Why Calm Is More Effective Than Reactivity | Bonus Meditation with Sebene Selassie

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Hope is a skill. Using the phrase ‘let it be’ invites us to be more relaxed with life and lets us envision a better world.

About Sebene Selassie:

Growing up, Sebene felt like a big weirdo. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and raised in white neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., she was a tomboy Black girl who loved Monty Python and UB40. She never believed she belonged. Thirty years ago, she began studying Buddhism as an undergraduate at McGill University where she majored in Comparative Religious Studies. Now, Sebene is a teacher, author, and speaker who teaches that meditation can help us remember our inherent sense of belonging, that our individual freedom affects absolutely everyone and everything, and that our collective freedom depends on each and every one of us.

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0:58.8	This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey everybody happy Friday it's
1:07.4	bonus meditation time. A question that often comes up among meditators is if I get too
1:13.1	calm, will I be ineffective? Today our teacher do sure, Seb and I salassee makes the case
1:20.1	that you will be much more effective if you come from a place of calm rather than reactivity.
1:26.1	And she shows us how to switch modes using a key phrase. More about Seb before we dive
1:33.0	in here. She's a core meditation teacher over on the 10% happier app and a former repeat
1:38.9	guest on this podcast. She was born in Ethiopia and raised in Washington DC and has been studying
1:45.0	Buddhism for three decades. And she is also the author of the book You Belong a Call for
1:52.7	Connection. Here we go now with my friend Seb and I salassee.
1:57.8	Hi, this is Seb and I. Let it be invites us into a more relaxed relationship with our
2:05.6	experience. To trust life and to make room for our deepest hopes for ourselves and our
2:13.4	world. Let's practice with this powerful phrase. Find a comfortable meditation position
2:22.1	wherever you are. You can close your eyes if you'd like or keep them open with a soft
2:29.8	gaze. Start by taking a deep inhale and a deep exhale. Let it be actually has two meanings.
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