Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from 5-star app Meditation Studio and Muse, the brain-sensing

headband that gives you feedback on your meditation practice.

I'm Patricia Carpice, co-founder of Meditation Studio, and your host on Untangle, along with my

co-host, Muse founder, Ariel Garten. This month, we're focusing on happiness.

What is it? How do you invite more of it into your life? You will be surprised to learn that it's not

exactly what you think. Join us each week this month as we explore this topic together. If you have feedback,

questions, ideas, or stories to share about happiness, email us at founders at meditation

studio app.com. Now here's Ariel to kick off our month of happiness.

There are two ways to live our life.

One way to live our life is as if nothing is a miracle.

The other way to live our life is as if everything is a miracle.

Welcome to Untangle.

Over the next four episodes, we're going to focus on the subject of happiness. What happiness is,

how it's generated in the brain, how to find it, and how to find more of it in your own life.

For today, in this first look at happiness, we have a happiness expert, Tal Ben Shahar.

Tal is an author and lecture in positive psychology and organizational design.

He actually taught what some say is the most popular course in Harvard's history,

positive psychology, teaching stressed out, driven students,

some of the forgotten tools to succeed in life.

He's also the co-founder of the Happiness Learning Academy and has written multiple books on the subjects

the titles like Shortcuts to Happiness. Welcome, Tal. Excited to have you here to learn how we can all be

happy. Thank you, Ariel. Great to be here. It is a joy and a pleasure to have you. So let's start

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