"Take just a moment of quiet — even one brief minute of serenity is powerful," says busy mom, leadership trainer, personal development coach and spiritual counselor Dawn Groves, author of Meditation for Busy People.

Meditation:
  • Retrains you to live in the present.

  • Gives you the focus to concentrate on one thing at a time.

  • Helps you deal with immediate, concrete problems rather than being distracted by nebulous worries.

  • Teaches you to slow down and cope with the non-specific anxiety that plagues most of us.

  • Helps you respond more creatively to pressures that usually elicit habitual, knee-jerk reactions.

  • Trains you to be comfortable with a quieter, more serene mind.

Relax, Center, Release.

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