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New study shows this 20-minute meditation exercise could help you play better golf – Golf.com

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According to the press release, researches recruited 200 participants that had never meditated before and placed them in a 20 minute guided mediation exercise (that you can try yourself below). Participants had their brain waves measured via electroencephalography and afterwards, took a quiz that was intentionally designed to distract them.

And what did they find? Improved focus and, crucially, a better ability to recognize a mistakes when they did make them, learn from them, which in turn helps prevent the same mistakes next time around.

While the research is still in its early days, its easy to see how something like this could benefit golfers.

Golfers constantly make mental mistakes on the golf course: mis-reads, missed putts, wrong club selection, a poor swing or tempo. Ideally, wed love to avoid them altogether, but thats impossible. The most we can do is learn from our mistakes, and not make them again.

So take 20 minutes and give it a try below. See if it helps your game.

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I Was Engulfed By Self Criticism And Doubt- A Blow By Blow Account Of What Happened When I Stopped Meditating – Thrive Global

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Momentarily I had fallen deep into a pit of complete and utter self-doubt and criticism, so deep that I wasnt even really able to identify that I was in a pit. Does that make sense?

It was a time that I had stepped into a very new space of vulnerability, leading my first yoga class and womens circle, all in the same week.

It was such an incredible privilege to have the opportunity to guide people in this way that I put my everything into the preparation.

My morning time of meditation became time to practice my sequence. Evenings became so squeezed for time that more often than not sleep was prioritised over meditating.

This is the thing with evenings. They can become so busy.

And this is why I normally routinely meditate in the morning, as I know how crucial it is to my overall well-being.

Oh the beauty of hindsight to see that the thing I didnt make time for was the very thing that should have been my priority. Prioritise over sleep you say? Well. Maybe

In my experience a steady meditation practice can lessen the mental and emotional disturbances, meaning I truly need less sleep. I also find that the sleep I do get is more rejuvenating.

Scary to think how much energy we can expend on mind-created conflict and internal drama!

At the time, skipping my regular meditation practice didnt seem like a big deal. It was only for a few days here and there. I figured, whats the harm?

It was only on reflection that I could see the damaging impact of these seemingly insignificant missed practices.

As the days passed by, I began to fall back into an old, familiar place of high insecurity and selfdoubt. Following both the yoga session and the womens circle (although I enjoyed them both, deeply), I was flooded with a strong sense that I had somehow failed people.

I hadnt shown up enough for people, I didnt know what I was talking about, who was I to have any authority on this, I simply wasnt good enough.

Reading this, it may seem obvious to you that I was in a bit of a spin and that these bullying thoughts werent true. That they were just the result of negative mind patterns.

But when were in the middle of it, it can be so incredibly difficult to see and separate from these destructive thoughts.

As the days without my meditation practice progressed, my inner demons resurfaced with avengence.

Old habits of thinking and behaviour returned.

I unconsciously poked and prodded at my stomach in the mirror with thoughts running through my head that I needed to get back to the gym, that Id let myself go, that my stomach was sticking out too much.

And it was as I caught my eye in the reflection of the mirror, crying and pulling at myself that I woke up.

I was able to sidestep the emotional turmoil and observe the patterns for what they were.

With each conscious breath I realised just how far back into that pit I had slipped.

These were old thought patterns that I had been able to separate my sense of self from years prior.

It was in this moment of recognition I was able to see that the other thoughts too were a part of the same insecurities and self-doubt.

It was then in this moment that I realised I had let my meditation practice slip.

It was so easy to forget what a medicine meditation is for me. Until I stopped.

For most of my life these destructive thought patterns had dominated my life.

My relationships.

My decisions.

And it was only when I started to meditate that I was able to separate from them and begin to make changes.

I share this with you not for any sympathy, but to invite you to consider whether you have negative thought patterns that could be quieted and separated from with the support of a daily meditation practice?

What does your mind tell you that might not be true?

On reflection it was scary to once again feel the negative impact of these destructive thoughts, but Im grateful for these small slips as they act to remind me just how very crucial my daily practice is and how far Ive come.

Even just ten minutes.

Ten minutes to sink into you.

Creating a buffer between your sense of self and the thoughts.

Quietening them down enough to be able to see them for what they are.

And so as I reflect back on that pit, that I fell so deeply into, I am able to recognise that I am grateful for that time.

I am grateful as sometimes it isnt until we slip back into old habits momentarily, that we are able to see and celebrate how far we have come.

The practice isnt in the perfection, but rather the practice.

Recognising the value of our practice and committing day after day to return.

So that we might just be able to catch our own eye in the mirror and be reminded when we have fallen.

Claire Rowden is a Somatic Therapist, Meditation Teacher and Emotional Freedom Educator based online. Check out her website https://www.embodhii.com/welcome to sign up for her free meditation course and learn more about bodymind based therapies.

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Cheryl teaches son Bear to meditate as she handles life as a single mum – Mirror Online

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Cheryl is teaching her toddler son Bear - who is two - to meditate with her before bedtime after falling in love with an app.

The Geordie sweetheart, 36, who shares her son with ex flame Liam Payne , 26, revealed she loves to use the app Insight Timer for herself and Bear in his nighttime routine.

Former Girls Aloud star Cheryl told The Sun : "I like to meditate, I actually use an app called Insight Timer. I really love it."

Talking about her new experience with their meditation routine, Cheryl confessed the updated version has a kids section which reads stories to Bear and she admits he's hooked.

Chezza, a judge on upcoming BBC1 talent show The Greatest Dancer, stated she wasn't pushing her son into the showbiz world, despite him having famous parents.

Speaking on RuPaul: What's the Tee? podcast, after she appeared on the panel of BBC3's RuPaul's Drag Race UK, she said: "We don't check in enough. Intuition. I'm preparing him. I hope he becomes an earth boy rescuing turtles in Barbados."

She added: "You look at every child star and they're all f***ed up. Name me two who aren't, you'll struggle to find them."

Cheryl's co-star Nadine Coyle is currently on I'm A Celebrity.

She has been accused of 'lying' about her 'friendship' with her former Girls Aloud bandmate.

The Irish singer opened up about her time in the girl band during an intimate chat with Adele Roberts and Jacqueline Jossa.

When the ex-EastEnders star asked if she got on with everyone in Girls Aloud, Nadine said: "Yes."

Digging deeper, Jacqueline admitted she had heard Nadine "didn't get on with Cheryl".

Tense Nadine insisted it was "fake news" - but I'm A Celebrity viewers pointed out this went against what she had claimed before.

Nadine previously blamed the rest of the girls for splitting the band - and even insisted there was never any friendship with Cheryl.

Despite having been a bridesmaid at Cheryl's lavish 2006 wedding to footballer Ashley Cole - Nadine insisted they'd never been friends at all.

On Celebrity Juice in 2018, Nadine said: "There was no falling out, there was just no friendship to begin with."

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November 23rd, 2019 at 7:52 am

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The Anaheim Convention Center Mindfulness Expo Is The Weekend After Thanksgiving – LAist

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Michelle Zarrin (Courtesy of The Mindfulness Expo.)

Michelle Zarrin felt a bit unmoored after her divorce and having to start over. She began meditatingfirst for 10 minutes a day, then going to longer stretches, sometimes 11 hours at a time. She realized along her journey that her path would involve teaching meditation and mindfulness to others, and that's exactly what she's done. Today, she's a globally renowned inspirational speaker, meditation teacher and spiritual guide whose meditations on the Insight Timer app have been downloaded more than 1.3 million times.

How do you get some of what she's having? You can attend the Mindfulness Expo Zarrin founded, which happens 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 at the Anaheim Convention Center.

The day is divided into fourteen 50-minute workshops held in two rooms; your $35 ticket gets you into as many as you'd like, all day. There are no add-on fees with your general admission ticket. Areas of focus are meditation, transforming your life through the outdoors, Kundalini yoga, sound healing, nutrition and Reiki classes. There will also be vendors on hand with relevant offerings for a more mindful life. Workshop session highlights include:

All are welcome, no matter where you are on your meditation and mindfulness journey. And if you're just beginning, this is an amazing launch pad to learn about what works for you.

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November 23rd, 2019 at 7:52 am

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Kirtan, Astrology & Guided Meditation at Temple of Peace in Haiku – Maui Time

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Theres a Kirtan, Astrology, and Guided Meditation Workshop at Temple of Peace in Haiku on Monday, November 25th. The event will be led by Juliet Butters Doty and Neeraja-ji. Attendees can settle into one-ness while listening to astrological updates with their individual charts, and delving into palpable meditations. $20. 4pm. Temple of Peace, (575 Haiku Rd., Haiku); 808-280-2833; 808-359-8676; unwindthesoul.com

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November 23rd, 2019 at 7:52 am

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Meditating on Love and Connection with Mr. Rogers and C.S. Lewis – Sojourners

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ROSTREVOR, Northern IrelandThe most powerful moment in the new Mister Rogers biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, is when, for a full minute (60 actual seconds, I timed it), nothing happens.

In the scene leading up to the moment in question, Fred Rogers (played with winsome virtuosity by Tom Hanks) and Lloyd Vogel (the character played by Welsh actor Matthew Rhys and based on journalist Tom Junod, whose 1998 Esquire profile of Rogers was the catalyst for the film) are sitting in a Chinese restaurant in downtown Pittsburgh.

Vogel is in crisis. Existential, relational, spiritual, mid-life. All of the above. Its fueled in no small part by his estranged relationship with his alcoholic, abusive, often-absent father (played by the brilliant Chris Cooper) who has walked back into Vogels life just as his own is coming to an end.

Over lunch, where we discover that Mr. Rogers is a lifelong vegetarian I just cannot imagine eating anything that has a mother, he explains Vogel says he believes his dining companion likes people like me broken people. Rogers is having none of it.

I dont think you are broken, Rogers begins, speaking slowly and deliberately. I know you are a man of conviction, a person who knows the difference between what is wrong and what is right. Try to remember that your relationship with your father also helped to shape those parts. He helped you become what you are.

Then Rogers asks his struggling friend to join him in what is essentially a contemplative exercise.

Well just take a minute and think about all the people who loved us into being, Rogers gently suggests.

I cant do that, Vogel responds.

They will come to you, Rogers assures him. Just one minute of silence.

The camera slowly pans the restaurant, where we briefly glimpse Rogers real-life widow, Joanne, sitting at a nearby table. After a few moments, the lens comes to rest on Hanks face. He turns his gaze ever so slightly until he is looking straight at the camera, at us.

A full minute goes by when no words are spoken. It is profoundly affecting.

Finally, Vogel exhales.

Thank you for doing it with me, Rogers says. I feel so much better.

I did, too.

As I watched an online screener of the movie with my husband in our living room last month, I imagined theaters full of people exhaling in unison, perhaps unaware they had participated in a minute of mindfulness, a meditation.

I love that Rogers doesnt ask Vogel (or the audience) to be grateful for or to the people who come to mind in those 60 seconds. He simply asks us to be open to whoever comes. Without judging them or ourselves.

Mr. Rogers and his meditation came to my mind this morning as I hiked a steep, two-mile path through the forest to the Cloughmore Stone An Chloch Mhr in Irish, meaning The Big Stone. Its a massive granite boulder that sits in a clearing about 1,000 feet above the village where Ive been staying since completing a 200-mile walk along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland with a small group of peace activists last week.

The Big Stone, which, depending on who you talk to, was deposited here by a glacier 10,000 years ago or was tossed here from the Cooley Mountains on theother side of Carlingford Lough by the mythical Irish warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill, is also believed to have been the inspiration for Aslans table in C.S. Lewis Narnia stories.

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia, Lewis, who spent part of his childhood in Rostrevor, once wrote in a letter to his elder brother, Warren. The landscape here makes it seem possible that a giant might come bounding over a hillock or that youll find Mr. Tumnus playing the pan flute next to the narrow river that flows through the Fairy Glen, so named for the little people who live along its banks, according to local lore. (Its an actual place; I can see it from my rental cottage, though I havent spotted any fairies. Yet.)

How I long to break into a world where such things were true, Lewis said of his Narnia and the actual geographic place that inspired it.

Throughout his life, Lewis often returned to this idyllic village nestled between the Mourne mountains and the lough, a glacial fjord that forms part of the border between the North and the Republic. Climbing the steep mountain paths toward the Big Stone, I pictured young Jack Lewis rambling through this land, imagining mythical creatures and creating stories that would someday shape the imaginations of countless other children, including mine.

Standing next to the massive stone, the wind howling and temperature dropping, I could almost hear Mr. Beaver answering Susans question about whether Aslan is safe:

"Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good.

As I schlepped up the mountainside and on the much easier descent an hour later, I practiced Mr. Rogers contemplative exercise from the new movie, letting my mind wander to the people who have loved me into the person I am today.

There were dozens of names and faces. Family (biological and chosen), friends, teachers, professors, pastors, priests, rabbis, yogis, musicians, writers, artists, and even the odd face of a stranger whose name I never learned but whose love left its mark on me all the same.

The person who came most often to my mind, however, was the woman whose ashes I am wearing in a locket around my neck: My mother, Helen, who passed away in August.

Before I could read them on my own, my mother read me fairy tales, fables, and Dr. Seusss whimsical rhyming stories, and later pressed a boxed set of Lewis seven Chronicles of Narnia into my hand.

She introduced me to Mr. Rogers on our black-and-white living room TV set as a child in the 1970s. One of Moms graduate degrees focused on early childhood development and she understood what Rogers was trying to do through the show, which is why she preferred Mr. Rogers Neighborhood to Captain Kangaroo, School House Rock, and even Davey and Goliath.

I recently rediscovered a tape recording of her interviewing a 3-year-old me for one of her graduate classes about my feelings after having been gently disciplined by my father, whom I adored. She listened (actively), mirrored what she heard back to me, and affirmed that what I was feeling was OK. Just like Mr. Rogers did on the show.

In his Neighborhood of Make-Believe, with simple hand puppets with complex internal lives such as Daniel Striped Tiger, Prince Tuesday, and Ana Platypus, he did something profound. Rogers and his collaborators on the show listened intently to children, created routine and a safe, sometimes magical place where they might be understood, affirmed, and cherished.

For those of us who perhaps didnt always get the emotional support we needed at home, it was a gift that helped shape who we are as adults, parents, and grandparents.

My mother was Irish my grandmother, Nellie, who died when my mother was just 4 years old, left her village not too far from here in 1920 before there was a border between the North and the South. A year before she died, I brought Mom to Ireland for the first time and we saw a lot of this storied island, though we never made it to Rostrevor. She would have loved this place and Im hoping she got a kick out of tagging along in the locket as we trod through the troubled and thin places of the borderlands at 3 MPH. Richard Rohr might have dubbed it a walking meditation for its holy goallessness.

The thought of it makes me smile. And yet, like Vogel and his father, our relationship was profoundly complicated. For much of my life, my mother was my fiercest critic and chief antagonist. We fought nearly to the bitter end, but made our peace before she left this side of the veil. Thanks be to the God Who Listens.

Junod says his real-life relationship with his father was fraught but not as dramatic as the Vogels volatile, sometimes violent rapport in the film. (Poetic license was taken with the facts of Junods story for dramatic effect in the film on several occasions, which in part was why the decision was made to change the characters name for the film, Junod told me recently.)

Junod and Rogers (who really was a vegetarian) did in fact have lunch in Pittsburgh, but it was at an Indian restaurant and there was no minute of silence although that was something Rogers was known to do often with people, Junod said.

Rogers saw Junods woundedness and reached out with an ear of grace, as he did with so many others, he said. Fred never told me what to do or how to do it, but I absorbed so much from him without him having to say a word.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, which opens in theaters nationwide today, makes a point of not descending into hagiography as perhaps other projects celebrating Fred Rogers have. He was a real person with real faults and real feelings who made an extraordinary impact on the world through great effort, discipline, faith, and collaboration with others.

Early on in the film, Vogel asks Mrs. Rogers (played by Maryann Plunkett) what its like being married to a living saint. She balks at the suggestion.

Im not fond of that term, she says, kindly but firmly. If you think of him as a saint, then his way of being is unattainable. He works at it all the time. Its a practice. Hes not a perfect person.

To me, the power of the film and Rogers legacy lies in the tools and practices they offer us for how to be more present, connected, and loving people. How to be both safe and good.

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24 Hours In Life Of Namgay Rincha: Meditation And Hymns, In Buddha He Trusts – Outlook India

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This mortal world is constantly chasing one thing or the otherworldly wealth for many, nirvana and moksha for some. Bhutanese monk Namgay Rincha, 47, belongs to that minority trying to follow in the footsteps of the Buddha. His lean frame, hermits robes and endearing smile betrays no signs of anguish for the path he had chosen to tread.

Rincha from Thimphu is in Bodh Gaya since late October and will stay for three months before returning home. He is among millions making a pilgrimage every year to the place where the Buddha attained enlightenment.

He adheres to a simple philosophy. I dont want to become somebody big. No matter what you become, itll all come to grief. The soul should be good and pure. Predictably austere, his day is spent meditating and praying. He wakes up at 3 am every day, prays for two hours, and when you still cant hear the birds, he walks to the Mahabodhi Temple.

Till the time he goes to bed at 9 pm, he keeps meditating and chanting hymns. The sole interruptions are meal and tea breaks. He prefers the Tibetan varietythe salty, butter tea from the mountains. The Buddha renounced wealth and property for knowledge, he says. We just try to follow him.

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Meditate with Urmila: Sustaining higher energies | Health Fitness – Gulf News

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In detaching with lower energies, one is able to hold and sustain higher forms of energy

Chakra meditation can be started as a step-by-step process. As one focuses and works with denser forms of energy based at the root and the sacral chakra, one is able to embrace the higher, subtler energies easily.

The lower chakras are associated with denser emotions that of survival, safety and security. We are attached to our emotions, and with attachments come the vices of fear, guilt, shame, competition, ego, etc. While these attachments and emotions have their own role to play in unleashing our virtues (read the previous article), more often than not, we get caught up in them. In getting entangled, one is unable to detach and sustain the energies of higher chakra centres.

Those who choose to move out of the whirlpool of the heavy energies, having known, understood and lived their importance, will seek transformation. (It is imperative to have understood the importance of denser feelings to traverse). This transformation takes place in the solar plexus chakra.

The manipur or the solar plexus chakra is where one works with the energies associated with self-confidence, self-esteem and self-worth. While meditating on this energy centre, one is able to deal with non-serving feelings of anxiety, aggressiveness, anger, etc and replace them with self-control, understanding and the right action. Faith will follow that there is already abundance of what is needed and hence, transformation will ensue.

As the transformation takes place, the subtle energy of the heart chakra will start opening up to unconditional love, to giving and receiving, to accepting and surrendering, to experiencing virtues of tolerance and peace and to gratitude. As the consciousness starts opening up, the body as a vessel will start becoming pure, to hold the virtues as vices leave.

You will start seeking the truth and communicating the truth in your true empowered state. Your connection to the divine will go deep and strong. Your needs and wants (of materialistic nature) are long gone. And you start opening up to the vibration of your fifth chakra, the throat or vishuddhi centre. You will be in the vibratory state of no entanglements, just plain truth, spoken from the state of divine connection.

As you move up reaching you ajna (or brow) chakra energy, you have distilled your virtues to an extent that divine connection is already felt. You are ready to merge with the divine light in all its purity.

As you open up and /or balance your chakras one by one, it means, you are rising up from the limitations of the lower chakras and your body-vessel is becoming ready to hold more light, more purity.

Meditation on root chakra opens up the energies of steadiness of the mind and connectedness to the mother earth; you will start feeling awareness toward the gifts of the nature, even as respect and love for natures creation develops. Sacral chakra meditation promotes creative impulses and allows a smooth flow in life. Moving up, the solar plexus meditation gears one to the abilities of adapting and transforming, whereas heart chakra opens up the state of compassion and the ability to give and receive love. The virtue of forgiveness stems from the heart chakra.

What you say, you start becoming mindful of your speech and as the quality of communication improves, you know that the throat chakra Centre is getting activated and balanced. (For example, when you say, I am speaking from my heart). The alignment of these chakras helps one to open up the intuitive abilities at the brow Centre chakra and as you start trusting your intuitive guidance, the dependency on external factors lessens.

While it is advisable to work from lower chakras and step up to the higher ones, you may also contemplate which chakra you feel like mediating on, first. For example, if the feeling of envy rises up often sapping your life force, then you may start with heart chakra meditation.

Even to start feeling what to work on, it is advised to sit in the quietness of honest contemplation to begin with.

Disclaimer: Urmila Rao is a chakra balancing meditation coach, Theta Healer and a sound therapist. All the ideas expressed herein are her own and not professional advice or medical prescription. She can be reached at: milarao2018@gmail.com

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November 23rd, 2019 at 7:52 am

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Ask the Editor: How to Write a Book Proposal – Publishers Weekly

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Dear Editor:

Ive been told I need to write a book proposal for my book on meditation if I want to interest an agent and a traditional publisher. How do I do that?

Richard S.

A good book proposal usually includes:

1. Title, Sub Title, and Authors Name. Be sure your title clearly explains what your book is about.

2. Overview. Give a succinct description of your book, how it differs from others in its genre, and why you are the person to write it

3. Target Audience. Be specific about your intended readers.4. About the Author. Explain your background, education, and passion for this subject.

5. Marketing Plan. Detail your professional connections and social media presence.

6. Competitive Titles. List com- parable titles and explain how your book stands out from these.

7. Annotated Chapter Outline.

8. Sample Chapter(s). Include an introduction plus one or two chapters.

Think of your proposal as your primary sales tool. Focus on the benefits to the reader. Who needs this book and why? Does the world really need another book on meditation? Maybe if you can show the reader a new way to embrace meditation, and how it changed your life profoundly, then it can change theirs too.

If you have a question for the editor, please email Betty Sargent.

Betty Kelly Sargent is the founder and CEO of BookWorks.

A version of this article appeared in the 11/25/2019 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Ask the Editor

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Meditation and Magic Mushrooms Can Restore Peoples Will to Live, Study Shows – Mandatory

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The journalNaturerecently published a study about combining meditation with psychedelics to reduce depression and anxiety, proving what the pro-psychedelic camp has long maintained: combining mediation with psychedelics can help restore peoples will to live. The study followed 39 expert Buddhist meditation practitioners on a five-day silent meditation retreat (the kind that are uber-trendy among Silicon Valley elites). However, the retreats for this study were considerably groovier than most, because on the fourth day at approximately 10:30 a.m., half of the participants received strong doses of psilocybin mushrooms. The other half received placebos. Neither researchers nor participants knew who got which, though we suspect it was probably pretty obvious after a couple of hours.

The results shocked researchers. Those who ate the magic mushrooms reported more meaningful experiences on the retreat. Half ranked it as one of the top 10 most meaningful experiences of their life. The meditators who received placebos reported it as only the most meaningful experience in the last month, and even then, only 37 percent ranked it that high. The psychonauts also experienced more intense meditation sessions, with many of the positive impacts still in effect four months later. Most exciting, the mushrooms not only enhanced the quality of meditation, but meditation helped prevent bad trips. If youre looking to lose or find yourself, hallucinogens might be the right tool for the job.

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