Could This Practice Improve Your Sleep, Sharpen Your Mind, and Decrease Unhealthy Cravings? | Kelly Boys
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Today we're taking a run at something that is simultaneously a contemplative cliché and also a deeply desired psychological outcome: getting out of your head and into your body. So many of us want an escape route from the spinning, looping, fishing narratives and grudges in our head and our guest today has some very practical suggestions to help us do that.
Kelly Boys is a mindfulness trainer and coach. She has helped design and deliver mindfulness and resilience programs for the UN, Google, and San Quentin State Prison. She is also the author of The Blind Spot Effect: How to Stop Missing What's Right in Front of You
Today we're going to talk specifically about a type of meditation that Kelly teaches called Yoga Nidra, which has been shown to help you sleep, improve your working memory, and decrease cravings.
In this episode we talk about:
- The difference between Yoga Nidra and mindfulness meditation, and how Kelly seeks to combine them
- The value of being able to both observe and high-five your demons
- Working with our "core beliefs" about ourselves and the world
- The calming power of drawing your attention to the back side of your body throughout the day
- Working with "opposites" as a way to get unstuck in difficult moments
- What Kelly means by the blind spot effect
- Setting intentions
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:07.9 | Hey gang, today we're going to take another run at something that is simultaneously |
| 0:15.6 | a contemplative cliche. |
| 0:17.3 | It also a deeply desired psychological outcome getting out of your head and into your body. |
| 0:25.0 | So many of us desperately want an escape route from the spinning, looping, fizzing narratives |
| 0:30.7 | and grudges in our head. |
| 0:33.0 | And my guest today has some very practical suggestions. |
| 0:36.2 | Kelly Boyz is a mindfulness trainer and coach. |
| 0:38.8 | She has helped design and deliver mindfulness and resilience programs for the UN, Google, |
| 0:44.2 | and San Quentin State Prison. |
| 0:46.2 | She's also the author of the Blind Spot Effect. |
| 0:48.4 | How to stop missing what is right in front of you. |
| 0:51.6 | Today we're going to talk specifically about a type of meditation that Kelly teaches |
| 0:55.1 | called yoga nidra, which has been shown to help you sleep better, improve your working |
| 0:59.6 | memory, and decrease cravings. |
| 1:02.2 | I will let Kelly describe the practice in detail, but just to say from the outset, you |
| 1:06.8 | do not have to do the whole thing in order to benefit from what you're about to hear. |
| 1:11.0 | Kelly does a great job of extracting the active ingredients from yoga nidra in ways that |
| 1:15.0 | you can integrate into your life immediately. |
| 1:18.3 | In this conversation, we talk about the difference between yoga nidra and mindfulness meditation |
| 1:22.8 | and how Kelly seeks to combine them, the value of being able to both observe and high five |
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