Reset Your Nervous System | Bonus Meditation with JoAnna Hardy

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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If you enjoyed this meditation, sign up for our Election Sanity Series email guide. It will recap all of the podcast episodes each week. It’ll include helpful tidbits such as key terms and concepts; highlights from the immense wisdom our guests bring us around concepts like compassion, equanimity, kindness… and we’ll link to relevant meditations and talks (like this one!) in the TPH app. Just like the podcast, this guide is free. You can sign up for it at tenpercent.com/guide. Again, you can get this special newsletter for our election sanity podcast series at tenpercent.com/guide. About JoAnna Hardy: JoAnna Hardy can talk about meditation to pretty much anybody. She not only teaches in traditional environments like retreat centers, but also in both schools and jails. JoAnna has been studying meditation for nearly two decades and she's done some amazing work ensuring that the practice is available to people who might not otherwise have access to it. JoAnna teaches at the Insight Meditation Society, at Spirit Rock, and is a Founding Member of The Meditation Coalition. 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	Hello, it's Friday. So we're dropping a bonus today is a new meditation from Joanna Hardy.
0:37.5	We recorded this meditation as part of our election sanity series. In this meditation, Joanna
0:44.0	helps guide us type A people toward doing something supremely counterintuitive, which is
0:48.8	setting everything down and doing nothing. So let's send it over to Joanna.
0:55.9	Hi, this is Joanna and I would love to share a meditation with you today that I have been doing
1:03.5	myself and has been very useful during times of crisis, during times of fear, during times of
1:10.4	anxiety. And it really gives our nervous system a chance to rest. So if you would like to find a
1:23.4	comfortable position, maybe on your meditation cushion,
1:29.7	but really allowing yourself to land right where you are,
1:39.4	and give yourself permission for these few moments together to not have to do anything.
1:47.6	We need to allow our minds, our brains, our nervous system, our bodies to have a break,
2:06.4	calling this a radical practice of not doing.
2:17.3	So one of the best ways to start understanding a practice of not doing this really allow your
2:28.5	belly to soften. So what's it like to be sitting here in this body and soften your belly?
2:48.1	We hold a lot of tension, a lot of emotion, a lot of reactivity in our body.
3:17.1	In our belly area, oftentimes it's very tight. So allow that belly, space, allow each inhale
3:32.8	to extend and fill your whole belly, your whole chest area.
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