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Put together anonymously by a clearly devoted Fab Four fan, The Beatles Anthology Revisited is an 18-part, 28-hour podcast telling the band's story entirely in their own words, those who were there, and various TV and radio newsreels of the time. There are also Beatles tunes, of course, most released, some buried treasures.
It's both exhilarating and exhausting, but, if you take a break every four or five hours, your life will finally have meaning. 
Bottom line, it's everything you ever wanted to know about The Beatles, and a little bit more...

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Beatles Anthology Revisited #1

One of the admittedly quite counterintuitive skills we learn in mindfulness is the ability to distinguish between thinking and awareness. To use a classic metaphor from consciousness studies, awareness is like the empty stage. Thinking is one of the actors that trots onto that stage—along with seeing, hearing, feeling etc. When we're mindful of our thinking, we have more choice about whether we want to reinforce a particular pattern of rumination or not. This is the beginning; part two [https://soundcloud.com/jeff-warren-5/mindfulness-of-thinking-wdanharris-15min] goes more deeply into the thinking process.
 
Also called "Catch Thinking in the Act", this meditation is from the book Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, coauthored with Dan Harris and Carlye Adler. The book's dozen or so other meditations can be found on the 10% Happier app. Enjoy!
 
Jeff
For more free meditations, see www.jeffwarren.org

Resources:

"classic metaphor": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_workspace_theory
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: http://jeffwarren.org/media/books/meditation-fidgety-skeptics/
10% Happier App: http://www.10percenthappier.com/

Mindfulness of Thinking - Part 1

Here’s a 5-minute guided meditation called "The Most Basic Meditation,” from the 10% Happier app. It’s about staying open and centred even when we’re tense. You can do this meditation sitting, or while walking around.

Just a few minutes can feel like a mini-reset.

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MattGerhard

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