How to Train a Happy Mind
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 292
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Mindfulness at Work with Theo Koffler #69
Theo Koffler, founder of Mindfulness Without Borders, talks about meditation techniques for mindfulness and self-awareness at work.
Episode 69. Mindfulness at Work with Theo Koffler
From August 28 to 3…
10 Minute Mindful Listening Meditation
A 10 minute guided meditation on mindful listening with Theo Koffler, founder of Mindfulness Without Borders
10 Minute Mindful Listening Meditation
From August 28 to 31, Scott Snibbe is leading an in-p…
Theo Koffler on Mindfulness for Teens & Young Adults #68
Theo Koffler, founder of Mindfulness Without Borders talks about mindfulness programs for teens and young adults and tips for parents on being mindfully present to make our lives joyful and meaningfu…
Four Ways to Meditate at Work #67
Four meditations for the workplace including mindful work-life balance, turning every moment into a meditation, dealing with ethical challenges, and an angry boss.
Episode 67. Four Ways to Meditate at…
Ruchika Sikri on Compassionate Corporations and Mindfulness at Google #66
Ruchika Sikri, who lead mindfulness, meditation, leadership and wellbeing programs at Google for 15 years, talks about the role of meditation at work, and what she would say to leaders like Elon Musk…
Mindfulness and Grief #65
Lily Meyersohn is a talented young author newly out of college that I met recently who’s written eloquently about grief, family, youth, and relationships. She’s our guest this week sharing her journe…
10 Minute Breath Meditation #64
A 10 minute guided meditation on the breath with mindfulness and open awareness.
Episode 64. 10 Minute Breath Meditation
From August 28 to 31, Scott Snibbe is leading an in-person meditation retreat at…
10 Minute Body Meditation #63
A 10 minute guided meditation on the body, relaxing into the open connection between body and mind through mindful awareness.
Episode 63. 10 Minute Body Meditation
From August 28 to 31, Scott Snibbe is…
Scott Tusa's Guided Meditation on Open Awareness #62
Scott Tusa leads a guided meditation on open awareness, allowing feelings and thoughts to arise in our body and mind without fixation or judgment.
Episode 62. Scott Tusa's Guided Meditation on Open Aw…
Scott Tusa on Meditation and Mindfulness in Everyday Life #61
Scott Tusa, mindfulness and Buddhist meditation teacher, talks with us on balancing a committed life of a Buddhist practitioner with the everyday life of work, friends, and family. He also shares som…
Why Mindfulness? #60
Could the true cause of happiness be simply thinking about whatever we are doing at the moment, what scientists and meditators call mindfulness?
Episode 60. Why Mindfulness?
From August 28 to 31, Scott…
Vicki Mackenzie on Groundbreaking Buddhist Nuns Tenzin Palmo and Freda Bedi #59
Acclaimed author Vicki Mackenzie on the extraordinary lives of pioneering Buddhist nuns Tenzin Palmo and Freda Bedi, and the bias and prejudice they faced in a system that for thousands of years excl…
What Happens When You Die? #58
What happens when you die? No one knows for sure. But the Tibetan Buddhist system describes a precise series of steps that our consciousness may experience as we die, which we can explore in a medita…
Where Did I Come From? #57
The idea of past lives may not make make sense, and isn’t scientifically verifiable. But still, the question of what we might have been before our conception is one worth asking. Where did I come fro…
Birth, Death, and Infinity #56
I want to tell you a story about birth and death and infinity. We’re all born and we’re all going to die, but I don’t know how many of you have ever felt a connection to infinity. I want to tell you …
Meditation on Loving-Kindness and Compassion with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche #55
A short guided meditation on loving-kindness and compassion by Tibetan Buddhist lama, author, and abstract painter Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.
Episode 55. Meditation on Loving-Kindness and Compassion wi…
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche on Patience, Compassion, and Art #54
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, renowned Tibetan Buddhist lama, author, and abstract expressionist painter talks about the mind, compassion, patience, and art.
Episode 54. Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche on Patien…
Stephen Butler on Openness, Gentleness, and Mr. Rogers' Buddhism #53
Our podcast producer finally steps in front of the mic! Stephen Butler, producer of Grammy-nominated Indigenous and Native American music on gentleness, openness, and the Buddhism of Mr. Rogers.
Epis…
10 Minute Meditation on Love
A 10-Minute guided meditation on love shows us how to expand our love for our partner and family to a loving-kindness that embraces all beings.
10 Minute Meditation on Love
From August 28 to 31, Scott …
I Want to Know What Love Is #52
If you want to know what love is, search beyond eighties songs to the wisdom of Buddhist loving-kindness that expands our love to all beings while also deepening our connection to our partner and fam…