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How to Create an Exercise Habit Without Driving Yourself Nuts | Kelly McGonigal

10% Happier with Dan Harris

CHAPTER

Meditation Practices - What Do They Do for You?

As a seven year old, you realized suffering was out there. And I had a temperament to toward empathy to the point where some of my earliest childhood memories I remember trying to rescue worms when it rained because I thought the worms were drowning. Like there was something in me that wanted to do that, but also was very easily overwhelmed. So I feel like what meditation practices did for me, Tonglen and also yoga, which is something that I was deepening my practice of around the same time, that those practices they give you a strength so that if you have a natural tendency to want to relieve the suffering in the world,. You can keep your heart open and not feel completely overwhelmed by wanting

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