Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris - Anxious? Listen to This. | Bonus Meditation with Joseph Goldstein

Episode Date: September 18, 2020

During major life transitions your emotional and mental world can kick into overdrive. Learn how to stay in the eye of the hurricane. In the Ten Percent Happier app, you'll find this same meditation in different lengths to suit your practice. Your subscription directly supports our wonderful teachers and allows them to dedicate their time to teaching the life-changing skill of mindfulness. As an added incentive, we've got a special discount for anyone new to the app.  To claim your discount, visit tenpercent.com/extra New York Insight & Cambridge Insight Meditation Center Benefit Event: https://www.nyimc.org/event/living-the-dharma-in-a-challenging-time/ To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, visit https://10percenthappier.app.link/CalmInBigTransitionsPod About Joseph: Joseph is one of the most respected meditation teachers in the world -- a key architect of the rise of mindfulness in our modern society -- with a sense of humor to boot. In the 1970's, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) alongside Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield. Since its founding, thousands of people from around the world have come to IMS to learn mindfulness from leaders in the field. Joseph has been a teacher there since its founding and continues as the resident guiding teacher. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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things are shifting in ways that are out of our control and scary, one of the natural feelings is anxiety. And so Joseph Goldstein has a meditation specifically designed for working with anxiety. Before we dive in, I just want to say that on Thursday, October 1st, from 7 to 9 Eastern. Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salisberg, and Seven A. Salassi, and I will be doing a live stream event. It's a benefit to support two great meditation organizations, New York Insight Meditation Center,

and Cambridge Insight Meditation Center. For more information and to register, you can go to nymc.org and search for events. We'll put a link in the show notes. Here's Joseph. Hello, this is Joseph. In the midst of big life transitions, it's not unusual for different and sometimes difficult mind states to arise. Maybe states like doubt or uncertainty,

or we may be feeling worried or anxiety or fear. Sometimes it's obsessive planning that takes over the mind in times of these transitions. Mindfulness practice can help us work with these different mind states and emotions and help to keep the mind open and spacious in these transition times. So we'll begin by settling into the awareness of the body, the body breathing, opening to different sensations in the body,

and staying alert and mindful for the feeling of doubt or the feeling of uncertainty Reminding yourself that it's okay not to know. If you begin to experience feelings of worry or anxiety or fear, make them the object of the mindfulness, the object of meditation, where we open to these feelings, even though they're unpleasant, we open to them with mindfulness and with awareness, or worry feels like this. Anxiety feels like this. Can you stay mindful of all these different states? Not getting lost or carried away by them, but simply seeing them as different thoughts and emotions arising and passing away in the open space of mind. The coming mindful of these mind states and emotions helps us be with the many transitions in our lives. It helps us be with them with greater balance, with greater equanimity, with greater ease.

When you're ready, you can open your eyes, connecting again with the world around you and paying attention to all of these various emotions that arise in times of big transitions and realizing that we can practice with them both in our formal meditation and in our daily lives in the world. I look forward to seeing you next time. I really hope you enjoyed that meditation. If you're thinking, you know, I really could have kept that going for another five or ten minutes.

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