Increasing your Attention Awareness | Bonus Meditation with Rev. angel Kyodo Williams

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this potent meditation on one point, hone your capacity to direct your attention where you want without shutting out the rest of the world. Good News everyone, our Free Election Sanity meditation challenge starts in the Ten Percent Happier app on Tuesday, October 27th. You've probably heard me mentioning this challenge throughout our election sanity podcast series. The plan is to take what we've learned from the podcast and do a meditation challenge based off of all the wisdom bombs our teachers have been dropping here. Download the Ten Percent Happier app today to join the challenge. And starting on October 27th, you'll literally be meditating with thousands of other people who have chosen to sit down with us for a few minutes a day and inject some sanity back into this bananas election season. About Rev. angel Kyodo williams: Rev. angel Kyodo williams is the author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace. She’s the Founder of the Center for Transformative Change in Berkeley and credited with developing fearlessMeditation, fearlessYoga and Warrior Spirit Training. Rev. angel is the world's 2nd female Zen teacher of African descent. For over 20 years, she has been putting into practice her unwavering belief that the key to transforming society is transforming our inner lives. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Guy Ross here and on my podcast, how I built this, I talked to the founders
0:03.6	behind some of the world's biggest companies and together we discuss all of the skills
0:08.8	they learned along the way, like confronting big challenges head on and how to lead through
0:14.2	uncertainty. So check out how I built this on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.2	From ABC, this is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:30.8	Hey guys, good news. Our free election sanity meditation challenge starts in the 10% Happier
0:36.6	app on Tuesday, October 27th. You've probably heard me mention this challenge throughout our
0:42.1	election sanity podcast series, which we're running in the month of October. The plan is to take
0:47.1	what we've learned from the podcast and do a meditation challenge based off of all the wisdom
0:52.0	bombs our teachers have been dropping on the episode. So download the 10% Happier app today to
0:57.5	join that challenge and then starting on October 27th, you will be meditating with thousands
1:02.5	of other people who have chosen to sit down with us for a few minutes every day to inject some
1:06.1	sanity back into this bananas election season. Okay, having said all of that, let's get to today's
1:12.9	bonus meditation from my friend the Reverend Angel Kyoto Williams. This was recorded as part of our
1:18.9	election sanity series. Reverend Angel was a guest on Monday's episode, which was part two of our
1:23.8	election sanity series on the podcast. And today she offers us some guidance on increasing our
1:28.8	ability to put our attention on what she describes as our attention awareness. She will explain that.
1:36.4	Here we go over to Reverend Angel Kyoto Williams. Greetings. My name is Reverend Angel Kyoto Williams.
1:43.9	And I'm going to share with you a meditation that I call point meditation or sometimes just the point.
1:50.8	Point meditation is pretty helpful because you can use it at other times than formal meditation,
1:58.6	including in this particular time where many of us find things pretty challenging.
2:05.9	So I'm going to start by inviting you to just cast your eyes downward. You don't have to have
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