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What we talk about when we talk about meditation: Days One Hundred Fifteen –...
I talk about a lot of things with my friend Roxanne. I was friends with her before she became a doctor and I’m friends with her still. She listens more than she talks. A couple of weeks ago we sat...
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Mantra Shmantra: Days One Hundred Fifty-Seven – One Hundred Sixty-Four
Here’s what I know: Sit yourself down in a comfortable position. I like to sit on a straight backed chair with my bare feet flat on the floor. No crossed legs or fancy positions. I place my hands...
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Accountancy: Days Two Hundred Fifty-Two – Two Hundred Fifty-Five
“You are the poster child for meditation,” my lunch date said to me today. “Yes, I am.” I say that without sarcasm and without much modesty either. I acknowledge success. I have been meditating on an...
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Meditating Angry: Day Two Hundred Ninety-One
For the past few days, life feels more unsettled than usual. Everything is roiling around inside me and I just can’t put my finger on it. This leaves me cranky and when I’m cranky I become...
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The Gift
I care about myself enough to give myself twenty minutes of stillness every day. It is what I do for me, but my moment of meditation reflects all moments like mirrors set up to face each other so the...
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More Bad Juju
Yesterday I was hit with a bad juju. I’ve been meditating faithfully, every day twenty minutes, trying to inoculate myself from an onslaught of tragedy and ingratitude. There is no immunity no matter...
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Re/\Active
I used to think that meditation made me less reactive. I was wrong. I get hurt, I get angry, I get irrational. I react. But, since I have begun to meditate, there is a pause between the action from...
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Advice
Not Me This is the most useful advice I have received to support my meditation practice: Sit in a comfortable position. For me, that is in a straight-backed chair with my feet flat on the ground. Treat...
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Still Life with Distraction
Phone rings, dog barks, my nose itches. What interrupts you in the middle of your meditation practice? There are thoughts, of course and the goal is to let the thoughts float on by. Sometimes I have an...
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Measure for Measure
The latest study on the benefits of meditation was released this week in JAMA and covered by all the usual suspects (Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Forbes). The study concludes there is no...
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