This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hey, gang, today we're going to tackle one of the most venerable and in the wrong hands,

annoying contemplative cliches, listening to your body.

There's actually a scientific word for this.

And my guest today, who's awesome and is a triple threat, she's a Dharma teacher, a doctor,

and an ultramarathonerer is going to talk about both the

benefits of interception or listening to your body and how to do it, how to actually operationalize

the cliche. I love this conversation. Actually, we cover a lot of ground here. As mentioned, we talk

about listening to your body, including some meditation techniques that can help you hone this skill. But we also talk about how to achieve peak performance

at any age. She's an ultramarathoner in her late 50s, which I found incredibly inspiring.

We talk about why some people don't exercise and how those folks can get motivated. How, for those of us who do exercise, it can often

come from a place of trauma-based hustling, which rang a bell for me, how to deal with injuries

and what you can learn from injuries, discipline versus self-compassion, indifference versus

equanimity, how to have a healthy overall relationship to your body, and much more.

This is the second appearance on the pod by Dr. Cristiana Wolf.

She no longer practices medicine, but she has both an MD and a PhD.

She now spends most of her time teaching meditation and writing books.

She's the author of two books,

Outsmart Your Pain, which she came on the show to discuss several years ago. And she's also

the co-author of a clinician's guide to teaching mindfulness. And she's a senior teacher at

Insight, L.A. in Los Angeles. And as mentioned in her spare time, she runs ultramarathons, which she will

talk about. And I found incredibly cool. This episode, by the way, kicks off a month-long series

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