A Very Simple Meditation | Bonus Meditation with Sharon Salzberg

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Being aware of the breath is a foundation of mindfulness. The goal is to gently return, with growing kindness, again and again.

About Sharon Salzberg:

A towering figure in the meditation world, Sharon Salzberg is a prominent teacher & New York Times best-selling author. She has played a crucial role bringing mindfulness and lovingkindness practices to the West.

Sharon co-founded the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) alongside Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield and is the author of nine books, including Lovingkindness, Real Happiness, and the most recent Real Love. Sharon lives in New York City and teaches around the world.

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0:00.0	Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape
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0:57.6	This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey gang happy Friday bonus meditation time.
1:09.6	Today's meditation is a simple yet delicious one. It's like when you make pasta with just
1:13.8	olive oil and garlic uncomplicated but awesome. Today we're going to focus on the breath.
1:20.6	We decided to go with this guided meditation because a few days ago, as you may remember,
1:25.2	we had James Nestor on the show author of an incredible book about how many of us it
1:31.0	turns out are breathing incorrectly and the many ways to fix that. The good news here
1:36.1	is that you do not have to breathe in any special way for this meditation. Nothing to do,
1:41.5	nothing to control here. I don't want to get ahead of myself though. Let's bring in our
1:46.6	teacher Dojo to give you all of the instructions said teacher is Sharon Salbert who just by
1:54.0	the way celebrated her 70th birthday happy birthday to Sharon. As many of you know, Sharon
2:00.0	is an eminence meditation teacher and also the co founder of the Insight Meditation Society
2:05.3	alongside Joseph Goldstein and Jack Cornfield. Sharon is also a New York Times best-selling
2:10.3	author and has written 11 books. Her newest is called Real Change and she's very busy.
2:17.2	She also hosts the Meta Hour podcast. All right, here we go now with Sharon Salbert.
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