​As a child experiencing physical and verbal bullying at school, I would often try to pray, but my mind would jump from fear to fear. Discovering meditation during those years helped me quiet the anxious thoughts so that I could find strength in prayers.

 

I am no guru, but in this wild and unpredictable year, mindfulness has expanded my capacity to meet some challenges with calm and have a center to return when I am swept up in a storm of tribulations.  

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I have also found that mindfulness is an indispensable complement to psychotherapy. Mindfulness allows us to be aware of feelings as they arise and notice when we are being taken for a ride by our emotions so that we can make a conscious choice about where we would like our mind to go next. “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”― Viktor E. Frankl

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