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Meditation: Does This Word Make You Roll Your Eyes?

A piece in last month’s Atlantic Magazine profiled the ever-widening interest in mindfulness meditation, why some people may be skeptical, and the essential commonsensical wisdom behind the practice.

“[I]f you strip it of its religio-historical context, mindfulness meditation is essentially cognitive fitness with a humanist face.”

The complete article “How Meditation Works” can be read on-line.  

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