Do You Feel Like Everybody Sucks? Here's a 10-Minute Pain Reliever.
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
If the idea of "sending love to all beings" makes you roll your eyes, this episode is for you. Dan leads a guided meditation, suitable for all levels of experience. Originally recorded during one of our live sangha gatherings on Substack, which are open to paid subscribers at DanHarris.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:07.7 | Hello, everybody, happy Friday. So we're dropping a simple, straightforward meditation down the feed for you today. This is something that really has the power to turn your whole day around. You may have heard me say this before, but I initially found loving kindness or meta meditation to be, I guess you could say, unforgivably cheesy, but it really is now a crucial part of my practice. |
| 0:42.7 | And not for nothing, there's a ton of science indicating that this practice really is good for you. |
| 0:47.8 | So today you're going to hear me guide a loving kindness meditation. |
| 0:51.2 | This comes from a live session that I did a few weeks ago for our paid |
| 0:55.6 | subscribers over on Substack. We do these sessions every week now, every Tuesday at 4 Eastern. |
| 1:01.5 | We do a short meditation, then chop it up, take your questions, etc. The next session is Tuesday, |
| 1:07.7 | October 28th at 4 Eastern. As always, it will be featuring our teacher of the month, |
| 1:14.0 | 7A. Salasi. Paid subscribers also get companion meditations with all of our Monday-W Wednesday episodes, |
| 1:19.6 | which are designed to help you, as I like to say, pound the wisdom from our conversations |
| 1:24.8 | directly into your neurons. |
| 1:31.0 | One last thing to say before we get started here very quickly. |
| 1:36.7 | If you want to meditate with me, IRL, I have a live taping of this podcast coming up on November 18th in New York City. |
| 1:39.1 | My guest will be the very hilarious and very thoughtful slash soulful comedian Pete Holmes. It's a benefit for the New York |
| 1:46.9 | Insight Meditation Center. There's a link in the show notes if you want to come. All right. We'll meditate |
| 1:51.8 | together right after this. Life Kit, NPR's self-help podcast is for anyone looking for practical |
| 1:58.4 | strategies on how to make meaningful lifestyle changes. |
| 2:01.8 | Their policy, don't be too hard on yourself or too grand in your goals. |
| 2:06.0 | LifeKit focuses on small, achievable nudges to your behavior and guides you on creating |
| 2:11.1 | habits that stick from getting better sleep to becoming a super communicator. |
| 2:15.8 | LifeKit offers you the tools you need. Listen to the Life Kit |
| 2:19.1 | podcast from NPR wherever you get your podcasts. Let's do 10 minutes of loving kindness meditation. |
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