Twenty Percent Happier | Matthew Hepburn
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode we're going to do some mindful eavesdropping. You're going to get a chance to listen in on a process that rarely, if ever, gets aired publicly. You're going to hear real students talking to a real meditation teacher about real life issues -- issues in their meditation practice, and issues related to applying meditation to your everyday life.
The meditation teacher for this episode is Matthew Hepburn. Matthew has spent the last decade teaching meditation in schools, prisons, and meditation centers around the country. He's an incredibly skilled, wise, and funny teacher. He's also worked for many years at Ten Percent Happier, where Matthew is a stalwart on the content team.
We cover some fascinating issues, including: how meditation can make you braver at work; undercover practices you can do with your spouse or partner; how to find meaning in everyday annoyances; how to handle fear; and the one thing that will break any meditation practice.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:07.9 | Hey gang, we got a special episode for you today. |
| 0:13.4 | We're going to do some mindful eavesdropping. |
| 0:16.6 | You're going to get a chance to listen in on a process that rarely, if ever, gets aired |
| 0:21.4 | publicly. |
| 0:22.4 | Let me step back for a second. |
| 0:24.1 | A big question many of you may have is, okay, I'm meditating or attempting to regularly |
| 0:31.0 | meditate. |
| 0:32.0 | But how do I make it relevant to my actual life? |
| 0:34.6 | On its own, the practice can, for some of us, at some times, feel a little dumb. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm watching my breath and so what? |
| 0:43.9 | This is why having a meditation teacher can be so helpful to remind us why we're doing |
| 0:48.9 | this thing. |
| 0:49.9 | Or again, why we're attempting to regularly do this thing. |
| 0:55.4 | But of course, not everybody's lucky or resourceful enough to have a relationship with a meditation |
| 1:00.7 | teacher. |
| 1:02.0 | Some of you may feel like even if I did come face to face with a meditation teacher, what |
| 1:07.2 | would I even ask? |
| 1:09.4 | There's a cool thing that happens on meditation retreats. |
| 1:12.4 | Another thing that not everybody will have the luck or a gumption to do. |
| 1:16.7 | Others on retreats often hold group sessions where you get a chance to listen in on the questions |
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