The Best Way To Feel Calm (Is to Not Try To Feel Calm)

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody, how are we doing? So today I'm going to talk about a bunch of stuff. how to meditate when you're dealing with serious emotional pain, the deeply unhelpful addiction that many of us have to feeling calm in meditation, feeling calm is not the point.

How to achieve focus and concentration without straining so hard that you give yourself a headache. What to do when you feel too physically restless to meditate. and much more. What you're about to hear is a recording of a live session where I take questions from subscribers to my new app, which is called 10% with Dan Harris. We do these live sessions every Tuesday at 4.

If you want to join us, you can sign up over at danharris.com. We always start these sessions with a guided meditation, but I'm going to cut the meditation out of this episode so we can get straight to the burning questions. One bit of context before we dive in here, at the very top you're going to hear me reference something that I said during the guided meditation. It's a really interesting technique that I actually lifted from a great meditation teacher named Henry Schuckman. Henry recommends that we look for the part of ourselves

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