Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris - Do This When Anxious | Bonus Meditation with Kaira Jewel Lingo

Episode Date: February 25, 2022

Learn to connect with the true home of strength, wisdom, and clarity inside of yourself, a place of safety that no one can take away.About Kaira Jewel Lingo:Kaira Jewel Lingo, was an ordained nun of 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, and is now a lay Dharma teacher based on Long Island. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology and Social Sciences. She’s edited a few books by Thich Nhat Hanh, including Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children.To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, you can search for “Deeply Accepting Yourself,” or click here: https://10percenthappier.app.link/content?meditation=80a32f4a-43bf-4fed-a990-1662eea30848.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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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, gang, it's Friday, bonus meditation time. We're posting an anxiety, busting meditation today, or maybe just to set expectations just a little bit lower here, and anxiety reducing meditation. Our teacher, DuJour, is Kaira Jule Lingo, who's been on this show a couple of times. She was an ordained nun for 15 years in Ticknot Hans order of interbeing. Speaking of Ticknot Hans, he died recently as some of you may know. We're going to be doing a special

episode to talk about his life and his teachings. That's coming up soon. Back though to Kyra Jewellingo, she is now a laydharma teacher based on Long Island in New York. And she's the author of the recent book We We Were Made for These Times, 10 Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss and Disruption. Okay, here we go now with Kaira. Hey, this is Kaira Jule. My teacher, Ticknott Han, sums up his whole lifetime of teachings with one sentence, I have arrived, I am home.

This is one way of speaking about mindfulness or being present, coming home to ourselves. When we bring our mind back to our body, we come home. No matter what happens around you, if you can find this home inside of you, you are always safe. So to begin, I invite you to connect with your present moment experience. Sit, lie, or stand in a comfortable position that supports you to be alert and also relaxed. You are welcome to have your eyes open or closed. between your body and whatever surface is supporting you. Allow yourself to land right here in your body, to occupy as fully as you can the space you are in. Set the intention to stay with yourself, to be present for yourself, to come home to yourself, to tend to rest and simply be.

You are precious and unique. In all the world there is no one else who brings the precise combination of gifts that you bring. Allow yourself to arrive here as fully as you are in this moment. If you notice resistance, doubt, or some habit of pushing away your goodness, welcome that too, and let it be here, meeting it with friendliness. This is so important because we can live much of our lives as estranged from parts of ourselves. Now we have the opportunity to reconcile, to welcome back the parts of ourselves that may have been exiled, that we have ignored or pushed away.

If it's helpful, you can repeat inwardly, I have arrived, I am home, or any other language that works for you. You. Remembering that the address of your true home is right here and now, wherever you are. Allow your eyes to gently open if they were closed. Take a moment to look around you and reconnect with your space. Thanks for your practice. See you next time. Thank you to Kyra. We'll be back here on Monday with a brand new episode. We're going to talk to Bikku Analyo, a renowned scholar monk who's going to lay out what I found to be a very convincing case. A sort of selfish case for engaging seriously and in a sustained way with climate change, even though it's not easy. Hey, hey prime members, you can listen to 10% happier early and ad free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music.

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