Dan Harris

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics

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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir 10% Happier, this book will get you to meditate. Minus the pan flutes.

«If you're like many people, you're intrigued by the promise of meditation but don't know how to begin—or you've benefited from meditation in the past but need help to get started again. If so, Dan Harris has written the book for you.»—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project
ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play Ultimate Frisbee, and use the word “namaste” without irony. After he had a panic attack on live television, he went on a strange and circuitous journey that ultimately led him to become one of meditation's most vocal public proponents.
Here's what he's fixated on now: Science suggests that meditation can lower blood pressure, mitigate depression and anxiety, and…
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  • qashtanqahas quoted5 years ago
    “If I had one thing on my agenda,” says Jeff, “it would be to make people feel better about the fact that everyone’s got their own neurotic stuff. Also, I don’t require anyone to join my cult, although I do encourage it.”
  • qashtanqahas quoted5 years ago
    Mindfulness is the ability to see what’s happening in your head at any given moment, so that you don’t get carried away by it.
  • qashtanqahas quoted5 years ago
    There’s no buffer between the stimulus and your reflexive reaction.
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