Hey, it's Dan. As you may already know, May is mental health awareness month, and while mental health is important every month, this month is an opportunity to share some resources that can really help.

So in that spirit, I want to tell you about some of the other podcasts I really admire and respect in this space.

The podcast's meditative story, a slight change of plans, last day and on being are all doing incredible work to advance mental health and explore the human condition.

And throughout this month, I'm going to share a little bit more about each one of those shows.

So this week, I want to share one of my favorite podcasts. It's called Meditative Story, and it blends immersive storytelling with gentle mindfulness prompts to help you improve your inner weather.

As you know, my own mental health improvements really began in earnest when I found meditation for myself. And since then, it's really become an invaluable tool to help me deal with anxiety and depression and just the regular ups and downs of life.

So the format of meditative story really feels like an intuitive way to experience mindfulness.

Every episode is also wrapped in a breathtaking musical score, which I personally find pretty relaxing. Some of the storytellers over on meditative story are people you might already know, including Sharon Salzburg, Christa Tippett, David Duchovny, and me, I actually recorded an episode with them myself, not too long ago.

Others are newer voices, but every episode is really extremely cool. So many people who listen to the show have said that it's just a crucial resource for them in supporting their own mental health. And maybe you'll end up following meditative story wherever you get your podcasts.

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You can listen to flipping the bird on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hey guys, it's Friday. So we're dropping up bonus meditation and today's meditation really picks up on the podcast.

On a theme that we developed in the episode on Monday where we talked about emptiness with guy Armstrong emptiness is one of the trickier concepts and Buddhism sometimes goes by the name of not self for selflessness or egolessness.

And a lot of people get hung up on this myself included because it's hard to understand the argument that we don't exist.

But that's not quite the argument. The argument is that on some really important foundational fundamental level there is no you.

But of course on a relative level on a day to day level, you do exist. You need to put your pants on and make appointments, etc., etc.

But if you really look at your mind, whatever is arising in your mind and try to find the you in it, you won't find it.

And one way to make this super practical and super helpful is to look at thoughts. If you look at your thoughts, they really feel when viewed from the perspective of an untrained mind.

They really feel as Joseph Goldstein who you are about to hear from often says they can really feel like little dictators. The thought comes in your mind and you just act it out blindly.

But if you look at your thoughts, actually you'll see that again, as Joseph says, they're little more than nothing these thoughts.

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