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ISSUE 440
January 4, 2026

Happier Meditation Weekly
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How to Maintain a Meditation Practice
Emily Horn
One of the most common questions I get from students is how to maintain a meditation practice.

This is especially hard when you’re starting out. Once you begin to see the benefits of meditation, it’s easier to stay with it. The simple practice of noticing and sensing what is happening in a non-judgmental way makes a big difference in how you respond to the whole of life. You can notice in just a few conscious breaths that it’s possible to create a gap between the stimulation and response of our nervous system. We can get out of fight and flight. We can evolve into something bigger than always self-protecting. And we can feel this when we meditate.

As you’re just beginning to build the habit, though, you might often find yourself giving yourself too much negative reinforcement and not enough self-love.
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