A Meditation for Emotional Agility | Bonus Meditation with Sharon Salzberg

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Bring an open minded curiosity to your big emotions and get to know yourself more fully, developing resilience to deal with all the feels.

About Sharon Salzberg:

Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is among the first to bring mindfulness & lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture fifty years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers.

A co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, Sharon is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindess.

To find this meditation in the Happier Meditation app, you can search for “Being With Big Emotions.”

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1:20.9	Happy weekend, everybody, time for a bonus meditation.
1:25.6	It can be really easy to let your emotions run away with you, especially when you're having big feelings about something. But
1:28.2	meditation can help us do what we think we can't do, which is to sit with what we might consider
1:35.0	unbearable and to watch that emotion come and go. It's incredibly powerful. Our meditation teacher
1:42.0	Dujure is the great Sharon Salzberg, one of the pioneers of
1:44.9	Buddhist meditation in the West. She's the author of a number of great books, including loving
1:49.4	kindness and real love. Here we go now with Sharon Salzberg. Hi, this is Sharon. Whatever
1:57.8	emotion we are experiencing, our key effort is to have an open-minded, open-hearted awareness of our experience in the moment, without being lost in judgments, preconceptions, or immediate reactions.
2:17.3	Sit or lie down on the floor in a relaxed, comfortable posture.
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