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Meditation Consciousness And Perception: Meditation's Research Proposal

(Schure, Christopher, and Christopher) While many may feel that they do not have the time to mediate, there are moments throughout the day when the practice could easily arise naturally. Waiting in line, often a undesirable experience, can be a time to focus inward as well. Listen to your breathing, watch your thoughts pass and see how, weird, sad, interesting, profound or just plain ridiculous they are. Meditation, in plain English, is in actuality the art of doing nothing. Both waiting and meditation have this in common. Of course this can be difficult depending on one's frustration level and anxiety, but all the more reason to find alternatives since we know the poor health benefit to these conditions. After all if so much time is spent in waiting, and this detracts from living life, why not make it a part of life that can be of benefit, it is after all a choice.

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