Anxiety, Overthinking, and Overwhelm: Buddhist Hacks For Changing Your Mind | Joseph Goldstein

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody, how are we doing? This is an episode for overthinkers, worriers, the anxious, basically everybody. In this conversation, I talked to my longtime friend and meditation teacher, Joseph Goldstein, about some time-tested hacks he has for overthinking, anxiety, overwhelm, and the like.

For those of you unfamiliar with Joseph, he is the co-founder of the legendary retreat center, the Insight Meditation Society. He's also written such books as One Dharma and Mindfulness. This episode is part of an occasional series we've been running with Joseph where I interview him about the various teaching phrases he uses. Let me explain what I mean by that. Joseph likes to teach using pithy little mottos, Buddhist earworms that weasel their way into your brain and surface just at the moment when you need the most.

These are incredibly helpful little mantras that I use all the time in my own life. And by the way, the eventual goal of these interviews is to turn them all into a book, a collection of Joseph's phrases. So this is a great episode. You're going to love it. Speaking of Joseph, by the way, you can learn from the man himself.

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