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10% Happier with Dan Harris

There's No Part of Your Life You Can't Make More Awesome | Jeff Warren

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It is very easy to think about your meditation practice as being quarantined to those minutes when you're dutifully sitting down with your eyes closed. But actually the point is to turn your whole life into a practice. Our guest Jeff Warren has a very broad, capacious understanding of the concept of practice. There's formal meditation practice, but also: movement practice, work practice, relationship practice, sleep practice, art practice, and more. It's really about the goal, which few of us will ever fully attain, of turning everything you do into something intentional and illuminating.


Jeff Warren is a frequent guest and good friend to the Ten Percent Happier podcast and app. He co-wrote a book with Dan called Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics. He's a longtime meditation teacher, and the founder of the Toronto-based Consciousness Explorers Club. He is also the cohost of an excellent new podcast, called The Consciousness Explorers Podcast. In every episode Jeff, and his co-host Tasha Schumann test out a new practice. Be sure to check it out.


This episode explores: what it might mean to make your whole life a practice; how to connect with your baseline okayness; mindfulness of seeing; Koan practice; running as practice; being your own teacher; how (and why) to make your practice social; and practicing with ADHD, a condition with which Jeff has lived with for many years. 


Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/jeff-warren-421

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0:00.0

This is the 10% happier podcast.

0:06.2

I'm Dan Harris.

0:08.5

Hey, hey, it's very easy.

0:13.3

And this is a trap I've fallen into many, many times.

0:16.2

It's very easy to think about your meditation practice as being kind of quarantined to those

0:20.4

minutes when you're dutifully sitting down with your eyes closed.

0:24.4

But actually, the point is to turn your whole life into a practice.

0:28.1

Now, that's the kind of cliche you often hear in meditation circles, you kind of turn

0:31.8

your whole life into a practice.

0:33.1

I want to be clear, this doesn't mean you have to be immaculately mindful at all hours

0:37.4

of the day.

0:38.7

That sounds to me at least like quite a chore or as a friend of mine once said, it sounds

0:43.9

like you're establishing a nanny state for the mind.

0:47.4

Instead, what we're going to talk about in this episode is how to, in the words of my

0:50.8

guest, make every part of your life more awesome.

0:55.2

My guest today has a very broad, capacious understanding of the concept of practice.

1:00.5

There's formal meditation practice, yes, but also movement practice, work practice, relationship

1:05.6

practice, sleep practice, art practice, and more.

1:08.5

It's really about the goal, which very few of us will ever fully attain, of turning

1:14.1

everything you do into something intentional and illuminating.

1:18.8

Jeff Warren is a frequent flyer on this show.

1:20.9

He's also a close friend.

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