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"The Biggest Lie You Tell Yourself"

This post was written by Penelope Trunk: "The biggest lie we tell ourselves is that meditating is not a high priority.

First of all, if you don't realize how much science there is behind meditation, you must be living under a rock. And the book I'm currently kvelling over, The Happiness Advantage, says that meditation, just five minutes a day, is one of the most reliable ways to increase our natural tendency toward happiness.

But I don't want to sound too girly when I tell you to meditate. So I'm telling you instead that the Marine Corp is using meditation to help troops cope with the stress of warfare. Imagine fifty guys sitting cross-legged, eyes shut, with a rifle in every lap. The marines were totally skeptical at first, of course, but in Men's Journal (one of my favorite magazines) there's a great article by Vanessa Gregory about how the soldiers became believers. (This article is not online. Annoying. So here's a link to Science Daily article about Marines meditating.)

Also, I don't want to sound like an overly spiritualized hippie cliché, so I'm also telling you that I learned to meditate when I was playing professional beach volleyball. Many professional athletes meditate because at that level, everyone has the skills to be the best, but only a few have the mental strength to use those skills in the toughest moments..."

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Source: Brazen Careerist, 8 November 2010. © 2009 Penelope Trunk, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on November 09, 2010 (boomark / email).