10% Happier with Dan Harris · 2025-10-19 · 26 min · 4,375 words

How Can I Meditate (Or Do Anything Else) When I'm in Pain? | Sebene Selassie

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This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Happy Sunday, everybody. Hope you're having a good weekend. Today, we're going to answer a very common meditation question.

How do I meditate when I'm in physical pain or psychological pain? For better and for worse, Seb and A Selassie has a lot of experience with this. She's gone through four rounds of cancer treatment. She's also gone through a divorce, so she understands both physical and psychological pain. Before we dive in on this, let me just quickly say that Seb is the teacher of the month over on danharris.com.

That means she's producing guided meditations to go along with all of our Monday-Wednesday episodes. She's also doing live meditation and Q<unk>A sessions. As you know, we do these every Tuesday at 4 Eastern. I'll be doing the next one solo, but she'll do the one after that.

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