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How to Train a Happy Mind book launch conversation with Scott Snibbe and Vicki Mackenzi

How to Train a Happy Mind book launch conversation with Scott Snibbe and Vicki Mackenzi

FromA Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment


How to Train a Happy Mind book launch conversation with Scott Snibbe and Vicki Mackenzi

FromA Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Mar 12, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This is an exciting episode for the podcast because my book, How to Train a Happy Mind, comes out today. To celebrate its release, we're sharing a conversation I had with best-selling author Vicki McKenzie a couple of weeks ago at a book preview event in London, in front of a live audience.This podcast is where I developed most of the ideas for the book, based on more than a decade leading meditations that eventually formed many of our episodes. I want to thank all our listeners for your feedback and support over these four years. You've helped me develop the book's simple eight-step program that combines Tibetan Buddhism with modern science and psychology. I'm excited to hear what you think about it.If you'd like to buy How to Train a Happy Mind, you can find it anywhere you buy books. I've donated all my proceeds from the book to the Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment nonprofit. So your purchase helps support this podcast. If you end up enjoying the book, please consider reviewing it on Amazon or Goodreads, which will help other people discover it.Episode 153: How to Train a Happy Mind book launch conversation with Scott Snibbe and Vicki MackenziOn March 12, podcast host Scott Snibbe's book How to Train a Happy Mind  with  a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be release worldwide. Book events in New York, California, and New Mexico will feature Scott with some of the great artists, authors and activists you’ve heard on the podcast like Robert Thurman, Laurie Anderson, and sujatha baliga. Go skepticspath.org for more details on the book and tour.Support the show
Released:
Mar 12, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment brings the inner science of Buddhist meditation to twenty-first century people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. It is a secular approach to meditation that requires no belief beyond our current understanding of science and psychology. Skeptic’s Path meditations are based on powerful analytical meditation techniques that use imagination, emotions, and critical inquiry to probe our inner and outer realities and expand our compassion. These Tibetan Buddhist mind training techniques expand on the popular mindfulness approach to meditation to help us better understand our minds from the inside out, and build healthy mental habits that are the true causes of happiness. Each week in discussions, guided meditations and interviews, we explore the vast variety of analytic meditation topics including love, compassion, sleep, tonglen, vipassana, stress, the body, meditation posture, anger, anxiety, addiction, grief, forgiveness, patience, confidence, loneliness, work, relationships, and more.