CD Audiobook
Meditation for fidgety skeptics [sound recording] : a 10% happier how-to book / by Dan Harris and Jeff Warren, with Carlye Adler.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525631019
- Physical Description: 7 audio discs (8.5 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 inches
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio/Books on Tape, 2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Includes two bonus guided meditations"--Container. Subtitle from container. Compact disc. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Dan Harris and Jeff Warren. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Happiness. Meditation > Psychological aspects. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | CD 158.12 Har | 31681010082923 | CDNONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The co-anchor ofNightline and author of the best-selling 10% Happier presents a lighthearted, practical guide to meditation that debunks the myths, misconceptions and self-deceptions that make everyday people reluctant to participate. Simultaneous. - Baker & Taylor
Presents a practical guide to meditation that debunks the myths, misconceptions, and self-deceptions that make many people reluctant to try it, and suggests a range of meditation practices. - Random House, Inc.
This book will get you to meditate. Minus the pan flutes.Â
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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 ânamasteâ without irony. After he had a panic attack on live television, he went on a strange and circuitous journey that ultimately led him to embrace a practice heâd long considered ridiculous. Harris discovered that meditation made him more focused and less yanked around by his emotions. According to his wife, it also made him significantly less annoying. He wrote about his experiences in the bracingly candid and extremely funny memoir 10% Happier, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller and landed Harris in the entirely unexpected position of being one of meditationâs most vocal public proponents.
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Hereâs what heâs 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 arenât actually practicing. Whatâs holding them back?
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In Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, Harris and his friend Jeff Warren, a masterful teacher and âMeditation MacGyver,â 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 meditatorsâincluding parents, military cadets, police officers, and even a few celebrities. They create a taxonomy of the most common issues (âI suck at this,â âI donât have the time,â etc.) and offer up science-based life hacks to help people overcome them.
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The book is filled with game-changing and deeply practical meditation instructions. Youâll 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 Americaâs neurotic underbelly, as well as their own.
Includes two bonus guided meditations.
