How To Handle Dread | Saleem Reshamwala
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Today we explore the entire dread spectrum with Saleem Reshamwala, who took a deep dive on this very common, very uncomfortable emotion. What is dread, exactly? What evolutionary purpose does it serve? Most importantly, how do we deal with it? What are the antidotes?
Reshamwala has worked for The New York Times, PBS, and also TED, where he hosts a podcast called Far Flung. He is also the host of More Than A Feeling, another podcast here at Ten Percent Happier. Saleem and his team recently launched something called The Dread Project - we shared their first episode kicking off the series last week. It's a five-day series that investigates dread. Each day of the challenge, listeners tackle dread in a different way. You can sign up for The Dread Project at dreadproject.com.
In this episode we talk about:
- Dread-management techniques, including: journaling, drawing, and welcoming your dread to the party inside your head
- How to face dread when it comes to climate change
- And the biggest dread of all— death
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:11.2 | Hey gang, have you ever woken up in the morning and felt just a wave of dread sweeping up |
| 0:17.0 | at you from your feet? |
| 0:19.2 | Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night in cold sweat? |
| 0:22.2 | Or maybe your dread is not so existential. |
| 0:24.4 | You just have a mild dread about going to work on Monday morning or looming dentist appointment. |
| 0:29.9 | Today we're going to explore the entire beautiful dread spectrum with a journalist who has taken |
| 0:36.1 | a very deep dive on this very common and very uncomfortable emotion. |
| 0:41.2 | What is dread exactly? |
| 0:42.5 | What evolutionary purpose does it serve? |
| 0:44.3 | And most importantly, how do we deal with it? |
| 0:46.8 | What are the antidotes? |
| 0:48.7 | Selim Ressamwala has worked for the New York Times, PBS, and also Ted, where he hosts |
| 0:54.2 | a podcast called Far Flung. |
| 0:56.8 | He is also the host of The More Than A Feeling Podcast, which is produced by 10% Happier. |
| 1:02.6 | Selim and his team recently launched something called the Dread Project. |
| 1:06.1 | It's an amazing title and we actually shared the first episode of that series recently |
| 1:10.7 | right here on this feed. |
| 1:12.4 | It's a five day series that investigates dread each day of the challenge. |
| 1:16.5 | We give you tools to tackle dread in different ways. |
| 1:20.2 | We're going to tell you how to sign up for the challenge at the end of this episode. |
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