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Listen now. Desire, aversion, sleepiness, restlessness, and

doubt. We recognize them as familiar parts of being human, yet in

meditation, they can feel like unwelcome intrusions. In Obstacles

as Teachers, a new series, Tuere Sala offers a different way to

understand them.

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Obstacles as Teachers

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New Series

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Artwork by Clive Watts

Obstacles as Teachers

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By Tuere Sala

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Desire, aversion,

sleepiness, restlessness, and doubt. We recognize them as

familiar parts of being human, yet in meditation, they can feel

like unwelcome intrusions. In Obstacles as Teachers

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new series, Tuere Sala offers a different way to understand them.

Instead of trying to avoid these states—known in Buddhism

as the five hindrances—we can learn to turn toward them, to use

them. Then, says Sala, the very experiences that seem to disrupt

our practice become guides to greater patience, resilience, and

self-awareness.

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Introduction

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Das ist ein Newsletter von Waking Up (Meditationsplattform). Keine geschäftsrelevante Information. Ggf. Abmeldung erwägen.

Some journeys give us more than stories.

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The Pilgrim's Way

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Series Spotlight

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Artwork by Alys Kuu

Travel can do more than merely expose us to new places.

Some journeys leave us with stories. Others leave us changed.

What separates one from the other has little to do with how far

we go, or even where, and much more to do with the spirit in

which we travel.

In his Waking Up series, The Pilgrim's Way

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Pico Iyer explores the quality that transforms travel into

something deeper. We discover how stillness, clarity, and, above

all, attention can make every journey an act of self-discovery.

In the third session, Land of Earth and Sky

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we cross the open landscapes of Mongolia, where vast spaces clear

the mind. In the seventh, The Quiet Within

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New Sessions: The Science of Flourishing, by Scott Barry Kaufman

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The Science of Flourishing

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What inspires you to act when there’s no promise of

reward? What virtues and abilities seem to come naturally to you?

What sort of moments tend to bring you joy, wonder, and awe?

Artwork by Ceci Erlich

5 New Sessions

The Science of Flourishing

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by Scott Barry Kaufman

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In the second

installment of The Science of Flourishing

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Scott Barry Kaufman asks us to consider the interests, ideals,

and strengths that make each of us distinct. The paradox, he

suggests, is that by embracing our individuality, we’re better

able to move beyond it: to connect more deeply with others, and

to become absorbed in something greater than ourselves.

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Harness Your Intrinsic Passion

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A good plan leaves things out.

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The 333 Technique

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The 333 Technique

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By Oliver Burkeman

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Life can feel like

an endless to-do list. There are always more books to read,

skills to learn, and tasks to accomplish than any of us will ever

have time for. Productivity systems can help. But too often, they

add to the very sense of overwhelm they’re meant to relieve.

In The 333 Technique

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session from his series You Are Here, Oliver Burkeman shows us

how to build a productivity system that acknowledges our

limitations, and shares the deceptively simple one he uses each

day. We learn why our plans shouldn’t try to capture everything,

and why loose structure works better than too little or too much.

It isn’t about trying to do everything, but about accepting that

we never will—and doing what matters anyway.

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About the Teacher

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A new place to see how you’ve been using the app.

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Introducing Profile & Trends

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You can now find a new Profile tab in Waking Up, at the

bottom of your home screen. It’s a place to see how you’ve been

spending your time across the app.

Profile gives you an overview of your activity from past weeks

and the teachers and sections you listen to most. Your username,

membership details, and total practice minutes have also moved

here from the More tab.

Together, these features offer a new way to look back on how

you’ve been using Waking Up.

The trends in Profile, however, are not a measure of your

practice. They're simply a window into your activity—one that can

help you review your habits, reflect on what has resonated, and

decide what to explore next.

Explore Profile

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Available on app versions 3.25 and later.

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Inside Waking Up: Ayya Ānandabodhī on interconnection, fresh

wallpaper designs, a new tab in the app, and more.

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Inside Waking Up: 5 Highlights

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Artwork by Ceci Erlich

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In a new installment of Knowing Presence

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Ayya Ānandabodhī points to our profound interdependence with the

outside world. Across six new sessions, she invites us to soften

our sense of bodily boundary, explore our connection to nature,

extend goodwill to all living beings, and more.

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Do Not Live For the Future

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In a new video, animator Goce Ilievski uses retro-psychedelic

imagery, accompanied by music from Mark Guiliana, to bring to

life this Moment from Sam Harris about how the only reality we

really have is the present.

Watch Now

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ago, Waking Up didn't exist. It does now because people like you

showed up, practiced, and helped us build an app we're proud of.

For our eighth anniversary, we're giving you 90 days of Waking

Up, free, so you can pick back up right where you left off—no

credit card required, no pressure, just an opportunity to

continue to develop your meditation practice. As Sam Harris says

in his new session Two Reasons to Meditate:

“It simply is the case that understanding certain

truths about the mind can lead to a form of psychological freedom

that most people simply don't know is here.”

— Sam Harris

Thank you for being part of our community. We’d love to

have you back in the app.

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Compositions by Mark Guiliana + selections from Watts,

Goldstein, and others.

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Atmospheres

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Mark Guiliana

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Artwork by Tim O’Brien

Atmospheres

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Renowned musician

Mark Guiliana is often inspired to write music while listening to

Waking Up. Those piano, synthesizer, and percussion pieces became

the backbone of Atmospheres

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30-minute sonic journey that brings together music and spoken

word.

Presented in five parts, Atmospheres features selections from

Alan Watts, Joseph Goldstein, James Low, Jayasāra, and Sam

Harris. The series is designed to complement whatever you’re

doing—walking, working, cooking, driving, or drifting off to

sleep.

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Atmosphere 1

(featuring Alan Watts)

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Listen now. For many people with ADHD, the hardest part of

meditation is built into the instructions: Sit still and try to

focus on one thing. In Meditations for ADHD, a new series,

meditation teacher Mark Coleman—who has ADHD himself—offers

practices for working with distraction, impulsivity,

restlessness, and emotional intensity.

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Meditations for ADHD

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By Mark Coleman

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For many people with

ADHD, the hardest part of meditation is built into the

instructions: Sit still and try to focus on one thing. In

Meditations for ADHD

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new series, meditation teacher Mark Coleman—who has ADHD

himself—offers practices for working with distraction,

impulsivity, restlessness, and emotional intensity.

Behind the Series

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Learn about the new series from Waking Up’s Head of Content,

Nate Green.

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eighth anniversary this month, we find ourselves reflecting on

how grateful we are.

Thank you for having taken the time to explore the app. Quite

simply, Waking Up couldn’t exist without the curiosity and

participation of people like you.

We’ve added some great new series: In DBT: Skills for Life,

psychologist Shireen Rizvi teaches practical techniques for

reining in your emotions the moment they surge. And in The

Science of Flourishing, cognitive scientist Scott Barry Kaufman

asks what it actually means to live well—not just to be happy or

productive, but fulfilled.

To mark this milestone, and to show our appreciation, we’re

giving you a code good for three free months of Waking Up—no

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trial.

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Two Reasons

to Meditate

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“There are many reasons to meditate,” says Sam Harris,

“but they tend to fall into two basic categories.”

Meditation can help us live better. That is, it can help us

experience less anxiety and more love. It can improve our

relationships. It can make us more sane and ethical.

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Two Reasons to Meditate

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by Sam Harris

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Meditation can also

help us understand what is true about our own minds. That is, it

can help us recognize the nature of our moment-to-moment

experience—and of consciousness itself.

These motivations might seem fundamentally different, but in Two

Reasons to Meditate

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new session, Sam explains why they’re ultimately aspects of the

same project.

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Inside Waking Up: Unlocking Consciousness, a sonic journey, new

sessions on Lojong, and more.

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Inside Waking Up: 5 Highlights

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In the latest installment of Seven-Point Mind Training

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pre-recorded talks on Lojong, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo explores this

ancient practice’s transformative potential—to turn suffering

into compassion, emotion into virtue, adversity into growth, and

judgment of others into self-reflection.

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Waking Up Turns 8

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We’re celebrating our eighth

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