Small Wins | Bonus Meditation with Matthew Hepburn

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

When the world feels like a dumpster fire, it helps to remember that your contributions to improve things matter—even the small ones.

About Matthew Hepburn:

Matthew is a meditation and dharma teacher with more than a decade of teaching experience and a passion for getting real about what it means to live well. He emphasizes humor, technique, and authentic kindness as a means to free the mind up from unnecessary struggle and leave a healthier impact on the world. Beyond Ten Percent Happier, Matthew has taught in prisons, schools, corporate events and continues to teach across North America in Buddhist centers offering intensive silent retreats and dharma for urban daily life.

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0:00.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to 10% happier early and ad free right now.
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0:10.0	This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Happy weekend everybody time for a bonus meditation. There's a great story from Joseph
0:32.4	Goldstein by the way Joseph is not
0:34.5	leading today's meditation, but I'm going to tell this story as we head into the
0:37.9	meditation. Joseph tells this story about being over in Burma with a great
0:41.0	meditation teacher many, many years ago and he was
0:44.9	struggling at some point in his practice and his teacher, this Burmese master, told
0:49.3	him to consider your CELA. CELA is the ancient word for ethical conduct and Joseph at first
0:57.7	thought that the teacher was asking him to think about all the bad stuff he'd
1:01.4	done but no actually the teacher was saying if you
1:04.6	think about the good stuff you've done in your life that can elevate the mind, brighten
1:09.2	the mind and help you when you're struggling in meditation. So that is what we're going to do in this
1:15.1	session today with our teacher du jour Matthew Hepburn who's one of our on-staff
1:20.5	teachers at the 10% happier app. He's also taught in prisons, schools,
1:24.8	corporations, and all over North America. Here we go now with Matthew Hepburn.
1:30.0	Hi, this is Matthew.
1:33.0	Sometimes we can get into the mindset that the things we do don't make a difference.
1:38.0	We may not be all-powerful, but the truth is that everything we do has an impact, however small, and we
1:46.7	need to remind ourselves of that fact so we can continue to work for a better world. We'll do this reflection together now.
1:57.2	Settle into an easy posture that feels upright, wakeful, and relaxed.
2:05.2	If you like, you can let the eyes close gently and release any tension from the face and
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