#791: How to Feel at Peace Amidst High Stress — Guided Meditation with Zen Master Henry Shukman

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This episode is part of a new experiment called Meditation Monday. The teacher, Henry Shukman, has been on my podcast twice before. He is one of only a few dozen masters in the world authorized to teach Sanbo Zen, and now, he’ll be your teacher.

In addition to my long-form interviews each week, every Monday I’ll bring you a short 10-minute or so meditation, which will help you for the rest of the week.

Over this four-episode series, you’ll develop a Zen toolkit to help you find greater calm, peace, and effectiveness in your daily life.

Henry’s app, The Way, has changed my life since I first started using it. Unlike other meditation apps, where you’re overwhelmed with a thousand choices, The Way is a clear step-by-step training program guided entirely by Henry. Through a logical progression, you’ll develop real skills that stick with you.

I’ve been using it daily, often twice a day, and it’s lowered my anxiety more than I thought possible.

As a listener of my podcast, you can get 30 free sessions by visiting https://thewayapp.com/tim and downloading the app.

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0:00.0	Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show.
0:05.2	This episode is a brand new experiment called Meditation Monday. That means, in addition to my long-form
0:10.7	interviews each week, every Monday, I will be bringing you a short 10-minute or so meditation,
0:15.9	which will help you for the rest of the week. Over this four-episode series, you'll develop a Zen toolkit,
0:21.5	specifically to help you find greater calm, peace, and effectiveness in your daily life.
0:26.3	The teacher, Henry Shookman, has been on my podcast twice before. He is one of only a few
0:30.9	dozen masters in the world authorized to teach what is called Sambo Zen, and I have found
0:35.7	this particularly interesting and effective. And now he'll
0:37.9	be your teacher. I've been using Henry's app, The Way, once, often twice a day for the last
0:45.2	few months. And it has lowered my anxiety more than I thought possible. As a listener of the show,
0:50.1	you yourself can get 30 free sessions by visiting theway app.com slash Tim.
0:55.4	So if you like what you hear in these meditations, which will be valuable in and of themselves,
0:59.4	you can get 30 free sessions by going to thewayap.com slash Tim.
1:03.5	And for the time being, please enjoy this Meditation Monday with Henry Shookman.
1:10.7	Welcome back to Meditation Monday with me, Henry Shookman. Welcome back to Meditation Monday with me, Henry Shookman. Thank you for joining.
1:16.7	So I've already said that meditation can be an extraordinary journey of discovery.
1:22.7	I believe that its deepest purpose is to reveal aspects of who we are and what our true relationship to the world
1:31.3	really is, which can kind of blow our minds when we, when we taste them. And of course, meditation is not the only way of finding out that kind of stuff, but it's an incredible way of grounding it into our lives and integrating it into the way we actually live.
1:46.0	However, the vast majority of us, myself included, come to meditation, not for those reasons,
1:53.6	but to handle stress. We may not even realize we've got stress. We're just kind of miserable.
2:00.0	I was in that category in my early to mid-20're just kind of miserable. I was in that category in my
2:01.8	early to mid-20s when I started meditating. I was just really unhappy and had a good friend who
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