How to Co-Opt All the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Your Meditation | Christiane Wolf

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Happy Sunday party, people. Today we are bringing you a meditation from Christiana Wolf. And it's about one of those ideas that kind of sounds like a Zen riddle but actually turns out to be incredibly useful.

What's in the way is the way. The obstacle is the way. If you've ever sat to meditate and thought, I can't focus, I'm totally distracted, I'm incredibly physically restless, and it's driving me nuts. If you've ever sat and bumped into a barrier like that, this one's for you.

Christiana is going to show you how to turn these obstacles, these distractions, these powerful emotions into the practice itself. As you may know, Christiana is our teacher of the month over at danharris.com. That means she is very busy creating custom guided meditations for all of our Monday, Wednesday episodes here on the podcast. For the most part, these guided meds are only available for paying subscribers, but we're dropping this one for free. The strategy pursued by drug dealers everywhere.

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