Destiny: Scott Snibbe, How to Train a Happy Mind

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

TRAIN YOUR MIND TOWARD LASTING CONNECTION AND JOY

Eager to share the life-enhancing benefits he found in Buddhism, skeptic Scott Snibbe presents this 8-step programme that allows anyone to build positive mental habits. Inspired by the ancient Buddhist path to enlightenment yet firmly grounded in modern science, How to Train a Happy Mind is the first mainstream book to show how you can achieve happiness using analytical meditation. Working in much the same way as cognitive behavioural therapy, analytical meditation goes beyond the calm-inducing practice of mindfulness to actively train the brain through easy-to-follow narrative visualizations.

Breaking the path down into concise steps and written in a relatable tone with plenty of references to popular culture, this is the ideal book if you recognize your mind as both the source of your problems and the source of your solutions.

Scott Snibbe is a twenty-five-year student of Tibetan Buddhism whose teachers include Geshe Ngawang Dakpa, Choden Rinpoche, Ven. Rene Feusi, Ven. Sangye Khadro, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Inspired by his teachers, he leads meditations that infuse the pure lineage of the great Buddhist masters with science, humor, and the realities of the modern world.Snibbe is the co-founder and Executive Director of A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing secular forms of Tibetan Buddhist analytical meditation through its podcast, community, and meditation courses. He leads classes and retreats worldwide.

https://www.snibbe.com/

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Before diving into today's episode, did you know that this podcast has a supporters club? By becoming a
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0:28.0	in supporting your favorite podcast. See the link in the episode description to
0:31.8	find out more. Now let's get back in the episode description to find out more.
0:32.6	Now, let's get back to the episode. Oh, Welcome to Destiny. Now he's your host Cliff Dunning.
1:12.3	All right, so quick take on meditation.
1:15.0	Meditation is becoming the most widely used and accepted complimentary practice.
1:21.0	It's not new, it's thousands of years old, but we have good research.
1:25.8	Neuroimaging does show changes in the brain when we meditate. Research shows that
1:30.8	are telemerse, those little caps, those little legs on the DNA,
1:35.0	actually get healthier when we meditate, when we do longer term meditation.
1:41.0	So there's a lot of benefits that are measurable which I think is helping make
1:44.8	it acceptable to the medical profession, but it's also transformative. I meditate almost every day and I'm a better person for it.
1:55.0	Years ago I had a friend who was a horrible person.
1:58.8	He was hard to be around.
2:00.7	After his midday meditation, he was a much nicer person. So meditation is is powerful.
2:07.0	That's a neurobiologist from the Sebrook Institute here in California who studies people who have been
2:17.8	meditating for short, medium, and long periods of time and suggests different types of meditations to consider. Hey, how you doing? This is Cliff. We're talking about tools for transformation, one of the themes that we concentrate on with Destiny, the podcast.
2:37.0	And today we have an expert who teaches a form of meditation in the Buddhist tradition, very, very ancient, very easy to learn, and he has written a new book called
2:52.0	How to Train a Happy Mind,
2:54.8	a Skeptics Path to Enlightenment.
2:57.2	And I'll tell you, it's a real easy book to read
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