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10% Happier with Dan Harris

A Meditation For Counteracting The Negativity Bias | Bonus Meditation with Jay Michaelson

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

How not to take sh*t for granted.

About Jay Michaelson:

Jay Michaelson is a writer & journalist, rabbi & meditation teacher, keynote speaker, and scholar of religion. Jay is the author of ten books, most recently The Secret That Is Not A Secret: Ten Heretical Tales. He holds a JD from Yale, a PhD in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University, and nondenominational rabbinic ordination.

To find this meditation in the Happier Meditation app, you can search for “Delighting in Pleasure.”

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

Join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.

0:13.5

It's the 10% Happier podcast.

0:16.3

I'm Dan Harris.

0:28.7

Hey, hey, happy Friday.

0:30.1

It's bonus meditation time.

0:32.6

We are squarely in the middle of the holidays right now.

0:35.7

And I know there are many stressors and many pleasures.

0:40.9

So today we're going to focus on the delights in our meditation teacher du jour is Jay Michelson.

0:45.8

He's going to guide us through a practice that will help us pay attention to the good things.

0:48.1

A little bit more about Jay before we get started.

0:50.9

He's a rabbi, an attorney, a writer, a Dharma teacher.

0:52.0

Basically, he does it all.

0:57.2

And his most recent book is a book of fiction called The Secret That Is Not a Secret.

1:00.1

Here we go now with Jay Michelson.

1:02.9

Hi, this is Jay.

1:07.9

This guided meditation is about savoring the pleasures of life.

1:11.7

I know a lot of the meditations in the app are about working with the difficult stuff,

1:14.1

and for good reason.

1:15.6

That's where some of the biggest benefits of meditation reside.

1:19.1

But life is also filled with delicious, delightful stuff,

1:23.0

and this meditation will use the practice of mindfulness

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