The Simplest Meditation | Bonus Meditation with Jeff Warren

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Explore letting your body's most natural habit take over, and enjoy the benefits this brings to any moment.

About Jeff Warren:

Jeff makes meditation and practice accessible to diverse audiences in order to help people live more fulfilled and connected lives. He’s taught meditation to suspicious journalists, US Army cadets, burned-out caregivers, Arizona cops, formerly-incarcerated youth, virtuoso popstars, distractible teens, and every other conceivable demographic of freethinker, including squirmy six-year old kids. He tries to do this in a way that’s rigorous and clear and adventurous. You can find out more about him at jeffwarren.org.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to 10% happier early and ad-free right now.
0:04.7	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:13.5	It's the 10% Happier podcast.
0:15.8	I'm Dan Harris. Happy Sunday and happy Sunday and happy New Year everybody.
0:29.4	It's time for a bonus meditation.
0:30.7	We're going to take it back to basics today with a very simple meditation for my friend Jeff Warren,
0:35.1	who's going to encourage you to drop any storyline or big idea you have about meditation and just sit there.
0:43.2	A little bit more about Jeff before we get started.
0:45.5	He has taught meditation to suspicious journalists, U.S. Army cadets, burned out caregivers,
0:51.3	Arizona cops, formerly incarcerated youth, virtuoso pop stars, distractible teens,
0:56.2	and every other conceivable demographic. He tries to do this in a way that's both rigorous
1:01.0	and clear and adventurous, and you can find out more about him at jeff warren.org.
1:06.2	Here we go now with Jeff Warren.
1:10.5	Hey, this is Jeff.
1:12.8	The research shows that habits work best when you do them for their own sake, not because
1:18.0	you're expecting some big in-the-moment reward.
1:21.8	If we're all about immediate rewards, then as soon as those rewards don't happen,
1:26.7	you'd bail.
1:29.7	This is extremely relevant with meditation. We meditate because in the long run, it makes our lives better.
1:36.1	Sometimes it feels easy and good. Sometimes it doesn't. The mature practitioner knows that
1:42.6	ups and downs are a natural part of the practice.
1:45.8	It becomes a true habit when we sit no matter what.
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