#119 Shhh - I'm Meditating "10% Happier" By Dan Harris

To start this episode, let me ask you something. Do you have a voice inside your head? Like, do you have "something" inside of you that speaks to you? As weird as that sounds, I bet you do. And I'm not talking about "hearing voices" in your head, like a crazy person might, but just that self-talk we all have that guides us, or at least tries really hard to guide us. It's that voice inside us that starts having a conversation as soon as we open our eyes in the morning. The voice is obsessed with the past, and also obsessed with the future. So is that voice us? Is that who we are? Or is it just part of us? And is there a way to tame this voice? To not be blindly controlled by it? I recently read a book that was recommended by one of my students. The book is called "10% Happier" by Dan Harris. This book attempts to convince skeptics on the benefits of meditation, by taking a very practical approach to the science behind this mindfulness practice, and showing you how and why letting go of your ego is important for living a stress-free life. So that voice in your head, we can refer to that as the ego. E-G-O. I've talked about the ego before. It can get in your way, make you do dumb things, and keep you from connecting with others on a deeper level. And the author of this book talks a lot about the experiences that led him to discover the benefits of meditation, but I'll just sum it up so we can focus more on what meditation is and how you can start doing it, if you don't meditate that is.

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#119 Shhh - I'm Meditating "10% Happier" By Dan Harris is an episode from The Feel Good English Podcast by Feel Good English.

This episode is 19:00 long.

This episode was published on Mar 1, 2018.

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