Surviving the News: Buddhist Strategies for Staying Sane, Engaged, and Not Completely Furious | Pascal Auclair

Hey everybody, welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. We're about a month out now from the uh midterms to the midterm elections here in the US and uh lot of us are uh feeling pretty stressed and anxious. So today we're gonna talk about how to stay engaged without losing your mind. We're gonna be talking about this with the great Buddhist meditation teacher, Pascal O'Clair. Uh who is one of the teachers over on my meditation app, ten percent with Dan Harris.

And what you're about to hear is me asking Pascal questions. but also uh feeding him some questions that we got from subscribers to the ten percent with Dan Harris. Up. Including a question about karma and whether the bad guys Will ever get theirs.

Pascal's very funny and he has a way of talking that Just relaxes your nervous system. And speaking of relaxing your nervous system, we here at Ten Percent Happier are gonna have your back through this election. Season. Uh, Sharon Salzburg, the great meditation teacher, will be appearing on the podcast closer to election day.

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