The Reset for Anxiety, Overthinking, and Losing Yourself in the Wrong Story | Diana Winston
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The Reset for Anxiety, Overthinking, and Losing Yourself in the Wrong Story | Diana Winston

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 16, 20261 hr

A simple daily check-in you can do anywhere, a four-part practice for handling hard emotions, and a new way to relate to negative judgments. Plus, why transcendence is more accessible than you think. Diana Winston is the Director of UCLA Mindful, with three decades of experience teaching mindfulness for health and well-being. She has authored three books, including The Little Book of Being, and has taught at Spirit Rock Meditation Center for 25 years. A founder of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, she continues to guide individuals and organizations in cultivating awareness and presence. In...

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Hello everybody, welcome to the 10% have your podcast. I'm your host Dan Harris. Here's something that I find frustrating and sometimes humiliating. There are certain mistakes that I just make again and again and again, even though I've got the tools, even though I've done the therapy, I just keep making the same mistakes again. So that's what we're

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going to talk about today. Why we get stuck in the same old patterns and how to get out of them. My guest today is Diana Winston, Director of UCLA Mindful and UCLA Health, also the author of a book called The Little Book of Being. Not for Nothing, she spent a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma, which I find endlessly impressive. One other thing

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to say about Diana before we dive in here, she's leading a meditation challenge over on my app, 10% with Dan Harris. It's called the Reset Meditation Challenge. It starts Next week, it runs from September 21st through the 25th. The goal is to help you reset in lots of ways

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