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A 10% Happier How-to Book
Spiegel & Grau
January 2018
On Sale: December 26, 2017
304 pages ISBN: 0399588949 EAN: 9780399588945 Kindle: B06Y58KF6P Hardcover / e-Book
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ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play Ultimate Frisbee, and use the word βnamasteβ 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 meditationβs most vocal public proponents. Hereβs what heβs 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 arenβt actually practicing. Whatβs holding them back? In Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, Harris and his friend Jeff Warren, a masterful teacher and βMeditation MacGyver,β 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 (whose previous occupants were Parliament Funkadelic) and travel across eighteen states, talking to scores of would-be meditatorsβincluding parents, military cadets, police officers, and even a few celebrities. They create a taxonomy of the most common issues (βI suck at this,β βI donβt have the time,β 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. Youβll also get access to the 10% Happier app, where you can listen for free to guided audio versions of all the meditations in the book. 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 Americaβs neurotic underbelly, as well as their own.
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