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This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey happy Friday it's bonus meditation

time. We've gone to some pretty heavy places on the show this week focusing on what it

feels like to lose losing people jobs relationships. We've really been talking about the full

spectrum of grief. In the Buddhist tradition, one supremely counterintuitive way to deal

with whatever emotions or states of mind are coming up is to not take them seriously.

But how to actually do that? We're going to practice today with the Maestro Joseph Goldstein

co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and one of the founding teachers on the 10% happier

app. Joseph over to you. Hello, this is Joseph. One of the areas we get most identified

with is different mind states and emotions. Understanding their essential, insubstantial

nature and our own condition responses to them opens a doorway to a much greater understanding

and ease in our lives. In this session we'll be using the terms mind states and emotions

interchangeably. We'll begin the meditation by settling into the awareness of your body

posture. Sit and know you're sitting. Become mindful of your body breathing.

Breathing in, know you're breathing in, breathing out, know you're breathing out.

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