Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Five Star App Meditation Studio.

I'm Patricia Carvis.

In this series, we introduce you to real people with extraordinary stories and experts, thought leaders, and authors who share how meditation and mindfulness practices change our lives.

Our podcast is brought to you by Meditation Studio, Apple's Pick as one of the

10 best apps of the year, and Muse, the amazing brain sensing headband that gives you real

feedback on your meditation practice. Join me or my co-host Ariel Garten, co-founder of Muse, each

week. This year on Meditation Studio, you'll see

new meditation collections for motivation, deep sleep with music, good night kiddo's sleep

meditations for your kiddos, a singing bowl collection, and a new course that will guide you

to deepen your practice. This is all in addition to the 500

meditations you get on everything from stress, anxiety, happiness, confidence, relationships,

and more. And don't forget, you can enable Meditations to do now on Alexa. Today, we're

encoring two podcasts, all about love and relationships. We hope

you enjoy them. Today I interview Sharon Salzberg, one of the leading meditation teachers in the

world and author of 10 books. We talk about her latest book, Real Love, The Art of Mindful Connection, where she explores

how to redefine our somewhat limited definitions of love in our culture. Real love, she shares,

allows us to connect more deeply with ourselves, with others, and with life itself. Love is a capacity

and ability we can cultivate and grow within ourselves.

She shares three ways we can lean into love in our lives and how meditation helps.

You may hear a few teeny blips from a poor phone connection.

Sharon was at her retreat center in Lennox Mass, but you'll definitely hear

many jewels of wisdom. Now, here's Sharon. Sharon, thank you so much for being on Untangle

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