Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris - 488: Are You Focusing on the Right Things in Your Life? | Bonus Meditation with La Sarmiento

Episode Date: August 19, 2022

Our busy lives rarely afford us time to reflect on what’s truly important. Remembering what matters most empowers us to engage meaningfully.About La Sarmiento:La Sarmiento is the guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington's BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Sanghas and a mentor for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program and Cloud Sangha. They graduated from Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Community Dharma Leader Training Program in 2012. As an immigrant, non-binary, Filipinx-American, La is committed to expanding access to the Dharma. They live in Towson, MD with their life partner Wendy and rescue pups Annabel and Bader.To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, you can search for “Finding Purpose: What Matters Most?,” or click here: https://10percenthappier.app.link/content?meditation=c83def97-a4b0-420b-b7b2-223636f3546e.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What does it even mean to live a good life? Is it about happiness, purpose, love, health, or wealth? What really matters in the pursuit of a life well lived? These are the questions award-winning author, founder, and interviewer Jonathan Fields asks his guests on the Top Ranked Good Life Project podcast. Every week, Jonathan sits down with world renowned thinkers and doers, people like Glenn and Doyle, Adam Grant,

Young Pueblo, Jonathan Height, and hundreds more. Start listening right now. Look for the Good Life Project on your favorite podcast app. This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey, everybody. Happy Friday. Time for a bonus guided meditation. It is very easy, given the amount of incoming most of us are dealing with from work stuff,

to personal stuff, to, I don't know, keeping up with the news and social media. It is very easy in the face of the daily barrage and onslaught to lose track of what your real priorities are. So, today we have a meditation for priority setting, a meditation for cutting through the noise and focusing on what actually matters. Our teacher, DuJour, is Loss Armiento, who graduated from Spirit Rock's Community Dharma Leader Training Program and is the guiding teacher of the Insight meditation community of Washington's BIPOC and LGBTQIA plus Sangas and who is also just a very fun and intelligent and engaging human being. Here we go now with La Sarmiento.

now with La Cermento. commitments and responsibilities that tend to overwhelm and exhaust us. How much of our days are filled with what is meaningful for us? In this meditation, we will reflect on our current experience of being human and explore how remembering what matters most gives us agency over how we engage with life. Let's begin. Feel free to move or stretch into a posture that your body would most appreciate right now. Take some fuller breaths as you allow your eyes to close or create a soft gaze downwards.

Let your body feel the support of the surface beneath it. It may feel like life is happening to us instead of us remembering that we have choice in how we relate to what is happening. I often ask myself three questions to check in with myself. As you hear each question, take some time to reflect on your experience at this juncture of your life. Do I feel connected or disconnected?

Am I feeling gratified or dissatisfied? Do I feel empowered or disempowered? If you happen to feel disconnected, the satisfied or disempowered, see if it's possible to offer yourself some kindness and compassion. It can be through phrases like, may I be kind and gentle with myself when I am struggling. May I trust that I'm doing the best I can? know that it's okay to have feelings. See if it's possible to connect to or to remember what matters most to you at this time of your life. We'll explore this by asking a few different questions. First, what is it that you most want to experience or express right now?

What is it that you want to pay most attention to? life. Whether you have a clear sense or not of what matters most, appreciate yourself for taking the time to begin this contemplation. You may want to take some time to journal about it if you wish. Now what could be one thing that you could do today that would be an alignment with what matters most to you? Let your eyes open if they've been closed and gently reorient yourself to your space. Take good care of yourself and each other out there. Thank you to La. We'll see you right back here on Monday for a brand new episode. Hey, hey, prime members. You can listen to 10% happier early and ad free on Amazon Music.

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