Meditation Lessons May Help

I was a wreck, and I mean that. I’d been working for 60 hours a week for the past year, living in a small flat in New York City, and it was all starting to catch up with me. My blood pressure was skyrocketing, my cholesterol was awful, and I was suffering from heart palpitations. My doctor said that he could give me medicine if I wanted him to, but that it all basically came down to one thing: I needed to learn how to relax, or I would die early.

I tried all kinds of things to relax, but nothing worked until I found meditation principals. I had heard good things about meditation from my cousin. She used to be just like me – a high stress executive working her life away, endlessly striving in the rat race. Until she began taking her meditation class, she always presented an aura of self-confidence. Once the meditation classes began, however, she changed. She admitted that her life was not making her happy, and that she needed to find a new career or else she would surely die of the stress. I thought of her as a logical source for information on beginners meditation techniques, although I hoped that the class would not change me as deeply as it had changed her.

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