Well, That was Weird

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Here’s another line from the poem I wrote for student worker Z, based on questions she asked and our conversations that ensued:

Let’s start here, with one of my favorite videos that I shared with Z and many other students, which, while not directly about meditation, captures some of the day-to-day benefits one can experience from meditation:

I also encouraged Z to visit Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, California, a Buddhist monastery that is open to the public. She and other college students I referred there, both as individuals or took in groups, all expressed a kind of awe at what they experienced.

As someone who has meditated pretty much daily for decades, for ten or twenty minutes at a pop, and who has led guided meditations for likely more than a thousand people, I believe that’s true.

But you don’t need to take the word of this stranger.

Other strangers have done scholarly research into meditation. They’ve found that people who meditate can:

• Experience increased emotional centeredness

• Express greater compassion

• Improve brain structure

• Increase intelligence

• Reduce pain

• Enhance cognition

• Boost problem solving

• Improve multitasking

• Advance single-tasking

• Reduce anxiety

• Lighten or Eliminate Depression

Much of the above I gleaned from PsyBlog.

And also validated through personal experience.

• Insight Timer

• Calm

• Headspace

• Ten Percent Happier

I prefer Insight Timer, which has a generous free option. I’ve heard good things about all. Breathing Zone is pretty awesome, too.

Which you can download from Positive Psychology, a website for practitioners.

I wish you well on the journey,

Brian

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