December - 2018

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Weight Training For Your Brain: Meditation Tips for the Disinclined

We know that meditation is good for us. A quick internet search of “scientific study benefits of meditation” yields 13,000,000 hits. But we also know that we are busy, and meditation is hard and not very interesting and when in the day are we supposed to stop everything lie down and empty our minds? First thing in the morning? Please. Last thing at night? How? [feel free to insert any other excuses here]. Meditation is like weight training for the brain. It is the opposite of

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