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🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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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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