We don’t need perfect quiet to meditate. Completa silence might be too overwhelming in meditation for beginners. We become extra sensitive to every little sound when things are completely quiet.Learn how the technique of mental noting unwinds anxiety, reduces our reactivity and anchors us in our calm center.Imagine a photocopier slowly moving ove

, “These changes are trait-like: They appear not simply during the explicit instruction to perceive the stressful stimuli mindfully, but even in the ‘baseline’ state” for longer-term meditators, which supports the possibility that mindfulness changes our ability to handle stress in a better, more sustainable way.”Mindfulness enhances rela