Become 10% Happier Through Meditation with Dan Harris
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Dan Harris is best known for his work on ABC News, Nightline and Good Morning America. He is the author of the book, 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story
In this episode, Eric and Dan discuss his original skepticism of meditation and the benefits he discovered from developing a regular meditation practice.
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Dan Harris and I Discuss Learning to Be 10% Happier Through Meditation and …
- His book, 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story
- How the mind can be trained for compassion and happiness
- Exercising the brain just like the body
- The science of meditation
- How we all have an inner voice or narrator in our head
- The scientifically proven benefits of meditation
- Our tendency to focus on the bad things and ignore the good.
- Finding the line of when to push forward or back down
- The happiness set point theory.
- Motivation coming from happiness versus pain
- How a certain amount of stress is necessary
- Dealing with failure and setbacks
- His experience of discovering awareness in the present moment
- Meditation as a mechanism of learning mindfulness
- The practice of meditation is about remembering
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| 0:00.0 | In case you're just recently joining us or however long you've been a listener of the show, |
| 0:04.3 | you may not realize that we have years and years of incredible episodes in our archives. |
| 0:09.6 | We've had so many wonderful guests that we've decided a hand pick, one of our favorites, |
| 0:14.2 | that may be new to you, but if it's not, it's definitely worth another lesson. |
| 0:18.9 | We hope you'll enjoy this episode with Dan Harris. |
| 0:22.6 | I wanted to call the book the voice in my head as an asshole because I just think if that's a |
| 0:26.5 | profane statement of a fundamental truth. |
| 0:37.4 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:39.5 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:44.0 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:49.6 | And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:53.8 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:58.5 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 1:01.4 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 1:04.8 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 1:08.4 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 1:13.2 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 1:17.6 | how they feed their good walls. |
| 1:32.1 | Hi, it's Bethany Frankel. |
| 1:33.9 | My time on the Real Housewives of New York is a few years behind me. |
| 1:37.2 | And now I'm ready to put the real back into the Real Housewives. |
| 1:40.6 | That's where my new podcast ReWives comes in. |
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