When Your Mind Won't Stop, Try This | Vinny Ferraro

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody, how we doing? Today it's a brief, funny and very useful conversation with the Dharma teacher Vinny Ferraro, who's a fan favorite and a favorite of mine.

We talk about how to handle stress with curiosity instead of judgment, whether it's possible or wise to cultivate compassion for people who've done real harm in the world, how to meditate when you can't sit still, how to meditate without striving or overthinking, and the surprising power of meditating with other people, even online. What you're about to hear is a recording of one of our weekly live sessions that we do over on danharris.com. These sessions are for our paying subscribers, but we're dropping this one for free. As you'll hear, it starts with a quick guided meditation called a soft belly practice, which is great for calming your nervous system. And then we take your questions.

So if you don't want to meditate right now, you can just fast forward through that. If you do want to meditate. Do that and then you can listen to the questions. Dealer's choice. By the way, if you want to come to our weekly live meditation and Q<unk>A sessions, you can sign up over at danharris.com.

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