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Ten Percent Happier · May 20, 2024 · 60m
How to Actually Be Happy
Sharon Salzberg on loving-kindness meditation as a trainable skill. Happiness isn't getting what you want — it's the capacity to be present with what is. Metta practice builds the 'muscle' of connection that the hedonic treadmill can't erode.
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Salzberg: loving-kindness (metta) meditation is a practice of deliberately generating warmth toward yourself and others. Research shows it increases social connection, reduces implicit bias, and improves relationship satisfaction.
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