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Meditation: Recharge On The Job

First Posted: 3/18/10 Updated: 11/17/11

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Meditation is proven to help improve concentration and alertness, and it can even boost test scores and on-the-job efficiency.

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Unplug And Recharge

Meditation is proven to help improve concentration and alertness, and it can even boost test scores and on-the-job efficiency.

Read more from Huffington Post bloggers:

Ed and Deb Shapiro Ed and Deb Shapiro: Do You Have a Drunken Monkey Mind? Ed and Deb Shapiro Ed and Deb Shapiro: Is Meditation Your Friend or Foe? Bob Lingvall Bob Lingvall: There Is a Beauty Within You #22 - Your Original Face, Your Open Heart Sharon Salzberg Sharon Salzberg: The Nothing That Heals Us Michael Sigman Michael Sigman: The Fear Of Magical Thinking Paul David Walker Paul David Walker: CEO Secrets Part Two: A Meditation Practice Sara Avant Stover Sara Avant Stover: Unplug and Recharge: 5 Steps to Overcoming Anxiety Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.: What of "What You Are" Is No Longer You?

Ed and Deb Shapiro: Do You Have a Drunken Monkey Mind?

The mind is notoriously resistant to being quiet, so as soon as we sit still it seems to do everything it can to distract us.

Ed and Deb Shapiro: Is Meditation Your Friend or Foe?

Practicing meditation means slowly and gently training the mind to do something it may not have done before: to be still.

Bob Lingvall: There Is a Beauty Within You #22 - Your Original Face, Your Open Heart

In this meditation we will turn our attention to the area of your brain behind the center of your high forehead, the prefrontal cortex.

Sharon Salzberg: The Nothing That Heals Us

In our human lives, experiencing this kind of profound emptiness means that like a candle flame gets blown out, our separateness and suffering are blown out.

Michael Sigman: The Fear Of Magical Thinking

When Ehrenreich observes, "It's a mistake to try to turn your anger and resentment and sadness or grief into something else," I'm with her all the way.

Paul David Walker: CEO Secrets Part Two: A Meditation Practice

Meditation is a powerful tool for those who are creating the future. It helps with idea generation and stress reduction. If you are a leader, you need both to be successful.

Sara Avant Stover: Unplug and Recharge: 5 Steps to Overcoming Anxiety

Often those new to meditation feel intimidated by it. They think: how can I ever stop my thoughts? All this is doing is showing me just how crazy I really am!

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.: What of "What You Are" Is No Longer You?

When I am in the grip of an old pattern I don't experience it as alien to me but rather as exactly how I need to be at that moment. So how do I "set my jailer free" if I don't experience being in jail?

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Meditation: Recharge On The Job

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