Thank you for joining us for episode 451 of Live Happy Now.

As we venture a little farther into the new year, it's a good time to pause, take a breath, and if you have three minutes, maybe even learn to meditate.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm talking with Richard Dixie, a research scientist and lifelong student of Buddhism.

Since 2007, he has devoted his life to teaching meditation, and his new book, Three Minutes a Day,

is designed to teach readers how to change their lives with simple meditation practices that truly do take just three minutes a day.

And be sure to stay tuned after my conversation with Richard to learn about a brand new podcast

called Built to Win that's brought to you by Live Happy's sister company, Neora. Let's have a listen.

Richard, thank you so much for coming on Live Happy Now. I'm glad to be here.

I wanted to talk to you right at the beginning of the year because this is the time of year when people are adapting to new habits.

They're saying, okay, I'm going to do it better than I did last year.

And meditation is something that people often want to do.

And they're like, oh, it's just too hard.

I don't have time. And then you come

along with this terrific book that says we can do it in three minutes a day. So first of all,

what led you to discover this different way of meditating that we don't have to sit cross-legged

for 30 minutes at a time? Actually, you know, this is not so new.

There are traditions amongst the Asian wisdom traditions in which this comes,

which stress very short and often, they always say,

because the whole trouble with meditation is making it fresh.

And if you sit for half an hour, I suspect the 28 minutes will be sleeping. So you're

really going to really get two or three minutes before, you know, it's turned into a blank slate

of one form or another. It's innovative to put it in a Western format. But the idea of short

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