Just Because You Think It, Doesn’t Make It True | Bonus Meditation with Leslie Booker

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Strengthen your ability to know the difference between fact and fiction by using sound to harness a foundational anxiety-taming skill.

About Leslie Booker:

Booker brings her heart and wisdom to the intersection of Dharma, Embodied Wisdom, and Liberation. Using this framework, she supports folks in creating a culture of belonging through her teaching and writing on changing the paradigm of self and community care. She shares her offering widely as a university lecturer, public speaker, and Buddhist philosophy and meditation teacher. She currently lives in Philadelphia with her partner and pup and is the Co-Guiding Teacher of New York Insight.

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0:00.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to 10% happier early and ad free right now.
0:04.5	Join Wundry Plus in the Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.5	This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Happy Friday everybody time for a bonus meditation. Sometimes we need a
0:31.5	reminder that our thoughts are not actually true.
0:36.0	I mean they're real, they do exist, but just because you think something doesn't make it factual.
0:41.0	Today's meditation with my friend Booker. Her full name is Leslie
0:45.4	Booker but she goes by Booker uses sound to keep you anchored to what's actually
0:50.8	happening so you don't get lost in your thoughts.
0:53.2	A little bit more about Booker, she's a university lecturer, public speaker, and Buddhist philosophy
0:58.6	and meditation teacher. She currently lives in Philadelphia with her partner and a dog, and she's also the co-guiding
1:05.0	teacher of the New York Insight Meditation Center which I highly recommend if you
1:09.0	live in the New York area. Here we go now with Booker.
1:12.4	Hey friends this is Booker. In our
1:17.0	meditation today we're going to practice knowing the difference between what
1:21.6	is actually happening in our experience and the distortion
1:25.3	that the mind is creating.
1:28.9	Let's begin by finding a posture that's upright and alert and also easy for you to maintain throughout your
1:36.8	meditation. Turning your head in one direction,
1:44.0	take a breath in, and use a full out breath to turn your head to look in the opposite
1:52.0	direction.
1:55.6	Keep the eyes open as you continue. You're going to be here. The head comes back to center as you sense how much space is around your body.
2:32.0	When you're ready, let the eyes rest. You can keep the eyes rest.
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