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Meditation retreat, Meditation, Stress management Jill Wener Meditation retreat, Meditation, Stress management Jill Wener

6 reasons you don’t have to change your belief system (or have to have a belief system at all) to be a Vedic meditator

1.     Vedic meditation works whether or not you are religious, or an atheist, or anything in between. It also works if you are tall or short, young or old, an athlete or a couch potato, gay or straight, democrat or republican. Sit comfortably for 20 minutes, twice a day, enjoy your meditations, and reap the short and long term benefits.

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Meditation, Meditation retreat, Stress management, Insights and Activism Jill Wener Meditation, Meditation retreat, Stress management, Insights and Activism Jill Wener

Leap! And don't look back.

5 years ago, I was a burned-out, stressed doctor. I felt totally powerless against the burnout. Enter Vedic meditation. I attended a free introductory class that my (soon to be) teacher held in Chicago one Sunday night. I sat there for an hour, completely mesmerized yet somehow waiting for there to be a hole in his argument that would allow me to leave without signing up for the course. 

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You do you
Stress management, Meditation, Insights and Activism Jill Wener Stress management, Meditation, Insights and Activism Jill Wener

You do you

I’m on vacation now with my family- we are all staying together in a lovely beach house in Hilton Head. My niece and nephew are with us- twin almost-11 year-olds, and they are the loves of my life. It’s funny, though, how being around almost-11 year olds can remind us of some of our own childish behaviors that have survived into our adult lives…

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