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Gretchen Rubin on: How To Use Your Five Senses To Reduce Anxiety, Increase Creativity, and Improve Your Relationships

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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The Complexity of Eye Contact

When is it appropriate for me as an older man to hug a junior staffer, you know, or to put my hand on somebody's shoulder? Right. So they're complicated because they are powerful. One of my least favorite things that people do often in meditative or contemplative settings is dyads where they sit you across from somebody and you have to hold eye contact on breaking. It's terrible. The first time I did it, the guy I was doing it with just started crying and not like in a cathartic way,. He was just unhappy, which I took somewhat personally, but I was unhappy too. There are people who love it. And so yeah, it's complex

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