10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced by Dan Harris

By Dan Harris

Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unforeseen, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey during the unusual worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers the way to get happier that's actually achievable.

After having a nationally televised panic assault on sturdy Morning the United States, Dan Harris knew he needed to make a few adjustments. A lifelong nonbeliever, he discovered himself on a strange experience, concerning a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru, and a group of mind scientists. ultimately, Harris learned that the resource of his difficulties was once the very factor he regularly notion used to be his maximum asset: the incessant, insatiable voice in his head, which had either propelled him in the course of the ranks of a hyper-competitive company and likewise led him to make the profoundly silly judgements that provoked his on-air freak-out.

We all have a voice in our head. It's what has us wasting our mood unnecessarily, checking our electronic mail compulsively, consuming whilst we're no longer hungry, and fixating at the prior and the longer term on the fee of the current. such a lot folks may suppose we're caught with this voice -- that there's not anything we will be able to do to rein it in -- yet Harris stumbled upon a great way to do exactly that. It's a miles cry from the miracle remedies peddled by way of the self-help swamis he met; as an alternative, it's anything he regularly assumed to be both very unlikely or dead: meditation. After studying approximately learn that implies meditation can do every little thing from reduce your blood strain to really rewire your mind, Harris took a deep dive into the underreported international of CEOs, scientists, or even marines who're now utilizing it for elevated calm, concentration, and happiness.

10% Happier takes readers on a trip from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the internal sanctum of community information to the weird fringes of America's religious scene, and leaves them with a takeaway which can truly switch their lives.

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The Bible says, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:9,13). Jesus has given salvation, healing, and countless benefits to all who call upon His name. These benefits can be yours if you receive Him into your heart by praying this prayer: Heavenly Father, I come to You admitting that I am a sinner. Right now, I choose to turn away from sin, and I ask You to cleanse me of all unrighteousness.

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