How To Meditate When You're Freaking Out | Kaira Jewel Lingo

This is the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Happy Sunday, everybody. Hope you're having a good weekend. Welcome back to our Sunday installment with our teacher of the month. This month it's Kyra Jewel Lingo. Today she's going to tackle a question I get a lot, both when I'm giving speeches and when I'm looking at your comments online. And the question is, how do I meditate when I'm in the midst of like a really powerful, difficult emotion? Anxiety, grief.

Very, very helpful thoughts on this question. So you're gonna hear that in this brief episode. Before we dive in, I just want to remind you that Kyra has been our teacher of the month. in August, which means that she's creating customized guided meditations that go with all of our Monday, Wednesday episodes. The idea, as you've often heard me say, is that these meditations help you pound the wisdom from the podcast. into your neurons in an abiding way. Kyra has been creating those meditations. all month. I'm really grateful to her for making all those meditations and I'm very happy to announce that this is really gonna become a permanent park.

of our workflow. We were experimenting with it for the past few months, but now we're really just gonna make it a thing we do. So if you're a paying subscriber, you'll get guided meditations to come with all of our Monday, Wednesday episodes. And that's not all. As you know, or as you may know, I've been doing live guided meditations A couple times a month, once a month, twice a month for the last eleven months or so. And they've been really fun, lots of great attendance and uh lots of great responses. So we're now gonna do'em every week. Starting Tuesday afternoon, September second, at four o'clock Eastern. That'll be our the first of our weekly sits. We're now gonna do them every Tuesday at four o'clock Eastern. And the first one will be with me and Vinny Ferraro, who will be our teacher of the month in September. And so every Tuesday at four o'clock

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