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The 10% Happier book by Dan Harris introduces the editors to several ways to embracing meditation and being mindful in carrying out various activities. The book presents, in the beginning, the worrying ambush by Harris on a media platform as he represented a workmate in news reporting (Dong et al., 2014). If not about 5 million, many people show the restlessness and could be alluded to by Harris as denseness as he was mush on his educational elevation and venture. The news was rushed following certain activities in the wild area. To adjust to the same, he was motivated to induce specific applications to manage the situation. Accordingly, among them included meditation and mindfulness that he retreated to for several days.
Meditation
The spread of mediation in some regions like Silicon Valley has been seen as an elevation to improve intellectuality. Scientifically meditation has been proved to be good management of stress, immune system, and other general tests. In the book, Harris explains that meditation presented with a usual norm, and he could significantly feel it. The element of sentimental longing, self-realization, and reflection of all that surrounded him could be felt. The article further describes the experiences the writer underwent during the discharge of eruptions as he moved around, the light reflections from the planes, and the oceanic waves that he witnessed during his fieldwork on Virginia’s beach (Rebedew et al., 2018). All around these thoughts, it was evident that the writer could attest to the fact that the monkey business was held, and in a way, the retreat was not entertaining at the moment. In reality, the book has quashed all the narrations from the neuroscientific precept that all these could not interfere with the brain system. To this effect, it was proved that the brain changes as per the experiences met in life, and for meditation experience, a person is subject to manage his feelings.
Mindfulness
By definition, mindfulness refers to the capacity of being able to tell right what is in mind at the present stage. These would include pain, anger, and happiness, among others. Notwithstanding, these feelings are to be shown without any interference. Budha explains the three habits with answers to our experiences, that is, to want it, rejection, or zoning out (Dong et al., 2014). For Harris, he understood that his lack of recognition was not only for anxiety but for the drug addiction, overindulgent, and over-responding (SCHREINER et al. n.d). To this effect, Harris considered mindfulness as a very cognizant response to life and confirmed it as a privilege in life since we can demonstrate the same. From a friend of Harris, the comedian, he explained mindfulness as one that acts as neuroses, doppler radar, and shapes the mental intellect for more reflections. It elevates one from thinking in a negative direction.
Skepticism
Harris was introduced to the meditation traditions by characters like Eckhart Tolle, who favored Oprah. Eckhart wrote A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose and The Power of Now. The book narrates that the brain’s desires controlled our living, and it happens in a very coordinated continuous process with reflections, repetitions, and negativities (Dong et al., 2014). Our voice is very active from the point we wake up until we get back to sleep. Further, it explains that these voices are sometimes judgmental with a well-spelled mode as per the mission and vision that a person is inclined to. A person’s self-esteem drives all these. Harris adopted these works to his ways in which he found them as accurate and helpful, and that one’s ego is insatiable.
Wisdom of insecurity
As one of the proponents in Harris’s book and a psychologist, Mark Epstein demonstrates that meditation makes humans happy. Through that course, a person can understand specific facts. In this way, a person can make the judgment of himself with the desires inside their borders. The phrase wisdom of insecurity brought well to the understanding of what our lives demand.
The key message learned
We are met with different challenges in our daily lives, which may compel us to specific conditions of fear and worries and may interfere with our mental and physical status. Notably, I have learned that these can be managed by exercising meditation, leading to a very empathetic and robust fruitful living. Again, it is worthy that being mindful has greatly helped different persons manage the physical experiences in their thoughts even when a person is sick. When somebody walks with exactness, the gesture becomes more deliberate and less awkward.
Recommendation
Yes, I would recommend the 10% Happier book by Dan Harris to a person. The mission of this would be pointing to reduced stress with happiness, more focused, and promotion of teambuilding. Alongside this, the book encourages a mindfulness-based therapy practice that is compassionate to a productive lifestyle.
Reference
Dong, C. (2014). Q&A: ABC’s Dan Harris’ 93. Colby Magazine, 103(1), 10.
Rebedew, D. (2018). Five mobile apps for mindfulness. Family Practice Management, 25(3), 21-24.
Jain, M., Sharma, G. D., & Mahendru, M. (2019). Can I sustain my happiness? A review, critique, and research agenda for the economics of happiness. Sustainability, 11(22), 6375.
SCHREINER, P. Dan Harris’ 93 delivers” 10% Happier” address.