A Coke-Fueled Panic Attack on TV Brought Dan Harris to Meditation Where He Learned Compassion

An adrenaline-fueled war reporter, self-medicated with cocaine. The panic attack on live TV that brought him to meditation.
This is a RAW & REVEALING look into how Dan Harris (10% Happier author & podcaster) struggled behind his polished on-screen persona.
What's a better way to celebrate MBB's 200TH EPISODE?!!!
Dan reveals how his reporting from the frontlines of Iraq led to self-medicating his depression with recreational drugs, and how meditation was the ultimate game-changer.
THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION FOR ANYONE WHO THINKS THEY CAN'T MEDITATE!
Learn the practical skills to happiness, how to detach from your narrative through metacognition, and create a buffer between stimulus and reaction.
Mayim shares her personal struggles with meditation and gets practical tips from Dan that could change your perception of meditation forever. Plus, dive into different forms of meditation that enhance concentration, gratitude, and how a lovingkindness meditation practice can reshape your day-to-day life.
Dan also explains how meditation caused him to shift his perception of himself and in relation to others, what our goals with meditation should be, and what his lovingkindness meditation practice looks like today.
Curious about MDMA's therapeutic potential for emotional awareness, adrenaline addiction, or what a coke-fueled panic looks like from the inside? This episode is your front-row seat to a MIND-BLOWING conversation that could very well be the nudge you need to start your own meditation journey.
TUNE IN to help us celebrate 200 episodes of MBB with Dan Harris!
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CHAPTERS:
1:13 - Introduction to Dan Harris
11:55 - Discussing Cocaine and MDMA
18:22 - Televised Panic Attack
21:30 - Journey from Panic to Meditation Retreat
22:50 - Understanding the Internal Voice
27:42 - Misconceptions About Meditation
30:52 - Overcoming Meditation Resistance
37:19 - Insights from the Meditation Retreat
43:14 - Discovering the Observer Within
56:44 - Learning Happiness Through Meditation
1:01:14 - Feeling Like a Meditation Failure
1:05:37 - Handling Self-Judgment in Meditation
1:08:18 - Long-Term Meditation Effects
1:13:50 - Choosing the Right Meditation Technique
1:19:35 - Farewell to Dan Harris
1:23:27 - OUTRO
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[@annescholten9313]

Mayim, you hit the nail on the head when you said, every time I meditate it feels like I am doing it for the first time. That is beautiful, because many masters say, meditate like it is your first time, every time you do it. You cannot fail!!! Keep doing it like it is your first time and be kind to your trying self.❤❤❤❤❤

[@carolynkettle1690]

As a veteran, transcendental meditation was a deal breaker for me….finally some inner peace! I so understand where he is coming from….the addiction afterwards….when we are at an age where we are supposed to have our shit together….that adds to it…..53 here….and finally getting it together…..been a long road….PTSD sucks…..✌🏽❤️🇨🇦

[@MayimBialik]

🫶🫶🫶

[@shirleyfrost9909]

71 here still attempting to get life right

[@jole3574]

Would love to hear more about your TM experience....i'm torn apart practicing TM or vipassana

[@CB_Butler]

I only recently discovered 10% Happier on KZbin. I’ve been deep diving all the episodes! I’m THRILLED to see this conversation between you and Dan!! Thank you for bringing this experience to us all.

[@debbyschweighardt5810]

Mayim, I am a Jewish mom, age 62 residing in South Jersey. At this time in my life i have a lot of health issues and am on disability. I suffered from panick attacks many years ago. I have watched you grow up on tv. I love watching your podcast. I fully enjoy the interaction between you and Jonathan. I think you are a very cute couple. I have considered learning more about meditation but never did anything about it until now. I downloaded the audio book 10% Happier from the library. After listening to the book, i may download the app. I also found Dan's podcast and will listen to that as well. You and Jonathan are both younger than me, but i am learning so much from both of you! I just want to say thank you to both you and Jonathan for truly making our world a better place. ❤

[@MayimBialik]

🫶🙏

[@Charity-vm4bt]

​​​​​​@@MayimBialik I appreciate your podcast. I am new to it. I was stunned you interviewed Dave Richo and that you loved his work! I'm a "fan" of his books and teaching. He is compassionate. A new topic area for you to consider that is current now is relationship counseling for couples. Consider inviting Terry Real on the podcast. He and his wife Belinda are both psychotherapists. She uses a different last name. They have been married for about 50 years. He was raised as a secular Jewish boy in N.J. in the 1960's. I think you will like his "energy." Perhaps also consider the work of Joe DiSpenza for meditation. He has many teachings on-line.

[@Golgibaby]

A clearing away, and a bringing forth....mind-blown! TY for this conversation both of you!

[@lorrainefussell823]

Two of my favorites together! ❤. I read 10% Happier a decade ago, and it continues to be life-altering for me.

[@SaltwaterMom3]

Such a deep and honest conversation! I always find it helpful to listen to people talk about their personal journey.

[@merrie501]

Wow! This was such a great interview! I feel like I just attended a free masterclass on meditation. I found myself getting out a pen and paper because there were so many aha moments in the back and forth between Mayim and Dan. Thank you Mayim, Jonathan and Dan for what is probably now my favorite episode of Breakdown. I'm now motivated more that ever to meditate. "Mediation is simple but not easy" - Dan Harris...what a simple but profound statement!

[@MayimBialik]

🔥🔥🔥

[@benjamincrabtree3102]

I think this is my favorite episode so far. This is incredible.

[@MayimBialik]

🙌🙌🙌

[@m_brokenleg]

I’ve had one & only panic attack in my life. Bc an architect here, I was at a building under construction at 86 feet hight. I don’t recommend it to my worst enemy.. Needing to address it asap, I received a misdiagnose of an “ignored” since then “fear to heights”..(Really? At my then almost 30 years of proffession?). To me it was an inner alarm of my brain advising me against my workalcoholic, anxious & stressed life. I abandoned immediately the prescribed citalopram dose & returned to ioga, meditation & breathing exercises. Panic attack, doing this daily since then, has never happened again & I swear you that I’ve been at same situations again quite frequently..

[@amymartin2102]

Mayim - i am your 68 years old twin- this session was awesome. thank you , Jonathan, & Dan, - amyfaith

[@waltercook4868]

Thanks for sharing. I could say about a gazillion positive things about your conversation but the take-away, for me, was during meditation begin again. That's okay. Finnigin Finnigin Begin Again, Begin Again.

[@danastonerock]

He seems so genuine and down to earth.

[@marciovieira7849]

Obrigado por mais esse "serviço de utilidade pública" em meio a tantas dificuldades físicas, emocionais e mentais que em todo o mundo está ocorrendo. Obrigado...e aguardando o próximo! Daqui do Brasil.❤

[@orland0110]

Wonderful interview and wonderful guest! Thank you so much for this podcast, Mayim, you are amazing! ❤

[@altaresjoyceee]

HAPPY 200th EPISODE MBB! 🎉 Thank you for giving us of amazing and educational episodes especially this one! ♥️ At first, i really think i can't meditate and i think of it as a joke and a waste of time. However, as time goes by, after watching this podcast and made some research, Meditation was really helpful. It is not just sitting or something. Thank you for having him MBB! ❤ And I agree, this is a call out to those who think they can't meditate. p.s I agree with Jonathan, follow this up with IG Live 😁

[@newpilgrim]

Thanks so much! So, I've had a daily practice for a couple of decades. I'd be hard pressed to explain how one might access this practice, but anyone can access this practice. No, this isn't easy for anyone. This is as hard as f!@#$%! If I had to sum it up, I'd say it's been 20+ years of getting the f out of the way...we're not "looking" for anything here. There's nowhere for the ego to get. I hope you find a way to access this practice and appreciate you bringing on Dan. Appreciate you!

[@user-jj9tj4yo7p]

Thank you for this episode and for all the feelings, knowledge and tools shared! It does makes life better, they have made my live better! Thank you!!

[@CherylCherbear]

Thank you so much

[@angelaped]

This was so good!!!! Thank you.

[@redturnkey]

I love this interview so much

[@mariavalverdeboutilier7370]

Brilliant ❤

[@gal1885]

Great episode!! ❤❤

[@tomlichnofsky.7048]

Another Fantastic Episode 😊👌😆👍👋🖖👋🍁♈🍁

[@rocioiribe5841]

Finally! been waiting on this one!

[@marisamartinezolivera]

Dear Lord! Such a way to celebrate 200 episodes that have passed me by in a flash! Humbly learning and growing personally with everyone of them. So grateful for the help and tips that all them, maybe ones more than others but all them, has given to me. As the “Do-nothing” concept of meditation and “Meditating love” at today’s episode: “May you be happy, may you be safe, may you be healthy, may you live with ease”. That’s for me! 👍🏽🫶🏽

[@JennGeeDeeTV]

Loved this interview!

[@WildaConnell]

Thank you again for a helpful video.🙂

[@franceenwebb9003]

Thank you so much for this information, Dan. I will find the books. Mayim, your honesty and courage is admirable. I have had the same frustrations.

[@naomidga]

I've known about Dan for years from his journalism, but I had no idea about his on-air panic attack or coke addiction. Shocking because he's such a clean cut, seemingly always together guy. We all have assumptions about wealthy celebrities' lives, and I think mostly associate recklessness with entertainers and athletes, not journalists. I so appreciate the transparency and nuggets about mindfulness and meditation in this conversation. Thank you! 🙏🏾

[@Cassandra-..-]

There is sooooo much implied forgiveness in “begin again.”

[@mrs.e3909]

Good to know I am not the only one who can not follow my own thought pattern to meditate. I have tried music based meditation breathing in love and peace on the out breath, focusing on a sound outdoors etc. This discussion inspired me to try again.

[@labab1048]

That has to be the most clear cut explanation about meditation and the mind that I have EVER heard!!! Thank you so much Mayim and Dan (transcendental meditation user) I’m only speaking about the first 30 seconds when Dan was previewing

[@MayimBialik]

🤯🧠🫶

[@user-hl8xq5xg8n]

What a hopeful message

[@melissasalsbury4705]

Fantastic! About an hour in and I finally see there may be a way through. Soft nerf notes. Mayim, I suffer in many the same ways as you with family issues and my own chaos, and I want to thank you so much for doing this podcast. So tender of heart. I am here with you listening and rejoicing in small moments of peace.

[@user-cd6tk7pz1s]

Love X1000 your podcast, you, Jonathan and your guests keep me company while I work and it's like hanging out with friends.

[@edinaalic4500]

Bravo 🙌

[@charlottebeseke5596]

Success, for me, the writing of your thoughts, (like Dan did), is the most exciting and wonderful way to find peace and connection to the spiritual side of our lives in this universe. The writing distracts my mind from wandering without purpose. What I write always amazes me so I feel a connection to the divine. However we have to disciplined in just starting, and sometimes the writing starts out from your conscious mind and gradually changes to the wisdom of the ages. It's not about right or wrong. It's about trusting that there is a non-physical side of life where love, peace, contentment and wisdom reside.

[@MayimBialik]

💯

[@pamelamiller9571]

Thank you so much for this interview and for sharing your own experience as it really helped me! The 10% Happier app helped me get started in meditation years ago, but I lost track. This motivated me to restart my meditation journey. Thanks!

[@rozzykronfeld-wilbanks8759]

I’ve meditated for years off and on. When my dad died from Covid in October I could not stop shaking or breathing shallow for weeks. Then, oh ya I forgot I have meditations on my iPhone. Boy, what a difference that made. I need to check out the book. Thanks❤😊

[@MayimBialik]

🫶🫶🫶

[@carlamebane1358]

Wonderful episode, staying with emotions during mediation helps you get there...wherever that is! It is so personal!❤

[@fernandoperezc.7036]

Dan has become wiser 😊

[@samsmulders7908]

Learned alot from this one🙌🏼! I always struggle with the same things Mayim does when I meditate, so thank you Mayim for opening up about it❤️. You guys are amazing🙏🏼!

[@Semper_Iratus]

Thank you.

[@kristendoris7835]

Just when I think, I cannot possibly like your podcast anymore than I already do you introduce me to Dan Harris! When I hear something that really speaks to me or really inspires me I always hit pause and back it up and play it again. I think it took me two hours to get through this episode because it was so dang good! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

[@JaneDoe-ft8sz]

His podcast is one of my favorites. He asks great questions because he really listens to his guests. Can't recommend it enough.

[@angieshortt1111]

This is the first full episode I’ve listened to/watched & I LOOOOVED it!! I love how open & transparent Mayim is & I just love her anyways but I’m subscribed now looking forward to other excellent episodes 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@MayimBialik]

Wahoooo, happy you're here, Angie!! 🎉🧠🫶

[@angieshortt1111]

@@MayimBialik thank you & thank you for your podcast! 💙💙💙

[@erin723]

Whoa. Epic and 🤯. Mayim, I require a genuine follow up to hear if you were able to incorporate Dan’s words into your meditation practice. And Dan was spot on when he made his last comment about your doing a public service with what you say (and should stop) is self-indulgent. I can say with certainty that speaking one’s truth allows others to exhale and feel safer in speaking their truth. At our age, WTF are we still hiding from?! Dan - thank you. ❤

[@MayimBialik]

Thanks for the lovely note, Erin! Peep my IG for daily meditation updates 👀🧘

[@808bobbyo]

I love this conversation. I had a 20 year addiction. I started to become a little aware when i found recovery. Then i started my meditation journey. The power of now also changed my life in helping me to be more present and aware. I read that 3 years ago. My meditation practice evolves as my life evolves. I am buying Dan's book. I am enrolled in the Jay Shetty Certification School and I'm excited to add this book as a resource when coaching clients. Sending love and light to you all.

[@DarkBlueMemories96]

I listened to this podcast and took Dan's words and tips about mindfulness and meditation, and somehow I found myself practising mindfulness as I ran. I haven't exercised in a long time because I had been in crisis and keep in mind that I've only very recently started to getting back to being active and trying to take control of my health and body after letting it go for so long. I've somehow, managed to keep myself motivated to do a 10km run, on a whim, despite being totally gassed out at the 6km mark and did that with a rather decent time for a novice my age group. And the amazing thing is that I've noticed that I am much more aware with the people around me and their need. And i think that is pretty dang cool. So, thank you! This helped me with taking another small, but important step in learning to love myself and towards recovery after a crisis. 😊

[@CesarAnton]

Thanks Mayim

[@pd4887]

Omg this was sooo good, thank you guys! For me the pivotal moment when I started to meditate was when I heard a celebrity talk about his meditation practice. Mind you I was actively learning and wanting to meditate and wasn’t able to for years to do it everyday, or with the ease I needed, and not to be this struggle. It’s just bizarre how it clicks sometimes and makes mediation part of your life. The benefits are to say least, if anything happens bad, I don’t go crazy, or dwell on it, and make it worse. Thank you again and I’m so happy that more ppl are aware of this technique thanks to you guys!

[@louisaho2808]

Thank you Mayim, Jonathan & Dan for this podcast! It is a great reminder about meditation being a regular practice like doing a bicep curl, and with that, learning to be with okay and resilient with the things going on in my life. Thank you!

[@MayimBialik]

💪

[@theQuietminds]

Omg! Why was this just revealed to me!? I had no idea you were podcasting! This is so true! As someone who has been practicing meditation for a decade, each session always surprises me still on how its like experiencing it for the 1st time.

[@maxkennedy172]

Holy crap i loved the character you played in BBT, im def gonna add your podcasts to my play next tab

[@Selina-xs1hm]

Key to take away all the distractions!

[@beckynelson9131]

He's AMAZING! Thank you so much! I gave up meditating and yoga because I thought my mind had to be quiet! Had I known then! Oh, well. Thanks again!❤

[@thisisme1999]

Thank you for this, I am struggling with crazy anxiety recently and trying to find a way out of it has been hard. I have used some guided mediation with helpful results and I have explored mindfulness a little and can see the value there. It is my journey and I really need to be less hard on myself.

[@PossumLover1111]

I recently read Dan Harris' book and loved it. It's a great read. Do I meditate? No, not yet. Perhaps I need to buy his latest book about fidgety people. Harris is so very likable and real.

[@Pronchick1]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you so much Mayim, Dan and Jonathan! Terrific interview. Thank you Mayim for being so open - as Dan said, you are helping all of us. I’ve been practicing and teaching meditation for thirty years and I continue to learn. Lovingkindness is my go to practice. 💗💗💗

[@MayimBialik]

💗💗💗

[@matiaspereira9382]

You're awesome ​@@MayimBialik

[@Heene1028]

Like so many, I spent the majority of my life saying that I can’t meditate… I can’t quiet my brain… I can’t sit that long. Then a few years ago, I just relaxed. I just closed my eyes and just relaxed. I focusing on my breathing and then I started listening to different meditation videos and wow look at me now! I’m an expert Meditator! And I’m so glad you brought up meditating in the car my friends freak out when I tell them I do that and I said no it’s a different level of brain activity. I’m not going into a trance. Love you and Jonathan so much! BTW: I am no longer depressed, addiction oriented, etc!!! 🎉❤💃💚💙💜🤍

[@matiaspereira9382]

I just heard you'll return as Amy in Young Sheldon, Mayim! I'm really happy! I've really wanted you to return as Amy! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!

[@raycin313]

I loved hearing that description of his initial meditation experience. When I first began practicing Vipassana, I could barely go five minutes, and felt physical pain in my abdomen. I had previously practiced a couple of other methods, but mindfullness was SO difficult. I'm still a bit surprised that I stayed with it.

[@bryandraughn9830]

I start hearing crickets when I meditate. It gets pretty loud sometimes. I could handle a panic attack if it wasn't for the suffocating feeling. I'm breathing but I feel completely smothered. That's the worst part of it for me. It's terrifying. Dan, I love how you are using curiosity to study the mind instead of trying to achieve some desire. That's very helpful to me.

[@bella1975]

It is great that Mayim does these videos. We have to encourage our selves in the voice in our head. I think Dan Harris did well in using the fact that he is a journalist to access help. He seems to have come a long way. Meditation definetly helps.

[@CutieWarrior-ol8ik]

The voices in my head are very loud. But that's not always bad. Sometimes I really enjoy listening to the internal discussions. However, they have now become a little more silent (because of hypnosis 🔥🌺✨) Meditation always helps me deal with big feelings. Mr. Harris had some great tips. Also My first thought when I saw Mayim in this episode was: Uiiii so cuddly😍😅

[@richardkirchknopf2215]

As with many others, I found this podcast very engrossing and something I could connect with. I read Eckhart Tolle's Power of Now at least 10 years ago. The fact that the past and the future do not exist and we spend much energy on that kind of mental fiction made sense, but I did not have the tools to do much with that knowledge. Later I read the Cow In the Parking Lot as a way to try to deal with my personal anger issues. That was very much about using Buddhist concepts to deal with things that tended to enrage me (very much an ongoing work in progress). Later finding all kinds of information on Meditation, which I have been working with for the last few years, and all that jives with everything you guys have been discussing. Much like Mayim, I have not achieved that moment of mental detachment that you describe. But at least there are brief periods of time where I can quiet the voice in my head. I still need to work on meditating every day, but the last few years have at least felt like positive progress, enough so that it motivates me to keep at it.

[@meganc731]

Another great episode! Mayim, have you tried yoga before meditation? I joined a studio last month and have been having amazing experiences. When I walk in, I try to let go of expectations and stay curious about what that day has for me to experience.

[@jwb52z9]

There is such a thing as a moving meditation that can take all kinds of forms.

[@westminster860]

I just love Dan. And of course Myan it goes without saying ❤

[@verkanntoderverwunschen]

love how carl jung's "meditation" (?) journeys (is that context still lock-and-keyed) in the red book (and his art) are- i know that in the footnotes it mentions he dealt with a lot of people whose imaginations certainly were lock-and-keyed and that he himself had to work himself out of blanking them off and he does poetically paint that as a bit of a monstrous dialogue-natured process?? so beautiful to get to read it in the original, i don't think i'm aware of a lot of the references he wrote it around but it unfolds very distinctly and grabs a hold of my imaginal interworkings (huh meant innerworkings but hey)! he seems to show he understood what he was illustrating, atleast to my mind but he didn't exactly seem sober to me. maybe that's what it him took to dislodge what holds true even in sobriety about the odder inner-mind though. something makes me scrunch my eyebrows at this usage of "desire" 🤔 okay dschinn's go on the creature feature case of the week list

[@michelep.7249]

I really enjoyed this presentation. I found mantra meditation a little over 20 years ago and it has blessed my life immensely. I would choose a mantra to help build my self esteem and focus on the mantra and my breath for 45 minutes 5 days a week. Would change the mantra every week by analyzing my negative thoughts and coming up with a mantra to counter the negative thought. This did wonders for my self esteem, especially after doing this for a year and a half (very motivated to improve my self esteem). Hope Mayim utilizes the mantra meditation Dan taught her and hope this benefits her as much as mantra meditation has benefited me.

[@kathythomas4839]

We are our own worst critics!

[@the1ladytammy]

As someone with severe unmedicated ADHD, it is hard to quiet the mind but it can be done.

[@angelhix3568]

Happy, healthy, safe, ease of life, Wishing that on others, projecting it on others, comes back to you. Practice on everyone I encounter, even annoying people, we are all annoying at times, we are all the same, sometimes the people we can’t stand have the same qualities we have, and when we accept them we break down our own hatred of ourself , accept ourself as legitimate beings. Love❤yourself, sometimes you have to love others first. ????

[@traceycrigger236]

I am not into meditation for personal reasons. However, being mindful or being more in the present moment is a form of meditation. I pray and practice being in the moment.

[@cindyatkins6294]

Reiki Rachel is awesome, she is on KZbin and it helped my meditation immensely!!!!

[@j.t.mckinney7756]

I've only been *trying* to practice mindfulness meditation for about a year and a half, now, so I can't begin to speak with authority on the matter. But, in my limited experience, I'd describe the "growth" that Mayim is asking about at 1:10:15 is something like this: The unmindful mind is like an extremely cluttered living space where there are piles and scattered objects blotting out furniture, walkways, and doorways. Each time you practice mindfulness meditation, you are slowly clearing out one room in this living space. Each time your return for practice, you might have to clear another object out of that space that has reappeared, but each time you return for practice, it's definitely clearer than when you first entered. And gradually, this room becomes a very special place in your consciousness that you can choose to go throughout your day -- a space within your living space -- where you can see things from an honest, non-judgmental, unhurried perspective.

[@westminster860]

These are all things that we hear from our psychotherapists if we're listening and comprehending. ❤

[@7aloha7]

The ads are so annoying and disrupt the flow! Maybe rhey could be at the end letting viewers know that watching them supports the channel.

[@debp7849]

Have you had Dr.Judson Brewer on? I think you should check out his work. Great interview.

[@angieshortt1111]

Ok I went back specifically to find this episode, if it still applies, but Mayim talks about her difficulty with meditation & I know a lot of people can relate so today I watched a video on KZbin that made me think this might help with the meditation issue -the interview is Brian Scott who I love & he’s interviewing R.J.Spina who healed himself from being paralyzed from the chest down & other life threatening illnesses he had going on all at once in like 100 days but anyway the interview had so much helpful info on meditation as well as lots if other awesome subjects it may be helpful to some

[@kimberlyswartz922]

Love this. You guys should have Lincoln Gergar on your show. He takes meditation and self examination to a crazy new level. Check him out!

[@lala_bee]

I read Dan Harris' book and don't remember him saying anything about cocaine. Uh, okay, Dan.

[@jennifersinclair5988]

Mayim, when Dan said that being less self-centered would lead you to being more available for other people, I kinda thought - no. I mean, for you in particular. You are a woman, with our estrogen, always putting us out for other people. Especially as a HSP. I thought (and of course, this is just my humble opinion), you should use the extra space brought on by meditation, to build your relationship with nature and her version of quiet, and replenish your own heart. You have a busy verbal brain, with which you have given many gifts, and the presence of others is maybe just going to get that brain going again. I also wanted to tell you about something I have been doing recently, when old painful memories surface and trouble me: I say, this is just a memory. I don't need to relive the shame (usually) it brings up. It's just a memory. It makes it easier for me. With thanks for all you do.

[@Neceros]

Please consider inviting more near death experiencers

[@lada3145]

I don't know if I'm doing this right... but because I am in insomniac and have been since I was a kid my mom taught me to find a way to clear my mind... I envision a blackboard with all my 'stuff' written down in chalk... I run through my list of the day in point form I.e. •got up the stupid coffee maker didn't start-annoyed, •readjusted my mental schedule, started coffee, had shower while it brewed instead Something stupid like that, state the 'thing' how it made me feel but not dwell on the emotion but instead as a fact. Once I state it I mentally envision wiping it off the board... when I reach the end I've cleared off the whole board and just have a big black space with nothing to think about... and I zoom in on that blackness or nothingness so there's no space left inside my brain for other thoughts, then I start focusing on how my body feels starting at my feet and slowly work up my body relaxing and putting each to sleep... and in 30ish years I've never gotten past my knees before I'm sound asleep.

[@susanwenger8448]

That's your soul. Your soul is separate from your body. A painter is not the painting.

[@labab1048]

I also heard it explained as such… “The eye can see all but itself…you are that self”

[@jwb52z9]

If you meditate long enough, meaning over time, you can reach a point where the mind does start to still during meditation. Even long before enlightenment is reached at the moment of ego death, you can reach various points such that your mind stops being like a hamster wheel gone amok. You can reach a point where you can go for longer and longer periods of time without an unwanted thought. Life feels very different once you commit to such a path.

[@TheresaDisharoon]

Mayim, I do not count to fifty, but repeat 'in and out" and set a timer for one minute.

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

Mayim, when you said that you feel as if you're reaching I perceived that you may be trying too hard. Jon Kabat-Zinn says every meditation is a new beginning. What I call the Silence finds me. I don't find it. And it's been a really long time since it found me.;

[@jennyhong6746]

WHAT THEFUCKKKKK! This proves what we focus on creates our reality! Just the other dayI was looking up panic attacks and saw that vid of him!!! Weird!

[@Merzui-kg8ds]

Meditation, for me, leads to insomnia. Insomnia is not good for physical or mental health, so I had to (reluctantly) give up meditation. I am not the only person who has a negative outcome from meditation. This should be known by anyone attempting meditation. It is not a perfect solution for everyone, even if it is often presented as such.

[@7aloha7]

Cannor find Dan's app. Would like a link please.

[@MayimBialik]

Hi there! Here's a link to the app: app.tenpercent.com/link/download Hope you enjoy!

[@7aloha7]

@@MayimBialik thank you!

[@MayimBialik]

Which forms of meditation have you tried? What works best for you?? 🧘

[@altaresjoyceee]

Mostly, movement meditation, i walked with my fiancé every Friday and Saturday night like 5pm-8pm and focused meditation, like i love watching the moon or the stars 😊

[@labab1048]

Transcendental meditation

[@Charity-vm4bt]

Contemplation. Richard Rohr is one example of a teacher who has been around for a long time. The method goes deeper than meditation. He is a Franciscan priest, however, his teaching is "accessible" to the spirituality of people of various religious beliefs and "traditions." It is "universal" but God focused (rather than an anonymous "universe.") Contemporary meditation teachers I recommend are Thomas Hubl, Alex Howard. Craig Hamilton. Jeffrey Allen. Dr. Rick Hanson and his son Forrest Hanson are good for thoughtful family and relationship counseling. They take this to a deeper level of understanding for all people to benefit from.

[@user-fq9un9bz8b]

I had a panic attack when I heard about my mayim bialik being in a very bad car 🚗 accident due to a drunk 🥴 driver and she almost died i didn't like that I care so much for her ❤ she s. she's doing well now and that makes me happy to know that she's happy 😊 and healthy I really really like her alote and I'm. Still waiting for her to return back to the jeopardy stage Amanda Miller Rockledge Florida

[@KaarinaKimdaly]

Do you have an algorithmic censorship 'team'?

[@alg11297]

The greatest part of meditation is that it's impossible to do it incorrectly and it's also impossible to ascertain if you have any results. The idea is to clear you mind of all other ideas: in other words: stop thinking. It's encouraging you to be stupid as a cure. What a load.

[@Merzui-kg8ds]

Read: War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, by Chris Hedges. Lines up with feelings of reporting in war zones.

[@davisneves]

wait... who is Mayim's husband!? Johnathan!?