Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
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Dan Harris
Jeffrey Warren
Carlye Adler
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF 10% HAPPIERToo busy to meditate? Can’t turn off your brain? Curious about mindfulness but more comfortable in the gym? This book is for you. You’ll also get access to guided audio meditations on the 10% Happier app, to jumpstart your practice from day one.What exactly is meditation? 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. Harris found that meditation made him more focused and less yanked around by his emotions. According to his wife, it also made him less annoying. Science suggests that the practice can lower your blood pressure, mitigate depression and anxiety, and literally rewire key parts of the brain. So what’s holding you back?In Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, Harris and Jeff Warren, a masterful teacher and “Meditation MacGyver,” embark on a gonzo cross-country quest to tackle the myths, misconceptions, and self-deceptions that keep people from meditating. It is filled with game-changing and deeply practical meditation instructions—all of which are also available (for free) on the 10% Happier app. This book is a trip worth taking.Praise for Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics “If you’re intrigued by meditation but don’t know how to begin—or you’ve benefited from meditation in the past but need help to get started again—Dan Harris has written the book for you. Well researched, practical, and crammed with expert advice, it’s also an irreverent, hilarious page-turner.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project “The ABC News anchor, a ‘defender of worrying’ who once had an anxiety attack on air, offers a hilarious and stirring account of his two-steps-forward-one-step-back campaign to sort ‘useless rumination’ from ‘constructive anguish’ via mindfulness, along with invaluable suggestions for following in his footsteps.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
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Author
Dan Harris
Pages
304
Publisher
Harmony/Rodale/Convergent
Published Date
2018-12-31
ISBN
0399588965 9780399588969
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"I enjoyed the audiobook version of this but admittedly, even though the author/narrator (Dan Harris) was not entirely boring to listen to, I got a bit bored of the stories that revolves around the central point of the book. He trailed off a bit with the experiences and I’d get lost. However, there was a co-narrator (Jeffrey Warren), that was peppered in to instruct on various methods of meditation and how to properly integrate it into your life. He was actually more interesting to listen to. "
Pam Joseph
"If you are a fidgety skeptic but still curious about meditation, this book is a GREAT place to start. Very helpful if you are a person who says: "I can't meditate" or "I am doing it wrong". This book tells you what "meditation" actually means; simply taking a few minutes to try to let your thoughts go and when your mind starts to wander (which it always does within seconds) the act of re-directing your thoughts back to nothingness again, is the meditation, re-directing again & again for a min."
Duck-Duck is My Dog
"I think this book is a perfect intro to the world of mindfulness meditation. I tried to read a couple other books before this on the topic, but found that they were either to incomprehensible or I wasn't able to relate to them. This book lays out the basics of it all and explains how it all fits together. It also recommends a lot of other books to continue learning more."
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Steven Brown
"The Head Trip by Jeff Warren is one I recently finished that I really loved. "
Stephen Dockens
"I felt like a lot of the meditations were exactly the same. Maybe that was the point but I just didn't get it. A lot of them were the exact same length and consisted of the exact same process. I wanted to learn more about meditating that I felt the book offered. It was more, I tried the following meditations with my celebrity friends and they worked for me or them. I just was looking for more."
Becca Bachlott
