High-Fiving Your Anxiety Demon | Bonus Meditation with Leslie Booker

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Gently opening to the full sensations of anxiety and even making friends with it can actually create more calm and peace in your body.

About Leslie Booker:

After training as a yoga teacher in 2007, Booker was drawn to Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Mindful Yoga and Meditation training which she completed in 2012. She is a co-founder of the Yoga Service Council at Omega Institute and the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. In 2020 she was invited to be a Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellow through Auburn Seminary and was voted by her peers as one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement. She currently lives in Philadelphia with her partner and pup and is the Co-Guiding Teacher of New York Insight.

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0:55.7	You need indeed. This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey everybody happy Friday time for a bonus meditation today Today we're talking about anxiety. I suspect
1:24.8	that's a feeling many of you, if not all of you, intimately understand. For many of us
1:30.9	the reflex in the face of anxiety is to ignore it or avoid it.
1:37.0	Common band-aids include alcohol drugs, shopping, food, gambling, etc.
1:41.0	Our teacher, Dujour, however, has another suggestion. Instead of suppressing
1:46.2	it, ignoring it, or avoiding it, pay attention to it. Make friends with it even. Of course,
1:52.1	you have to do this carefully and in small
1:53.8	doses I'll leave the actual tactical advice to the aforementioned teacher Leslie
1:58.5	Booker. She prefers to go by just Booker. She is one of the featured teachers
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