Popular Meditations from Dan and Friends
The life-changing power of magnificent ridiculousness
Find Jeff and his meditations at Home Base - his studio for building and sharing meditations. He writes posts about the baffle-wonder-challenge of somehow existing, accompanied by a short guided audio meditation on the same theme. Follow him and his co-host
Sanity training
Find Jeff and his meditations at Home Base - his studio for building and sharing meditations. He writes posts about the baffle-wonder-challenge of somehow existing, accompanied by a short guided audio meditation on the same theme. Follow him and his co-host
No big deal
Find Jeff and his meditations at Home Base - his studio for building and sharing meditations. He writes posts about the baffle-wonder-challenge of somehow existing, accompanied by a short guided audio meditation on the same theme. Follow him and his co-host
Radical disarmament for your inner critic
Find Sebene on her newsletter Ancestor to Elements. Every full and new moon she sends out a fresh guided meditation, along with an original essay (read aloud by her, too) and a collage. Four times a year on a full moon, she sends her “advice column”
Basic mindfulness
You don’t have to clear your head. Just feel your breath for a few nanoseconds—and every time you get distracted, just start again. No matter how many times you get distracted, no matter how humiliating your thoughts might be, all you have to do is blow them a kiss and go back to whatever you're focusing on.
Don't push away difficult emotions
Find Sebene on her newsletter Ancestor to Elements. Every full and new moon she sends out a fresh guided meditation, along with an original essay (read aloud by her, too) and a collage. Four times a year on a full moon, she sends her “advice column”
A kind of meditation you might be overlooking
Find Sebene on her newsletter Ancestor to Elements. Every full and new moon she sends out a fresh guided meditation, along with an original essay (read aloud by her, too) and a collage. Four times a year on a full moon, she sends her “advice column”
Free-range walking meditation
Most of the time when we’re walking or moving around in our daily lives, we’re lost in thought. We’re rushing, ruminating, planning glorious, expletive-filled speeches we are gonna deliver to our boss, etc. In this walk, however, you’re going to practice bringing your attention into your body.
Loving kindness
This practice can seem forced and treacly, but the research suggests it can have significant physiological, psychological, and even behavior benefits. Give it a shot.
Formal walking
Stake out a patch of land, either inside or outside, that is big enough for you to walk back and forth for a little while. Walk very slowly — artificially slowly — back and forth, bringing your full attention to the physical sensations of body walking.
When everything is f*#cked
Find Jeff and his meditations at Home Base - his studio for building and sharing meditations. He writes posts about the baffle-wonder-challenge of somehow existing, accompanied by a short guided audio meditation on the same theme. Follow him and his co-host
Do nothing
Find Jeff and his meditations at Home Base - his studio for building and sharing meditations. He writes posts about the baffle-wonder-challenge of somehow existing, accompanied by a short guided audio meditation on the same theme. Follow him and his co-host
For when you have trouble sleeping
Falling asleep can be an ordeal. Millions of people have either chronic or episodic insomnia. And even if you don’t technically qualify as an insomniac, it can still be tricky to drift off easily.
Antidote to helplessness
Find Jeff and his meditations at Home Base - his studio for building and sharing meditations. He writes posts about the baffle-wonder-challenge of somehow existing, accompanied by a short guided audio meditation on the same theme. Follow him and his co-host
I am enough
Sister Dang Nghiem, a Buddhist nun and medical doctor, created this bespoke meditation to accompany her appearance on my podcast “Buddhist Strategies For Reducing Everyday Addictions (To Your Phone, Food, Booze, And More).”
What’s It Like To Be You Right Now?
As I mentioned last week, we’re going to be experimenting a bit with what we put on the pod on Fridays (a day for shorter, bonus content - and sometimes the occasional interview). And I really appreciate many of you telling me in the chat what interests you the most. Today we’ve got a meditation for you — this was originally part of one of my recent mo…
Meditation: Reliving altered states
This practice from Jay Michaelson is about recollecting a past "altered state" experience. That can be a psychedelic experience, a meditation experience, or a random experience (e.g. being in nature).