How to Be Present, With Sharon Salzberg
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
Lifehacker
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We’re learning how to be more present this week with meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg. Hear her talk with Alice and Melissa about the ways that the pandemic highlights just how interconnected we are, and what we can do to find a little stability in the uncertainty. Sharon is the New York Times bestselling author of Real Happiness, Lovingkindness, and Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection. Her newest book, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World, comes out in September.
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| 0:45.7 | That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 1:09.5 | I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker. |
| 1:12.6 | And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor. |
| 1:15.6 | And today we're learning how to be present in a time of great uncertainty |
| 1:20.4 | with the help of meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg. |
| 1:24.5 | And my question to myself over and over again became what's still true in a time of |
| 1:31.1 | complete disruption and chaos and fear and grief and what's still true? Sharon is the author of |
| 1:38.3 | 10 books including real happiness, loving kindness, and real love, the art of mindful connection. Her newest book, Real |
| 1:45.8 | Change, Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World comes out in September. Sharon joined us back in |
| 1:51.7 | 2017 for an episode called How to Find Real Love, which we encourage you to check out if you |
| 1:56.7 | haven't heard it. Hey, Melissa. Yes, Alice. I believe you have some news you would like to share |
| 2:03.6 | with our listeners. I do. This is my last episode of the upgrade as a co-host and my last week at |
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