Thought is incessant. Every morning, you just wake up and you're just chased out of bed by your thoughts,

and you're just thinking, thinking, thinking every moment of the day. If you're in some kind of psychological pain,

that is a story of thinking without knowing that you're thinking. Sam Harris, neuroscientist, philosopher,

and best-selling author. He divides his genius between two interwoven missions,

bringing reason to our culture wars on making sense and bringing equipoise to our minds through the

waking up app. This week in part two, we explore his waking up brain, diving into the mechanics of non-duality, the illusion of the

self, and how to find true equanimity in an age of anxiety.

Mindfulness is the thing that allows you to pay enough attention so that you can see

thoughts for what they are. There is no self in the center of it. You start to really notice that we have this

stereophonic kind of polyphonic universe out here. Sort of ethereal soup. Every feeling of anger

you have ever felt arose and passed away and it's not here anymore. It's just like the

chirp of a bird. If you want to directly experience Sam's approach to meditation and mindfulness,

go to one commune.com forward slash Sam to get the first seven days of his introductory

course for free.

Welcome to Commune.

In terms of being able to confront or manage one's own, or to confront the chaos of the

world and really manage one's own nervous system, sort of to return to the notion of mindfulness

for a moment.

You know, what is the way in the door there?

And I guess, you know, I spent years working torchbearing for my wife to sort of demystify yoga, right?

Big tent for yoga.

We want to get a lot of people in downward dog because you know if

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