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#214 Powerful Daily Habits to Reduce Stress and Anxiety

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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Meditation Is Like Going to the Gym

I found it difficult, i'll be honest. The mind does not like to switch off. It's constantly whirring and swirling away. Even sitting down just for a few moments, my mind would just fill with all sorts of our thoughts and ideas. And one of the triggers that helped me reframe it and think about it in a new way was that meditation is like going to the gym,. You know, w we lift weights to strengthen our muscles. And meditating with strengthening the attention muscle in our mind. We sit. And it's not about clearing the mind and zenning out. I think that's a misconception. Whenever thoughts come, which they will, we acknowledge

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