Meditation Party with Sebene Selassie and Jeff Warren: Psychedelics, ADHD, Waking Up From Distraction, and Singing Without Being Self-Conscious
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Welcome to Round II of the Meditation Party. The feedback we got from our first episode was overwhelmingly positive, so we're going for it again. Meditation Party is an experiment we're running with a chattier format – more of a morning zoo vibe, but way deeper, of course. The real agenda here is to show that meditation doesn't have to be a solo death march; it is vastly enhanced by having friends.
Dan's co-hosts in this episode are his two close friends: the great meditation teachers Sebene Selassie and Jeff Warren. Sebene Selassie is based in Brooklyn and describes herself as a "writer, teacher, and immigrant-weirdo." She teaches meditation on the Ten Percent Happier app and is the author of a great book called, You Belong. Jeff Warren is based in Toronto and is also a writer and meditation teacher who co-wrote the book, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics with Dan Harris. Jeff also hosts the Consciousness Explorers podcast.
In this episode, we talk to Jeff about what it's like to be a meditation teacher who has ADHD. And even if you don't have ADHD, there's a lot of practical value to this conversation, because we all have unruly minds, and Jeff has found some great ways to work with this condition.
We also take listener questions, discussing topics like drugs. Specifically, psychedelics — and whether you're violating Buddhist precepts if you take them. We also talk about how frustrating it can be to repeatedly wake up from distraction in meditation.
And finally, we have a segment talking about the stuff we're psyched about right now… in which Sebene sings for us.
Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/sebene-selassie-jeff-warren-601
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:11.4 | Yo, we're back with another episode of Meditation Party. This is an experiment. We've been running |
| 0:25.0 | with a chatier format, more of a morning zoo vibe, but way deeper, of course. The real agenda here |
| 0:30.8 | is to show you that meditation does not have to be a solo death march. It is vastly enhanced by having |
| 0:37.3 | friends. Speaking of, my co-pilots are two very close friends of mine, the great meditation teachers, |
| 0:44.0 | Sebenei Salassi and Jeff Warren. The feedback we got from our first episode was overwhelmingly |
| 0:49.4 | positive, so we're going for it again, although we still want your feedback. So hit me up on Twitter |
| 0:54.1 | or go to our website if you want to tell me what you think. This time at the party, we're going to |
| 0:58.9 | talk to Jeff about what it's like to be a meditation teacher who has ADHD. This is a huge |
| 1:05.4 | issue for Jeff, and it was really actually quite moving for me as his friend to watch him open |
| 1:10.7 | up about this. Just to say, even if you don't have ADHD, there's a lot of practical value to this |
| 1:17.7 | conversation because we all have unruly minds, and Jeff has found some really good ways to work |
| 1:23.5 | with this condition. We also talk about drugs, specifically psychedelics, and whether you're violating |
| 1:29.8 | Buddhist precepts, if you take them. We actually started talking about that in response to a listener |
| 1:35.3 | question. We have a whole segment here in which we take your questions, and we also respond to a |
| 1:40.1 | question where somebody talks about how frustrating it can be to have to repeatedly wake up from |
| 1:44.6 | distraction in meditation. And finally, we have a segment where we talk about the stuff we're |
| 1:49.4 | really talking about right now in which Sabine will sing for us. Many of you are familiar with |
| 1:56.2 | Seb and Jeff, but for those of you who aren't, Sabine Selassie describes herself, and I'm quoting |
| 2:01.0 | here as a writer, teacher, and immigrant weirdo. She teaches meditation on the 10% happier app, |
| 2:06.2 | and is the author of a great book called You Belong. She's based in Brooklyn. |
| 2:11.8 | Jeff Warren is also a writer and meditation teacher. He and I co-wrote a book called Meditation |
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