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

Hello, everybody. Today we're going to talk about how to tame some of the more unruly aspects of your mind, your tendency to live on autopilot, to constantly distract yourself and to make yourself miserable by comparing yourself to other people. And more, why are you so often at war with reality,

wanting to be elsewhere or otherwise?

In essence, my guests are going to talk today

about how to develop a different relationship

to your mind with all of its skittering thoughts

and unhelpful patterns.

Said guests are the great meditation teachers

and great friends,

Seb and A. Salasi and Jeff Warren. Seb is the author of an awesome book called You Belong.

She's based in Brooklyn, New York. Seb and I recently co-authored and co-recorded an audio book,

an audible original called Even You Can Meditate.

Jeff and I also co-authored a book called Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics.

Jeff is based in Canada, and he's got his own podcast called the Mind Bod Adventure Pot.

The conversation you're about to hear was recorded live at our annual meditation party retreat. Jeff Sebb and I co-host this

retreat every year. We've got another one coming up, October 16th through 18th at the Omega

Institute in upstate New York. You should come. It's super fun. Over the course of the weekend,

we teach a bunch of different meditation practices so you can go deeper

in your own practice. We also take your questions. There's plenty of time to relax. However,

it's not super intense. You can go take hikes, get massages, play pickleball, whatever you like to do.

But the crucial thing really is social support. That's the technical term that researchers use.

So many of us struggle to maintain a meditation habit. And the science is very clear that one of the best ways to keep the thing going is to do it in the carpool lane. And that's what meditation party is all about. You get to meet a bunch of people who also take this weird practice seriously. And by the way, if you're an introvert, you don't have to talk to anybody. You can just get a contact high from being in the environment. And I think you'll get a contact high from just listening to this conversation. I'll put a link in the show notes if you want to come to a meditation party this October. If you can't be there in person, you can also sign up virtually. All right. We'll get started with Seven A. Salasi and Jeff Warren right after this.

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