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Posts by Rebecca OBern

Rebecca O’Bern is an award-winning writer and educator with 10 years of experience. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Southern Connecticut State University, has numerous poems published in literary journals such as Notre Dame Review, Buddhist Poetry Review, and Whale Road Review, and has received honors from Arts Café Mystic and UCONN. Learn more about her and view her work on rebeccaobern.com and follow her on Twitter @rebeccaobern.

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The Simple Meditation Technique That Changed My Life

“Stay in the moment. The practice of staying present will heal you. Obsessing about how the future will turn out creates anxiety. Replaying broken scenarios from the past causes anger and sadness. Stay here, in this moment.” ~Sylvester McNutt

For two years, I studied and practiced meditation. I listened to podcasts, chanted mantras each morning, sat quietly while exploring my default mode network, and traversed Eastern mysticism under the guidance of a licensed clinical psychologist who taught me how to use deep diaphragmatic breathing to stimulate my vagus nerve and lower my resting heart rate. This helped me recover from …