Buddhist Strategies for Protecting Yourself from Everyday Chaos | Bart van Melik

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey gang, today a conversation about how to be less reactive, how to handle it when You work a lot on your reactivity and uh you still lose your shit. How to say no without being a jerk, how to set boundaries, and much more.

Bart Van Melek has been on this show before. He's uh a fantastic meditation and Dharma teacher in the insight tradition. He has studied very closely with Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg and many other legendary teachers. Bart is also the teacher of the month on our new app, which is called 10% with Dan Harris, which means Bart will be crafting a whole set of fresh guided meditations for you and participating in some of our live meditation and Q<unk>A sessions, which we do every Tuesday at 4 Eastern.

Speaking of the app, if you want to sign up for the app, you can do so at danharis.com. There's a free 30-day trial if you want to try before you buy. Okay, we'll get started with Bart Van Melek in conversation with the executive producer of this show, DJ Kashmir, right after this. Most of us can remember being about fifteen and feeling completely invisible, or worse, uh extremely visible, but for the wrong reasons. I remember one year when I was a teenager I had a a pimple in the crevice of my nose for the entire year.

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