10% Happier with Dan Harris

and she in her book Emotional Alchemy which Rumpichet listened to list like the top 10 such repetitive thoughts like fear of abandonment or relationship or sense of emotional deprivation.

She's written several books including Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory.

And she's written and edited a whole stack of books with titles like Mortals, How the Fear of Death shaped human society.

And Curing the Dread of Death.

She's got a new book called Brighter by the Day in which she talks about how she has honed her optimism chops, and how you can too.

I'm just saying at the end of my book Brighter by the Day we're all stronger than we think we know we all have that optimism in us there's always something deep down that we don't realize and so to try and bring that out in people and let them know that yes you do have that and it's challenging at times because as you said what do you say a dumpster fire or something that's going on

I want to go through some of the concepts in your book you talk early on into book about happiness versus joy and I'm sitting across from somebody who has a book 10% happier has a franchise 10% happier but I'm going to talk about joy versus happiness

I put some meat on the bones I try and give people examples you know dreaming big and focusing small which is a big thing with me everybody has that big dream

The one that's just come out which kind of puts all of this stuff together it's called Friends understanding the power of our most important relationships

My first book it's a lot of people still like actually is grooming gossip in the evolution of language which was published heavens 25 years ago almost another world away

yet other kind of later one on The Science of Love which has published probably about 2014

Zen in the Art of Saving the Planet and there's lots of wonderful very powerful teachings from Tick-N-T-Hands in the book and then I also offer a commentary and I draw on these different moments of having been learning and practicing meditation and studying with Thai with our teacher and then also drawing on my experience of trying to apply these teachings as a regular human being and not a Zen master so some people have found that book fun

yes there's a wonderful book by our teacher that art of communicating which goes deeper into a lot of these communication practices and into these mantras

The three of them have just put out a book it's called Let Your Light Shine and in this interview they're going to tell you a story that will I suspect obliterate any doubts you might have about whether meditation actually works.

I mean, it was a long time coming. A lot of people have been asked about a book for a long time but things just worked out.

I mean the book is filled all these practices and philosophies and life lessons. It made us decide that we wanted to go and change the world.

So we're hoping like the stories in the book in our origin inspires many people as possible want to go out and do the same thing, change themselves and go and change the world.

For those of you who don't know, George won a man booker prize for his extraordinary novel Lincoln in the Bardot.

Any of that novel Lincoln in the bar has something like 160 different perspectives and that's what I came to feel was you know if you drop into a conference room on a given day so there's 12 people in there the conventional fictional way of saying it is the sun came in through the window into the conference room where Darren Smith was preparing a presentation

He's got a new book of short stories out called Liberation Day and that reference to liberation will have no shortage of resonance for anybody interested in Buddhism and meditation.

You have a new book it's called Liberation Day congratulations by the way on your new book.

And then there's a deeper level you have said that these characters that you're writing about here, some of them at least edge around seeing that a true liberation would be not to be stuck in their cells.

When I was a kid I read Walden and something got triggered in me and I thought oh my god yeah every behavior is basically selfish.

this is bringing to mind one of the best book titles ever by Jack Cornfield another great meditation teacher who wrote a book about how we can have these incredible spiritual experiences and then we just go back to our regular life and we could be a pretty messy even after these transcendent experiences and the book is called After the Ecstasy the Laundry

I've been reading this book by unbelievably skilled novelist, Louise Erdrich. I don't know if I'm pronouncing her name correctly, but she wrote Pulitzer Prize winning novel called The Night Watchmen, which I'm in the middle of right now.

I see it in talking to you. And so I just go back to that as something that seems like a healthy way to deal with life.

Her latest book is called Sacred Nature.

In her new book, Armstrong aims to set the record straight in particular by studying Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu texts that show that many of the world's great religions and contemplative traditions saw nature as holy, as a powerful path toward escaping the prison of the ego.

And the book is called Sacred Nature restoring our ancient bond with the natural world available everywhere.

She has written such bestsellers as A History of God, the battle for God, Islam and Buddha.

She has written such bestsellers as a history of God, the battle for God, Islam and Buddha.

She has written such bestsellers as a history of God, the battle for God, Islam and Buddha.