
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
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Narrated by:
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Dan Harris
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Jeffrey Warren
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By:
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Dan Harris
About this listen
ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play Ultimate Frisbee, and use the word ""namaste"" without irony. After he had a panic attack on live television, he went on a strange and circuitous journey that ultimately led him to become one of meditation's most vocal public proponents.
Here's what he's fixated on now: Science suggests that meditation can lower blood pressure, mitigate depression and anxiety, and literally rewire key parts of the brain, among numerous other benefits. And yet there are millions of people who want to meditate but aren't actually practising. What's holding them back?
In this guide to mindfulness and meditation for beginners and experienced meditators alike, Harris and his friend Jeff Warren, embark on a cross-country quest to tackle the myths, misconceptions, and self-deceptions that stop people from meditating. They rent a rock-star tour bus and travel across eighteen states, talking to scores of would-be meditators, including parents, police officers, and even a few celebrities. They create a taxonomy of the most common issues (""I suck at this,"" ""I don't have the time,"" etc.) and offer up science-based life hacks to help people overcome them.
The book is filled with game-changing and deeply practical meditation instructions. Amid it all unspools the strange and hilarious story of what happens when a congenitally sarcastic, type-A journalist and a groovy Canadian mystic embark on an epic road trip into America's neurotic underbelly, as well as their own.
©2018 Dan Harris (P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton LimitedCritic Reviews
"Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics is well researched, practical and crammed with expert advice and it's also an irreverent, hilarious page-turner." (Gretchen Rubin, author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project)
How to fidgit mindfully
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A great listen
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Well Worth Listening x10
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Life changing
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Excellent
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Great for all interested in meditation
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I took one or two things away from it, and did finish the book, but more because I was waiting for it to improve then anything else.
Alright but not as good as 10% happier
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They share all in such an honest way, it shows we all can do this instead of beating ourselves up as failures.
After 45 yrs of attempting meditation, I finally understand it and how accessible it is for all. By the end of the book, it had become a regular part of my day.
Very grateful!!!
Well written and entertaining presentation. i will be listening to this book several times.
Virginia🙃🙂
Meditation for ordinary people
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Interesting but...
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The material is good though, get the book, not the audio book.
Way too excited, never let's up
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