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For many, it's their biggest fear.

Amarissa Jones, host of The Vanished.

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This is The 10% Happier Podcast, Dan Harris.

Happy Friday gang, it's bonus meditation time.

Today we're going to talk about an ingenious way to handle your inner critic.

As is often the case with me, this is an idea that I completely dismiss at the beginning

because, yeah, that's the way I'm wired for sometimes not so useful skepticism.

However, it's a technique that I have nonetheless come to embrace varying forms with a high

degree of success.

I would go so far as to say it's really changed my life.

Just to dismiss my dismissiveness and please accept my eventual acceptance of this technique.

And it comes from the great Sharon Salisberg, a towering figure in the meditation world.

Salisberg is a prominent teacher and New York Times bestselling author.

She's played a crucial role in bringing mindfulness and also loving kindness practice to the west.

She co-founded the Insight Meditation Society alongside Jack Cornfield and Joseph Goldstein.

And is the author of nine books, including loving kindness, real happiness and real love.

She lives in both New York City and Massachusetts and teaches all over the world.

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