Who can benefit from meditation?
Anyone who feels stressed, tired, overburdened, has a chronic injury or illness or who doesn’t want to miss out on their life. “Meditation is a way to plug people back into the deepest part of who they are,” said executive meditation coach Mark Thornton. “It will reconnect you to parts of yourself you’ve forgotten about or lost.” Meditation is increasingly being used in the health care field; Doctors treat stress-related illnesses using a meditation technique called mindfulness-based stress reduction, created by meditation teacher Jon Kabat-Zinn. Q: When should I meditate? A: Whenever you can; when you wake up, in the shower, during your morning commute, or during a board meeting. Once chief operating officer for JP Morgan, Thornton found that taking micro-meditation breaks while moving during the day could be just as profound as going on a retreat. “I thought meditation was something you did on your own; in fact it can be an integral part of the day,” he said. Constantly interrupting
