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Name: Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
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Author: Dan Harris, Jeff Warren and Carlye Adler

Dan Harris, Jeff Warren and Carlye Adler

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Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris, Jeff Warren and Carlye Adler provides accessible strategies for skeptics to integrate meditation into their lives and reap the benefits of its practice.

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What’s in it for me? Learn from a skeptic that there are some very real benefits to meditation.

Over the past decade or so, meditation has ceased being a practice strictly for monks and hippies. Today, it’s an almost mainstream activity. More and more doctors and psychiatrists are recommending it for their patients, and even movie stars, singers and celebrities have started recommending their favorite meditation apps.

But maybe you’re still skeptical, or maybe you think you’re too much of an impatient worrier for meditation to work for you. Well, that’s pretty much what author Dan Harris thought, too. He felt certain that he was too fidgety for meditation, but now he’s here to tell you that such excuses are total nonsense.

With a little time and practice, anyone can appreciate the benefits of meditation. And the benefits extend far beyond just easing your stress levels; they include helping your immune system as well as your ability to focus on day-to-day work. The truth is, meditation is easy to get into. All it takes is stopping every once in a while to take ten deep breaths, and you’ll be on your way toward forming a lifelong habit of self-improvement.

In these blinks, you’ll discover

how an on-air meltdown can be an important wake-up call;
which US congressman is spreading the joy of mindfulness; and
the difference between the RAIN and STOP meditations.

Everyday life can be stressful, and the scientifically proven remedy is meditation.

There are still a lot of fast-paced, city-dwelling professionals who think that meditation is a lot of new age nonsense. The author, Dan Harris, understands this feeling rather well since, not long ago, he was one of those people. If someone had told him in his twenties that one day he’d be promoting the benefits of meditation, he’d have laughed so hard that beer would have shot out his nose.

But life is full of unexpected twists and turns, some of which can be brought on by times of extreme stress.

For Harris, a big change came in 2004, when he was working as an anchorman for ABC News. While live on air, with an audience of five million viewers, the author suddenly began to stutter and slur his words – he was in the grip of a panic attack.

Like most panic attacks, however, this incident wasn’t an isolated event. In Harris’s case, it was the result of years spent reporting from war zones, the horrors of which had led him to sink into a state of depression. Yet, being the busy man he was, he’d failed to recognize or appreciate the symptoms he’d been experiencing.

These included trouble getting out of bed in the morning and a feverish feeling that never fully went away. After a brief attempt at self-medicating with cocaine and ecstasy, the on-air meltdown was Harris’s personal rock bottom.

But this turned out to be a good thing. It was the wake-up call Harris needed to make some much-needed changes in his life. And it’s what led to him discovering the benefits of meditation.

Like a lot of people, Harris was what you’d call a “fidgety skeptic” about meditation. But after doing some research, he was surprised to find a wealth of solid, scientific evidence showing the practice to be a proven stress reducer. It’s benefits included lowering blood pressure and helping people recover from anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Harris also found legitimate data indicating that meditation both strengthens the immune system and rewires the neurons in the brain to improve attributes like self-awareness, endurance and compassion.

Meditation is about finding inner peace by focusing on a sensation that works for you.

No matter what kind of meditation you’re doing, the first step is always the same: getting yourself comfortable.

So take a moment to get yourself situated in your favorite chair and take a few deep breaths as you straighten out your spine and your posture.

Get started with short meditations, which can easily lead to longer ones.

One of the most common concerns Dan Harris hears about meditation is the amount of time it requires. Many people are under the impression that there’s just no way they’ll be able to find time to meditate in their hectically busy schedule.

But contrary to what you may think, forming a daily meditation practice doesn’t have to require more than a couple minutes here and there. In fact, just 60 seconds can be enough to get your practice started.

It’s been an uphill battle to get mainstream acceptance, but meditation has a lot going for it.

Have you avoided meditating because you were worried about what your friends might think? This is another common concern the author has encountered. But here’s the truth: meditation has become far more popular than you may know.

It’s been a long, uphill fight to turn meditation into a mainstream practice in the United States, but, in recent years, attitudes have finally begun changing.

Meditation is a great way to let yourself be lazy and connect with a companion.

If someone recommended a two-hour meditation, your first thought might be to politely say, thanks, but no thanks. But, as the saying goes, “don’t knock it until you’ve tried it” – because this could very well be your new favorite exercise.

Basically, a two-hour meditation is your free pass to live a life of leisure for a while.

Meditation provides you with the tools to deal with your emotions.

When you feel unwanted emotions, do you run away from them, bottle them up or try to pretend they don’t exist?

Well, part of what makes meditation so valuable is that it gives you the tools to stop running and face your messy emotions.

If you have a high-pressure job, the S.U.R.F. meditation tool can improve your performance.

Lots of people have stressful jobs, but, for some of us, a bad day can be a matter of life or death. For doctors, police officers and firefighters, a standard workday has far more pressure than meeting a deadline or delivering a presentation.

One of the best ways to cope with high-pressure jobs is to meditate, which is why Sylvia Moir, the chief of police in El Cerrito, California, has introduced a regular meditation practice for the officers in her team.

Stay attuned to the benefits of meditation and work toward the goal of focusing on nothing.

If you start meditating today, you’ll probably think: this is great, I have a new practice that is going to improve my life! But the challenge is keeping it up and staying consistent, even when you catch a cold or go on vacation. Because once you miss a day or two, it’s easy to miss another and, before you know it, it’s slipped away completely.

This is why it’s of the utmost importance to stay focused on the benefits.

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Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics (2017) is a down-to-earth beginner’s guide to meditation – especially for those skeptics among us who think that meditation is a lot of new age hooey. Dan Harris presents readers with a firsthand account of how even people with restless minds and no time to spare can start experiencing the scientifically proven benefits of meditation.

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I think in the future, mental exercise will be considered as important and mainstream as physical exercise.

—Dan Harris, Jeff Warren and Carlye Adler

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Professionals seeking serenity
Anyone pursuing happiness
Amateur meditators

Über den Autor

Dan Harris, a frequent contributor to Nightline and 20/20, is a longtime correspondent for ABC News, as well as the co-host for Good Morning America’s weekend edition. Based in New York City, he’s traveled the world to report from areas as diverse as Cambodia, Afghanistan and Haiti. He’s also the creator of the 10% Happier podcast and app, both of which strive to bring the benefits of meditation to busy urban professionals.

Jeff Warren is a writer and teacher who’s been called the “Meditation MacGyver.” He’s also the founder of Toronto’s Consciousness Explorers Club, a vibrant meeting place for adventurous meditators.

Carlye Adler is a journalist whose work has appeared in BusinessWeek, Forbes, Newsweek and Wired, just to mention a few. She’s also the co-author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller, Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship.

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