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This is the 10% happier podcast, Dan Harris. Happy Friday, time for a bonus meditation.

I think for many of us when we have stressful thoughts, we unfortunately just believe those

stressful thoughts and then we inhabit the stress and we're off on unhealthy habit loops

as a consequence. Today we're going to learn a technique for soothing those stressful

thoughts when they arise and our teacher, Du jour is Jess Mori. Otherwise known as

JMo. She's a lead teacher, co-founder and former executive director of inward bound mindfulness

education, also known as IBMe, which runs in depth mindfulness programming for youth

and the parents and professionals to support them across the United States and internationally.

She's also an employee at and teacher on the 10% happier app. Here we go now with Jess

Mori. Hi, this is Jess. One morning not long ago over the course of just five minutes,

my business collapsed into bankruptcy, all of my staff ended up homeless and because

of my utter failure as a boss, it was clear that I would never be able to get another job.

And then I woke up. In this practice, we'll explore the relationship between stress and thinking

and learn ways to break unhealthy habit loops. Come into a comfortable seated position,

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