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Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
- Narrated by: Dan Harris, Jeffrey Warren
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Publisher's Summary
ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play Ultimate Frisbee, and use the word ""namaste"" 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 meditation's most vocal public proponents.
Here's what he's 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 aren't actually practising. What's holding them back?
In this guide to mindfulness and meditation for beginners and experienced meditators alike, Harris and his friend Jeff Warren, 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 and travel across eighteen states, talking to scores of would-be meditators, including parents, police officers, and even a few celebrities. They create a taxonomy of the most common issues (""I suck at this,"" ""I don't have the time,"" 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. 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 America's neurotic underbelly, as well as their own.
Critic Reviews
"Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics is well researched, practical and crammed with expert advice and it's also an irreverent, hilarious page-turner." (Gretchen Rubin, author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project)
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- MichelleN
- 25-10-2018
How to fidgit mindfully
Loved it! Lots of things to try and practice and try again. Great book Dan.
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- Starbuck
- 02-08-2018
A great listen
This book is exactly what I needed to hear. I have been trying to get into meditation for years but could never get my head around it. Now I realise that it just does not have to be that hard.
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- Maria Parenti
- 14-09-2022
Well Worth Listening x10
I’m picking up lots of tips simply by re-listening. The tips that feel awkward are making much more sense as I practise with less trepidation. Definitely enlightening. 🌿
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- Holly P
- 06-11-2018
Alright but not as good as 10% happier
I really enjoyed the authors first book so was excited to see this book released. Whilst it has good sections in it, I was overall disappointed. Dan reads this well but while it seems like there are sections that are meant to be humorous, they aren't really funny, and it really is just written like a friends trip away as they talk about their travelling meditation road show.
I took one or two things away from it, and did finish the book, but more because I was waiting for it to improve then anything else.
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- V Carr
- 15-02-2023
Meditation for ordinary people
So refreshing to finally hear that anyone can access meditation. Dan and Jeff share the broad aspects of this practice in everyday and often humourous language, dispelling the belief that you have to sit Cross legged, and await an unknown state of enlightenment to occur.
They share all in such an honest way, it shows we all can do this instead of beating ourselves up as failures.
After 45 yrs of attempting meditation, I finally understand it and how accessible it is for all. By the end of the book, it had become a regular part of my day.
Very grateful!!!
Well written and entertaining presentation. i will be listening to this book several times.
Virginia🙃🙂
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- Kristie McCarthy
- 06-04-2019
Life changing
This book came to me at a time I really needed to read it. I had tried meditation many times before, but it never stuck and I always felt like I was doing it wrong. This book changed my perspective and I have been able to maintain three months of daily practice using the techniques I learned in the book.
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- Melinda - YarnderWoman
- 08-07-2019
Excellent
A very easy-to-understand, practical guide to mindfulness and the benefits. I would definitely recommend it.
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- DDD
- 25-08-2020
Great for all interested in meditation
It is rare that you find a book that feels so casual on a topic so deep. And this is a good thing! This book took a mature look at meditation, breaking it down and going into more depth than I expected from a casual guide. Although I don't like the word, I might say this book was "Enlightening".
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- pcesskaye
- 18-10-2019
Interesting but...
The reader has the most irritating voice ever! The content was interesting but the voice ruined the book.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-08-2018
Way too excited, never let's up
It's a book about meditation delivered in the style of an infomercial. It's ok at first but it grinds after an hour or so.
The material is good though, get the book, not the audio book.
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