What is Happiness? | Bonus Meditation with Jay Michaelson

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

What is happiness? Investigate how happiness is created, what it’s really like, and learn to access the simple happiness of right now. About Jay Michaelson: Dr. Jay Michaelson is the Editor of Wisdom Content at Ten Percent Happier and the author of six books on meditation, including his newest, Enlightenment by Trial and Error. In his “other career,” Jay is a columnist for The Daily Beast, and was a professional LGBTQ activist for ten years. Jay is an ordained rabbi and has taught meditation in secular, Buddhist, and Jewish context for fifteen years. You can always share these Friday bonuses with your friends, but we're also running a sale to help you and a friend kickstart your meditation practices. For a limited time, if you buy yourself a subscription to Ten Percent Happier, we'll send you a free gift subscription to share with whomever you'd like. Note that nothing is permanent, and this offer is no exception: get it before it ends by going to www.tenpercent.com/december See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:55.9	Hey, hey, it's Friday, so we're dropping a bonus meditation.
1:01.4	This one comes from Jay Michelson, who is a frequent guest on this show.
1:08.4	He's also an ordained rabbi, a long time meditation teacher and an author.
1:13.0	His latest book is Enlightenment by Trial and Error.
1:16.5	Oh, and also on his CV, he's the editor of wisdom content here at 10% happier.
1:25.5	And in this guided meditation, he's going to get us to contemplate a question that seems simple,
1:34.8	but it really isn't. The question is, what is happiness?
1:39.6	A lot of us get the answer to this question wrong, either consciously or subconsciously.
1:44.5	And it has serious consequences. So here we go with Jay Michelson.
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