The Power of Science for Personal and Global Progress: Embracing a scientific perspective can enhance personal and societal decision-making by differentiating between opinions and objective truths, promoting rationality and scientific reasoning, and gaining intellectual humility.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson's book, Starry Messenger, conveys how taking a scientific perspective can improve one's life and the world. His conversation with Dan Harris covers applying a scientific lens to emotions, the importance of intellectual humility, and the knowledge of death bringing meaning to life. Tyson's lifetime of insights and observations on civilization's conduct in the face of objective truths highlights how we often hold very strongly held opinions without considering objective realities. He emphasizes the need to differentiate between opinions and objective truths. By encouraging investment in objective realities, Tyson inspires individuals to seek rationality and promote scientific reasoning in their daily lives.
The Significance of Intellectual and Emotional Humility in Avoiding Conflicts: Acknowledging that there is still so much we don't know and prioritizing objective truth helps us grow and avoid conflicts. Both intellectual and emotional humility are essential in objectively resolving disputes.
Having intellectual and emotional humility is crucial in softening arguments and avoiding conflicts. Even in science, there is so much that we don't know and being aware of this fact keeps us open to learning. Instead of defending our opinions blindly, we should have conversations that prioritize objective truth. Intellectual humility is essential, but emotional humility is also needed, especially when passion is attached to objectively resolvable matters. Even great thinkers like St. Augustine emphasized the importance of humility. Scientists have a better understanding of the concept, but everyone can benefit from practicing it. Humility can help us grow and see farther beyond our current knowledge.
Adopting a Scientific Approach to Avoid Biases in Daily Life: Pause and question our own thoughts and ideas to remove biases. Actively seek out and point out errors in our own thinking. Foster disagreement to promote growth and discovery.
As human beings, we have susceptibilities to over-investing in what we want to be true. However, scientists have extra checks and balances to avoid biases and foster disagreement on the frontier of discovery. This approach can also be adopted in our daily lives. We can pause and question our own thoughts and ideas to remove biases and diminish them to as small as possible. For example, the idea of being a vegetarian out of not wanting to kill animals could be re-examined with a scientific view of animals' life expectancies. The best thing we can do is to actively seek out and point out errors in our own thinking, and fostering disagreement on the frontier of discovery.
The importance of rational thought and objective truths in decision-making.: Despite emotional fuel powering creativity, it's crucial to distinguish emotions from quantitative analysis for conflict resolution. An objective view shows the world is better than ever. Rational thinking is vital for decision-making today.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson emphasizes the importance of rational thought and objective truths in decision-making, including consideration for nature and its creatures. He acknowledges the emotional fuel that powers creativity and makes life interesting but says that distinguishing emotions from quantitative analysis can help resolve conflicts. Tyson reminds everyone that despite social media fueled tribalism and disagreements, the world is objectively doing better by almost every measure related to health, longevity, and cooperation. Europe, for instance, is at peace with itself, which has never happened in the last thousand years. Therefore, it is important to have cosmic perspectives and rational thinking while making decisions and resolving conflicts, especially in today's world.
Navigating the Power of Social Media in Today's World.: Despite the challenges we face with social media, it's important to maintain hope and confront the difficulties head-on. With persistence and ingenuity, we can work towards positive change and progress, as no sanctioned country in the world endorses slavery.
Social media is still a young platform and we are still discovering its power over us, over opinions, over politics and over the geopolitics of the world. As we learn to interact and mature with it, we can hope for a positive outcome. We must not be dissuaded by hopelessness or the seemingly insurmountable challenges presented to us. Facing our challenges and confronting them head-on may seem impossible, but it's not reason enough to not try to conquer them. There may be a solution you'll think of tomorrow that you never imagined was there yesterday. Don't forget to give yourself credit for your ingenuity. Real changes take place over centuries, and no sanctioned country in the world endorses slavery.
The Power of a Cosmic Perspective and Scientific Literacy: Understanding science and having a cosmic perspective can lead to rational decision making and a better understanding of the world, while helping us rise above petty arguments and make informed choices.
Having a cosmic perspective can help us make rational decisions and understand the value of science. Science has shaped the world we live in and has led to significant advances in medicine, sanitation, health, and communication. Rationality shouldn't be the only goal, but being scientifically literate can help us make better decisions. Our brains are wired to think statistically, which can lead to exploitation by industries like casinos. Looking at the world through a lens of science gives us a cosmic perspective that can help rise above petty arguments and see the Earth as it truly is, with oceans, land, and clouds.
Geopolitical conflicts and how a cosmic perspective can help bridge divides: Understanding and celebrating diversity while stepping back to view situations from different perspectives can lead to greater compassion and unity, and help us question our decisions and actions.
The concept of geopolitical conflicts is instilled in us from a young age through color-coded globes. However, the Earth has no national boundaries and we are all one species. A cosmic perspective allows us to step back and make accurate measurements of daily annoyances. It helps us to be informed about our actions and to question our decisions. We need to look at situations from different perspectives and put ourselves in the shoes of others. Tribalism and a sense of in-group outgroup can lead to ugly incidents. Understanding that people are raised a certain way can help us be more compassionate and forgiving towards them. Ultimately, we need to celebrate the beauty and diversity of the world and strive for unity
The Wisdom of Scientists in Conflict Resolution.: Engaging in conversation with an open mind, strategic thinking, and evidence-based approach are essential for resolving conflicts in any situation, including war.
Opening up for conversation is the key to avoid war. Scientists observe conduct and make notes of it, rather than letting it affect them emotionally. They strategize and fold the conduct into the next things they do, and navigate future interactions with humans based on that. Instead of labelling people's behaviour, one can understand that every action has a cause and effect. Scientists are like kids who never really grew up, except they have more powerful tools to probe things. Science works because people think differently and only evidence-based paths lead to the right conclusion.
The Unknown Causes in Quantum Physics and Human Behaviors.: Although there may not be a known cause for certain phenomena, adopting a cosmic perspective can bring value to our lives and remind us that our bodies, even in death, contribute to the universe.
Quantum physics has phenomena that take place without any known cause, leading to situations where finding solutions with a cause may not apply. Certain human behaviors do not have an obvious cause, and although billion years of evolution could be the cause, it is not a cause accessible to our actions. However, the cosmic perspective can bring value and insights to our lives, and it is objectively true that upon death, our body decomposes into flora and fauna that have brought nourishment to our bodies throughout our lives. Cremation releases our stored chemical energy into space, an opportunity for those wishing to tour the universe even in death.
Embracing and Valuing Life as the Most Precious Thing: Being alive is a rare and valuable gift. Live with focus and intensity, celebrate every moment, and create a world where life is cherished and not cheapened.
Knowing that we are alive against the vast odds of all the possible genetic variations that could have existed, gives us a cosmic perspective that should make us cherish every moment of life. The fact that we will all die gives meaning to our limited time on this planet, and so we should live with focus and intensity. Embracing life and valuing it as the most precious thing we own could help us create a world where life is cherished, and not cheapened. We should also take personal responsibility to celebrate every waking moment, as we have one chance through this and we should make the most of it.
Tips for Personal Growth and Success: Continuously strive for self-improvement, balance leisure and productivity, measure progress based on personal goals, remain adaptable, and focus on leaving a positive legacy.
Nobody's perfect but you can try to be perfect. Don't waste time doing nothing. Entertainment has value too, but make sure you're serving your body or mind. Regardless of the metrics, you use to measure progress, be more today than yesterday. While the long term impact of social media and other devices is still uncertain, it is important to put in reminders or whatever is required to correct past mistakes. Everything is negotiable, even non-negotiable things. Stay open to arguments and different perspectives. Remind yourself that one day you'll be dead and use your time effectively to leave a positive impact on the world.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Philosophies on Humility and Storytelling: Find happiness and humility through reconnecting with the universe, reading old books, and valuing past thinkers. Avoid space movies that violate physics and portray scientists as being ignored. Embrace storytelling to gain exposure to the human condition and different perspectives.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson's fundamental source of happiness is reconnecting with the universe through his backyard telescope and reading old books. He also values the exposure to the human condition and different perspectives through storytelling. He advises against watching movies like Armageddon and Moonfall as they violate laws of physics. He finds every space movie plot to be about something bad happening and scientists being ignored. These hobbies help him reset and gain humility while valuing the previous thinkers. Stories about Chinese spy balloons and UFOs are unrelated to his philosophy but portray the current world's interest in space.
The difference between the questions of aliens and unidentified aerial objects.: While we may not be alone in the universe, the existence of intelligent life forms and their interest in communicating with us cannot be assumed based on UFO sightings alone. Intelligence is not the only measure of a successful life form.
The question of whether we are alone in the universe and the phenomenon of unidentified aerial objects are two completely different questions. Just because we don't know what a UFO is, it doesn't mean that it's intelligent aliens visiting from another planet. It's an extraordinary leap that any skeptic won't take without better evidence. The most common atoms in the universe are the atoms that comprise life, so it's inexcusably egocentric to suggest that we are alone in the universe. Intelligence is not the measure of the success of a life form in any ecosystem. There could be intelligent species out there who would not rank us in their club and see us as so insignificant as to not even be interested in communicating with us.
The Complexities of Simulations and the Inanity Defense: Our world may not be a simulation because irrational behavior exists in our world, which is not possible in a perfectly logical computer-created world. Our universe is vast, unpredictable, and constantly surprising us with new discoveries.
The argument that we are living in a simulation is based on the creation of complex worlds within computers. However, the inanity defense states that if this were a simulated world, there wouldn't be irrational behavior exhibited by its residents. Computers only make logical decisions, and every world it creates will have rational things going on, which are not present in our own world. The universe continues beyond the horizon that we can see, and it may be infinite, but we don't know for sure. Cause and effect is not a law of the universe, and things happen statistically, which has been proven in quantum physics. Science is always learning, and there are new things that might violate previously held laws.
Exploring the Universe with Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Neil DeGrasse Tyson's work combines humor and science to make learning about the universe fun and accessible. Science and spirituality can coexist, and we should never stop seeking answers to the mysteries of the cosmos.
The law of conservation of matter and energy both prevails in the universe, and sometimes things happen for no known cause and may be discovered later on. Neil DeGrasse Tyson's book 'Starry Messenger' discusses how stars bring messages that may disrupt our understanding of our place in the universe, and his podcast 'Star Talk' combines humor and science to make learning fun. Galileo's quote 'the Bible tells you how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go' reminds us that science and spirituality can coexist. Neil DeGrasse Tyson's work aims to bring the universe down to earth for those who want to learn.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Why Having a “Cosmic Perspective” Will Help You Do Life Better
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I Just Did A 10-Day Silent Meditation Retreat With Joseph Goldstein. Here’s What I Learned
Meditation retreats are the object of much intrigue and even suspicion. So today, we’re going to take you inside a 10-day silent meditation retreat that Dan recently did with his teacher, Joseph Goldstein. You’ll also hear from Senior Producer, Marissa Schneiderman, who was fresh off a retreat of her own, with meditation teachers Alexis Santos and Andrea Fella.
In this episode we talk about:
- The ups and downs of retreats
- Some famous Buddhist listicles, including the five hindrances
- The importance of repetition
- We’ll hear snippets of Joseph answering Dan’s questions
- We find out what “cowboy dharma” is
- What it feels like to wear shit colored glasses
- How to stop getting caught in a mind trap
- And lastly, we listen to voicemails and answer audience questions!
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Modern Life Numbs You. Here’s The Neuroscience Of Waking Up | Tali Sharot
It’s so easy, especially these days, to numb out. To get bored. To move through life on autopilot. There is even a scientific term for this: habituation.
Today we’re talking to a researcher who co-authored a new book about the neuroscience of habit and how to wake up again. To make things exciting. Or as she says, to “re-sparkle”.
Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and MIT. She’s written several books including The Optimism Bias and The Influential Mind. Her latest, co-written with Cass Sunstein, is called Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There.
In this episode we talk about:
- What habituation is and what’s going on in the brain when it happens
- How it negatively impacts the joy we feel in life – and inversely – how it can make us stop noticing the bad stuff
- Key strategies for disrupting habituation and introducing change and variety into your life
- The interesting relationship between creativity and people who habituate slowly
- How habituation impacts our relationships
- Why it’s important to break up the good experiences, but swallow the bad whole.
- How to wake up from a “technologically induced coma”
- How people emotionally habituate to dishonesty and lying
- And lastly, we talk about the dangers of habituating to a slow, incremental rise in tyranny – and how dis-habituation entrepreneurs can help
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A Reformed Skeptic Leads A Loving-Kindness Meditation | A Meditation Party Retreat Bonus with Dan Harris
Recorded live at the Omega Institute, Dan leads us through a loving-kindness meditation, followed by discussion with retreat co-leaders Jeff Warren and Sebene Selassie.
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How to Avoid the Toilet Vortex of Anxiety | Sebene Selassie and Jeff Warren
We also talk about: whether it is possible to be a failed meditator; grief versus mourning; and meditation tips for parents.
Sebene Selassie is a writer, teacher, and speaker who leads meditation, creativity, and nature-based practices for personal & collective liberation. Using ancient wisdom and modern science mixed with her own relational and relatable style, Sebene helps spiritually curious people explore the profound and sacred truth of belonging. She is trained as a meditation teacher, an integral coach, a practitioner of Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy for Complex Trauma (IFOT), and is a licensed hiking guide in New York State. She has taught classes, workshops and retreats online and in person for almost fifteen years. Sebene is a devoted student of mystic traditions, including astrology, and writes the popular newsletter Ancestors to Elements. Her first book, You Belong: A Call for Connection, is published by HarperOne.
Jeff Warren is a meditation instructor and writer, known for his dynamic and accessible style of teaching. He is the co-author of The New York Times best-selling Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, founder of the nonprofit Consciousness Explorers Club, and co-host of the Mind Bod Adventure Pod. Jeff's Do Nothing Project streams for free every Sunday night on YouTube; his guided meditations reach millions of people through the Ten Percent Happier and Calm apps, as well as through his Substack, Home Base.
Jeff’s mission is to empower people to care for their mental health, through the realistic, intelligent and sometimes irreverent exploration of meditation and personal growth practices. As someone with both ADHD and bipolar, he is big on destigmatizing mental health issues, and championing a neurodiverse outlook on life and practice.
Tascha Schumann is a Buddhist Lama, writer, visual artist, co-host of The Mind Bod Adventure Pod, and Juno-nominated recording artist whose work has been streamed many millions of times around the world.
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I Just Went Through A Career Earthquake. Here’s What I Learned About Anger, Insomnia, And Bouncing Back | Dan Harris
In which Dan gets candid about a major life struggle, the practical takeaways, and a big new project.
In this episode:
- Dan shares news about what’s next for him
- His strategies and lessons from a big career change including how to deal with conflict, anger and insomnia
- What he's learned about the power of self-compassion, the value of failure and how to gain perspective when you need it most
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How And Why To Avoid The Siren Call Of Cynicism | Dr. Jamil Zaki
This Stanford psychologist has evidence that being a cynic is bad for your health, and offers a non-corny alternative.
Dr. Jamil Zaki is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. He’s the author of The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, and his new book is called Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness.
In this episode we talk about:
- What cynicism is, and why it’s so appealing
- His own history as a “recovering cynic,”
- How to know if you yourself are a cynic
- A step-by-step guide to start developing the “hopeful skeptic” mindset
- How to get better at disagreeing with other people, including some rules of engagement
- And how to encourage kids not to become cynical
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Exploring What It Means To “Pay Attention” | A Meditation Party Retreat Bonus With Jeff Warren
Recorded live at the Omega Institute, Jeff guides us through two different approaches to being attentive to our experience — followed by a discussion with Dan and Sebene.
About Jeff Warren:
Jeff makes meditation and practice accessible to diverse audiences in order to help people live more fulfilled and connected lives. He’s taught meditation to suspicious journalists, US Army cadets, burned-out caregivers, Arizona cops, formerly-incarcerated youth, virtuoso popstars, distractible teens, and every other conceivable demographic of freethinker, including squirmy six-year old kids. He tries to do this in a way that’s rigorous and clear and adventurous. You can find out more about him at jeffwarren.org.
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A Buddhist Recipe for Handling Turmoil | Kaira Jewel Lingo
We all know that change is inevitable and impermanence is non-negotiable. But somehow it can feel surprising, maybe even wrong, when we personally hit turbulence. The Buddha had a lot to say about this, and so does our guest.
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher who has a lifelong interest in blending spirituality and meditation with social justice. Having grown up in an ecumenical Christian community where families practiced a new kind of monasticism and worked with the poor, at the age of twenty-five she entered a Buddhist monastery in the Plum Village tradition and spent fifteen years living as a nun under the guidance of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She received Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh and became a Zen teacher in 2007, and is also a teacher in the Vipassana Insight lineage through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Today she sees her work as a continuation of the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh as well as the work of her parents, inspired by their stories and her dad’s work with Martin Luther King Jr. on desegregating the South.
In addition to writing We Were Made for These Times: Skilfully Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption, she is also the editor of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children. Now based in New York, she teaches and leads retreats internationally, provides spiritual mentoring, and interweaves art, play, nature, racial and earth justice, and embodied mindfulness practice in her teaching. She especially feels called to share the Dharma with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, as well as activists, educators, youth, artists, and families. Her newest book, co-written with Marisela B. Gomez and Valerie Brown, is Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation.
In this episode we talk about:
- waking up to what’s happening right now
- trusting the unknown (easier said than done)
- A Buddhist list called the five remembrances
- how gratitude helps us in times of disruption
- And accepting what is (and why this is different from resignation or passivity)
Please note: There are brief mentions of domestic violence, abuse, the suffering of refugees, and war in this episode.
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The Science of Handling Uncertainty | Maya Shankar
Cognitive scientist Maya Shankar talks about how to get comfortable with uncertainty in an ever-changing world.
It seems like a design flaw in our species that we live in a world of constant change yet most of us are not comfortable with uncertainty.
In this episode, we talk to Maya Shankar about how to get better at dealing with change and to stop seeking what scientists call “cognitive closure.”
Shankar is a former Senior Advisor in the Obama White House, where she founded and served as Chair of the White House Behavioral Science Team. She also served as the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations, and is currently a Senior Director of Behavioral Economics at Google. She is the host of the Pushkin Industries podcast A Slight Change of Plans, which was named Best Show of the Year in 2021 by Apple.
In this episode we talk about:
- Why humans are so uncomfortable with uncertainty and change
- What a behavioral scientist actually does in the world
- Why even the host of a podcast about change isn’t immune to the uncertainties of life
- The benefits of cultivating a more malleable sense of self
- Why humans are such bad forecasters
- The importance of auditing yourself when you’re undergoing a big change
- How to take advantage of big reset moments
- The concept of cognitive closure and why encouraging an open mind can make us more resilient
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- Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- Stumbling on Happiness
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Stop Turning The Miraculous Into The Mundane | Bonus Meditation with Pascal Auclair
This is the first time you’ve ever been here, now. Pascal invites you to discover the vivid and mysterious experience of this new moment.
About Pascal Auclair:
Pascal Auclair has been immersed in Buddhist practice and study since 1997, sitting retreats in Asia and America with revered monastics and lay teachers. He has been mentored by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, where he is now enjoying teaching retreats. Pascal teaches in North America and in Europe. He is a co-founder of True North Insight and one of TNI’s Guiding Teachers.
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Understand Your Brain, Upgrade Your Life | Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
The better you understand your brain – and the more effectively you can work with it – the happier and healthier you will be. This is the central contention of today’s extraordinary guest, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and she makes this assertion based on two levels of deep expertise. First, Dr. Taylor is a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist. Second, back in the ‘90s, she experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write or recall any of her life. She later recovered, but that experience, which you will hear her describe in riveting detail, gave her incredible insight into how the brain works.
She wrote a massive best-selling book called, My Stroke of Insight, which she has now followed up with a book called, Whole Brain Living, where she lays out exactly how to understand your brain and how to work with it.
In this episode we talk about:
- Dr. Taylor’s personal story and how her life has changed post-stroke
- The marvels of the human brain
- The differences between the brain’s two hemispheres
- How our society is skewed towards the left hemisphere and how living too much in the left hemisphere can burn us out
- The brain’s “four characters” and how to work with these characters through a practice she calls “The Brain Huddle”
- The differences and similarities between “The Brain Huddle” and another practice we’ve talked about before on this show called, “RAIN”
- And she describes a tool for understanding your emotions called, “The 90-Second Rule”
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Modern Life Is Making You Sick, but It Doesn’t Have To | Dr. Gabor Maté
There’s so much to be grateful for in modern medicine. We can all agree that we would not do as well in a world with no Advil or dentistry. And yet, our guest today, who is a renowned doctor, says modern medicine is overlooking something crucial: the pernicious impact that modern living has on our minds and bodies. In other words, we are surrounded by these hidden societal and structural sources of stress and we aren’t thinking about how to treat and prevent these factors that are degrading our happiness and our immune systems.
Dr. Gabor Maté is a bestselling author with an expertise on everything from stress to addiction to ADHD. His latest book is called, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Content Warning: This episode has mentions of child abuse, sexual trauma, suicide and addiction
In this episode we talk about:
- What he means by “the myth of normal”
- How diseases, such as autoimmune conditions, are an “artifact of civilization"
- How to begin to tackle what Dr. Maté calls, “the social sources of illness”
- His definition of trauma and the difference between “big T traumatic events” and the trauma of “wounding”
- How trauma in society is so normalized that we don’t even recognize it
- Whether the term trauma is overused
- Why comparing suffering is a fruitless endeavor
- What he means by “the necessity to be disillusioned”
- The power and possibility of psychedelics
- Why he thinks we should incorporate shamanic medicine into our western medical framework
- And what he means by “undoing self-limiting beliefs” and how these beliefs show up in our everyday lives
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The Dharma of Work | Matthew Hepburn
The office might be one of the most difficult places to not side with yourself, but it’s a concept that can help you navigate challenging situations at work.
Matthew is a meditation and dharma teacher with more than a decade of teaching experience and a passion for getting real about what it means to live well. He emphasizes humor, technique, and authentic kindness as a means to free the mind from unnecessary struggle and leave a healthier impact on the world.
Beyond Ten Percent Happier, Matthew has taught in prisons, schools, corporate events and continues to teach across North America in buddhist centers offering intensive silent retreats and dharma for urban daily life.
In this episode we talk about:
- How to change your relationship to your thoughts
- How to navigate the highs of praise and the lows of blame
- How to handle relationships at work when giving or receiving feedback
- How to bring your mindfulness practice to your workplace
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Your Chance for a Do-Over| Bonus Meditation with Oren Jay Sofer
In this practice you'll connect with your values and set an intention for how you want to show up today.
About Oren Jay Sofer:
Oren has practiced meditation in the early Buddhist tradition since 1997, beginning his studies in Bodh Gaya, India with Anagarika Munindra and Godwin Samararatne. He is a long-time student of Joseph Goldstein, Michele McDonald, and Ajahn Sucitto, and a graduate of the IMS - Spirit Rock Vipassana Teacher Training, and current member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council.
Oren is the author of Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication, a practical guidebook for having more effective, satisfying conversations.
To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, you can search for “A Fresh Start,” or click here:
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Meditation Party: The “Sh*t Is Fertilizer” Edition | Sebene Selassie & Jeff Warren
Today’s episode is the first in an experimental new series called Meditation Party.
Dan takes listener calls with fellow meditators Sebene Selassie and Jeff Warren and get candid about their practices and dealing with life
Sebene Selassie is based in Brooklyn and describes herself as a “writer, teacher, and immigrant-weirdo.” She teaches meditation on the Ten Percent Happier app and is the author of a great book called, You Belong. Jeff Warren is based in Toronto and is also a writer and meditation teacher who co-wrote the book, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics with Dan Harris. Jeff also hosts the Consciousness Explorers podcast.
Call (508) 656-0540 to have your question answered during the Meditation Party!
Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/sebene-selassie-jef-warren-553
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