Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris - Rewire Your Relationship To Your Body | Bonus Meditation with Anushka Fernandopulle

Episode Date: December 3, 2021

Gratitude practices are transformative. Experiment with gratitude for your own body, noticing the relaxation and ease that results.About Anushka Fernandopulle:Anushka teaches meditation, works as an organizational consultant, and does leadership coaching with individuals and teams. She has practiced meditation for over 25 years, including four years in full-time intensive training in monasteries and retreat centers in the US, India and Sri Lanka. Her work is informed by a BA in anthropology/religion from Harvard University, an MBA from Yale focused on leadership and organizational behavior, and certification in coaching from the Coaches Training Institute.To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, you can search for “Grateful For Your Body,” or click here: https://10percenthappier.app.link/content?meditation=de800c6b-56cc-4e97-ad22-a3b68e74086f.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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As the week has progressed, you may have noticed we've gotten increasingly practical about how to deal with this issue, and that practicality trend culminates in today's bonus meditation. Instead of scanning your body all the time for imperfections, we're gonna teach you how to scan with some degree of gratitude. Just to say, if you're like me and have a resistance to anything that might feel forced or maybe a little gooey, I will give you the advice that I wish somebody

had given to me many years ago, which is to get over yourself. The science very strongly suggests that techniques like the one you're about to learn actually do work, or in the words of one meditation teacher. If you can't be cheesy, you can't be free. Our teacher today is Anushka Fernandipoli. She works as an organizational consultant and leadership coach. She's practiced meditation for more than 25 years, including four years in full-time intensive training in monasteries and retreat centers in the US, India, and Sri Lanka. And I do want to say that although

we're wrapping up the anti-diet series here on the podcast this week, there's a lot happening over on the 10% happier app. The anti-diet challenge featuring the intuitive eating expert, Christy Harrison, kicks off on Monday, December 6th. You may have heard me mention this before, but the approach that Christy teaches in the challenge has made a huge difference in my life. To join the challenge, just download the 10% happier app wherever you get your apps or go to 10%.com. That's 10% all one word spelled out. If you already have the app, just open it up and follow the instructions to join. If you're not already a 10% happier subscriber, you can join us by starting a free trial that

will give you access to the challenge along with everything else on the app. Okay, over now to Anushka. Hi, this is Anushka. Today we're going to practice gratitude towards our own body. So, we'll take some time to appreciate this body and the things that are working that we might take for granted. Often, we overlook how things are going, and only focus or obsess over those things that are problems.

So take a moment first to just notice the body. As we're sitting or lying here, settle into a comfortable posture, you can keep your eyes open or closed. You can feel the whole body. And just take a moment to appreciate our aliveness. It's something we might take for granted, but that's not a given. You can take a moment to bring the attention to the head, to the face. that work. Whether it's sight or smell or taste or hearing, thinking,, you can feel gratitude. You can shift the attention to the torso. So many aspects of the body, the lungs breathing, the heart pumping, stomach digesting. All of this happening without our intentional effort. You can have gratitude for the body and the legs, so the limbs that move that help us to reach things to walk around.

Including our hands, our feet. So just having gratitude with our ability to do what we can do, feeling the body as a whole again. Again, feel grateful for our aliveness, sense of mystery for how all this works. Get all gratitude for the body. When you're ready, you can open your eyes. Reconnect to the space around you if your eyes were closed. You can continue with your day from the space of gratitude. So, thank you. Until the next time. Thank you, Anushka. And we'll be back here on Monday for a brand new episode about one very powerful aid

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