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Hope you'll take the time to listen to this fascinating conversation between two high level journalists who talk about their meditation practices as well as a new book Why We're Polarized. Here's a transcription of an excerpt:
"Ezra: I struggle with the question of how to talk even just about things like mindfulness and meditation amidst crisis because I don’t want to tell people, you know, there’s like that old line that it is not a sign of health to become accustomed to a sick society, and obviously I want good things to come out of this, but I wonder how you think about the relationship, because it’s something I struggle with, between trying to engage in practices that help you accept what is going on versus listening to maybe a proper sense of rage and frustration and anxiety it provokes? Because those can be activating emotions to help people recognize that something has to change, not just that we should learn to have a better relationship with something that should never have happened in the first place!
Dan: Yeah, I think it’s a bit of a false binary because acceptance in a meditative, contemplative sense is not at all resignation or passivity. It’s accepting what is the truth right now, being mindful and curious about it, so like you’re seeing something playing out on TV like the horror in America's nursing homes, and you’re feeling the anger, the sadness, the many other emotions that may come up. You can in that moment calmly, with some curiosity investigate the feelings that you’re feeling, how they’re showing up in your body, the kinds of thoughts they’re provoking, and metabolize the emotions that will allow you to then take the action that you want to take, that is most likely to be effective, from a place of some increased calm rather than reflexive rage. And so I am really not a proponent of bland, blind acceptance, but rather a mindful, calm, compassionate engagement." ... See MoreSee Less

‎Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris: #248: How to Be a Good and Sane Citizen in Ugly Times | Ezra Klein on Apple Podcasts

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‎Show Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris, Ep #248: How to Be a Good and Sane Citizen in Ugly Times | Ezra Klein - May 18, 2020

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