#358: Buddhist Lessons on Anxiety | Leslie Booker | Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris

What It Covers

Leslie Booker, senior meditation teacher, explains how anxiety stems from attempting to control the uncontrollable and shares Buddhist perspectives on impermanence and embodied awareness.

Key Questions Answered

• •Social media reality check: Review your own curated social media posts to recognize everyone else similarly hides struggles, then practice sharing authentic feelings with trusted people for support during anxious periods.
• •Animal awareness practice: Counteract overthinking by engaging biological senses through deliberate breathing techniques, full sensory awareness of surroundings, and present-moment focus without mental commentary to reconnect with bodily signals.
• •Impermanence principle: Recognize anxiety naturally subsides when given time and space, just as weather patterns shift. Remember three truths: nothing is permanent, nothing is perfect, nothing is purely personal.