Happiness Break: A Meditation to Inspire a Sense of Purpose

Take a few minutes to reflect on someone who inspires you, and how you can embody the values you admire in them.

Link to episode transcript: https://tinyurl.com/4x2whvzb

How to Do This Practice:

1. Find a comfortable place to do this practice and settle into a relaxed pattern of breath.

2. Think of someone who’s character has moved and inspired you. Focus on a specific time when they did something that inspired you.

3. Notice the feelings that arise in your body when you reflect on that person’s moral beauty.

4. Reflect on why that aspect of moral beauty is so significant and meaningful to you.

5. Think of how you can strive to incorporate it into your own life.

Today’s Happiness Break host:

Dacher Keltner is the host of the Greater Good Science Center’s award-winning podcast, The Science of Happiness and is a co-instructor of the GGSC’s popular online course of the same name. He’s also the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Check out Dacher’s most recent book, *Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life: *