We Hate Uncertainty. But This Practice Can Make You Hate It Less. | Bonus Meditation with Alexis Santos

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Discomfort with the unknown is a natural human response. This meditation will help you relax as you practice allowing the rhythm of life to unfold.

About Alexis Santos:

Alexis has practiced and taught Insight Meditation in both the East and West since 2001. He has been a long-time student of Sayadaw U Tejaniya (a well respected meditation teacher in Burma whose teachings have attracted a global audience), and his teaching emphasizes knowing the mind through a natural and relaxed continuity -- a style of practice that's particularly useful during our crazy lives. Alexis has completed the Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training, teaches retreats across the globe, and currently lives in Portland, Maine.

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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.
0:13.9	It's the 10% Happier podcast.
0:16.4	I'm Dan Harris.
0:28.4	Thank you. I'm Dan Harris. Happy Friday, everybody, time for a bonus meditation.
0:31.0	Today we're talking about one of the least comfortable states of mind on offer.
0:35.2	I'm talking about uncertainty.
0:40.3	Our meditation teacher, du jour, is Alexis Santos, who was a guest on offer. I'm talking about uncertainty. Our meditation teacher du jour is Alexis Santos,
0:45.2	who was a guest on this podcast earlier this week. You can check the podcast feed for that episode.
0:49.3	We'll put a link in the show notes. A little bit about Alexis. He has practiced and taught insight meditation in both the East and West since 2001. He has completed the Spirit Rock IMS teacher training, and he teaches retreats all over the globe,
0:58.6	and he currently lives in the great state of Maine.
1:02.2	Here we go now with Alexis Santos.
1:05.9	Hi, this is Alexis.
1:09.1	There's an old saying,
1:10.3	You can't stop the waves from coming, but you can learn to surf. This is Alexis. There's an old saying,
1:12.9	you can't stop the waves from coming,
1:15.0	but you can learn to surf.
1:18.2	Life just keeps happening.
1:21.6	As we grow in awareness and wisdom,
1:25.3	we can see that a greater ease and freedom can come not from resisting circumstances, but from relaxing
1:30.5	this tendency and allowing the rhythm of life to unfold.
1:35.8	As we learn to trust ourselves, we can find ease in the midst of uncertainty.
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