
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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Dan Harris is a fidgety, skeptical ABC News anchor who had a panic attack live on "Good Morning America," which led him to try something he always thought was ridiculous: meditation. In this podcast, Dan explores happiness (whatever that means) from all angles. Guests include legendary meditation teachers from the Dalai Lama to Western masters as well as scientists and even the odd..
10% Happier with Dan Harris
13h ago
Data-driven, dharma-informed, Dan-tested strategies for improving relationships of all kinds.
In this episode we talk about:
The value of having platonic friends in addition to your spouse or partner
A key communication skill that Dan picked up from the writer and researcher Brené Brown
How humor can help your relationships – and how it can hurt
A cognitive reframe from couples therapist Esther Perel
How to manage conflict in a healthy way
And one of Dan’s favorite Saturday Night Live sketches: Man Park
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10% Happier with Dan Harris
3d ago
Practical strategies for managing our emotional lives.
Dr. Ethan Kross, author of the international bestseller Chatter, is one of the world’s leading experts on emotion regulation. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he is the Director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory.
In this episode we talk about:
What an emotion actually is
The myth that we should only experience positive emotions
Why sometimes avoidance is a smart strategy
The six emotional "shifters" we can use to ..read more
10% Happier with Dan Harris
4d ago
How your reliance on being liked, being comfortable, and being perfect is blocking you from making the change you want.
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is one of the most influential doctors in the UK with over two decades of experience. He now hosts Europe's biggest health podcast, Feel Better, Live More, he is the author of 5 Sunday Times bestsellers, he regularly appears on BBC television, national radio and his TED talk, How To Make Disease Disappear, has almost 6 million views.
In this episode we talk about:
Why we have an overreliance on experts and perfection
Barriers and solutions to lo ..read more
10% Happier with Dan Harris
1w ago
Jay shares the most effective tool in his meditation toolkit. This targeted release can create huge physiological benefit and relaxation.
About Jay Michaelson:
Jay Michaelson is a writer & journalist, rabbi & meditation teacher, keynote speaker, and scholar of religion. Jay is the author of ten books, most recently The Secret That Is Not A Secret: Ten Heretical Tales. His 2022 book, The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth, won the National Jewish Book Award for scholarship. He holds a JD from Yale, a PhD in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University, and nondenomi ..read more
10% Happier with Dan Harris
1w ago
A Buddhist doctor/nun on how we’re all addicted to something—and how to reduce craving.
Sister Dang Nghiem, MD, (“Sister D”) was born in 1968 in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, the daughter of a Vietnamese mother and an American soldier. She lost her mother at the age of twelve and immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen with her brother. Living in various foster homes, she learned English and went on to earn a medical degree from the University of California – San Francisco. After suffering further tragedy and loss, she quit her practice as a doctor to travel to Plum Villag ..read more
10% Happier with Dan Harris
1w ago
How to use your innate mindfulness to turn the volume down, or even uproot, your everyday addictions.
Dr. Judson Brewer is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry at the Schools of Public Health & Medicine at Brown University. He is the author of several books, including The Craving Mind, Unwinding Anxiety, and The Hunger Habit.
This episode is part of our monthlong Do Life Better series.
We talk about:
Jud’s definition of addiction
The difference between the scientific view and the Buddhist v ..read more
10% Happier with Dan Harris
1w ago
This loving-kindness meditation can serve as a protection from fear, guard against anxiety, & help you tap into support from your community.
About Leslie Booker:
Booker brings her heart and wisdom to the intersection of Dharma, Embodied Wisdom, and Liberation. Using this framework, she supports folks in creating a culture of belonging through her teaching and writing on changing the paradigm of self and community care. She shares her offering widely as a university lecturer, public speaker, and Buddhist philosophy and meditation teacher. She currently lives in Philadelphia with her partner ..read more
10% Happier with Dan Harris
2w ago
A podcast pioneer on failure, resilience, luck, work/life balance, and the power of questions.
Guy Raz has been instrumental in creating some of the most iconic podcasts in the world, including Wondery's How I Built This, Wow in the World and TED Radio Hour. The New York Times has described him as “one of the most popular podcasters in history.”
This episode is part of our monthlong Do Life Better series.
We talk about:
The challenge–and gift–of failure
Getting comfortable with discomfort and risk
The notion of luck
The balance between your relationships and your work&nbs ..read more
10% Happier with Dan Harris
2w ago
How to be less stressed and more productive.
Nolitha Tsengiwe, a Dharma teacher and board member at Dharmagiri Retreat Center, in South Africa. She is also a graduate of Insight Meditation Society teacher training.
This episode is part of our monthlong Do Life Better series.
In this episode we talk about:
How to weave mindfulness into your day without requiring a big formal sit
How to have healthy conflict in the workplace
Our attempts to explain the ineffable
And much more
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10% Happier with Dan Harris
2w ago
Burnout is on the rise. Two experts show us how to combat it.
Dr. Kristin Neff is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, conducting the first empirical studies on self-compassion more than twenty years ago.
Christopher Germer is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He also co-developed a highly impactful program called Mindful Self-Compassion, which has been taught to over 100,000 people across the world.
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