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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Happiness Doesn't Have to be an Accident | Bonus Meditation with Diana Winston

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Happiness doesn't have to be an accident. In this session from Diana, train your mind to become more and more joyful. To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, visit https://10percenthappier.app.link/OpeningToJoyPod About Diana: Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center where she also teaches mindfulness practices to the general public. Her easy-on-the-ears west coast style rests on top of a rigorous scientific mind, and a vast amount of teaching experience. She has developed curriculum and taught mindfulness since the early 90’s in a variety of settings including hospitals, universities, corporations, non profits, and schools. She has taught mindful awareness to health professionals, leaders, teachers, activists, seniors, and adolescents in the US and Asia. A published researcher and author, Diana has also written for numerous meditation publications, where her daughter, Mira, often makes an appearance in her examples of bringing mindfulness to daily life. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening ad free on Wondery Plus.

0:26.9

From ABC, this is the 10% Happier Podcast.

0:31.4

I'm Dan Harris.

0:33.2

Hey guys, time for the Friday bonus.

0:37.9

Earlier this week we spoke to the meditation teacher James Barra's who's written a book

0:43.4

about joy.

0:44.4

He semi-facitiously refers to himself as the joy boy.

0:48.9

And one of his primary ideas is that we can use meditation to cultivate joy.

0:55.2

We are bringing in another great meditation teacher Diana Winston with a meditation that

1:00.7

is also featured on the 10% Happier app, which is designed to generate joy.

1:06.0

Here we go over to Diana Winston.

1:08.7

Hi, this is Diana and this meditation will introduce you to the possibility of cultivating

1:15.0

more joy.

1:17.9

Joy is one of these states that we can develop through deliberately practicing it and setting

1:23.5

kind of an aspiration for it.

1:27.0

When I talk about joy, I'm not necessarily talking about ecstatic joy or blissful joy.

1:33.8

At the baseline when I think of joy, it's just about a contentment with things as they

1:38.6

are and a willingness to be with life as it is.

1:43.2

So let's give it a try.

1:46.2

Let's find a posture that's comfortable for you.

1:52.0

A bright but not too rigid or tight.

1:57.1

Eyes can be closed or open if you prefer.

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