10% Happier Revised Edition: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Hel
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By: Dan Harris (Author)
Number one New York Times best seller.
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Reviews
FOB_Safe –
Thankful for reading it!!!
If you are like me have this ‘chatter’ going on in your head – this book is so worth reading. The way it’s written is to give you the ‘why’ before the ‘how’. It’s done this way so you find the scientific validation along with Dan Harris ability to write his impressions of finding his way about calming the chatter in his head. He calls it the monkey brain and I so get that.I would recommend this book to anyone looking for an understanding of why we have the chatter and how to slow it down so we have time to ‘respond’ instead of ‘react’ to situations. For those with trauma, ADD, ADHD, or any of the other things that cause our brains to shift into overdrive – leaving us little time to actually ‘think thru something’ without the constant ‘reviewer in our head’ or are looking for a way to slow your brain down… read this book starting with page 1 to the end. It has helped me beyond words. And more importantly it has helped my relationship with my husband because he suffers from trauma.I bought this book to help me ‘retrain’ myself to work with meditation. I have to admit the first half of the book was interesting and for me.. I wanted the “meat” with the instructions and how it worked. That I found out happens in the last half of the book. However, even tho it was interesting to read the 1st half of the book – if I had known the ‘meat’ was the 2nd half I might have been tempted to skip the 1st part… DON’T… because Dan Harris puts it all together and you will get so much more out of reading the entire book. What he does is in the 1st half is talk about his whys, frustrations, questioning experts in the field and then what he learns from them. It all makes much more sense if you have this background and knowledge when you get to the 2nd half. Be brave and keep reading – in the end it will benefit you.Also, the great part that I learned about this book is a better word usage for talking about meditation to other people who have not experienced it. As Dan Harris states (paraphrasing here) Meditation has a bad PR wrap from the early folks who promoted it. Today it’s being used by CEO, The Marine Corps, and other major companies where it has been proven to be more than beneficial.For me… it has given me new language to talk with people about meditation so it isn’t so “woo woo or far out there” and it’s more understandable. I’ve worked with meditation for over 25 yrs and have used it most of those years. After reading this book I’m back at my old schedule of meditation because it helps me deal with my world. It has reminded me that I do have the ability to ‘respond’ instead of ‘react’ inside my head so what comes out of my mouth – I won’t have to eat or apologize later for because something hit a hot button for me or triggered something for me or I was just in one of those – leave me alone moods. So when I do ‘react’ I know its something that I need to work on so I can obtain a shift of perspective so that darn hot button isn’t one in the future. Another way of saying that is I’m not on auto pilot when I respond – I have the ability to take a breath before speaking or understanding in an instant that I was ready to ‘react’ instead of processing and responding.If I could afford to give this book to people… it would be to our people who have served this country. I know that if they would read it – in some small way it would help them deal with what they saw and experienced. It’s not a do all solve all – but it’s a good easy step in the right direction.
Amazing customer –
Great
Good read
Lucy J. –
Really enjoyable and honest insight into an individuals desire to better one self. Felt that the book provided practical advice as well as compassionate critiques into some high profile self improvement gurus/theories.
Irfan Güldal –
Eine interessante Geschichte mit einer schönen Message dahinter und praktischen Tipps, der Schreibstil ist sehr sehr lehrreich aber nicht trocken
FOB_Safe –
Thankful for reading it!!!
If you are like me have this ‘chatter’ going on in your head – this book is so worth reading. The way it’s written is to give you the ‘why’ before the ‘how’. It’s done this way so you find the scientific validation along with Dan Harris ability to write his impressions of finding his way about calming the chatter in his head. He calls it the monkey brain and I so get that.I would recommend this book to anyone looking for an understanding of why we have the chatter and how to slow it down so we have time to ‘respond’ instead of ‘react’ to situations. For those with trauma, ADD, ADHD, or any of the other things that cause our brains to shift into overdrive – leaving us little time to actually ‘think thru something’ without the constant ‘reviewer in our head’ or are looking for a way to slow your brain down… read this book starting with page 1 to the end. It has helped me beyond words. And more importantly it has helped my relationship with my husband because he suffers from trauma.I bought this book to help me ‘retrain’ myself to work with meditation. I have to admit the first half of the book was interesting and for me.. I wanted the “meat” with the instructions and how it worked. That I found out happens in the last half of the book. However, even tho it was interesting to read the 1st half of the book – if I had known the ‘meat’ was the 2nd half I might have been tempted to skip the 1st part… DON’T… because Dan Harris puts it all together and you will get so much more out of reading the entire book. What he does is in the 1st half is talk about his whys, frustrations, questioning experts in the field and then what he learns from them. It all makes much more sense if you have this background and knowledge when you get to the 2nd half. Be brave and keep reading – in the end it will benefit you.Also, the great part that I learned about this book is a better word usage for talking about meditation to other people who have not experienced it. As Dan Harris states (paraphrasing here) Meditation has a bad PR wrap from the early folks who promoted it. Today it’s being used by CEO, The Marine Corps, and other major companies where it has been proven to be more than beneficial.For me… it has given me new language to talk with people about meditation so it isn’t so “woo woo or far out there” and it’s more understandable. I’ve worked with meditation for over 25 yrs and have used it most of those years. After reading this book I’m back at my old schedule of meditation because it helps me deal with my world. It has reminded me that I do have the ability to ‘respond’ instead of ‘react’ inside my head so what comes out of my mouth – I won’t have to eat or apologize later for because something hit a hot button for me or triggered something for me or I was just in one of those – leave me alone moods. So when I do ‘react’ I know its something that I need to work on so I can obtain a shift of perspective so that darn hot button isn’t one in the future. Another way of saying that is I’m not on auto pilot when I respond – I have the ability to take a breath before speaking or understanding in an instant that I was ready to ‘react’ instead of processing and responding.If I could afford to give this book to people… it would be to our people who have served this country. I know that if they would read it – in some small way it would help them deal with what they saw and experienced. It’s not a do all solve all – but it’s a good easy step in the right direction.
Amazing customer –
Great
Good read
Lucy J. –
Really enjoyable and honest insight into an individuals desire to better one self. Felt that the book provided practical advice as well as compassionate critiques into some high profile self improvement gurus/theories.
Irfan Güldal –
Eine interessante Geschichte mit einer schönen Message dahinter und praktischen Tipps, der Schreibstil ist sehr sehr lehrreich aber nicht trocken
Nino Manuel Benedicto –
i’m satisfied with the product
diego ochoa –
Un libro bastante útil para todas aquellas personas que estén interesadas en explorar los beneficios de la práctica de la meditación. Dan Harris sabe exponer de manera muy práctica y amena las dudas e inquietudes de una persona común y corriente pero con la suficiente calidad intelectual y consciencia como para darse cuenta de que existe otro camino para poder evitar caer en las trampas de la mente al enfrentarse a las vicisitudes de la vida cotidiana.