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How to Train a Happy Mind

How to Train a Happy Mind

Scott Snibbe

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The How to Train a Happy Mind podcast brings meditation to modern people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. Each week, host Scott Snibbe and his guests share powerful mind training techniques that go beyond mindfulness to harness our intelligence, emotions, and imagination. Learn how to build a happy mind, fulfilling relationships, and a better world through a secular approach to meditation that is based on modern science and psychology, yet grounded in the authentic thousand-year old Tibetan Buddhist tradition of analytical meditation.
How to Train a Happy Mind is a project of the nonprofit Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment. Our host, Scott Snibbe, is a twenty-five-year student of Tibetan Buddhism whose teachers include His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Snibbe is the author of the popular How to Train a Happy Mind book, and leads meditation classes and retreats worldwide infused with science, humor, and the realities of the modern world.

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How to Train a Happy Mind - Four Noble Truths of Love with Susan Piver #88
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10/19/21 • 48 min

NYT bestselling author and Buddhist meditation teacher Susan Piver shares her Four Noble Truths of Love, a framework anybody can use for deeper, more fulfilling, and more connected intimate relationships.
Susan Piver is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do", the award-winning How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life, The Wisdom of a Broken Heart, and Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation. Her new book is The Four Noble Truths of Love: Buddhist Wisdom for Modern Relationships, which we talk about in our interview. She is a founder of Lionheart Press and a renowned meditation teacher who leads the Open Heart Project, the world's largest online only meditation center. Learn more about her at susanpiver.com.
Episode 88: Four Noble Truths of Love with Susan Piver

We’ve just launched a new online community where Scott Snibbe leads weekly live meditations for the topics shared in our podcast and How to Train a Happy Mind book. Anyone is welcome to join for free or by donation. Visit our new community website at trainahappymind.org to sign up, take classes, attend special events, and meet fellow students.

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How to Train a Happy Mind - What Is Meditation? #2 [rebroadcast]

What Is Meditation? #2 [rebroadcast]

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02/06/24 • 34 min

Over the past few years meditation has become popular as a way to help reduce stress, be focused at work, sleep better, or simply relax. Yet meditation isn’t just a tool to improve focus or relax, but a way to strengthen the positive qualities we all naturally possess: compassion, kindness, generosity, patience, humor, and finding joy in everyday life. This episode explores this higher purpose of meditation through the less familiar technique of analytic meditationthat uses stories, thoughts, and emotions to steer our minds toward happiness, meaning, and benefiting others.
Episode 2: What Is Meditation?
Four years ago, we created A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment to share the rich tradition of Tibetan Buddhist analytical meditation in a form that requires no belief beyond what science currently accepts. The first 40 episodes of the podcast gradually go through all of these topics, in order, beginning with appreciating the gift of our life and our place in the universe, and gradually moving up to cultivating boundless compassion for all beings and understanding the ultimate nature of our inner and outer realities. Over the next year, interspersed with new interviews, we will be re-releasing newly recorded versions of these talks and meditations.

We’ve just launched a new online community where Scott Snibbe leads weekly live meditations for the topics shared in our podcast and How to Train a Happy Mind book. Anyone is welcome to join for free or by donation. Visit our new community website at trainahappymind.org to sign up, take classes, attend special events, and meet fellow students.

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How to Train a Happy Mind - Embracing Impermanence #9

Embracing Impermanence #9

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03/24/20 • 24 min

We cling to things as if they won’t change, but change is the nature of reality. When we embrace impermanence, we prepare ourselves for big changes, and are able to let go of our fear and anxiety to become more fully present to those around us, to make the most meaningful choices day-to-day, and to more deeply appreciate life’s fleeting pleasures.
Episode 9. Embracing Impermanence
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We’ve just launched a new online community where Scott Snibbe leads weekly live meditations for the topics shared in our podcast and How to Train a Happy Mind book. Anyone is welcome to join for free or by donation. Visit our new community website at trainahappymind.org to sign up, take classes, attend special events, and meet fellow students.

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How to Train a Happy Mind - Guided Meditation: Letting Go of Suffering #16
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05/12/20 • 28 min

A clear-eyed meditation on suffering: both what suffering is, and the mental source of suffering in our delusions of attachment, anger, and self-centered ignorance. We practice the antidotes to these delusions, giving us tools for a more balanced, less self-centered view of our experience that offers sustained stability and happiness through life’s challenges and desires.
Episode 16: Guided Meditation - Letting Go of Suffering
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How to Train a Happy Mind - Guided Meditation: Transforming Bias with Equanimity #23
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06/30/20 • 19 min

The Buddhist meditation on equanimity teaches a technique to eliminate bias and expand our love and concern from family and friends to strangers and even enemies. It tames our fierce attachment to loved ones and our anger toward enemies for a stabler, happier mind and a more just and equitable world.
Episode 23: Guided Meditation: Transforming Bias with Equanimity

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How to Train a Happy Mind - The Red Pill of Renunciation - Embracing Reality as It Is #17
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05/19/20 • 27 min

What do The Matrix and Jerry Seinfeld have to do with renouncing suffering?
Episode 17. The Red Pill of Renunciation - Embracing Reality As It Is

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How to Train a Happy Mind - What Is the Mind? #6

What Is the Mind? #6

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03/03/20 • 19 min

If the mind is our thoughts, then what is it that observes those thoughts? What are we without thoughts? Do we ever truly see an object, or only its mental reconstruction? Though we are all convinced that we have one, science has no agreed definition for consciousness or mind. Even subjectively, the mind is elusive, difficult to pin to any specific mental experience.
Episode 6. What Is the Mind?

We’ve just launched a new online community where Scott Snibbe leads weekly live meditations for the topics shared in our podcast and How to Train a Happy Mind book. Anyone is welcome to join for free or by donation. Visit our new community website at trainahappymind.org to sign up, take classes, attend special events, and meet fellow students.

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How to Train a Happy Mind - Guided Meditation: Alone Together #13

Guided Meditation: Alone Together #13

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04/21/20 • 33 min

Millions are now faced with enforced solitude, while others, in the crush of families together all day, realize how much we needed that time alone we took for granted. The essence of meditation is getting to know yourself alone, without social stimulus, entertainment, or reputation—what we truly are deep inside ourselves. There, we can find in our mind a place of satisfaction that’s equally at ease when we’re alone or when we’re with others.
Episode 13: Guided Meditation — Alone Together
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How to Train a Happy Mind - Guided Meditation on Love #26

Guided Meditation on Love #26

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07/21/20 • 22 min

A guided meditation on love, or loving-kindness, the expansive form of love wishing happiness not only to friends and family but to all beings everywhere including our enemies.
Episode 26. Guided Meditation on Love

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How to Train a Happy Mind - Guided Meditation: Renunciation #18

Guided Meditation: Renunciation #18

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05/26/20 • 23 min

Dostoevsky once said, “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.” This is the point of meditating on renunciation: to gain a clear-eyed sense of our state of mind right now, with many moments of frustration and anger and impatience and craving: feelings that we'd rather be free from. And turning away from these delusions toward liberation, a the true source of refuge that we can find within our own mind.
Episode 18. Guided Meditation: Renunciation

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How many episodes does How to Train a Happy Mind have?

How to Train a Happy Mind currently has 252 episodes available.

What topics does How to Train a Happy Mind cover?

The podcast is about Skeptic, Meditation, Calm, Mind, Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Buddhism, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts, Science and Mindfulness.

What is the most popular episode on How to Train a Happy Mind?

The episode title 'Four Noble Truths of Love with Susan Piver #88' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on How to Train a Happy Mind?

The average episode length on How to Train a Happy Mind is 32 minutes.

How often are episodes of How to Train a Happy Mind released?

Episodes of How to Train a Happy Mind are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of How to Train a Happy Mind?

The first episode of How to Train a Happy Mind was released on Jan 28, 2020.

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