Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book

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Overview

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller 10% Happier—this book will get you to meditate! With the same humor, candor, and practical advice that made him one of the freshest, most inspiring voices to come along in years, ABC News anchor Dan Harris now debunks all the myths, misconceptions, and self-deceptions that keep you from meditating so you’ll quit procrastinating and get your butt on the cushion.
 
Interested in meditation, but allergic to woo-woo? Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who drank kombucha, played ultimate frisbee, listened to Enya, and used the word “namaste” without irony. Then he had a full-blown panic attack on live television (five million views on YouTube!) and on his way to sanity, discovered meditation for himself and became a convert. His memoir about this experience, 10% Happier, became a #1 bestseller and made readers (fidgety skeptics like himself) curious about meditating. But then . . . in his travels, Dan encountered a lot of people who said they wanted to meditate, but couldn’t quiet their mind, didn’t have time, felt weird and culty doing it, etc. So he set out on a cross-country trek with Jeffrey Warren, a master meditation teacher (a “Meditation MacGyver”), to get to the root of the problem. The result is a book that, with irony and insight, confronts and dismantles all the reasons you’re not meditating—and provides a range of meditation practices that meet you where you are in your life and offer you the chance to become 10% happier, for real.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780399588945
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/26/2017
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 659,271
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

DAN HARRIS is the co-anchor of Nightline and the weekend editions of Good Morning America. He regularly reports for 20/20, World News with David Muir, and the weekday editions of Good Morning America. He is the bestselling author of 10% Happier.

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Table of Contents

How to Use This Book xi

1 The Case for Meditation 3

2 "I Can't Do This" 28

Concentration 101 38

Catching Thinking in the Act 48

3 "I Don't Have Time for This" 63

Ten Good Breaths 79

Free-Range Meditations 82

Enjoying the Body 95

4 "People Might Think I'm Weird" 102

Investigating Patterns 118

5 "Meditation Is Self-Indulgent" 135

Giving a Shit About Yourself Meditation 142

Taking Back Lazy 150

Smart Compassion 161

6 Pandora's Box 166

Rain 170

Welcome to the Party 184

7 "If I Get Too Happy, I'll Lose My Edge" 188

Surf the Urge 200

Training the Mind 208

8 "_____ Is My Meditation" 213

Walking Meditation 226

9 "I Can't Keep It Going" 230

Do Nothing Meditation 252

Epilogue 255

Appendix: Resources to Help You Keep Meditating 273

Acknowledgments 279

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