#793: How to Calm Your Inner Storm — A Guided Meditation to Tame Restlessness with Zen Master Henry Shukman

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 14 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. So if you like what you
0:56.0	hear in these meditations, which will be valuable in and of themselves, you can get 30 free
1:00.3	sessions by going to thewayap.com slash Tim. And for the time being, please enjoy this meditation
1:06.0	Monday with Henry Shookman. Welcome back to Meditation Monday.
1:13.9	Many of us, of course, have difficult emotions at times, and meditation might seem to
1:22.7	exacerbate them sometimes, because we're, as it were, more exposed to them.
1:27.1	We haven't got distractions, other things we can turn to.
1:30.5	We're just sitting still and doing nothing.
1:32.9	So if a difficult emotion comes up, there's kind of nowhere to hide.
1:37.2	Now, in early Buddhism, these kinds of emotions, things like worry, regret, frustration, craving, aversion or dislike,
1:49.3	strong dislike, were viewed actually as hindrances to meditation, that they would make us
1:57.3	not want to meditate. They'd make it harder to meditate. And I think it's quite a
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