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Taft's Journey to Meditation
- Michael Taft's interest in meditation stemmed from severe anxiety during high school.
- Finding little support, he explored meditation through books, which proved helpful and sparked a lifelong interest.
Meditation as a Suite of Practices
- Meditation is not a single practice, but a suite of techniques with targeted benefits.
- It exposes implicit unconscious processes to conscious awareness, like cognitive biases.
Embodied Emotions and Decisions
- Emotions are embodied experiences, physical feelings in the body, crucial for decision-making.
- Meditating on body sensations of emotions reveals hidden emotional flavors influencing choices.