How To Stop Getting Dragged Around By Your Anxieties, Thought Loops, and Insecurities | Sebene Selassie
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Plus: How to find practices that work for you, what "mindfulness" actually means, and a new audiobook out now.
Sebene Selassie has been meditating for decades, survived cancer three times, and still says the practice isn't a magic bullet. That honesty is kind of the point.
Today we're sharing a sneak preview of Dan's new audiobook, Even You Can Meditate, co-authored with Sebene. Think of it as a practical rescue plan for anyone who feels too distracted, overwhelmed, or skeptical to start (or restart) a meditation practice.
In this preview, Dan and Seb cover:
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Why "mindfulness" is actually a bit of a misnomer — and what the practice is really about
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What meditation can and can't do for you (it won't solve everything, but the benefits tend to kick in faster than you'd expect)
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How to find the style that works for your specific brain, body, and life — including if sitting still feels impossible
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The role of intention, and why getting clear on your "why" can become a surprisingly powerful engine for keeping a practice going
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The five hindrances — the predictable challenges that come up for almost every meditator — and how to work with them instead of against them
Even You Can Meditate is out now on Audible. Listen now at audible.com/danharris.
And mark your calendar: Dan and Seb are running a free five-day meditation challenge March 23–27 on Dan's app, 10% with Dan Harris. Download the app at app.danharris.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:18.1 | Hello, everybody. How we doing? So today we've got something special. It's a sneak preview of a new |
| 0:24.6 | audiobook that I worked on with the meditation teacher, Sabine-Salasy. It's called Even You Can Meditate, |
| 0:30.8 | and it's officially out on Audible. You can listen right now by visiting audible.com slash Dan Harris to |
| 0:37.0 | grab a copy of the book, |
| 0:38.2 | and I will drop that link in the show notes as well. I'm very excited about this audiobook. |
| 0:43.1 | Seth and I worked really hard on it. You can think of it as a practical rescue plan for anybody |
| 0:48.1 | who feels too distracted or overwhelmed to start or restart a meditation practice. |
| 0:53.0 | It guides you through various traditions and techniques to help you find the style that actually will work for you, for your life, for your brain, et cetera, et cetera, so that you can derive all the benefits that come from an abiding meditation habit like reduce stress and improve sleep. |
| 1:08.7 | Speaking of habits, by the way, the book comes with tons of practical evidence-based |
| 1:13.0 | hacks for booting up a habit that will actually stick. So what you're about to hear in this |
| 1:18.3 | little preview are two sections from the book. The first is an introduction where Seve and I talk |
| 1:23.5 | about what we're going to be doing in the book, why intention matters, and how to adapt |
| 1:28.3 | these practices to work for your particular brain. The second section dives into mindfulness |
| 1:34.0 | itself, what it is, what it isn't, and why the word is actually kind of a misnomer. We also get |
| 1:40.2 | into some practical stuff about posture, stillness, and the so-called five hindrances, |
| 1:46.1 | the very predictable challenges that tend to come up in meditation like desire, aversion, |
| 1:51.7 | restlessness, doubt, et cetera. Okay, before we dive in, two quick things. First, just a little bit |
| 1:56.9 | about my co-author, Seven A. Salasi. Many of you, I think, will know who she is, |
| 2:01.1 | but if you haven't heard of her, she's an author, and a teacher, and a three-time cancer |
| 2:04.8 | survivor, and a very close friend and an awesome person. Second, and this is very cool, |
| 2:10.3 | over on my new meditation app, which is called 10% with Dan Harris, we're going to be running |
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