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Trudy goodman is a meditation expert who's helped thousands of people find a way out of their mental loops by moving deeper into them. Trudy and her husband, the legendary meditation expert, jack cornfield, have seen countless people shift their world view in the span of a few breaths. We don't have training that we get as children for how to deal with the fake news of our own minds," she says. "It doesn't take a long time or strenuous effort to radically alter the course of your thoughts"

When you’re gripped by anxiety, fear, grief or dread, how do you escape? It can happen in the span of a few breaths, according to meditation experts Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. They have helped thousands of people find their way out of a mental loop, by moving deeper into it. It's a journey inward that reveals an important lesson for the architects of the attention economy: you cannot begin to build humane technology for billions of users, until you pay careful attention to the course of your own wayward thoughts.