481: How to Break Bad Mental Habits | Carol Wilson

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

There are so many benefits to mindfulness with one of the biggest being the cultivation of more self-awareness. This cultivation can lead to identifying the unhelpful mental habits that can develop over the years.

Today we’re going to talk to Carol Wilson who offers very clear and practical ways that Buddhist meditation can help us turn down the volume on our unproductive mental habits and be less reactive.

Wilson is a guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society, where for many years she has taught their annual three-month retreat. She began her insight meditation practice in 1971 in India and in the 1980s she spent a year in Thailand as a Buddhist nun.

In this episode we talk about:

How to be mindful throughout the day
The concept of 360 degree awareness
Noticing when one experiences wanting or aversion
Why Wilson believes that the root of suffering comes from making it all about us
How seeing torment can help us experience freedom from the self
The benefits of reflecting on your past acts of generosity
Bringing awareness to your motivations
And doing a gratitude practice regularly to change the weather pattern in your mind

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Dan Harris.
0:08.3	Hello, my fellow suffering beings.
0:13.8	There are so many benefits to mindfulness.
0:16.2	And one of the biggies in my opinion is that having more self-awareness, being able to
0:20.7	see the contents of your mind, your thoughts, your urges, your emotions with more clarity,
0:27.4	that allows you to identify the often very unhelpful mental habits you've developed over
0:33.0	the years.
0:34.2	And once you can see these habits of mind, you don't have to be so owned by them.
0:37.8	You can be less emotionally reactive.
0:41.0	Today we're going to do a meat and potatoes Dharma episode.
0:43.3	We're going to talk in very clear and practical ways about how Buddhist meditation can help
0:48.2	all of us, no matter what level we're at, turn down the volume on our unproductive mental
0:53.0	habits and be less reactive.
0:56.1	That's actually just some of what we're going to talk about today with my guest, Carol
0:59.0	Wilson, who is a titan of the American meditation scene and is making her first appearance here
1:04.6	on this show today.
1:05.6	Carol is a guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barry, Massachusetts, where
1:11.2	for many years she has taught their annual three-month retreat, which has always been simultaneously
1:17.5	horrifying and oddly attractive to me.
1:21.8	Carol began her Insight Meditation Practice in 1971 over in India.
1:26.1	In the 1980s she spent a year in Thailand as a Buddhist nun.
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