Duct Tape for Your Inner Critic (Gently, of Course) | Dawn Mauricio

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Happy Friday, everybody. I don't want to brag, but one of my favorite things that I've ever written is the first line in my first book, 10% Happier, which went something like this. I wanted to call this book The Voice in My Head is an Asshole.

To me, that just perfectly encapsulates the human condition, at least for most of us. Sure, we are capable of a lot of good stuff, creativity, compassion, etc., but the untrained mind is often a hatchery of self-loathing, grudge holding, judging, greed, addiction, etc. So what do we do about this? Today I'm talking to the great meditation teacher Don Mauricio. What you're about to hear is a live conversation we had on Substack a few weeks ago.

We do these conversations every week now. We meditate and then chop it up, including taking your questions. The idea is that meditating as a group is a great way to support your practice. There's plenty of research to back that assertion up. Plus it's fun.

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