You don’t have to be a monk to meditate.

Sometimes life is too intense.  Too much going on.  Not enough ah ha moments.

Brain scans done on people who meditate prove that the body pushes more blood to the brain creating more happiness and calm.

For those having difficulty mediating, here’s the workaround:

1. Ten minutes a day – set an alarm.
2. Phone off.
3. Find a place to be undisturbed but it can be done anywhere
4. One deep breath through the nose and out through the mouth, close your eyes, feel the weight of your body and mentally scan down from the head to foot to discover how your body feels.

For some reason we think we have to take meditation classes to get the proven medical benefits of just 10 minutes of stress relief per day.

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