10% Happier with Dan Harris How To Increase Performance By Working At Your Edge -- Plus A Quick Hack For When Panic or Anxiety Swells
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Feb 22, 2026 
Dr. Michael Gervais, high-performance psychologist who trains elite athletes and leaders. He talks about working at your edge in meditation and performance. They discuss practical self-talk and a quick hack for surging panic. Conversations also cover emotional agility, recovery vs stress, and operating from love as an Ideal Competitive Mindset.
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Treat Meditation Like A Muscle
- Practice meditation as a muscle: focus on one thing, notice distraction, and start again repeatedly.
- Over time this builds mindfulness so you can see thoughts without being owned by them.
Use Kind Self-Talk In Panic
- Use compassionate self-talk and third-person self-reference to calm panic and increase physiological regulation.
- Combine mindfulness to notice dysregulation then speak kindly to yourself like a coach or use your name in self-talk.
Exposure Therapy For Flight Fear
- Dan Harris describes ongoing panic disorder and his use of exposure therapy with his therapist Paul Green to fly unmedicated on small commuter planes.
- He balances medication (low-dose Klonopin) and graded exposure to avoid avoidance and retraumatization.
