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    Explore "dan harris" with insightful episodes like "Don’t Be Yanked Around by Your Thoughts | Bonus Meditation with Sharon Salzberg", "The Science of Generosity: Why It Makes You Happier and How To Do It Effectively (It Doesn’t Need To Involve Money) | Chris Anderson", "How Dan Meditates | Bonus Meditation", "Science-Based Tools for When You’re Stressed, Obsessed, or Overthinking | Dr. Jenny Taitz" and "How Not to Take Your Partner for Granted | Bonus Meditation with Oren Jay Sofer" from podcasts like ""Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris", "Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris", "Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris", "Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris" and "Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris"" and more!

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    Don’t Be Yanked Around by Your Thoughts | Bonus Meditation with Sharon Salzberg

    Don’t Be Yanked Around by Your Thoughts | Bonus Meditation with Sharon Salzberg

    At times it feels like thinking trips us up more often than it helps. In this session, everyday New Yorker—and meditation luminary—Sharon Salzberg coaches you toward feeling more empowered relating to your own thoughts.

    About Sharon Salzberg:


    A towering figure in the meditation world, Sharon Salzberg is a prominent teacher & New York Times best-selling author. She has played a crucial role bringing mindfulness and lovingkindness practices to the West.

    Sharon co-founded the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) alongside Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield and is the author of thirteen books, including Lovingkindness, Real Happiness, Real Love, and the most recent Finding Your Way. Sharon lives in New York City and teaches around the world.

    To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, you can search for “Getting Some Space from Your Thoughts.” 



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    The Science of Generosity: Why It Makes You Happier and How To Do It Effectively (It Doesn’t Need To Involve Money) | Chris Anderson

    The Science of Generosity: Why It Makes You Happier and How To Do It Effectively (It Doesn’t Need To Involve Money) | Chris Anderson

    How to cultivate a generosity mindset— and make a good thing less boring.


    Chris Anderson is the curator of TED. He is the author of New York Times bestseller TED Talks and has overseen the introduction of, among others, the TEDx program, the TED-Ed initiative, and the Audacious Project, a bold new philanthropic model to inspire change at scale. His newest book, Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading, is out now. 


    In this episode we talk about:

    • How to create a generosity mindset
    • The audacious and daunting goal he recommends for annual giving
    • And the promise of the Internet as a tool to dramatically amplify human kindness



    Related Episodes:

    Adam Grant, The Benefits of Generosity

    Generosity | Bonus Talk with Norman Fischer


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    How Dan Meditates | Bonus Meditation

    How Dan Meditates | Bonus Meditation

    Dan Harris takes you inside the way he practices on a daily basis, live from the Omega Institute.


    Dan did this live, in front of a large audience at a recent Meditation Party retreat at the Omega Institute. You’ll hear Dan talk for a little while about why he practices this way. Then he’ll do a lengthy, guided meditation. After that, you’ll hear him debrief with Sebene Selassie and Jeff Warren, two great meditation teachers, with whom he co-led the aforementioned meditation party retreat.


    Tickets for the two more Meditation Party retreats this year at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York are available now. The last one was a blast. Come join us for both. One is in May, the other October. 


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    Science-Based Tools for When You’re Stressed, Obsessed, or Overthinking | Dr. Jenny Taitz

    Science-Based Tools for When You’re Stressed, Obsessed, or Overthinking | Dr. Jenny Taitz

    Simple tools you can knit into your life both for when you’re actively freaking out, and for preventing future trips down the anxiety toilet. 


    Dr. Jenny Taitz is a clinical psychologist and an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Taitz completed her fellowship in psychology at Yale University School of Medicine and achieved board certifications in both cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Her new book, Stress Resets: How to Soothe Your Body and Mind in Minutes, is out now. 


    In this episode we talk about:

    • The difference between stress and anxiety
    • Jenny’s take on the use of benzodiazepines
    • What she means by, “negative core beliefs”, and how to untangle ourselves from them
    • How to prepare in advance for stressful situations
    • The benefit of giving yourself a deliberate panic attack
    • And why stress, while uncomfortable, is actually part of a healthy and meaningful life



    Additional Links: 

    How to Be Single and Happy by Dr. Jenny Taitz

    Breathe • Calm down • Meditate 

    Three-Minute Breathing Space


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    Can Anxiety Be a Gift? | Dr. David Rosmarin

    Zach Braff On: Anxiety, Sobriety, Insomnia, Grief, Social Media, and the Meaning of the Tattoo on His Wrist


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    How Not to Take Your Partner for Granted | Bonus Meditation with Oren Jay Sofer

    How Not to Take Your Partner for Granted | Bonus Meditation with Oren Jay Sofer

    Begin today by bringing to mind the people who have meant the most to you. It’s a simple way to start the day feeling great.


    About Oren Jay Sofer:


    He has practiced meditation since 1997, beginning his studies in Bodh Gaya, India and is a long-time student of Joseph Goldstein, Michele McDonald, and Ajahn Sucitto, and is a graduate of the IMS/Spirit Rock Teacher Training program. Oren teaches retreats across the country and works as Senior Program Developer at Mindful Schools, teaching and developing curricula for one of the international leaders of mindfulness in education.


    To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, you can search for “Grateful for Loved Ones.” 



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    How Not to Ruin Your Relationships | Drs. John & Julie Gottman

    How Not to Ruin Your Relationships | Drs. John & Julie Gottman

    What 40 years of research tells us about how to cultivate good relationships in our lives.


    World-renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction, Dr. John Gottman has conducted over 40 years of breakthrough research with thousands of couples. He is the co-founder of The Gottman Institute and Affective Software Inc. as well as author of over 200 published academic articles and author or co-author of more than 40 books, including The New York Times bestseller The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work


    Dr. Julie Gottman is the Co-Founder and President of The Gottman Institute and Co-Founder of Affective Software, Inc. A highly respected clinical psychologist and author, she is sought internationally by media and organizations as an expert advisor on marriage, domestic violence, gay and lesbian adoption, same-sex marriage, and parenting issues. She is the co-creator of the immensely popular The Art and Science of Love weekend workshop for couples and she also co-designed the national clinical training program in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. 


    In this episode we talk about:

    • how to talk (and listen) to your partner in moments of conflict
    • what to do before you start trying to solve a problem together
    • why “there’s no such thing as constructive criticism” 
    • the details of John’s research findings, which have allowed him to predict with stunning accuracy whether a couple will get divorced
    • how the Gottmans themselves do when it comes to operationalizing their findings/advice
    • how and why betrayal occurs
    • when a couple should consider separating 
    • the role mindfulness can play in healthy relationships
    • and the role of humor in relationships.




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    Fight Right: The Science of Healthy Conflict | Drs. John and Julie Gottman

    Fight Right: The Science of Healthy Conflict | Drs. John and Julie Gottman

    Conflict doesn’t have to suck. These iconic relationship researchers tell us how. 

    Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection is the name of a new book by esteemed guests Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Gottman.

    They are the co-Founders of The Gottman Institute and have completed over 40 years of research with more than 3,000 couples. John is the researcher; Julie the clinician. They have written several books together, including Eight Dates and The Love Prescription.

    Even though the majority of the Gottmans’ research is on couples, the advice is applicable to all types of relationships.  

    In this episode we talk about:

    • The three principle conflict styles
    • Why we often don’t understand what it is we’re fighting about
    • Perpetual problems vs. Solvable problems
    • Why the first three minutes of an argument are key 
    • The simple sentence to use at the beginning of an argument
    • How to downregulate defensiveness in an argument
    • Why the Gottmans’ believe there is no such thing as constructive criticism
    • Why apologizing quickly isn’t always the right move
    • When a fight might spell the end 


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    The Science of Breathing | James Nestor

    The Science of Breathing | James Nestor

    You may be breathing wrong. Here’s how to fix it. 


    At times, self-improvement can seem like a never-ending hallway filled with limitless shame and insufficiency. So when something as simple as the breath falls into this category, it seems only natural to meet that news with some resistance. Our guest today, James Nestor, argues that many of us, of all things, are breathing incorrectly but that by fixing our breathing, it can help with both physical and psychological ailments.


    Nestor is a science journalist who wrote a book called, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, which spent 18 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was translated into more than 35 languages.


    In this episode we talk about:

    • How Nestor got interested in breathing in the first place
    • Why we are the worst breathers in the animal kingdom
    • The importance of posture
    • The deleterious effects of mouth breathing
    • Why we need to chew more
    • The relationship between breathing and anxiety
    • The relationship between breathing and sleep
    • And we dive into a variety of breathing exercises


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    Dan Savage On: How to Handle Disappointment in Your Relationships, How to Get Better at Sex, and Why a 'Couple' is an Illusion

    Dan Savage On: How to Handle Disappointment in Your Relationships, How to Get Better at Sex, and Why a 'Couple' is an Illusion

    Dan Savage has been writing the popular sex-advice column Savage Love for over thirty years. He also hosts the Savage Lovecast and is the author of numerous books. In 2010 Dan and his husband founded the It Gets Better Project, which was designed to give hope to LGBTQ kids. It was seen all over the world–and won an Emmy. 

    In this episode we talk about:

    • How to handle disappointment and jealousy
    • How to get better at sex
    • Why so many couples lose their spark and what to do about it
    • How to date in the era of apps
    • Why it’s so hard for straight couples to talk about sex
    • Dan’s contention that the idea of a ‘couple’ is an illusion


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    How to Stop Obsessing Over Your Body and Eat Sanely in a Toxic Culture | Virginia Sole-Smith

    How to Stop Obsessing Over Your Body and Eat Sanely in a Toxic Culture | Virginia Sole-Smith

    Plus, provocative and practical ideas about actually enjoying exercise, the real relationship between weight and health, the problem with weight loss, the morality of food, feeding your kids, and who "the real bad guy" is.

    Virginia Sole-Smith is the bestselling author of Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture and The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. She also writes the Burnt Toast newsletter, hosts the Burnt Toast Podcast, and frequently contributes to The New York Times and other publications.


    In this episode we talk about:

    • The actual connections between health and body size
    • The severe limitations of many of the most popular approaches to weight loss
    • Nuanced strategies for disentangling from diet culture
    • How to exercise without a hidden agenda of trying to wrench your body into a specific shape
    • The idea that food doesn’t have a moral value
    • The relationship between men, exercise, food, and diet culture
    • How our kids are getting caught up in diet culture, and what parents can do about it
    • What Virginia's smartest critic would say about her contentions
    • Her take on Ozempic


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    How to Stop Kicking Your Own Ass | Bonus Meditation with Dawn Mauricio

    How to Stop Kicking Your Own Ass | Bonus Meditation with Dawn Mauricio

    You are complex and contain multitudes. Try this refreshing take on loving-kindness and offer love to all the different parts of yourself.


    About Dawn Mauricio:


    Dawn Mauricio discovered the practices of Buddhist meditation in 2005, and from then on, did what any well-intentioned perfectionist would do — plunge in head first! Since then, she's graduated from several teaching programs, including Spirit Rock's four-year Teacher Training. Her teaching style is playful, dynamic, and heartfelt, and she teaches extensively in her home-country of Canada, as well as the US, to teens, people of color, and folks of all backgrounds.


    To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, you can search for “Loving Your Many Sides”. 



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    Bill Hader on Anxiety, Imposter Syndrome, and Leaning into Discomfort

    Bill Hader on Anxiety, Imposter Syndrome, and Leaning into Discomfort

    The star of SNL and Barry discusses how he channels his anxiety into his work. Plus, an imitation of Joseph Goldstein.


    Bill Hader has made the transition from being a master of stand-out characters and impressions on eight seasons of Saturday Night Life to becoming a true multi-hyphenate by creating, directing, writing, producing and starring as a burned-out assassin trying to break into Hollywood as an actor in HBO’s award-winning and critically lauded dark comedy, Barry.


    In this episode we talk about:


    • How Bill deals with anxiety
    • His panic attack on live television
    • His love of directing and the importance of having the right collaborators


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    For the Burned Out, Fried, and Exhausted | Emily & Amelia Nagoski

    For the Burned Out, Fried, and Exhausted | Emily & Amelia Nagoski

    A slew of evidence-based, ready-to-try-today interventions we can use to “complete the stress cycle.”


    Emily Nagoski is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life. She has a MS in counseling and a PhD in health behavior, both from Indiana University. She’s also the co-author of Burnout: The Secret To Unlocking The Stress Cycle.   


    Amelia Nagoski holds a DMA in conducting from the University of Connecticut. An assistant professor and coordinator of music at Western New England University, she regularly presents educational sessions discussing the application of communications science and psychological research for audiences of other professional musicians, including “Beyond Burnout Prevention: Embodied Wellness for Conductors.” She is the co-author of Burnout: The Secret To Unlocking The Stress Cycle



    In this episode we talk about:


    • The three characteristics of burnout
    • The difference between addressing stressful circumstances in our lives and dealing with the actual physical experience of stress
    • What they call the “real enemy”
    • How to create a “bubble of love”
    • The evidence-based interventions you can try right away 



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    Optimizing Your Stress | Modupe Akinola


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    The Science of Training Your Attention | Dr. Amishi Jha

    The Science of Training Your Attention | Dr. Amishi Jha

    How to stay focused, fight distraction, and function at your peak.


    Dr. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami. She serves as the Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, which she co-founded in 2010. Dr Jha is the author of the national bestseller, Peak Mind


    In this episode we talk about:


    • What peak mind is
    • Why meta awareness is important to practice and achieve peak mind
    • The suite of mindfulness-based attention training practices
    • Why humans developed attention in the first place
    • Using the flashlight and floodlight metaphors to help us understand different types of attention
    • The mental pushup for attention: focus, notice, and redirect
    • The attention benefits for high stress populations who engage in contemplatives practices
    • Multitasking vs. monotasking
    • The real life and death consequences of confirmation bias
    • Part of the reason why we may be experiencing a crisis of attention 
    • Giving our mind the freedom to choose where it goes next


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    The Anti-Diet | Evelyn Tribole

    The Anti-Diet | Evelyn Tribole

    The interview that changed the way Dan relates to food. 


    Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD,  CEDRD-S is an award-winning registered dietitian, with a nutrition counseling practice in Newport Beach, California. She has written ten books including the bestsellers Healthy Homestyle Cooking and Intuitive Eating (co-author). Her newest book is the Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food.


    In this episode we talk about:


    • How meditation practice and intuitive eating are similar
    • The difference between mindful eating and intuitive eating
    • Why gentle nutrition is the last principle of intuitive eating
    • How to rethink negative body image
    • Why you can’t tell how healthy a person is by looking at their body
    • Why it’s important not to talk about food in moralistic terms
    • How to make peace with and rethink our relationship with food



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    How to Set Boundaries | Nedra Glover Tawwab

    How to Set Boundaries | Nedra Glover Tawwab

    A comprehensive strategy for setting and maintaining boundaries—and respecting other people’s boundaries.

    Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, is the author of bestsellers Drama Free and Set Boundaries, Find Peace. She is a licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert and has practiced relationship therapy for 15 years. Tawwab is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice, Kaleidoscope Counseling


    In this episode we talk about:

    • The definition of boundaries
    • Leading with love when it comes to boundary setting
    • Tawwab’s taxonomy of boundaries
    • How to summon the courage to set and maintain boundaries, even when it's hard
    • How to respect other people's boundaries, even when they aren't clear about what they might be 


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    Beyond the Cliché: What Is Joy, Really? And How Do You Access It? | Bonus Meditation with La Sarmiento

    Beyond the Cliché: What Is Joy, Really? And How Do You Access It? | Bonus Meditation with La Sarmiento

    Cultivate resilience by choosing to turn towards joy, and transform difficult times into growth opportunities and heartache into gratitude.


    About La Sarmiento:


    La Sarmiento is a mentor for the MIndfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) and a teacher with Cloud Sangha. They have taught meditation retreats for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Teens, and Young Adults, and everyone in-between around the United States since 2010 and are a 2012 graduate of the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader Training. 


    To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, you can search for “Opening to Joy.” 



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    From Happier with Gretchen Rubin | The Happiness Project: Revisited

    From Happier with Gretchen Rubin | The Happiness Project: Revisited

    Next year marks the fifteenth anniversary of Gretchen Rubin’s #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Happiness Project. To celebrate, she’s leading a one-time, one-year course called “The Happiness Project: Revisited.” In this bonus excerpt from the course, Gretchen and Elizabeth explore the lessons Gretchen has learned over the years, talk about her plans to do a new happiness project in 2024, and discuss how other people can do their own happiness projects. 

    You can learn more and sign up here—plus, get 30% off through December 31st with code THPR30DEC.



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    Sam Harris on: Vipassana vs. Dzogchen, Looking for the Looker, and Psychic Powers

    Sam Harris on: Vipassana vs. Dzogchen, Looking for the Looker, and Psychic Powers

    Frequent guest Sam Harris discusses life after quitting Twitter and the metaphysics of meditation along with special co-host and brother Matt Harris. 


    Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, and author of five New York Times best sellers. His work covers a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, political polarization, rationality—but generally focuses on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. His books include The End of Faith, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, and Waking Up. Sam hosts the popular Making Sense podcast and is the creator of the Waking Up app, which offers a modern approach to living a more examined life, through both in-depth mindfulness training and secular wisdom. Sam has practiced meditation for over 30 years and has studied with many Tibetan, Indian, Burmese, and Western meditation teachers, both in the United States and abroad. He holds a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.


    In this episode we talk about:


    • The psychological benefits of quitting Twitter
    • Vipassana meditation vs. Dzogchen
    • The practice of looking for the looker
    • Sam’s views on the metaphysics of meditation and psychic powers



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    Ancient Secrets to Modern Happiness | Tamar Gendler

    Ancient Secrets to Modern Happiness | Tamar Gendler

    What the ancient Greek philosophers discovered about how to do life better.


    Tamar Gendler is dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University. Her Open Yale course “Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature” has hundreds of thousands of views. An updated version of this course will be available on the Coursera website this spring. 


    In this episode we talk about:

    • The tension between our animal nature and our spiritual/intellectual nature
    • How to define concepts such as “virtue”, “morality” and “the soul” 
    • Whether living a moral life actually makes you happy 
    • The similarities and differences between ancient Greek philosophy & Buddhism 
    • And how Tamar has applied all of this to her own life



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