How to Handle Discomfort, Uncertainty, and Overwhelm | Meditation with Kaira Jewel Lingo
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🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
All this month, we’re sharing custom guided meditations from our teacher of the month, Kaira Jewel Lingo, exclusively available at DanHarris.com. Like any good drug dealer, the first taste is free – so today, we’re giving you a sample of what you can expect for the rest of the month. This meditation is about learning to sit with discomfort.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:07.9 | Happy Sunday, everybody. |
| 0:19.9 | Hope you're having a good weekend. We're bringing you a guided meditation |
| 0:23.6 | today from Kyra Jewel Lingo, is an amazing meditation teacher. Some context here. We're now creating |
| 0:30.4 | guided meditations to go along with all of our Monday- Wednesday episodes. The idea is that we want to |
| 0:36.1 | help you remember all the great stuff that you learn in these amazing conversations that we post. |
| 0:43.3 | And meditation is a great way to sort of pound the wisdom into your neurons. |
| 0:47.3 | These meditations are only available for paying subscribers over on Dan Harris.com. |
| 0:52.3 | But today we're giving you one for free it's the |
| 0:54.9 | classic drug dealer strategy you know give a dose for free until we get you hooked but we're i think |
| 0:59.9 | a lot more helpful than your average drug dealer before we dive in just a uh a quick reminder that i'll |
| 1:04.9 | be doing a live meditation retreat up at the omega institute north of New York City at the end of October. |
| 1:12.6 | It runs from October 24th to 26th. |
| 1:15.4 | This is a much more relaxed and enjoyable version. |
| 1:18.3 | It's not a Zen death march or anything like that. |
| 1:20.9 | We call it Meditation Party. |
| 1:22.2 | My friend, Seven A. Salasi and Jeff Warren will be there also this year for the first time. |
| 1:26.6 | Another friend of Fosu Jones-Cortay. |
| 1:28.7 | It's going to be great. You can sign up at e-omega.org or I will put a link in the show notes. |
| 1:34.7 | We'll get started with a guided meditation from Kyra Jewel Lingo right after this. |
| 1:42.9 | Most of us are conditioned to either push discomfort away or distract ourselves from it. |
| 1:51.0 | Uncertainty especially can feel overwhelming or even threatening. |
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