How To Handle Toxic Thoughts | Sebene Selassie and Jeff Warren

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, my fellow suffering beings. How are we doing? Today we're going to talk about how to handle it when the voice in your head is an asshole.

The ego can be a hatchery of all sorts of nasty beasts, self-criticism, self-aggrandizement, shame, desire, distraction, rage. I could go on, but the real question is, what do you do about it? My guests today are meditation teachers, also close friends personally, Sebane Selassie and Jeff Warren. Seb is the author of a book called You Belong.

Jeff and I co-authored a book called Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics. Jeff is also the co-host of a podcast called the Mind Bod Adventure Pod. In this conversation, we talk about how to handle the voice in your head, how to relate to sticky stories and emotions, how to face unpleasant feelings. We talk about a Buddhist list called the five hindrances. Those are the five main problems that tend to arise in meditation and how to deal with them.

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