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    You Can Start Meditating Today

    May 19, 2020 2 minutes

    THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY one bajillion reasons why you should probably be meditating right now. Leaving aside any particularly Buddhist ones—like enlightenment, or nirvana, or complete liberation from the endless cycle of suffering—there are some totally legit, immediately beneficial ways mindfulness and meditation can be good for you starting today.

    In a nutshell, we can say that meditation refers to

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