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|  | | The Science of De-Stressing | | nico hase | | |
A couple years ago I defended my dissertation. Now, as anyone who has ever defended a dissertation will tell you, the whole process is a stress-inducing imbroglio, a veritable blitzkrieg of queries and provocations hosted by a stone-faced faculty tribunal intent on punching holes in the drywall of your thesis, which you've just spent one or two or three years building up out of a combination of blood, sweat, and far too many obscure academic citations.
Or at least that’s how it feels.
In my case, in addition to the general hypertensive agony of standing up in front of smart people and trying to say stuff, I’d made the mistake of inviting a couple of my heroes onto the committee. Richard Davidson, the greatly renowned neuroscientist who more or less invented hard science meditation research, was going to be there. Ann Gleig, a truly ass-kicking scholar of Buddhism, too.
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| Featured Meditation |  | | Stress is Natural | | Alexis Santos | | It's easy to think of stress as something to escape or avoid. Instead, try turning toward it with a sense of exploration and friendliness. | |
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