#ten percent happier podcast

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Bill Hader on Ten Percent Happier Podcast

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Starting a Metta Practice

This is a new concept to me, and I discovered it listening to this episode of the Ten Percent Happier podcast. What made it compelling to me, was when the guest Devin Berry shared that he felt difficult to be around, angry, and easily offended. He also describes himself as sarcastic and skeptical, and that fact that all of those descriptors sadly resonated with me and how badly I didn’t want them…

[allsadnshit]

My #1 podcast episode recommendation to everyone but especially chronically ill people

[noneofthisisreal]

i am conflicted about this podcast overall. i have issues with a lot of the episodes and the overall approach but this is a good one

maybe less inflammatory and more balanced than the description presents

eta. i know nothing about this guest's larger body of work just what got said here

[kithpendragon]

Your Worth is separate from your Work. You deserve to be Healthy and Happy. Your Relationships, Growth, Rest, and Joy are Not Optional.

Source: "The Portfolio Life" by Christina Walace, as digested by Dan Harris - Ten Percent Happier podcast, episode 746

[nana-glass-chillhop-radio-hour]

Esther Perel on the Ten Percent Happier podcast is insane. The cable TV news anchor popsci self improvement guy just shared a story about a supporting a friend during their tough decision to euthanize a family pet and Perel responded with a soliloquy about the reality of pernicious social isolation in the post modern world vs the aloneness of each human being upon facing death and how when our loved ones live in our hearts we're never truly on our own. Object permanence in infants came up. It was in meter.

[attitudeffort]

If you understand pain as a part of life, you are less likely to suffer

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ten-percent-happier-with-dan-harris/id1087147821?i=1000635110137

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Surprising Happiness Lessons Dan Harris Got From the Dalai Lama#Surprising #Happiness #Lessons #Dan #Harris #Dalai #Lama

Surprising Happiness Lessons Dan Harris Got From the Dalai Lama#Surprising #Happiness #Lessons #Dan #Harris #Dalai #Lama

Former ABC News anchor Dan Harris turned a panic attack on national TV into a learning and teaching experience about how minds and mindfulness work. The explorations it kicked off inspired his book, podcast, and meditation app called Ten Percent Happier. Most recently, his deep dive into all of it led him to India to meet with the Dalai Lama himself to develop The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness.…

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Looking back: Best Advice from 2022-The NY Times

From the “Ten Percent Happier” podcast: Stop and recognize happy moments when you’re in the middle of them. Literally, stop and say out loud, “This is a happy time.” It’s a way to ground yourself in the joyful parts of your life. We do this with moments of trauma and crisis all the time. Maybe we should flip that script. — Mary Guzzetta, Pittsburgh

You don’t have to identify with your feelings. — Rori Quinonez, Toledo, Ohio

If there is an issue bothering me, I think to myself, “Will this still be an issue in one week or in one month?” If the answer is no, it’s a small problem so I let the stress go and move on. — LaNae Williams, East Lansing, Mich.

Be where your feet are. — Submitted by both Pattie Saunders, Portland, Ore., and Kelly Kammerer, New York City

I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days is 100 percent, and that’s pretty good. — Hudson, San Diego

Everyone is going through something. — Rose Fischietto, Macedonia, Ohio

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you have to do it, or that it’s good for you. — Divya Rao Heffley, Pittsburgh

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Ten Percent Happier Partners With Dalai Lama on Meditation Training

Several studies on the effectiveness of antidepressants came to a similar conclusion that, no doubt, upset the pharmaceutical industry. Antidepressants were no more effective — and sometimes less so — at treating anxiety and depression than meditation and mindfulness.

Suddenly, meditation and mindfulness were legitimate tools in the treatment of anxiety and depression.

That’s why on January 9th, Ten Percent Happier and The Dalai Lama are launching The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness, a free 10-day meditation challenge featuring practices that have been cultivated and refined for thousands of years, and are now being proven by science.

With wisdom and guidance from both The Dalai Lama and Ten Percent Happier founder + Mindfulness Expert Dan Harris, The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness confronts the question: if the purpose of life is to be happy, how do we go about achieving that? Over the course of 10 daily lessons, Dan + His Holiness employ a suite of meditation skills that will help listeners achieve happiness that goes beyond individual pleasure-seeking to include collective well-being, joy, and meaning.

The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso), known as Gyalwa Rinpoche to the Tibetan people, is the current Dalai Lama. He is the highest spiritual leader and former head of the country of Tibet. He is also the leader and a monk of the Gelug school, the newest school of Tibetan Buddhism, formally headed by the Ganden Tripa.

This project is a true collaboration, with Jade Weston, a Ten Percent Happier Meditation Teacher, being heavily involved in developing the lesson content.

If you don’t know, Ten Percent Happier is more than just a podcast or business to founder Dan Harris.

Harris has assembled an impressive career at ABC. He joined ABC News in 2000. He anchored World News Sunday from 2006 to 2011 and frequently anchored World News, ABC World News Tonight weekend editions and Nightline. In August 2021, Harris announced that he would be leaving ABC News to focus on his meditation company, which is Ten Percent Happier.

After having a nationally televised panic attack, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru, and a gaggle of brain scientists.

Eventually, Harris realized that the source of his problems was the very thing he always thought was his greatest asset: the incessant, insatiable voice in his head, which had propelled him through the ranks of a hyper-competitive business, but had also led him to make the profoundly stupid decisions that provoked his on-air freak-out.

Eventually Harris stumbled upon an effective way to rein in that voice, something he always assumed to be either impossible or useless: meditation, a tool that research suggests can do everything from lower your blood pressure to essentially rewire your brain.

Harris’s epiphany was the catalyst to his founding of Ten Percent Happier — the podcast, the app, and the meditation training.

Listeners can join the Dalai Lama meditation challenge here.

For skeptics, Harris may be hawking lifestyle habits for a price. Or, he may be advocating for tools that can help all of us cope more effectively with life. I think that the fact that Harris made drastic and wholesale changes to his life leads me, and possibly you, to the latter conclusion.

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Librevox has audiobooks of works in the public domain so uh, have at it. I access them on mobile through the Podbean app.

Ten Percent Happier is a podcast about mediation and interviews with a LOT of people. I highly reccommend starting at a random episode and then going either forward or backwards chronologically.

Sexond Star to the Left is a space podcast about exploring a planet for habitation by yourself. And dealing with all the implications thereof. Single season, complete.

The Strange Case of Starship Iris. Also space podcast. Very fun. I am. So in love with all of them. Explores a neat niche of a post space war society and is going COOL PLACES. also found family.

Podcast or audiobook recommendations, anyone?

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Monthly Goals and My Newfound Love for Meditation

Monthly Goals and My Newfound Love for Meditation

Hello everyone! Three months of 2021 are almost over, can you believe it?! Recently, I started a podcast, whoo whoo, and I actually released the first and second episodes! The technical first episode was an introduction to the podcast, and the trailer on Spotify. But the actual first episode was me talking about monthly goals and meditation! We love goals. We love creating a list of things we…

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#288: What’s Love Got To Do With It? | Election Sanity Series

“It’s really easy to want to blame. I know what tension and anger feel like: tight, rigid. Dare I decide to let go of some resentments? It feels like we’re going to fall apart.

We evolved for noxious tendencies like hatred and mistrust. But we also evolved for caring, cooperation, and taking pleasure in other people’s success. Otherwise, we would not have survived. So there’s both in us. 

But the notion that we’re able to train up to the more wholesome, elevated states is very exciting. And, there’s an enlightened self-interest at play here. It feels better to live that way.

What, where, and how we choose to place our energy is what we’re going to become. We cultivate what we grow.”

- Ten Percent Happier podcast, episode #288.

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Apple Podcasts archives: Part II

Apple Podcasts archives: Part II

Okay, now I’m actually mad. In fact, I might just give up listening to podcasts altogether.

I was listening to Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris when all of a sudden I got a message that said something like “This episode has been removed by Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris.”

I’ve lost episodes before, but never while I was listening to them. Now there’s only 22 episodes in the show’s…

[gardenerian]

Ian recently discovered podcasts. What's he listening to?

tl;dr - health and fitness, gardening, motivation 😤, chicago stories, mental health, slice of life/love stories, trivia so he can trip up lip sometimes

beautiful/anonymous

two minutes in the garden

you're wrong about

this is love

mind pump podcast 🏋️‍♀️

bipolar now

ten percent happier

vanished chicagoland

we got this! (this one is fun and i think he and mickey listen to it together)

the heart

the beginner's garden

beyond the to-do list

curious city chicago

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When You’re a Nosey Writer

The first thing I remember about my interest in becoming a writer wasn’t necessarily an awareness of my passion for story, nor for telling story (though I have always loved stories) but for my curiosity in being human. I had an outrageous imagination as a child and a fascination for people watching, but I also had big emotions and didn’t quite know what to do with them. Understanding my internal experience in a house with four older sisters was tough. There was so much going on that at times it was hard to separate myself from it all, but also to separate them and understand each of them. Why does this matter though? It matters because as I grew, I longed for my own voice, my own experience, my own identity. But I didn’t just want my own identity and to solely understand me, I wanted to understand others. To understand why certain individuals behaved the way they do, what specific events transpired that built this person or that person? Why do they have a more-kind disposition or an un-kind one? It sounds like I’m nosey. There is a running joke after all, that all writers are nosey. But I don’t believe it’s a surface level kind of nosey, I believe it stems from a deep curiosity of needing to understand the human experience. This need to understand what it is to be human is explored and played around with in our writing whether we are aware of it or not. Self-help takes that curiosity to another level, and I’m going to explore here why I think it is a powerful tool. Even if you aren’t a person who typically reads self-help, stick around and hear me out, because I believe there is much to learn from self-help, especially for our fiction writing.

Addressing Our Universal Parts

Self-help is one of the coolest genres because it touches on the human experience with simple and direct information, (obviously some books are less user-friendly than others but as a general rule, they are quite simple to follow along with so that anyone can put the information into practice). Often these books (or podcasts) will include real life experiences shared by the author or guest, and I like to think we are open-minded enough creatures to learn from the experiences of others, not just from our own. We are adaptable creatures and we can interpret and translate feelings, emotions and experiences to relate them to our own personal journey. If Sally is writing a book about grief and how she coped with the loss of her mother and we haven’t lived through such an experience, that’s okay because we know grief. Grief is universal to being human. And guess what is extra cool? There are so many other aspects explored in the self-help genre that are universal to being human.

Even though “universal” means to reference things on a grand scale, self-help explores the complexities of humanity on a very small scale too–a very personal scale. It touches on both the good and bad of those universal parts of us, the parts that are personal to us and connect us––our emotions, our feelings (did you know that the two are actually different things? According to Lisa Feldman Barrett, they are!) But, I’ll leave it to you to listen to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast Ep 336, “How Your Emotions Are Made” to decide for yourself how you feel about that.

It Offers Revelations and Important Lessons

If you’re not yet a reader of self-help (I say “yet” because there may be a small part of me hoping to sway you…) you may be thinking: “But Tara, self-help is boring. I already know all there is to know about myself, I am after all, me. And I definitely don’t want to think about my own weaknesses and complexities.”

Or “But Tara, there is no intimacy or conflict, characters arcs or jaw dropping moments to be found in a self-help book.”

Well, dear writer, I have a few things to say to those potential thoughts of yours.

Maybe it’s time to open your perspective to how you want to be moved by what you read.

Ooo… I said it. I hope that wasn’t harsh to hear, as I mean it in the most loving way!

You want to find intimacy and conflict? Listen to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast Ep 369, “How to End The War With Your Body” with Sonya Rene Taylor. Sonya talks about radical self-love, which means “Becoming aware of where you’ve been. Becoming aware of the thoughts that have been governing your life. Becoming aware of the thoughts that been governing your relationships with other people and the ways in which those are fear and shame, trauma and oppression based. Having to confront that is deeply uncomfortable.”––Sonya Rene Taylor.

Talk about intimacy and conflict. And yes, reflecting on the above quote by Sonya as it pertains to our own individual lives can be painful, in fact, I would expect it to be painful. The act of self-reflection like this is most definitely a way of loving yourself and taking care of yourself, and these things just aren’t always pretty. Is brushing your teeth pretty? Or is popping your bulging pimples pretty? Not even in the slightest! But, it’s part of the process, it’s doing tough things that we get to enjoy the benefits of, it’s doing something today that future you will thank you for. Does any of this strike up thoughts based on character development for you or are you falling asleep at the keyboard? Wakey, wakey! Because this is where it gets really fun. I translate thoughts like Sonya’s quote to relate them to my characters. So, I’ll ask you: Where has your character been? What thoughts are governing their lives? How do those thoughts affect their relationships, their jobs, their behaviours? How do they care for themselves? What fear and/or shame, trauma and/or oppression has ruled them? I feel like these questions are a pretty solid start to building a character’s backstory, and they open up the door for the possibility to have intimacy and conflict in your story.

As for Character Arcs and jaw-dropping moments, listen to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast Ep 375, “Reversing the Golden Rule” with Jamil Zaki.

“We no longer just disagree, we dislike the people we disagree with.”

“We tend to cut off our ability to connect with people that are different from us at the knees.” ––Jamil Zaki.

There are opportunities to see your own personal arc and jaw-dropping moments, by reflecting on the instances where you let yourself down, or you stepped up to the challenge and surprised yourself. Our lives are full of these moments. As I recognize these parts of myself, I gain inspiration and ideas for my characters, and I believe you can too! Because was what that thing I said earlier about Sally’s grief? Ah, that’s right–we have the ability to translate feelings.

So, how do your characters react to people who disagree with them? What about your society on a whole? Are they connected or disconnected? Oppressed or freed? How do they communicate with one another, treat each other? Are they different? Different how? How do they treat those that are different from them, or those that are similar to them? When we have an idea on how people operate, on how we ourselves operate, we have a ton of realistic information to work with in developing our characters and even building the structures of our world’s societies.

Problem Solving: An Essential Tool for Writing a Novel

Another great aspect of self-help is it offers readers tools to solve self and interpersonal problems. If we teach our brain how to solve personal problems by practicing solving problems in our day to day, it connects these pathways and eventually looks for ways to get to an end solution quicker. Eventually this ability extends to solving all kinds of problems more efficiently. This should translate into solving problems for your characters as well, at least during the writing of my debut novel, Age of The Almek, it did for me.

Time to Get Curious!

I’m not about to say that self-help is better than fiction when it comes to learning more about the art of writing. Nor will I say that it will give you all (or even close) to the experiences one looks for when picking up a fiction novel. But, I will say it’s a valuable tool. Because, humans as a species love story, and you are the main character of your story.

Do you or don’t you love obsessing over the details of your main characters? Or even your side characters for that matter? (Who doesn’t love a good side character though?!) It doesn’t hurt to give the same kind of passion and interest to yourself. In fact, it is a really great idea.

Being human is the most complex, messy, thrill-seeking, heart-breaking rollercoaster ride of any other species on the planet. I think, the more we learn about this messy experience (in turn, about ourselves) the more understanding and intention we will have about those small details that we curate about our characters–their behaviours, habits and quirks, but also, they’re bigger makeup like their motives, arcs, victories and failures. Basically, the more fun and success we’ll have in writing and developing our fictional characters.

You can also get specific and read books or listen to podcasts that pertain to certain aspects that may be included in your fiction novel, like traumas, depression, anxiety, etc. We all have our personal baggage of experiences and traumas, and for some of us reading about certain topics that hit very close to home can be hard (hard–a word that may be a great understatement for some) so I’m certainly not saying to put yourself in a dangerous-to-you situation. Please, do take care of yourself and know your boundaries of what you can and cannot do right now.

Ultimately though, what I’m saying is, get curious. Get curious in your own complexities–the positive and the negative, the light and dark. Get curious about yourself and learning about the experiences of others. Curiosity is a powerful thing and I think being curious about this crazy ride of being human is a big aspect of being a writer. Exploring the self-help genre will help feed that curiosity, and you might find that you have more ideas and inspiration for your characters that not only make sense but that give your story more tension, conflict and characters that your readers will love or love to hate.