Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show.

This episode is a brand new experiment called Meditation Monday. That means, in addition to my long-form

interviews each week, every Monday, I will be bringing you a short 10-minute or so meditation,

which will help you for the rest of the week. Over this four-episode series, you'll develop a Zen toolkit,

specifically to help you find greater calm, peace, and effectiveness in your daily life.

The teacher, Henry Shookman, has been on my podcast twice before. He is one of only a few

dozen masters in the world authorized to teach what is called Sambo Zen, and I have found

this particularly interesting and effective. And now he'll

be your teacher. I've been using Henry's app, The Way, once, often twice a day, and it has lowered my

anxiety more than I thought possible. As a listener of the show, you yourself can get 30 free sessions

by visiting theway app.com slash Tim. So if you like what you hear in these meditations,

which will be valuable in and of themselves, you can get 30 free sessions by going to

the wayapp.com slash Tim. And for the time being, please enjoy this meditation Monday with

Henry Shookman.

Welcome to this meditation with me, Henry Shookman, on working with stress.

Stress is a universal human phenomenon and it's terribly widespread today in the way we are

conditioned and socialized and the way we lead our lives with a constant pursuit of productivity,

etc. Many pressures on us all the time. I personally grew up with a lot of stress from a very

difficult chronic illness throughout my childhood that was highly stressful and the moment I started

to meditate around the age of 25 it made a massive

difference to how I dealt with stress so I hope to share something of that right now we might

think of stress as a thing that we want to kind of eliminate and there's a lot of research that

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