3 Reasons Medical Marijuana Should Be Our Anxiety Antidote

Approximately 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety— and I used to be one of them.

After being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in my mid-20s, I found myself facing a long road of treatment. I had no idea what to expect, and as you can imagine, I felt pretty darn anxious about the whole situation.

I started chemotherapy and was prescribed a cocktail of pills to help calm the side effects. On top of that, I was given anti-anxiety medication to help ease my mind.

Over time, however, after realizing all these pills were only causing even more side effects, I replaced a majority of them with self-prescribed medical marijuana, or MMJ.

Almost immediately, this so-called illicit drug began providing medicinal benefits I simply wasn’t seeing from my pharmaceuticals. I regained my appetite, my palms stopped sweating, I no longer had the hiccups all the time, and best of all, my anxiety melted away.

Take the Natural Route.

Marijuana is a very misunderstood plant — mainly because most of the research conducted about it pertains to its recreational use.

Those who use marijuana recreationally are looking to get high and have fun, not necessarily treat an illness. So, naturally, the plant is mostly recognized for its intoxicating effects and gets labeled as something that will only exacerbate our anxiety and make us feel paranoid.

Much of marijuana’s medicinal value is still flying under the radar. Not a whole lot of people realize it’s possible to ingest MMJ and not feel intoxicated at all yet still reap medicinal benefits. High-cannabidiol strains in particular are known for relieving pain, reducing anxiety, and inducing feelings of relaxation — all while allowing us to maintain our motor skills and not feel loopy.

When compared with pharmaceuticals, taking a natural path to anxiety relief brings clear benefits:

1. Fewer Side Effects.

Traditionally, anxiety is treated with quick-fix benzodiazepines like Xanax — which happens to be the most-prescribed psychiatric medication in the U.S. Patients can pop these pills on an as-needed basis, and within a few minutes, they begin masking the symptoms of anxiety.

Unfortunately, benzos cause side effects such as drowsiness, insomnia, memory problems, poor coordination, slurred speech and irritability. None of these extra issues is worth the couple of hours of relief.

MMJ causes far fewer side effects — and as illustrated by my story, it can actually help us overcome side effects we’re experiencing from other medications.

2. Less Addiction.


In addition to their many side effects, benzodiazepines pose a major addiction risk. MMJ, on the other hand, is not considered to be physically addictive. If a daily user were to suddenly stop taking his or her medicine, there would be no real noticeable withdrawal symptoms to speak of.

In fact, some doctors are even using MMJ to wean patients off deadly pharmaceuticals — and they’ve reported more than a 75 percent success rate.

3. Higher Quality of Life.


All aspects of life are more enjoyable when we can control our anxiety, especially though natural means.

A great thing about MMJ is that it’s highly versatile. Based on our personal preferences, we can choose to smoke, eat or topically apply our medicine. Further, many different strains and dosages are available to choose from, all with differing ratios of active ingredients that produce different effects.

Instead of numbing us to the outside world, MMJ opens our perception and brings levity to our daily functions. One study even found it lowers our responses to negative stimuli, which is an important step in fighting depression.

While all this information is great, it doesn’t mean we can just smoke a joint and forget all our problems. It’s important to work closely with a physician and MMJ dispensary to determine the right strains for us.

Those suffering from anxiety should also undergo regular cognitive behavioral therapy sessions that focus on identifying, challenging and neutralizing the unhelpful thoughts that underlie anxiety disorders. This two-pronged approach — natural medicine paired with therapy — will lead to the best results.

Tackling anxiety is no easy feat — and luckily, it doesn’t have to involve pesky side effects and dangerous addiction. Talk to your doctor today about replacing your pharmaceuticals with MMJ.

3 Reasons Medical Marijuana Should Be Our Anxiety Antidote

Kids on the Edge review – an antidote to the hysteria around gender identity

What a timely programme Kids on the Edge: The Gender Clinic (Channel 4) has proven itself to be. The first of a three-part series that will look at the mental health of children in the UK, this episode focuses in on the work of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust’s gender identity development services in London. These services are now greatly in demand: the clinic has gone from 40 referrals a year a decade ago to 1,400 in 2015. This rapid expansion of parents seeking help and advice has, depressingly, led to a kind of small-scale hysteria in recent times about what it means when children might be trans, bringing with it rabid front pages about them being “damaged” or “confused” by a TV show featuring a transgender character, for example.

I hope the people who rage about such things might also find the time to watch The Gender Clinic, which does a steady job of dismantling many of the panicked, inaccurate fears around what is clearly a complex process. In it, we follow two families discussing the possibility of hormone blockers for their children, which would pause puberty until, in time, a bigger decision can be made. There is Ashley, a headstrong young girl who was born a boy called Ashton, and her mum Terri, who is attempting to keep her daughter safe from bullying at school. And there is Matilda, who has an autistic spectrum disorder and whose gender identity is less defined, though by the end of the programme he is Matt at school. Rachel, Matt’s mother, is supportive but terrified of making the wrong decision for her child in either direction.

As a documentary, this is courageous enough to do what online discussion is often incapable of: explore the subtleties that get lost in the vicious polemics that can dominate the public reporting of such stories. Part of its effectiveness is down to director Peter Beard, who approaches the families with an obvious tenderness. He tells Terri – who is wondering whether to move the whole family again, to better serve Ash’s needs – that “there’s no instruction manual, is there?” His way with the kids is easy and kind. To get to the heart of what Ash is going through, he asks a simple question, made all the more devastating by the response. “What would be the best thing ever?” he asks her, as she plays. “Not being how I am,” she replies, casually, still playing.

It does not shy away from the trickier parts of the picture. Consultant psychiatrist Polly Carmichael explains that often, people are seeking certainty, and the reality is that in the case of hormone blockers, there is no certainty; research in this area is not far-reaching yet. The Tavistock’s staff sit cautiously in the middle of the many areas of debate. She talks about the impact of social media on young people seeking answers or reassurance. Ash, who declares that she will go to Sweden to get a womb transplant and then have a caesarian, Googles everything, says her mother. Carmichael says her patients understand the ideas but not the implications. Part of her role is to explain that “physical intervention is not the panacea to all things”.

There is a grotesque exaggeration perpetuated by some that the doctors and psychiatrists who treat children questioning their identities are trigger-happy gender-abolitionists, ready to strike every tomboy with a shot of testosterone if they so much as hint at cropping their hair. The reality is that the Tavistock’s team are articulate and circumspect. They deal with impossibly tough situations with a gentle level-headedness. This documentary makes clear that when a child is referred to their care, the process is thorough, considered and done in the best interests of both the child and the family.

What contributes to the wider hysteria about gender identity (a hysteria that can be fatal; I am thinking of the death of Lucy Meadows, the teacher who killed herself in 2013 after her gender reassignment became national news) is, in part, a desperate lack of empathy and knowledge. In showing its complicated workings, in showing that professional decisions may take in many different voices over many years, in telling stories that correct misconceptions simply by giving them a human face, perhaps The Gender Clinic might start to redress the balance. Carmichael ends the documentary by admitting that, right now, this is “an evolving picture”. But, she says, she knows one thing: that the young people who have taken this route feel it was right for them.

Kids on the Edge review – an antidote to the hysteria around gender identity

There is an antidote to the failed humanity of the Calais wall

Build a wall … A great wall. But will it be high enough, big enough, thick enough? Will it be Trump-size, visible from space? Will it keep out the undesirables ? Will it protect the lorry drivers and nervous holidaymakers? Will it look nice if we put a few plants around it? Are the French going to raze the Jungle to the ground just as they did Sangatte?

I do not know whether Robert Goodwill, the immigration minister who announced the grand folly of a £1.9m wall in Calais – “We’ve done the fences, now we are doing a wall” – has a clue what he is talking about but this is part of a £17m security package that “we” are partaking in with the French to tackle the problem of the camp in Calais. This is the ultimate in closed thinking.

Walls, barriers, boundaries, borders, blockades: these are structures that make us feel in control, but in the end remind us only of chaos. This is part of the Brexit mentality, part but not all. There is another part that means opening up to a world beyond Europe and righteous Remainers should be wary of constructing even more walls around their own arguments, which seem to outdo each other in convincing us that everything will be terrible for ever.

The result of this on the left – except among those with a vivid enough imagination to actually envisage Jeremy Corbyn shambling down the G20 red carpet in China – is political paralysis. No more pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will, but pessimism about everything. This a truly dangerous place to be. I understand the feeling: the world is going to hell in a handcart, so there is nothing to be done. It is a form of paralysis solved only by moving to places where nothing ever happens: New Zealand, Canada … Failing that, we make little walls around ourselves. Cosy up as the nights draw in and try not to think. About anything.

Strangely, though, the best cure for such a feeling is the opposite. It is getting involved with people who do work to change the lives of others, who make movement possible, whose very work is to pull down barriers not erect them.

This was made clear to me by Undocumented, an exhibition celebrating 10 years of a Bethnal Green clinic run by Doctors of the World which is used by migrants locked out of the healthcare system. In reality, everyone in the UK should be able to access healthcare. One of the myths is that this is what people come here for. The reality is that, if you are homeless and don’t have a national insurance number, you can’t access it.

Sarah (pictured above) explained this to me. She is from South Africa where she had been “correctionally” raped. Men, she said, had come to “fix” her because of her sexuality. She became pregnant and HIV positive. She could not get a GP but the clinic helped her. And there she was, beaming in front of photographs of herself despite her horrific story.

Ibrahim, a former Doctors of the World service user who is now training to practise as UK GP. Photograph: Toby Coulson

A man, Ibrahim Muyhayer, who was a doctor in the Sudanese army but had to leave because of the political volatility, told me how it had taken him five years to access the system. He was charged £2,000 for an ultrasound scan for his pregnant wife though he was earning £50 a week. Now he volunteers in the clinic and is retraining to practise as a doctor here.

This basic ethos of treating medical need, whatever the patient’s immigration status, is what this charity does. This is why it also runs clinics in Calais and works with refugees in Greece.

Users of the clinic often carry stories of awful suffering, torture, loss and rape, but this is the only service providing primary healthcare. Tearing down the barriers. It was the same in Calais. Unlike the immigration minister, I have been to the camps. It would take him an hour to get there. It’s incredible that he has not. Anyone who has actually talked to anyone in the Jungle, or worse, in Grande-Synthe, the camp in Dunkirk, would smell the desperation. Every night, these people risk getting their hands ripped up, breaking their limbs and getting teargassed trying to get over the fences because they feel that they have no life anyway. They will get around a wall.

So this wall is a symbolic gesture to be built with taxpayers’ money. That money could surely be used to fund centres for the processing of asylum claims. But something unforgivable is happening when we cannot even let in the unaccompanied children from the camps. Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, went over with Alf Dubs to try and do something about this. Those kids, with their strange “protectors” lurking behind them, haunt me. These are traumatised children, left to rot and be exploited. The volunteers do the best they can, but the situation is at breaking point.

Nevertheless, to hear the stories of those who have been helped, is to be jolted out of political ennui. Lives can be rebuilt.

A wall is sign of a failure of humanity. In 1964, the artist Joseph Beuys satirised the Berlin wall, suggesting it be raised by 5cm to have better proportions. He made his point and we know what happened to that wall. It is good to be reminded that there are those who build walls but there are those who will build ladders over them. That is called hope.

There is an antidote to the failed humanity of the Calais wall

Tai chi is the best antidote to a digital age

I would really like to say my first genuinely revelatory tai chi second was in the course of the “White Crane” – right hands floating skywards via the last shard of sunlight, toes moving across the wooden floorboards in unison with the group. But it wasn’t. For me the 1st indicators of progress showed up quietly, in between the cracks of a hectic week when I started to shell out interest to things I hadn’t noticed ahead of. One morning I was waiting for the kettle to boil when I realised I was standing in Form A single – a straight standing posture – but it felt completely wrong. Hearing my teacher’s voice in my head I dropped the stress in my jaw, my shoulders, my chest, my hands and my stomach and, feeling jaunty once again, manufactured a note to myself not to give up on the tai chi just yet.

Talking to family and close friends, I’ve noticed there are still broad misconceptions about tai chi in this nation. Not least that it’s an classy, feminine and somewhat useless martial art, reserved for the elderly. Our class, of all sizes and ages, has twice as many males than women. One of my teachers, David Klug, who’s been teaching tai chi because 1989, insists: “The hardest men and women to train are dancers, since tai chi genuinely will get intriguing when you forget about what you look like, and start to recognize how you feel.” The teachings cherish stability, balance and power in excess of grace, and Klug is encouraging me to be “dumpier, like a sack of potatoes”.

Tai chi is mentally, as effectively as physically, grounding. I’m obtaining it the ideal antidote to the speed set by the digital globe possessing been seduced for many years by the delights and rewards of click-of-a-button rewards, I’m relearning that functioning slowly, with strategy and intention, can be just as gratifying.

Really do not allow any misleading tips of ancient Chinese superstition put you off both. Klug is a professor of chemistry at Imperial College, and typically refers to the “space cadet-ish” nature of some of the concepts of the art – the all-allusive “chi” or power circulating all around the physique, for illustration.

The healing, stress-relieving likely of tai chi is no wonderful mystery, in accordance to Paul Cavel, a instructor who swears that tai chi helped him recover from a motorcycle accident aged 24 that left him seriously damaged. Now 51 and “more versatile and in greater issue than before the accident”, he gives seminars and lessons all more than the globe.

I inquire him why the movements might be generating me feel much better. “Tai chi functions on a lot of amounts,” he says. “You’ve got to comprehend the nuts and bolts of the movements.” He gives as an example the gentle twisting of the limbs that occurs in several of the movements. “Most people use muscle tissues linearly, when jogging or stretching. But when you chill out your physique and commence this cautious twisting movement, you stretch out the fibres in the tissues. It is like ringing out a moist rag. You release the nerves at a deeper level.”

Seeking for other recovery stories, I was invited to attend a workshop by tai chi master Tony Hardiman at the Chi Clinic in Cheam, Surrey. Hardiman utilizes tai chi as a core portion of his rehabilitation practice, to deal with people with anything at all from acute and persistent illnesses and depression to cancer or debilitating back discomfort. And he’s even assisted a a hundred-year-old lady who believed she’d grow to be also weak to open doors till she attempted tai chi.

Between Hardiman’s pupils was a youthful guy who had grown addicted to the prescriptive medication he’d taken for arthritis since he was ten. He blamed people for his deviation into other, non-prescriptive medicines. The tai chi, he says, helped the two his addiction and his arthritis. “It gives you a substantial like practically nothing else.”

I’d agree with that. Standing in White Crane position this morning in the park (tai chi is greatest outdoors), I would practically have said I was on top of the world. But I’m not serene enough, but, to ignore the looks of canines and walkers as they pass. So I have 1 plea for the summer. Park-goers: make way for tai chi. Or, greater nevertheless, join me.

Tai chi essentials

Tai chi gently twists and elongates tissues that have become tense or suffered physical trauma. It also opens the body to release the central nervous system.

Sophisticated methodical choreography encourages the thoughts and entire body to function with each other. This not only develops coordination and balance tai chi boosts the brain and memory as efficiently as the two significant mental exercises and strenuous aerobic physical exercise.

The grounding nature of the moves and emphasis on bringing awareness to the decrease entire body can aid folks who are “stuck in their heads” soon after a day in the office.

Physicians acknowledge that tai chi improves arterial compliance, i.e. growth and contraction of the arteries, which is critical for heart health, whereas strength training alone brings about a decline in arterial compliance.

In tai chi the emphasis is on inner improvement powering the external. It could not generate six-packs but it has given small women the capacity to lift automobiles.

Three tips for sticking with it

Tai chi rewards a curious thoughts, so consider an curiosity in the tricks that the moves are founded on. The “empty hand rule” is a single of my favourites – any action depends upon what you do with the non-action hand. Ideas of stability like this instill the entire body with automatic internal weighing scales.

Shop close to till you discover a excellent instructor. Tai chi must be tailored to meet your personal needs, and teachers need to be ready to help you spot your personal weak factors and imbalances.

Practise in between courses. I do it for at least five minutes ahead of my morning shower. Not only does it wake you up and clear the thoughts, you will get much more out of it a lot more rapidly.

A 6-week beginners’ program at Central London Tai Chi charges £60 for two hrs a week (centrallondontaichi.com). For much more details about the Chi Clinic check out thechiclinic.co.uk. Paul Cavel’s workshops and seminars are listed on his web site at circlewalking.com.

Tai chi is the best antidote to a digital age

Antidote To Loneliness: The Energy Of Aging Parents" Friendships

If my 91 year previous mother in law, Alice, is any instance, obtaining and forming new friendships as a widow is hard.  Even for girls who are accustomed to becoming the ones to attain out to other individuals, it is even now a challenge to stay socially connected as we age.  Alice is blessed with a clear mind, the capacity to drive in the daytime at least, and an interest in pursuits in her neighborhood. She will get out and does factors even when she has to do so by herself.  Most of her still married pals discriminate towards a widow and no longer incorporate her in their outings.  She’s not portion of a couple any longer and it can hurt.  She has had to adapt.

For the bulk of older adults who discover themselves alone or with an impaired husband or wife who cannot go out, it can be much more of a challenge to meet and relate to others who share some interests.  Some  seniors favor to dwell in seniors’ communities, as Alice does, with at least ready accessibility to other folks who face comparable challenges and have exercise selections that appeal to her age group.  She’s in her personal home, but there is lots to choose from close by, with a health club and pool, club home, classes, and regular plans for enjoyment. And she participates.

Her group of girls pals also gets together to play cards every single week and to share their stories.

Other people prefer independent or assisted living communities where likely friendships are even much more available.

For males, numerous of whom depended on their wives to arrange social activities, there may be a lot more awkwardness in acquiring a social calendar moving. The emotions of isolation and loneliness can become depressing for males and women alike who do not have ready connections.  In some senior communities, especially people with shared cultural, religious or other values, the ambiance is appropriate to connect. But an individual need to take leadership to make individuals connections.  NewBridge on the Charles, a Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL) local community just outside Boston has that leadership amid its residents in an independent residing seniors’ local community.

3 of the men there received together and identified friendship, then invited other individuals to type a men’s club.  It performs. More than a hundred men come together every month to understand from one another and for entertaining and conversation. It helps male residents type particular bonds, share a laugh or two, perform pool or simply be guys.  They have their own group of close friends, whether or not they are married or single.

Gerry, Stan and Malcolm at The Men’s Club

“The Men’s Club at NewBridge has helped the guys right here form new friendships and to share their understanding and lifestyle experiences to the appreciation and amazement of the other guys in the club” says 1 of the founders, Gerry Sands.

Right here at AgingParents.com, we hear about isolated elders from many of their grownup youngsters who fret about the prolonged term results of too significantly alone time.  They have explanation to be concerned. If there is 1 issue to bear in mind, it is that isolation is not great for any person at any age. We are meant to be social to some extent.

If you are anxious about an aging parent who is widowed or cut off from social life, it is properly well worth it to discover regardless of whether groups of like-minded other people exist in their area.  Not everybody is as capable to reach out as we may well like them to be.

There is some thing you can do about it.  Many of us are a lot more adept at world wide web research than our aging mother and father.  We can do the analysis and  locate local community groups, senior centers and clubs quicker than our aging loved ones. We can locate transportation, especially in urban settings, for those who do not drive.  We can help them uncover an choice, suggest it, and if we reside close by, accompany them to verify our their first meeting.

People who make constructive social connections have fewer overall health difficulties, reside longer and get pleasure from a lot more satisfying lives.   You can motivate your parent to try a new group or join a club.  Don’t wait for them to request you for that assist. You can offer it.  Try yet again later on if they decline at first.

With increasing longevity, our loved ones can outlive their spouses and most or all of their close friends. They may need our help and encouragement to make their way to new relationships that protect and sustain them.  Those new connections can also make them happier and less dependent on YOU.

Right up until up coming time,
Carolyn Rosenblatt
AgingParents.com

Antidote To Loneliness: The Energy Of Aging Parents" Friendships

Is meditation the excellent antidote to our tech-filled lives?

Its crossover into Western culture has been gradual. But in 2004, its use in avoiding the relapse of depression was authorized by the Nationwide Institute for Wellness and Clinical Excellence (Great). It has swiftly gained traction given that.

In the previous number of many years, Oprah Winfrey, Arianna Huffington and Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone have declared themselves devotees.

Ok, it’s not so surprising that a self-consciously amazing organization this kind of as Facebook runs regular mindfulness sessions – but Goldman Sachs? Credit Suisse?

Basic Mills, the Cheerios manufacturer, has a corporate mindfulness programme with 700 members. In some company communities – notably Silicon Valley – it is so well-known that you could argue that it has turn into a status symbol, a badge proving how active and critical your occupation is.

But its proponents swear by it. Ben, 32, a football-loving political adviser from Oxford, tries to set aside 15 minutes each and every day to meditate. “It absolutely can make a variation when I do it,” he says. “It provides me more composure. I come to feel a lot more clear-headed.” He was drawn to its guarantee of improved concentration – “my mind tends to wander” – but “the bigger point I took away from it is it teaches you to get the rough with the smooth. Often at work you really feel, like, ‘this is just a nightmare’. But then you think: ‘It will be a nightmare for ten days, then it will pass.’”

Kate, 34, performs in trend and has taken medicine for many years to assist manage her depression. “Medication was only going so far,” she says. “It wasn’t tackling me getting overwhelmed by my thoughts.” She’s been meditating for twenty minutes every single morning for the past 3 many years and says: “The emotion’s nonetheless there but alternatively of feeling, ‘Oh my God, I’m feeling genuinely awful or depressed’, or whatever, you consider a stage back and think: ‘There’s that feeling. It will be there for a even though and then it will go.’”

Paul believes mindfulness meditation “nurtures equanimity. It trains you to have an unshakeable stability of mind, so that you are feeling every thing but not acquiring swamped by it.”

Although I’ve in no way thought of it as “mindfulness”, I reckon I’m rather excellent at appreciating the here and now. Many times a week I’ll note (just a minor smugly) that I’m the only 1 seeking up from my gadget and out of the window on my bus journeys to work. I’m a massive believer in the positive aspects of quiet time, too: a few minutes now and then to acknowledge, and even indulge in, a tiny sadness, frustration or worry. So I arrive at the Light Centre thinking this will be a breeze.

The initial shock is that, aside from getting rid of our shoes, we just sit in the garments we came in, and on ordinary chairs. Paul rings a bell and guides us by means of a 3-minute workout named the “breathing space” (see under). It is immediately apparent that I have a number of newtons of tension in my shoulders. But just taking the time to actively discover how my entire body feels has an immensely calming effect.

It is an additional story when we move on to observing our thoughts. We’re advised to enable every single thought in, approaching it with neutral curiosity. But my thoughts are a cacophony: fragments of the song I heard in the lobby, snatches of earlier conversation and lurches of panic about things I’ve acquired to get done later. And even however I’m usually in a position to allow my emotions in, I typically only do it for just a minute ahead of commencing to consider how I’m going to resolve every thing. Here it feels alien – and a small scary – just to come to feel issues without having doing anything about them.

We end the workout by bringing our interest outwards once again, tuning into sounds and smells and so on. I come to feel quite peculiar afterwards: hyper-alert, wide awake, virtually substantial.

The popularity of mindfulness coincides with a spike in the incidence of depression and anxiousness in Britain. Prescriptions for antidepressants are up from 33.8 million in 2007 to 50.two million in 2012. Job insecurity, financial pressures and attachment to engineering all play their component. Men and women work longer hours, fret a lot more and sleep less.

Consistent stimulation presented by mobile devices – the typical particular person checks their phone every single 6-and-a-half minutes – keeps us completely alert, affecting our ability to focus, type recollections and chill out.

If nervousness is the modern day malaise, probably mindfulness is the cure.

How to produce breathing room

by Paul Christelis

This method can be utilised anytime you come to feel unbalanced, anxious, or basically would like to really feel far more present. It takes no more than three minutes and can be practised at residence, in the office, on the train… anyplace.

one With eyes closed, sit in a straight-backed chair, upright, alert but relaxed. Deliver your attention to your feet. Recognize how they really feel resting on the floor. Then, notice bodily sensations in the entire body – on your skin, in the muscle tissue. Up coming, turn into mindful of your contemplating discover thoughts as they come and go with no acquiring concerned with the content of the thought and then flip interest to any feelings you may be feeling. Be curious about how you are feeling – there’s no need to correct or change how you encounter. Just observe it.

two Now, gather your focus into your breathing. Discover the sensation of air coming into the nostrils and then exiting. Keep your awareness on the organic flow of your breath for a minute or so, being actually interested in the quality of each breath: texture, temperature, length… If your thoughts gets distracted, really do not worry: merely deliver your focus back to your breathing.

three Now, expand your interest outwards so that you come to feel your complete body breathing. Really feel the breath flowing through all components of the physique. You can then extend your awareness past your physique: turn out to be aware of sounds around you, layers of sound, diverse pitches, volumes, textures.

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Is meditation the excellent antidote to our tech-filled lives?