How Can I Meditate (Or Do Anything Else) When I'm in Pain? | Sebene Selassie

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

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🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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A longtime cancer survivor — and our Teacher of the Month — has some suggestions for working with pain.

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Get ready for another Meditation Party at Omega Institute! This in-person workshop brings together Dan with his friends and meditation teachers, Sebene Selassie, Jeff Warren, and for the first time, Ofosu Jones-Quartey. The event runs October 24th-26th. Sign up and learn more at eomega.org/workshops/meditation-party-2025.

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0:00.0	This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:18.8	Happy Sunday, everybody. Hope you're having a good weekend. Today, we're going to answer a very common meditation question. How do I meditate when I'm in physical pain or psychological pain? For better and for worse, Sabine Selassi has a lot of experience with this. She's gone through four rounds of cancer treatment. She's also
0:38.3	gone through a divorce. So she understands both physical and psychological pain. Before we dive in on
0:44.1	this, let me just quickly say that Seb is the teacher of the month over on Dan Harris.com.
0:49.4	That means she's producing guided meditations to go along with all of our Monday, Wednesday
0:53.7	episodes. She's also doing live meditation and Q&A sessions. As you know, we do these every Tuesday at 4 Eastern. I'll be doing the next one solo, but she'll do the one after that. Another thing I want to say before we dive in is that if you want to come meditate with me in person, I've got two events coming up. There are a few tickets left for the
1:11.8	meditation party retreat. I'll be doing with Sabine, Jeff Warren, and Afosu Jones Cortay, the weekend of
1:18.1	October 24th at the Omega Institute in upstate New York. We do a mix of meditation, Q&A, and
1:23.6	socializing. There's also plenty of free time for yoga, massage, tennis, hiking, pickleball,
1:28.4	whatever. And then the other event is on November 18th. That's a live taping of this podcast in New York
1:33.6	City with the comedian Pete Holmes. It's a benefit for the New York Insight Meditation Center.
1:39.5	If you want to come to either or both of these things, there are links in the show notes.
1:45.1	Okay, we'll get started with Seven A. Salasi, who you'll hear in conversation with my executive producer, DJ Kashmir,
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2:04.0	And basically, you do it all?
2:05.9	No?
2:06.7	Hmm.
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