This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hey, hey, happyer podcast.

Many of us, myself included, spent a lot of time caught up in our neuroses and hangups

and work-a-day problems.

So today, we're going to talk about a radical, deeply counterintuitive stress reliever.

I'll tell you what it is in a moment, but first, let me give you some context.

All this month on Fridays, we're highlighting some of our favorite moments from past episodes, golden nuggets from our vast archive.

Actually, is pretty vast at this point.

And these nuggets are selected by members of the team right here at 10% happier.

So over the past few weeks, we've played you key moments from my interview with the comedian

Bill Hader and also the Buddhist scholar Bikku Bode.

And this week, you're going to hear from Aulua Arthur, who's an author and a death dula,

which means that her job is to help people as they're dying.

And it is Alua who has the aforementioned radical and counterintuitive anti-stress advice.

It was actually several years ago right here on the show that Aulua gave this advice,

but over time it has really stuck in the mind of our managing producer Lauren Smith.

So you will hear briefly from Lauren Lauren and then we will play the key

moment from A-Lua. But first, just to quickly remind you of this cool new thing, we're doing over

at Dan Harris.com. If you become a paid subscriber, you'll get a companion bespoke meditation to go

along with every full length Monday, Wednesday episode. Today's a Friday, so there's no meditation

today. But if you sign up today,

you'll be ready for Monday's new companion meditation led by our amazing teacher of the month,

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