James Carmody, PhD;University of Massachusetts Medical School

Have you ever wondered why its so much easier to worry than to relax? COVID-19 has us all on edge. We spend our days now planning how best to keep ourselves and our community healthy. But even when there isnt a global pandemic, when we might expect our minds to quiet down and enjoy some peace, they soon come up with worrisome scenarios.

Worriedness is not the concerns that occasionally pop up over a sick child. Worry goes past constructive, hopeful planning. Instead worry takes over, occupying our attention to no good effect. Its toll on health and wellbeing is well documented as we are left tense, sleepless, preoccupied and distracted around the very people we care for.

Its not just you. Brain function studies suggest why worry takes a toll on our overall health. When our attention is not occupied with what we are doing, linked regions such as the default mode network become active. These systems work away in the background of consciousness, envisaging futures compatible with our needs and desires and planning how they might be brought about. One of the main features of worry is the focus on what could go wrong.

In this way we humans are wired for worry; its survival value is evident in the effortless persistence and universality with which it occurs. We want things to be better for ourselves and the people we love, but lifes unpredictability gives rise to fear that they wont be and to imagining the things and circumstances that might stand in their way.

This planning threats is important to ensure survival. Its downside is the worry, anxiety and unease when it is given free rein and unnoticed, takes over the mental store. And studies in which people are prompted at random times through the day to record what their attention is on at that moment show that it wanders for much of the day. On automatic pilot in other words.

The flip side of worry are those moments of flow, when our attention is effortlessly absorbed in what we are doing. Those vigilance-oriented brain networks are less active when our attention is focused on what we are presently doing. And as you might expect, the same study found that people rated they were happier when their attention was focused on what we are doing than when their minds were wandering.

Fortunately, there are many ways of quieting our minds so that we spend more time in that happier present moment. And several decades as researcher, clinician, teacher, and practitioner of several popular mind-body programs has shown me that they draw on a couple of simple mind-body principles that counter these default tendencies and their effects on our feeling life. Recognizing those principles helps to see how these techniques are linked with one another and so creatively adapt them in your everyday life.

Mindfulness brings us into the present by cultivating attention to the senses. Meditation for example, brings attention to the sensations of breathing. It takes a little practice; the pull of daydreaming is strong. Our mind wants to default back to thinking and planning.

Yoga and tai chi also direct attention to the flow of sensations; usually those from the sequence of movements. This contrasts with activities like prayer, self-compassion and visualization which have their relaxing effect by countering the ambient narratives unsettling tone with reassuring thoughts and images.

The mindfulness that each of these activities develop gives helps you to focus the mental operating system and a capacity to self-regulate it. Studies have shown that just a few weeks of mindfulness practice help with increased attention regulation, working memory, awareness of mind wandering and reduced worry. Imaging studies, similarly, show reduced background planning activity, y and enrichment of neural connections that facilitate attentional and emotional self-regulation.

The wellbeing benefits that come from integrating mindfulness into your life have been confirmed by multiple studies, and programs are offered online to suit all tastes and circumstances. What do you have to lose?

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Back in September, a blue-checkmark Salem account appeared on Instagram with a YouTube link to a forty-minute-long mixtape called STAY DOWN. The following week a video post appeared of the duos Jack Donoghue driving a pickup truck through a nighttime lightning storm, scored by a delicate, uncharacteristically tender, synthpop-inflected ballad, along with the caption SALEM STARFALL *OUT NOW*.

Given the rest of the news that day, Salem announcing their return after eight years of near-total silence seemed cosmically trivial. The West Coast was on fireit hadnt even been a week since the skies over the Pacific Northwest turned an Old Testament shade of orange. There were children locked in cages on the border, a president stoking civil war, genocides breaking out around the globe. Before the day was over, 901 more Americans would be added to our city-sized population of COVID-19 dead. The idea that anyone in the middle of all that could even care about an intentionally obscure, notoriously divisive witch house project having a comeback seemed deeply fucked up.

But the world has become noticeably more Salem-like in the eight years theyve been away, and not just becausedespite breaking up on the verge of crossing over and a concerted critical effort to discredit them artisticallytheir aesthetic vision has managed to permeate pop culture and fashion. Everyday life has become noticeably darker, more chaotic, increasingly feral. The haunted, paranoid death trip they evoked a decade ago in the King Night video has become the national mood. Unlike nearly everyone else making music right now, Salem seems to get what the new world were in is all about. And what theyre saying is: give up.

The snippet of Starfall that they posted on Instagram didnt prepare me for the whole thing: a swooning shoegaze-emo-rap hybrid that climbs to heart-rending highs before melting down in a psychedelic waterfall of cascading rave synths. It feels landscape-sized despite clocking in shy of three minutes. In the video, Donoghue and John Hollandthe groups only other member since the departure of Heather Marlatt, who has said that she was pushed out but seems to have come to a reconciliationchase tornadoes across the plains of Oklahoma and Texas, soaking wet and chain-smoking, looking as exhausted and spiritually wrung-out as two people stepping into the daylight after an all-night binge. When a towering tunnel cloud, shot from terrifyingly too-close, breaks into frame while the song melts down for the final time, I felt a rush of weightlessness, the sickening vertiginous thrill of sudden freefall. I punched the replay button again, then again.

Once you get close enough to a tornado, whether or not you end up in its path is out of your control. Seeing that funnel cloud through the lens of a camera speeding toward it, its hard not to remember how many catastrophes were rocketing towards as a nation, a civilization, a species, and how close we are to the point where none of usnot even the most powerful people on the planethave a say in how it turns out. For all we know, we may already be past it.

Collapse is the major theme of Fires in Heaven, the bands first album since 2010s King Night. Sometimes that means collapse on a personal scale. On the opening track Capulets, Donoghue raps a deranged chopped-and-screwed monologue over the dusty, haunted Dance of the Knights movement of Sergei Prokofievs ballet Romeo and Juliet, flatly describing what goes through the head of someone choosing addiction over anything and everything else: Ask me what Im doing with my life / Aint shit to tell yall [] Rather burn some foil / Smoke some powder off some clean folds. The overall mood is like finding yourself somewhere isolated with someone whos much crazier, and on a lot more drugs, than you realized when you got in the car with them.

But the more you untangle Fires in Heaven, the more you realize that theyre talking about collapse on a larger scale too. The video for Red River opens with surveillance-style footage of Chinese commuters, their heads boxed in by facial recognition tags and their bodies overlaid with stick-figure gait analysis. Then, what seems at first to be a critique of digital-age totalitarianism zooms outward to show the systems that drive itin America as well as Chinaand the chaos and rot at their core. Mass consumption breeding endless piles of waste. Shipping containers stacked neatly in row after row, then tumbling into disorder. A cargo ship sinking with alarming speed. Red river, red river / Wash over me, Donoghue mumbles through a bank of filters and pitch-shifting effects until he sounds less like a human than a suicidal AI letting its batteries run out. From this angle, theres no light at the end of the tunnel.

A sense of hopelessness and letting go permeates Fires in Heaven. In horrorcore moments like Capulets and the homicide fantasy Crisis, giving up comes as a violent release. Other times its gently seductivethe title track is lotus-eater synth-pad psychedelia that pulls you softly down into a bottomless pit of sticky cotton-candy bliss, disturbed only by twitchy trap hi-hats emulating the faint, itchy aura around an opioid high. Even the few uplifting moments wind up with their bottoms falling out. Starfall has all the markings of a swooning love song for the ages, but by the end, the protagonist has walked out on his lover in the middle of the night, convinced that shelike everyoneis beyond saving.

The first time around, this attitude got Salem labeled nihilists, which maybe they were. Now it comes off more like collapsitarianism. The term often refers to people who are proactively working to bring about collapse of one sort or another, from deep ecologists dreaming of human extinction to Boogaloo Boys trying to kick off a new civil war for any number of reasons, including for the sheer fun of it. But it can also describe people who simply believe that collapseor, more frequently, the collapsehas already started, and is already past the point of being undone.

A sense of hopelessness and letting go permeates Fires in Heaven. The first time around, this attitude got Salem labeled nihilists. Now it comes off more like collapsitarianism.

Collapsitarianism is hopelessness on a global scale. But hopelessness isnt necessarily a bad thing, the way that most people think. Losing hope lets us see the world around us as it is, and all the problems in it that require confronting. Hope, either for untenable endless growth or for a return to pre-Trump normalcy, is the reason that no matter which side wins, in a few days well elect a president without an adequate plan for solving any of the interlocking terminal-level catastrophes we face. Hopelessnessa pragmatic, tactical lack of wishful thinkingis what drives projects like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, where scientists are trying to safehouse the planets genetic diversity against the forces weve let loose in the world. People across the country have given up hope for the future, and have started to concentrate on creating the world they want in the here and now, from communes in the woods to guerilla raves happening in the midst of a pandemic.

Buddhism teaches that hope is a form of desire, and that desire is the root of all suffering. The path to spiritual freedom begins with letting go, as anyone whos ever gotten sober can attest. One of the reasons I kept going back to the Starfall video over and over again was because I couldnt exactly identify what it wasbesides good audio production and clever editingthat had me hooked. Eventually I figured out that, unexpectedly for something coming from Salem, it was because it brought me peace. Theres a palpable feeling of liberation and release that Donoghue and Holland emanate after coming dangerously close to a storm. The world is falling down, but if we let go and fall with it we can still find bliss. FL

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Take a tour of this sustainable home

The architecture firm Palma has built a compact holiday home on the Pacific coast of Mexico that is inspired by the traditional architecture of the area. The home uses natural materialsdried palm leaves, straw and stone to keep the indoors cool even on the hottest days.

What makes this building unique is its layout: the structure is divided into two parts by a terrace with a round void in the roof. Designed specifically for yoga and meditation, the skylight not only lets the sun into the room, but also promotes natural ventilation.

On one side of the house is a bedroom and on the other is a living room connected to a small kitchen. Both buildings have a palapa roof, typical of the tropical town of Litibu. The tall canopy made of palm leaves provides excellent weather protection and prevents the room from overheating. In addition, the architects covered the walls with special pigmented plaster, which helps avoid moisture accumulation, which is especially important for a coastal area.

Although the building is only 538-square-feet in size, almost all rooms have direct access to the garden, which makes the home seem larger and limitless.

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The car is happy again. I know this. I have neglected her for months with only the smallest of excursions to the market and post office and gas station. Three years old and she had only 20,000 miles on her. Which screams failure to me not great trade-in value. When I left Park City on a Thursday, the car was clean and road ready. When I returned and drove through the car wash the following Thursday there was red dust everywhere. And it came off all the outside surfaces but in the wheel wells and running boards and the carpeted floor in the backseat there is still red dust. I hope it lasts all winter.

I started in Blanding for three days of exploring secret, steep, rocky paths within the Bears Ears (former) National Monument area with a Hopi guide arranged by the sister of my heart. That story is part two. I left there and took Charles Hall Ferry across Lake Powell to Bullfrog and climbed (in the car this time) up the Burr Trail, inside the boundaries of the twin declassified monument Grand Staircase Escalante. I was headed to Boulder. My happy place for almost 20 years.

The Boulder Mountain Lodge, owned by Dave Mock, is a model of tranquility and civility. It includes an 11-acre bird refuge where I have seen the most elegant and sassy creatures exchange conversations and flight plans for so many years. The cattails and willows sway with the sunflowers and hollyhocks. It is a kind of sophisticated rustic without pretense. And the famed Hells Backbone Grill restaurant grew there about 20 years ago. Two women determined to create a respite with recipes from the best of the southwest. It was pretty much farm to table from the start because they sit in the most remote town in the lower 48 states with about 180 people. Garfield county with 5,000 square miles is home to about 5,000 people. Lots of open space in the red dust of the red state. Lots of ranchers and these two female restaurateurs.

There is no confusion when you drive off the pavement of Highway 12 onto the gravel driveway that you have entered a blue zone. There are signs Black Lives Matter and Biden and Harris and for their Congressional district Kael Weston a name that was new to me. The staff reflect the signs they are a rainbow of interesting kind humans.

I didnt know all the names of what I was seeing but the stars filled me with awe.

On my first night dining there was a kerfuffle on the patio. It had to do with issues of white privilege and supremacy. Service was refused. The whole restaurant was engaged in the unappetizing debate of prejudice. The unwelcome patrons stayed at their table for almost two hours with no food or drink until they were finally encouraged to leave. It was tense and uncharacteristic of the refuge but not the times.

Night Two was idyllic. First, I stumbled into a farm meeting about how to wind things down for the season a kinda tie up the horses and lock up the liquor conversation with the small tight-knit family of employees. Then, dinner with my friends who have created this magical place. I had a southwestern beef chili stew and a side of perfect fall weather. And the surprise to each of us the arrival of the daughter I did not give birth to and her husband who had run away for a night from their home in Kanab and ended up at the restaurant as I was sitting on the porch.

My final evening took a switch when I was invited to be part of a small 10-person dinner with congressional candidate representing District 2 Kael Weston. A Utah blue guy that is so exciting and principled that I want to vote for him. Twice. But I cant at all since he doesnt represent Summit County. Weston was born of pioneer stock from Milford. He graduated from the University of Utah in political science in 96. Then received a masters from Cambridge, was a Fulbright scholar in Amsterdam and worked on his PhD at the London School of Economics. He spent seven years in Iraq and Afghanistan in one of the most dangerous assignments of any State Department officer worldwide according to his commander, Robert Ford. He never carried a weapon he said just a notebook. But heres where it gets especially interesting for me. Yes he was on the ground at the Battle of Fallujah but he also wrote for Tina Brown at the Daily Beast, and New York Times and just in December he published a book, The Mirror Test, which the NYT selected as an Editors Choice and Military Times chose as Best Book of the Year. And I have since discovered he did a Fresh Air segment with my NPR hero, Terry Gross. Be still my heart.

And all those things would have been enough to make him at 48 a pretty interesting dinner companion but because I am convinced Park City is cosmic velcro in the universe, there was the just dessert. When he learned I lived here he confessed he used to volunteer at KPCW. He said it was in the days of the basement at the Marsac and he was living in Cottonwood Canyon. He would drive the dirt road (Guardsman) over to deejay in the late-night slot. When I asked him why he did that he said simply because it was the only place where I could listen to the BBC.

Weston had his assistant Tyler with him who also served in Afghanistan but didnt know Kael there. When Tyler learned about my role presenting talent for years, he asked me who was the hardest to book and what was my favorite night. I confessed it was one in the same Edward Snowden. Then we chewed on the politics of intelligence and should Snowden be returned to the States and stand trial.

When I left that dinner table, comforted with delicious conversations, I wandered to my room under the protected dark skies. I didnt know all the names of what I was seeing but the stars filled me with awe. When I woke up at 4 a.m. I did as I had been encouraged earlier I wrapped up and went outside on the grass, next to the pond and looked up at the Orionids meteor showers. There were shooting stars everywhere.

I knew I had also just met one at dinner.

If you know anyone in the giant second district who hasnt yet voted encourage them to give Weston a lookover. He wants to keep serving his country. It would be honorable for us to find a place for him at all the tables. And regardless of this election outcome I am gonna encourage Kael to come up and see how KPCW has changed but the BBC is still right here for the listening each Sunday in the Park

Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the founder of the Park City Institute, which provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Dor Eccles Center for the Performing Arts.

Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the Charles Hall Ferry.

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Is Meditation Good For Digestion and Gut Health?

When my stress levels peak, that frazzled feeling of anxiety tends to come along with physical side effects. Headaches, insomnia, and breakouts are the three I'm most familiar with, but recently, I've felt like my worries have thrown my digestive system out of whack, too.

Looking for relief for my heartburn and nausea, I kept stumbling upon the idea of meditation, and wondering if practicing could support my overall gut health, whether I'm stressed or not. After all, I have taken plenty of meditation and yoga classes that have touched on the "rest and digest" concept of the parasympathetic nervous system.

Dr. Jaclyn Tolentino, DO, Senior Physician at Parsley Health, gave me more insight into why stress relief, like meditation, is commonly discussed with digestive health.

"The idea that meditation or other stress-management modalities can have an impact on our digestion comes from emerging research on something called the gut-brain axis. The gut-brain axis is basically the complex, bi-directional pathway between the brain and the GI tract," Dr. Tolentino says.

"This pathway actually encompasses a range of systems including the central nervous system, the sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric nervous systems, and the microbiota of the gut."

The brain and the gut, Dr. Tolentino says, have the ability to send signals back and forth to one another and this can impact the speed of the digestive process or even gut inflammation.

"Our gut also has its nervous system, the enteric nervous system, that can communicate with the brain and regulates certain digestive processes and functions."

An example of this brain-gut connection is the physical digestive symptoms that are commonly experienced when you're overwhelmed or super stressed out.

Dr. Tolentino adds that stress has been linked to issues like heartburn, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, cramping, and bloating, and could play a role in GI disorders like GERD, IBS, and IBD. It could also exacerbate symptoms of conditions like Crohn's Disease or ulcerative colitis.

"So this idea that meditation, mindfulness interventions, or breath work can have a positive impact on our digestive health really comes from this emerging understanding of the close relationship between our brain and our gut, and how stress can have a negative impact on GI function, as well as the gut microbiome," Dr. Tolentino says.

"It's definitely not quite as straightforward as 'meditation is good for the digestive system because it helps us manage stress,' but there is a growing interest in exploring the links between all of these things based on our emerging understanding of the way the brain and gut interact with each other."

While meditation and mindfulness might not be the end-all, be-all answers to improving your digestive health, Dr. Tolentino explains they can be used in a comprehensive treatment strategy.

"What you eat, when you're eating, the health of your GI tract, and your gut flora are all things that are playing a role in your digestion."

It's important to remember that controlling stress through meditation might not yield the same digestive results for everyone. Practicing every day for a week (while impressive!), doesn't mean your symptoms of issues will disappear, either.

"There's not going to be a magic number of sessions or minutes or days, after which someone is definitely going to see results. This is really about incorporating meditation into an overall strategy and your lifestyle for improving digestion and even resolving specific complaints or issues; which again, are going to vary among individuals, and most likely aren't caused by stress alone. Many problems are multifactorial, which means they often require multifactorial solutions."

If you do want to add meditation to your lifestyle routine to support your digestive health, there's two different ways you can do so, Dr. Tolentino says.

One would be using meditation to help reduce your overall day-to-say stress levels. From Headspace to Calm, there are plenty of meditation apps that offer a vast variety of guided sessions for all levels, whether you're experienced or just getting started. YouTube is another great option if you don't want to spend money on a monthly subscription this class by Yoga by Candace is actually curated specifically for digestive health.

The second way to utilize mindfulness for your digestive health is by practicing mindful eating, Dr. Tolentino says. This consists of "eating slowly, chewing our food thoroughly, being present, and really paying attention to the food we are eating and how we are experiencing it, and also being more aware of when we actually feel full."

These practices could benefit digestion by preventing a person from eating too quickly or too much at once. But again, it's important to remember that not all digestive symptoms are caused by stress or eliminated by a reduction in stress so if you have any concerns at all, reach out to your doctor for personalized advice.

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Reflection: I take self-care and wellness extremely seriously, but always remember not to put too much pressure on myself, as that can be harmful. I exercise every day, even if all I can muster is a 15-minute walk around the block, and include things like writing, playing music, or meditating as a means of doing mindful activities. Id say exercising consistently over the last eight years has had a very positive impact on me, because I am strong and in shape, and have a good heart and lungs. The most negative impact might be the weight I place on my diet. Im a very healthy eater, but when I satiate a craving I have, I can get very down on myself. I try to be kind to myself in this regard as much as I can we are all only human, after all!

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Pocket doors are so delightful in and of themselves. They appear when you need them, get tucked away when you don't, and make it easy to define rooms while keeping an open floor plan. Add to the pocket door a joyful patterned wallpaper surprise, and you will be sent right into fits of visual jubilation! Or something 😉 Today we're sharing two simple and impactful pocket door makeovers that zhuzh up your space in a jiffy.

Anjelika Temple here, co-founder of Brit + Co and proud owner of several pocket doors! When I moved into my first real grown-up house a couple years ago, I knew I wanted to incorporate wallpaper so reached out to our friends at Chasing Paper to see how we might collaborate. It felt like a total lightbulb moment when I realized I could create a surprise pop of pattern on a couple sets of pocket doors.

Not only is it a whimsical way to bring color into a space, but the doors double as picture-perfect backdrops for all your SFH (selfies from home, obvs).

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In our primary bathroom, we chose the wallpaper pattern Tally, designed by Kelly Ventura, in White and Navy. In our space, the navy reads as a soft black, which is perfect for the space. It's easy to combine an ever-rotating collection of linens with the Tally pattern.

I love how the white trim becomes the perfect frame around this pocket door piece of art.

My favorite moment in this space is the fact that you actually get a third pop of pattern thanks to our serendipitously placed mirror!

And yes, this one works pretty darn well as a backdrop too 😉

This set of doors is definitely a focal point of our home. It separates our living room from our primary bedroom which opens onto our backyard. The doors are pretty much always open, but when they're closed we wanted to evoke a fun, nature-inspired vibe. With that in mind, we selected the Lines and Moons pattern by Thimblepress in Green and Brown.

Earth mama vibes up in here! I love how the shapes and colors echo the ferns you see through the windows and the acorn wood details throughout the house.

Love this pattern moment, and xacto-ing out the door handle is def on the oddly satisfying DIY list.

For a pattern lover like me, I love that now I have this instant photo backdrop!

Thanks to Chasing Paper for providing these rolls of pure pattern amazingness. Head to chasingpaper.com to find our own favorites and start adding patterns to your home!

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Finding time for prayer can be difficult, especially if we have many obligations between work, family and household chores. However, one time that can be the best for mental prayer and meditation is the morning.

Fr. Francis Xavier Lasance explains in his bookWith God that there are many qualities of the morning that make it the prime time for meditation.

The reason is because in the morning we are fresh in mind and have as yet hardly any cause for distractions, while later in the day, we are apt to be more or less absorbed by our occupations and other worldly matters.

When we wake-up in the morning, our mind is typically less cluttered, especially if we pray before engaging in social media or looking at the news.

Also, if we begin our day with meditation, the rest of our day will bear greater fruit.

Moreover, by a good meditation in the morning we begin the day well, drawing down Gods blessing on us and deriving grace and strength to avoid sin and fulfill our obligations.

The morning can also be a great time to pray because if we need more time, we can simply wake up earlier! This may be easier said than done, but it is true. If we want to pray more, waking up earlier is often the best option.

When reviewing your prayer life, consider the morning and the many benefits to starting your day on the right foot.

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The global meditation market is moving along an ascending trajectory of growth and expansion. Meditation has emerged as a source of mental peace for a large population of people. Several medical practitioners and professionals point to the connection of the mind and body to indicate the benefits of meditation. Emerging as a form of spiritual awakening, meditation has now become a part of the healthcare domain. The proven benefits of meditation on mental health, mind-body connections, and physiology has generated humongous demand within the meditation market. The popularity of meditation can be attributed to modern-day meditation gurus who have educated people on the importance of various meditation practices.

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The growth of the global meditation market can also be explained in terms of the religious credibility placed on the activity. Several global religions such as Buddhism promote the idea of meditation. Chanting is professed as a sound meditation activity amongst a growing population of people. Therefore, the total volume of revenues within the global meditation market is slated to multiply in the times to follow. The importance and value of meditation has increased as several entities establish tailored meditation camps for the masses. These camps are often organized across serene mountainous locations, prompting people to spend on meditation activities.

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Ancient literature and learning are also suggestive of the importance of meditation on human health. This is a powerful narrative for meditation gurus looking to rejuvenate the practice amongst the masses. Countries in Asia Pacific have been a hotspot for tourists who wish to immerse in the culture of mental healing and meditation. In light of these factors, it is safe to expect that the global meditation market would grow at a humongous pace. Use of various online and social channels to make people aware about the benefits of meditation has also driven sales across the market.

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