Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris Wondery

This episode comes out for free on June 9, and is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers.

Mindful movement is an excellent way to integrate and even invigorate mindfulness while cultivating the power of curious awareness.

About Dawn Mauricio:

Dawn Mauricio discovered the practices of Buddhist meditation in 2005, and from then on, did what any well-intentioned perfectionist would do — plunge in head first! Since then, she's graduated from several teaching programs, including Spirit Rock's four-year Teacher Training. Her teaching style is playful, dynamic, and heartfelt, and she teaches extensively in her home-country of Canada, as well as the US, to teens, people of color, and folks of all backgrounds.

To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, you can search for “Gentle Mindful Movement.”

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This episode comes out for free on June 7th, and is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers.

It’s hard to be a human. No matter how good things are for you, being alive is still hard. Whatever your life circumstances are, we’re all subject to impermanence and entropy.

This episode dives into a five-part Buddhist list for being stronger in the face of whatever life throws at you.

Sister Dang Nghiem, who goes by Sister D, is a nun in the Plum Village tradition and a disciple of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She was born in Vietnam during the war, and is the daughter of a Vietnamese mother and an American soldier. Sister D experienced an unfathomable amount of loss before relocating to the US, where she became a doctor and later, after experiencing more loss, became a nun. She’s written several books and her most recent is Flowers in the Dark.

In this conversation, Sister D shares her story, and then walks us through The Five Strengths of Applied Zen Buddhism which include trust, diligence, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.

Content Warning: This episode covers difficult topics including death, mental illness, and sexual abuse.


Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/sister-dang-nghiem-403-rerun

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This episode comes out for free on June 5th, and is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers.
So many of us suffer over the issue of time management.
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Our guest today approaches the topic from research and personal experience and dives into how we can think more strategically about our time and aspire to build resilient schedules, rather than perfect ones.

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books. Her latest is Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company. Laura’s TED Talk on “How to Gain Control of Your Free Time” has been viewed more than 12 million times, and she also hosts the podcast Before Breakfast. Her previous books include Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think.

In this episode we talk about:

- Why time is the great leveler
- Why time management strategies aren’t only for people lucky enough to set their own schedules
- Why Laura’s number one rule in her book is to “give yourself a bedtime”
- Why she is a big believer that that weekends and evenings do not have to be work free zones
- How to use exercise as a reset button during your day
- Why creating a habit doesn’t have to mean doing it everyday
- The time management rule that Laura gets the biggest pushback on
- And the rule Laura says all the other rules are jealous of

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/laura-vanderkam-606

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Be like a robot and try this light-hearted noting practice. Give your anxiety a break by immersing yourself fully in your external senses.

We’re going to bring you a bonus episode from a podcast we love called Meditative Story. We’re going to share my episode of Meditative Story with you, where I tell a personal story about a father-son trip that I went on with my son, Alexander, when he was four years old. And how this trip really changed our relationship.

Luana also covers: How to be comfortably uncomfortable, why being bold isn't the same as being fearless, and the #1 buffer against any mental health issue.