Nowadays, the moment you get home after a full day at the office, your smartphone might buzz before you’ve even put down your bag. If it’s not a phone call from your boss, it’s an e-mail or text message from a co-worker, or some other notification saying, “Don’t relax! I need your attention! Right now!” These days, it’s hard to find any space for genuine relaxation at all.
This is where meditation is extremely helpful. It has been proven over thousands of years to interrupt cyclical patterns of stress.
People sometimes ask me, “Other than meditation, what can I do to undermine these patterns of stressful thinking?” Often, this feels to me like going to your doctor and saying, “Other than exercise and healthy eating, what can I do to lose weight?” In a similar fashion, there may be “hacks” or “cheats” out there, but they won’t get to the root of how to deal with your stress in the same way as regular mindfulness of the breath practice will~!
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