For When You Are Kicking Your Own Ass | Bonus Meditation with Pascal Auclair

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A soothing meditation for moments when stress gets out of control. Take time for self-compassion by accompanying yourself with gentle presence and kind words.

About Pascal Auclair:

Pascal Auclair has been immersed in Buddhist practice and study since 1997, sitting retreats in Asia and America with revered monastics and lay teachers. He has been mentored by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, where he is now enjoying teaching retreats. Pascal teaches in North America and in Europe. He is a co-founder of True North Insight and one of TNI’s Guiding Teachers.

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0:00.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to 10% happier early and ad free right now.
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0:08.0	It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey, hey, happy Friday. Bonus meditation time. If you've listened to this show for any length of time you've probably heard me
0:33.6	yammer on about self-compassion a concept about which I was initially deeply
0:39.0	skeptical but which I have now embraced in a very robust way.
0:44.6	Our meditation teacher Dujour is Pascal O'Claire, who's based in Canada and trained with Joseph
0:49.3	Goldstein at the Insight Meditation Society.
0:51.7	He's a co-founder of True North Insight and he teaches in North
0:54.8	America and Europe. He also has a great voice with a lovely accent. Here we go now
1:00.3	with Pascal O' Clair.
1:05.0	Hey, it's Moi, Pascal. Hello.
1:07.0	It's not easy being a human being.
1:10.0	We are often pushed and pulled by author situations we do not control and inwardly by emotions and thoughts we haven't chosen either.
1:20.0	Not easy.
1:22.0	Self-compassion is a way to develop acceptance around this, a way to accompany ourselves in our difficulties,
1:29.2	our failings, and to stay engaged with the world with tenderness.
1:35.0	Let's explore this caring quality together.
1:40.0	Take a posture that can be somewhat comfortable for you.
1:44.0	Allow yourself to feel the body resting where it is.
1:57.0	Allow it to find ease as its breathing here now. And let your eyes close gently or keep them softly open.
2:07.0	Feel the life in you.
2:12.0	It's manifest. feel the life in you.
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