10% Happier

10% HAPPIER is a spiritual book written for - and by - someone who would otherwise never read a spiritual book. It is both a deadly serious and seriously funny look at mindfulness and meditation as the next big public health revolution. Dan Harris always believed the restless, relentless, impossible-to-satisfy voice in his head was one of his greatest assets. How else can you climb the ladder in an ultra-competitive field like TV news except through nonstop hand-wringing and hyper vigilance? For a while, his strategy worked. Harris anchored national broadcasts and he covered wars. Then he hit the brakes, and had a full-blown panic attack live on the air. What happened next was completely unforeseen. Through a bizarre series of events - involving a disgraced evangelical pastor, a mysterious self-help guru and a fateful gift from his wife - Harris stumbled upon something that helped him tame the voice in his head: meditation. At first, he was deeply suspicious. He had long associated meditation with bearded swamis and unwashed hippies. But when confronted with mounting scientific evidence that just a few minutes a day can literally rewire the brain for focus,happiness, and reduced reactivity, Harris took a deep dive. He spent years mingling with scientists,executives and marines on the front lines of a quiet revolution that has the potential to reshape society. He became a daily meditator, and even found himself on a ten-day, silent meditation retreat, which was simultaneously the best and worst experience he'd ever had. Harris's life was not transformed into a parade of rainbows and unicorns, but he did gain a passion for daily meditation. While the book itself is a narrative account of Dan's conversion amid the harried and decidedly non-Zen world of the newsroom, it concludes with a section for the novice on how to get started.

Vorwort
The perfect book for the spirituality sceptics who really do need meditation in their daily routine. This tenth anniversary edition features a new preface and new guided meditations.

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Dan Harris

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'An enormously smart, clear-eyed, brave hearted, and quite personal look at the benefits of meditation. This is a book that will help people' ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of Eat, Pray, Love

After having a nationally televised panic attack, news anchor DAN HARRIS knew he had to make some changes. His on-air meltdown helped spark a strange, unplanned odyssey, which took him from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the bizarre fringes of the American spiritual scene, meeting a host of famous names along the way. A life-long sceptic, Dan started his search deeply suspicious of self-help solutions until, to his vast surprise, he stumbled an effective way to manage the relentless, impossible-to-satisfy voice in his head once and for all: meditation.

'10% HAPPIER is hands down the best book on meditation for the uninitiated, the sceptical, or the merely curious. Part confessional, part investigative journalism, 10% HAPPIER is 100% engrossing' DANIEL GOLEMAN, author of Emotional Intelligence and Focus

'A sceptic's guide to meditation. With great humour he goes into it kicking and resisting and ends up embracing mindfulness and explaining it brilliantly, while never losing that humour or becoming part of the 'socks and sandals' brigade - I loved it' RUBY WAX, author of Sane New World

'A wonderful book and excellent advice' ANDY PUDDICOMBE, founder of Headspace