Why You're Always Half-Stressed — and How to Chill | Christiane Wolf

This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Happy Sunday, everybody. Hope you're having a great weekend. Today we're talking about something that most of us feel but rarely are able to put a name on.

It's that subtle background static of tension. that just kind of courses through your life. It's not full-blown panic, but it's just this kind of slightly on edge, always behind, never enough, that general sense of dis-ease. Our guest today, who's a mindfulness teacher and a physician and an ultramarathoner, Dr. Christiana Wolf

has a beautiful way of describing this phenomenon. She calls it being in yellow. You're not on red alert, you're not green, you're not grounded, but you're in that middle zone where we spend most of our lives vigilant, hyper-productive, or feeling guilty about not being productive enough, like basically a little fried. So what you're about to hear is a conversation with DJ Kashmir, who's the executive producer of this show, in which Christiana unpacks why so many of us live in this yellow zone, why it's not really our fault, and how we can train our nervous systems to spend more time in green, that state of openness, ease, being in the present moment, all the cliches, all the good stuff. Just to say, Christiana is the teacher of the month over at danharris.com.

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