditation Master Stares Down Death World-renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg recently faced a very serious health scare and a true test of her decades of practice. In this very candid conversation Sharon tells us what happened to her, how her mindfulness training took over to ...
08.07.2019 #199: Patrick Dempsey, Meditation: The Secret to His Success Patrick Dempsey is not just a pretty face. Sure he's widely known for playing McDreamy, aka Dr. Derek Shepherd, on ABCs Grey's Anatomy, but that hardly scratches the surface. A meditator since the 1980's, he's used the practice to find ...
07.31.2019 #198: Meditation And Loss, Dean Valoras On March 19th of last year, Dean Valoras' life changed forever. That is the day he lost his teenage daughter Alexandra to suicide. Alexandra was an intelligent, successful, highly-motivated high school student. Externally she appeared happy and excited for the ...
07.24.2019 #197: Escape from Zombieland, Koshin Paley Ellison Human beings are wired for social connection. Sadly, thanks in large part to the internet, mobile phones and social media, we are seeing an increase in social isolation. Zen teacher and psychotherapist Koshin Paley Ellison refers to this diminishing of ...
07.20.2019 Bonus Meditation with Sebene Selassie, "Stress Better"
07.17.2019 #196: Stress Better, Modupe Akinola We all encounter stress, but what we sometimes overlook is that stress can be useful, it is, after all, built into us by evolution. Our guest this week teaches how to distinguish between good and bad stress and how to ...
07.10.2019 #195: Inveterate Fretter, Accidental Buddhist, Sylvia Boorstein If there was such a thing as a mind-ectomy or a mind transplant, our guest this week, Sylvia Boorstein, tells us she would have had it, confiding, "I need a mind that doesn't make up worries about something that didn't ...
07.03.2019 #194: Atomic Habits, James Clear An athlete as a kid, a devastating sports injury would change James Clear's life forever. While a sophomore in high school, a baseball bat struck Clear in the face, resulting in massive head trauma. He would need to relearn very ...
06.26.2019 #193: Enough-ness and the Hungry Ghost, Narayan Liebenson Most kids are not spending their time in solitude exploring the abilities of the mind. In that way, Narayan Liebenson was not like most kids. Fascinated with the mind since a young age, she has led a life studying meditation ...
06.19.2019 #192: The Art of Growing Up, Jerry Colonna Jerry Colonna is the CEO and co-founder of Reboot.io, an executive coaching and leadership development firm committed to the notion that better humans make better leaders. For nearly 20 years, he has used the knowledge gained as an investor, executive, ...
06.12.2019 #191: Can Meditation Improve Politics? Chris Ruane and Jamie Bristow Chris Ruane has been a member of the British Parliament for more than 20 years. As a meditation and mindfulness practitioner, he wanted to share the benefits of these practices with his colleagues in government. In 2013, he set up ...
06.05.2019 #190: The Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, Annaka Harris As a child Annaka Harris suffered from migraines. Searching for ways to cope with that pain, she became curious - wondering "what is this pain" and "where is it coming from?" The line of questioning shifted her perspective and propelled ...
05.29.2019 Bonus: Ten Percent Happier Talks Just This, Diana Winston Experiencing bliss is easy - so easy you might miss it.
05.29.2019 #189: Type A Nun, Mindful Parenting, and Natural Awareness, Diana Winston Diana Winston first learned about meditation as a kid, but it wasnt until she traveled to Asia following college that her practice really took off. She has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun ...
05.22.2019 #188: Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport Its hard to deny our societys increasing dependence on, if not addiction to, email, apps and social media. If we recognize it as a problem, then how do we fix it? Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown ...
05.15.2019 #187: Is Enlightenment Possible for Regular People, Daniel M. Ingram Daniel M. Ingram sparked controversy in the Buddhist world when he declared himself to be an arahat, the term commonly used for a person who has reached the final stage of enlightenment. In this week's episode, Ingram responds to his ...
05.08.2019 #186: The Importance of Dying Before You Die, Helen Tworkov Helen Tworkov first encountered Buddhism in Nepal during the 1960's and has studied in both the Zen and Tibetan traditions. She has also studied with Mingyur Rinpoche, a well-known Tibetan Buddhist meditation master. Together they have written the book "In ...
05.01.2019 #185: Brené Brown, Vulnerability: The Key to Courage Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston and has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She is also the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers. Her TED Talk "The ...
04.24.2019 #184: The Zen Priest with an MBA, Marc Lesser At just 21 years old Marc Lesser took a year-long leave from his education to explore meditation. His one year leave would turn into 10 when he became the director of the first Zen monastery in the western world. Hes ...
04.17.2019 #183: Fighting Depression with Social Connection, Johann Hari Suffering from his own long battle with depression, social scientist and author Johann Hari yearned for a greater understanding of what caused it and what might help combat it. Hari set out on a journey to not only meet the ...
04.10.2019 #182: Imposter Syndrome, Politics and Sensuality, Dr. Jay Michaelson Our guest this week, Jay Michaelson, wears many hats. He is the author of six books and over three hundred articles on religion, sexuality, law, and contemplative practice. He is a columnist for The Daily Beast and is a frequent ...

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