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This is the 10% happier podcast.

Dan Harris.

Happy Friday, y'all.

It's time for a bonus meditation on the show this week.

We've been focused on the issue of focus.

Sorry, that's a little cute.

We've been talking about focus and why it's increasingly hard for so many of us.

We've got our noses in social media.

We're praying to the false god of multitasking or we're convinced that we are somehow uniquely unable to stay on task.

Whatever else you, we've got a simple antidote today from the great Sharon Salisburg co-founder of the Inside Meditation Society, New York Times bestselling author.

And one of the founding teachers on the 10% happier app, Sharon over to you.

Hi, this is Sharon.

If you consider how scattered, how distracted, how out of the moment we may ordinarily be,

you can see the benefit of gathering that energy, gathering our attention.

So even though we take a very simple object and ordinary object, like the feeling of the breath,

it has the effect of really bringing us to a sense of wholeness, a sense of empowerment.

It is a very powerful way of beginning our day.

You can sit comfortably and relax.

Let your attention settle on the feeling of the breath.

At the nostrils, at the chest, or the abdomen, wherever it is strong is your clearest view.

Just the normal flow of the inner-naut breath.

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