THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF 10% HAPPIER

Too busy to meditate? Can’t turn off your brain? Curious about mindfulness but more comfortable in the gym? This book is for you.

You’ll also get access to guided audio meditations on the 10% Happier app, to jumpstart your practice from day one.

ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play Ultimate Frisbee, and use the word “namaste” without irony. After he had a panic attack on live television, he went on a strange and circuitous journey that ultimately led him to become one of meditation’s most vocal public proponents.

Harris found that meditation made him more focused and less yanked around by his emotions. According to his wife, it also made him less annoying. Science suggests that the practice can lower your blood pressure, mitigate depression and anxiety, and literally rewire key parts of the brain. So what’s holding you back?

In Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, Harris and Jeff Warren, a masterful teacher and “Meditation MacGyver,” embark on a gonzo cross-country quest to tackle the myths, misconceptions, and self-deceptions that keep people from meditating. It is filled with game-changing and deeply practical meditation instructions—all of which are also available (for free) on the 10% Happier app. This book is a trip worth taking.

Praise for Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics

“If you’re intrigued by meditation but don’t know how to begin—or you’ve benefited from meditation in the past but need help to get started again—Dan Harris has written the book for you. Well researched, practical, and crammed with expert advice, it’s also an irreverent, hilarious page-turner.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

“The ABC News anchor, a ‘defender of worrying’ who once had an anxiety attack on air, offers a hilarious and stirring account of his two-steps-forward-one-step-back campaign to sort ‘useless rumination’ from ‘constructive anguish’ via mindfulness, along with invaluable suggestions for following in his footsteps.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

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Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (December 26, 2017)
Publication Date: December 26, 2017
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A great book for new or experienced meditators.

November 25, 2017

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As a fidgety, former skeptic of meditation, I found this to be a very easy to read introduction to meditation, that takes a very straight forward approach to getting someone to meditate. It took me years to get into meditation, then with a different approach and perspective change, all of a sudden everything clicked for me. I am a believer now already, but I still look for different perspectives for myself and to help introduce others into mindful meditation, because it really does work. I appreciate Dan's approach in this book, because I am fidgety and I was a skeptic. I wish I read this a decade ago or even more. It would have helped me so much at the time. This is definitely worth picking up for people who have trouble "getting it" or if you find your self "too busy" or too mentally active to get into meditation. Good for new and experienced alike.

I have read about Dan Harris before, and knew a bit of his background and journey into dealing with anxiety issues, which combined with my interest in meditation led me to pick up this book. I am glad I did. I will be picking up Dan's 10% Happier book as well, based on my like for this book.

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If you don't meditate and you appreciate flippancy, this book might get you to try

January 21, 2018

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Meditation has gone mainstream. And for good reason. It’s a great way to focus and energize the mind and body. I do it, and if you don’t, you should try. Simple as that.

Perhaps more than anything else this book is a testament to just how mainstream it has gone. That’s not a criticism. But let’s face it, a bus tour is pretty mainstream. Wanting to be 10% happier is very mainstream. And putting it all together in a convenient app is the essence of mainstream in the 21st.

I don’t watch television, so I’ve never seen or heard the name, Dan Harris, the ABC news anchor and correspondent behind the book. He is obviously witty, bright, high energy, very enthusiastic, and clearly sincere in his hopes for this project. And in many ways that makes him perfect for this book. He is a very good pairing with Jeff Warren, the professional meditator who represents the “let’s hug” branch of meditation that the mainstream associates with the practice, who is every bit as sincere and earnest as Harris. It’s a bit like pairing Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in Twins, but I make the comparison in the most positive way.

Their strategy for taking meditation mainstream is to: 1. Make it effortless. (One minute a day will get you started.); 2. To expand mindfulness into a path to patience, compassion, generosity, and, ultimately, happiness. All while keeping it secular without offending the religiously inclined.

It’s a tall order. And they achieve it more successfully than I would have guessed if I had picked up the book with any preconceptions, which I didn’t.

The problem with both meditation and attempts to mainstream much of anything, however, is accepting that line on the horizon. Where does the ground end and the sky begin? There is, as a result, a tendency to overshoot the mark; to extrapolate meditation or whatever you are trying to mainstream into something more that it really is or can practically become.

That line on the horizon, however, is perceived differently by each of us. If you draw it at a level similar to where Dan and Jeff draw it, you will probably love this book. And since you are the one who is likely to be considering this book having read the summary, my rating is for you. I think you will enjoy the book.

I draw the horizon in a different place, however. That doesn’t make me better or worse, but the book, as a result, is much less of a fit for me. I found the book to be far too long and repetitive, too light on the philosophy, too heavy on both the hugging and the flippancy, and far too quick to reference the 10% initiative. While Dan and Jeff clearly come down on the meditative side of Buddhist meditation, to try to explain, I come down on the Buddhist side. While I practice meditation, I am much more interested in understanding what gives our lives meaning and purpose.

But that’s just me.

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Disappointed.

November 5, 2018

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The blurb I received, which led me to buy the Kindle version of this book (I've been meditating for decades and have taught "meditation for beginners" classes, and this book looked like an interesting fresh take on it) said it included the free accompanying app. After buying the book and opening the app, I found out 2 things you should know:
1) You have to sign into the app using Facebook, Google, or an email address. Now they have your user ID and password . You can change your password on your email or whatever source you use to sign in, but may have to change it every time you use the app, in order to keep it secure. (?) I don't like things that require my login info on other platforms - transparent harvesting for marketing/spamming.
2) You only get a group of basic meditations for free. Otherwise, the app is only free for 7 days. If that time runs out and you haven't canceled, you'll be billed $99.99 for one year. It doesn't say what happens after that year. It may well be worth that but it seems pretty steep.
Hope the book delivers more, and in a more straightforward manner, than the app.

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Randy Ballinger

Kindle version flawed significantly.

May 14, 2018

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I am interested in the subject and appreciate the writing style. But the book is missing many pages at random intervals on Kindle, making it difficult to follow. My inner "black dog" distracts me by reminding me I paid $13.99, far too much for this frustrating experience. I recommend forgoing the Kindle version.

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