There's an Off-Switch for Stress. Here's How to Build It | Kelly Boys

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey, hey, how are we doing, everybody? Today we're going to take another run at something that is simultaneously a contemplative cliche and also a deeply desired psychological outcome. getting out of your head and into your body.

So many of us want an escape route from the spinning, looping, fizzing stories in our head. And my guest today has some deeply practical suggestions. Said guest is Kelly Boyes. She's a mindfulness trainer and coach. She has helped design and deliver mindfulness and resilience programs at the UN, Google, and the San Quentin State Prison.

She's also the author of a book called The Blind Spot Effect. Today we're going to talk specifically about a type of meditation that Kelly teaches called Yoga Nidra, which has been shown to help you sleep, improve your working memory, and decrease cravings. I will let Kelly describe the practice, but just to say from the outset, you don't have to actually do the whole practice in order to benefit from what you're about to hear. Kelly does a great job, as you will hear, of extracting the active ingredients of Yoga Nidra in ways that you can integrate into your life immediately. I don't love adding stuff to your to-do list, so we won't.

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