Ep 113. Meditation and Anxiety with Yael Shy

Not Another Anxiety Show

Kelli Walker

Therapy, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Health, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Anxiety, Claireweekes, Counseling, Brenebrown, Research, Meditation, Panicattacks, Science, Selfhelp, Stress

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Join Kelli and guest Yael Shy as they explore the topic of meditation and how it can help us move through anxiety. Do you get distracted when you meditate? Do you have trouble "clearing your mind" during a medication exercise? Does meditation feel too woo-woo or un-relatable? If yes, you're not alone! Kelli and Yael share how they're not "natural" meditators, and yet mediation has still been incredibly valuable to them.

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0:00.0	Hey, guys, welcome to not another anxiety show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me today is guest, Yael
0:17.8	Shai. Hi, Y'all. Hi. Thanks for joining us today. Yeah, really happy to be here.
0:24.3	Now, do you mind if I share a little bit more about you with our listeners before we get started here?
0:28.8	No, go for it. That would be wonderful. Wonderful. Yael Shai is the founder and director of
0:34.9	Mindful NYU, the largest campus-wide meditation initiative in the country,
0:39.7	and the senior director of the Center for Global Spiritual Life at New York University.
0:44.4	She leads meditation workshops, classes, and retreats around the country, and the world.
0:48.9	She has been published in the Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, and the Journal of Interreligious Studies, among other
0:54.8	publications. Yal lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son. More information on Yelah can be found at
1:00.6	www. y'all-shai.com, which is Yaeli-L-S-H-Y. Is that right? That's right. All one word.
1:10.2	All smushed together. All smush together. I'll smush together.
1:13.4	Now, you also recently authored and published a book called What Now? Meditation for
1:20.9	Your 20s and Beyond. Can you tell us a little bit more about that book because I'm about
1:25.2	two-thirds through and I'm finding it a really valuable
1:28.5	resource. Oh, good. I'm so glad. Yeah, it is, it's a journey, really, of my meditation journey,
1:38.2	how I came into meditation. It includes a lot of memoir and a lot of pieces of my life, how I started actually really deeply from a place of struggle and suffering when I was in college.
1:54.2	I was 19 and being consumed by anxiety and panic and really existential questions about what my purpose was in life
2:05.3	as a lot of the pieces of my life were kind of crumbling around me. And then I went on a meditation
2:13.8	retreat. I started to learn to understand a lot of the pieces that were underlying the
2:19.8	anxiety and the panic and the fear. And then I break that down into different sections about how to
2:28.3	meditate. And I try and talk about it in a way that is really, really easy and accessible because
2:33.9	that's what I always wish that I had. And then talk about it in a way that is really, really easy and accessible because that's what I
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