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The #1 New York Occasions Bestseller
“An awfully sensible, transparent-eyed, courageous-hearted, and moderately non-public take a look at the advantages of meditation.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an surprising, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey in the course of the unusual worlds of spirituality and self-assist, and discovers a approach to get happier that may be actually possible. Now revised with new subject material.
After having a nationally televised panic assault, Dan Harris knew he needed to make a few adjustments. A lifelong nonbeliever, he discovered himself on a extraordinary journey related to a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-assist guru, and a bunch of mind scientists. Ultimately, Harris discovered that the supply of his issues used to be the very factor he all the time idea used to be his largest asset: the incessant, insatiable voice in his head, which had propelled him in the course of the ranks of a hypercompetitive industry, however had additionally led him to make the profoundly dull choices that provoked his on-air freak-out.
Finally, Harris stumbled upon a good way to rein in that voice, one thing he all the time assumed to be both unattainable or pointless: meditation, a device that analysis shows can do the whole thing from decrease your blood power to actually rewire your mind. 10% Happier takes readers on a experience from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the internal sanctum of community information to the extraordinary fringes of The usa’s non secular scene, and leaves them with a takeaway that might in reality modification their lives.
Winner of the 2014 Dwelling Now E book Award for Inspirational Memoir
