A Meditation For When You Need To Make A Big Decision | Bonus Meditation with Oren Jay Sofer

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

When you feel anxious about a difficult decision, meditation can help take the edge off and put you in touch with your own wisdom as a guide.

About Oren Jay Sofer:

Oren Jay Sofer teaches mindfulness, meditation and Nonviolent Communication. He has practiced meditation since 1997, beginning his studies in Bodh Gaya, India and is a long-time student of Joseph Goldstein, Michele McDonald, and Ajahn Sucitto, and is a graduate of the IMS/Spirit Rock Teacher Training program. Oren teaches retreats across the country and works as Senior Program Developer at Mindful Schools, teaching and developing curricula for one of the international leaders of mindfulness in education.

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0:26.4	Search Nickelodeon on your favorite podcast app to listen. This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey everybody happy Friday time for a bonus meditation. We all know, of course, how much it sucks to get into a
0:56.8	fight with somebody with whom we're close. Turns out, however, there's a meditation for that.
1:02.4	It comes from the great
1:03.6	Orrin sofa who also teaches the Emotions course over on the 10% happier app so
1:08.9	go check that out I should also say Oren is a new dad. Congratulations to Orrin's family. Of course, this
1:16.1	means there's now a new person in the world who Orrin will love and probably get into
1:21.2	a fight with at some point.
1:23.4	So this meditation may have even deeper meaning for him
1:27.0	at some point in the not too distant future.
1:30.2	A little background on Oren,
1:31.3	he teaches mindfulness meditation and also nonviolent communication in secular and Buddhist contexts.
1:38.8	He's a long time student of Joseph Goldstein, Michelle McDonald, and Ahjan Succito,
1:43.8	and a graduate of the IMS Spirit Rock
1:46.6	Vipasana Teacher Training Program.
1:49.4	He's also the author of a great book
1:50.9	called Say What You Mean, a mindful approach to nonviolent communication,
1:56.1	which is a practical guide book for having more effective conversations.
2:01.2	Here we go now with Orrin J. Sofer.
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