Stop Trying To Control Everything | Bonus Meditation with Sebene Selassie

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Get comfortable with uncertainty and cultivate trust in life, even in the most turbulent times.

About Sebene Selassie:

Growing up, Sebene felt like a big weirdo. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and raised in white neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., she was a tomboy Black girl who loved Monty Python and UB40. She never believed she belonged. Thirty years ago, she began studying Buddhism as an undergraduate at McGill University where she majored in Comparative Religious Studies. Now, Sebene is a teacher, author, and speaker who teaches that meditation can help us remember our inherent sense of belonging, that our individual freedom affects absolutely everyone and everything, and that our collective freedom depends on each and every one of us. Sebene is a three-time cancer survivor of Stage III and IV cancer.

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0:00.0	You're listening ad free on Wundry Plus.
0:03.0	This is the 10% happier podcast.
0:10.0	I'm Dan Harris. Happy.
0:13.0	Happy
0:15.0	Happy Happy
0:16.0	Happy Happy Friday everybody time for a bonus meditation this week. We're bringing you
0:27.3	a meditish led by my good friend Sebenet Salassee. It's all about this phrase that she has tattooed on her arm that I have
0:37.1	found very hard to understand and yet quite intriguing. The phrase is trust life. What does this mean actually? I'm attracted to it and
0:47.8	also suspicious of it simultaneously. Sebs going to guide a practice here to get this concept into your molecules.
0:56.6	Just to say before we get started, if you want to come practice with 7A and with me and with our great friend and meditation teacher Jeff Warren.
1:06.6	We've got two opportunities coming up, one in May, one in October, both at the
1:10.8	Omega Institute in Reinbeck, New York.
1:13.0	We call them meditation parties because we do a lot of meditating, but also a lot of socializing.
1:18.0	There's even a completely optional dance party.
1:22.0	You can get more information over on the events page at Dan Harris.com.
1:28.0	Here we go now with 7A Salassi.
1:31.0	Hi, this is Subbine.
1:35.0	Wow, things have been bananas out there.
1:38.0	Sometimes we want certainty about how things will turn out.
1:42.0	But here's the thing. We can't really
1:45.6	control life, not just with our current situation. Ever. There's uncertainty built right into existence.
1:57.0	What we can do is get comfortable with uncertainty and cultivate trust in life, even in the most uncertain times.
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