Your Nervous System Is Being Hijacked. Here's How To Get It Back. | Tara Brach
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The world is insane. You don't have to be. These Buddhist practices can help you handle it without succumbing to fear, anxiety, hatred, and apathy.
Tara Brach is a legendary meditation teacher and psychologist. She is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and has been active in bringing meditation into schools, prisons and underserved populations. Her latest book is The Courageous Heart Workbook: Choosing to Love in Perilous Times.
In this episode we talk about:
- What "spiritual audacity" means — and where the term comes from
- Why shutting down emotionally feels like self-protection but isn't
- How caring is a more effective fuel than rage
- What lovingkindness meditation is — and how to do it
- The RAIN practice — and how to use it on difficult emotions
- Why small, local acts of service count as activism
- How to use your imagination to feel compassion for people you can't stand
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. I'm Dan Harris. Welcome to the 10% Happier Podcast. One of my little taglines is the world's isn't sane, but you don't have to be. I get it. It is tough out there. And given all the chaos and cruelty and uncertainty, it is natural to want to resort to |
| 0:24.6 | despair or hostility or denial. But none of those things actually feel good. And more |
| 0:31.4 | importantly, none of those things actually help the overall situation. So today we're going to |
| 0:35.9 | talk in great detail about how to feel better |
| 0:38.8 | about everything that's happening in the world and more importantly, how to engage so that you can make |
| 0:44.0 | things better, which by the way will make you feel better. My guest today is the legendary |
| 0:48.6 | meditation teacher Tara Brock. She has written such books as radical acceptance and radical compassion. And she's out now |
| 0:56.4 | with something called the Courageous Heart Workbook. We're going to talk all about it. |
| 1:01.1 | Tara Brock, after this quick break. A few things before we hear from our sponsors. If you haven't |
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| 2:02.0 | library of meditations from many of the world's greatest teachers, a growing library of courses |
| 2:07.6 | from many of those same teachers. And we do weekly live video sessions where we meditate together. |
| 2:14.2 | It's a chance for you to be able to ask your questions of me and many of our |
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