Surviving the News: Buddhist Strategies for Staying Sane, Engaged, and Not Completely Furious | Pascal Auclair
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Surviving the News: Buddhist Strategies for Staying Sane, Engaged, and Not Completely Furious | Pascal Auclair

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 202635 min
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You don't get to choose what's thrown at you — only how you respond. Karma as a tool for agency, attention sovereignty as a political act, and what to do when you feel completely helpless. The news is a lot right now. And for most of us, the usual options — doom scroll until midnight, or unplug entirely — don't actually help. Meditation teacher Pascal Auclair joins Dan for a live community conversation on how to stay engaged with what's happening in the world without letting it wreck your nervous system, your relationships, or your sleep. In this conver...

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Hey, hey everybody, welcome to the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. We're about a month out now from the midterms to the midterm elections here in the US, and a lot of us are feeling pretty stressed and anxious.

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So today we're gonna talk about how to stay engaged without losing your mind. We're gonna be talking about this with the great Buddhist meditation teacher, Pascal Eau Claire, who is one of the teachers over on my meditation app, 10% with Dan Harris.

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And what you're about to hear is me asking Pascal questions, but also feeding him some questions that we got from subscribers to the 10% with Dan Harris app, including a question about karma and whether the bad guys will ever get theirs.

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