Chelsea Handler & Sharon Salzberg: Guided Meditation

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🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Sharon Salzberg leads a guided meditation. Chelsea Handler talks about her special, 'Evolution.' Plus, comedians Dewayne Perkins, Aasia LaShay Bullock, Mike Albo and Amanda Duarte play games.

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0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:15.6	This is an encore episode of Ask Me Another.
0:20.1	Hey, everybody, it's Ophia Eisenberg, host of NPR's Ask Me Another, and wow, feeling
0:26.6	kind of out of sorts, but we have a show to do, and I have some great guests.
0:31.4	I'm going to call up Jonathan Colton.
0:33.6	Here we go.
0:39.3	Hi there, you've reached Jonathan Colton's voicemail. I'm not available to take your phone call right now.
0:41.3	Probably on a cruise ship or at a concert or at some other crowded place with a lot of people.
0:46.3	Call me back. Bye.
0:48.3	He needs to change that message.
0:51.3	Okay, I'm going to try him again. Hi, Afira. Hi, sorry, sorry. It's me. I'm here.
0:59.8	I'm so glad you picked up. Yeah. Sorry. It's a little stressful time. A little stressed out for no
1:04.3	particular reason. I totally understand. And you know what? I feel the same way. And I have someone here
1:09.7	to help us. Oh, great. I have Sharon Salzberg here. And she's a meditation teacher. She's a New York Times bestselling author. And she hosts the podcast, The Meta Hour. Sharon, hello. Hello. Sharon, you've written 11 books. And your latest is called Real Change, Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World.
1:28.7	Now, I imagine everyone is reaching out to you right now just saying, help me.
1:32.4	Well, that's true. It's not necessarily because of the book, you know, but I've been teaching
1:37.5	meditation since 1974. Wow. And so, you know, there are a lot of people reaching out either because they think, well, I've put it off.
1:47.4	You know, I really should adopt this new tool I've heard about or read about.
1:52.7	Or they are relying on it more than ever or all kinds of reasons.
1:56.5	But definitely.
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