The fast pace of today’s world can make us feel frantic and disconnected from our experiences. It has become too easy to focus on the expectations of others and succumb to fear-based motivations. Do simple tools exist to bring us back to peace-of-mind? Or, does everything have to be a struggle? To understand how we can reclaim calm in this tumultuous world, Harvesting Happiness Podcast Host Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with meditation teacher and award-winning writer and journalist, Dr. Danny Penman. Danny shares the latest neuroscience research findings and the meditations in his latest book, Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World, which he co-authored with Dr. Mark Williams. He describes Feeling Tone mindfulness tools that help reduce stress, anger, and depression. 

Dr. Danny Penman — Reclaim Your Calm:

• Neuroscience shows that we create our own reality. [3:40]
• Why do so many people suffer mental distress? [7:45]
• In the book, Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World, the mindfulness practices are simple and practical. [10:50] 
• How mindfulness techniques help curb anxiety, stress, and depression. [21:19]
• Simple interventions to create mindfulness and sanity. [27:10]

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About Lisa’s guest:

Dr. Danny Penman is a meditation teacher, award-winning writer, and journalist. He is co-author of the two-million-selling Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World. He has received journalism awards from the Humane Society of the United States and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In 2014, he won the British Medical Association’s Best Book Award for You Are Not Your Pain. Danny’s books are now used in healthcare systems around the world to help people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, and chronic pain. They have been translated into more than 30 languages.

“In positive psychology research, recalling positive memory and emotion is an intervention.”  - Lisa Cypers Kamen

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