It's the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Happy Sunday, everybody. I hope you're having a good weekend. Today we're going to talk about

what to do when you're freaked out or stressed out. That energy can feed on itself. You can

really get revved up. But it is possible, and this is the good news, it is possible to find little

moments of clarity to institute a kind of circuit breaker on your stress or anxiety. And today, we're

going to give you a meditation to help you do that. Just to say before we hit the meditation,

all this month, we are bringing you brand new guided meditations from our teacher of the

month, Don Maricio. Each meditation had been crafted to go along with one of our regular Monday and Wednesday episodes. And the idea is really that you can use those meditations to take everything you learned in the interview and the episode and kind of pound it into your neurons. The only place to get those meditations is Dan Harris.com. if you head on over there and become a paid subscriber

you'll be able to get all the past and future meditations but today like any good drug dealer

we're giving you a free dose this is just a sample of what you'll get all month from dawn and i love

this one it's about finding a little moment of rest, even in the middle of a shit show.

We'll get started with a guided meditation from Don Maricio right after this.

When we're running at full speed, physically, mentally, emotionally, it can feel jarring to slow down.

Going from 100 to even 60 isn't easy.

And yet, in the middle of all the doing, there are moments, brief but powerful,

where we can choose something different,

where we can invite in a breath, a pause, a little more space.

This meditation isn't about shutting out the chaos or forcing rest to happen.

It's about interrupting the momentum, even gently.

We'll notice what's here, with kindness, including the part of you that wants to keep moving,

stay busy, or resist stopping altogether.

Let's get started.

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