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    How should I meditate as a beginner?
    James Brown
    Meditation Coach
    James Brown is a San Francisco Bay Area-based teacher of Vedic Meditation, an easy and accessible form of meditation with ancient roots. James completed a rigorous 2-year study program with Vedic masters, including a 4-month immersion in the Himalayas. James has taught thousands of people, individually, and in companies such as Slack, Salesforce, and VMWare.
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    It can help to sit with your back straight so you can focus and stay alert. Try to meditate and focus for around 10–20 minutes at a time.
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    How should I practice meditation if I'm only a beginner?
    Masha Kouzmenko
    Meditation Coach
    Masha Kouzmenko is a Meditation Coach and the Co-Founder of Silicon Valley Wellness, a company based in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides holistic health education services such as mindfulness meditation and yoga instruction to businesses. She has over five years of meditation and yoga instruction experience and specializes in guided meditation. She has a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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    Just set a few minutes aside every day so you develop a consistent routine. Over time, you can meditate for longer sessions.
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    How do you tell if you are meditating correctly?
    Masha Kouzmenko
    Meditation Coach
    Masha Kouzmenko is a Meditation Coach and the Co-Founder of Silicon Valley Wellness, a company based in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides holistic health education services such as mindfulness meditation and yoga instruction to businesses. She has over five years of meditation and yoga instruction experience and specializes in guided meditation. She has a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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    Let go of the idea that you have meditate in a certain way. During meditation, try to let go of control so you can have a deeper experience. I think that's actually something most people can appreciate, because at some point, everyone gets tired of controlling things and trying to hold on to everything so much.
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    What are the benefits of meditation?
    Masha Kouzmenko
    Meditation Coach
    Masha Kouzmenko is a Meditation Coach and the Co-Founder of Silicon Valley Wellness, a company based in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides holistic health education services such as mindfulness meditation and yoga instruction to businesses. She has over five years of meditation and yoga instruction experience and specializes in guided meditation. She has a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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    You can use meditation to release emotions that are being held in your body, which is one major benefit. Your emotional experiences and stressors are stored in different parts of your body. A lot of people store sadness in their chest, for instance. Meditation can allow those emotions and stress to be released from your body. Because of that, meditation can allow you to have a life that is less triggered, so you don't have so many storms of irrelevant emotions.
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    What really happens when you meditate?
    Masha Kouzmenko
    Meditation Coach
    Masha Kouzmenko is a Meditation Coach and the Co-Founder of Silicon Valley Wellness, a company based in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides holistic health education services such as mindfulness meditation and yoga instruction to businesses. She has over five years of meditation and yoga instruction experience and specializes in guided meditation. She has a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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    You can enter a flow state by meditating. In our society, there's a really big premium on intellectual thinking, critical analytical thinking, and effort. And yet, the best experiences in life are the ones where you're not thinking or trying, whether that's a conversation, a relationship, traveling, or anything else. That's called a flow state, and you can achieve that during meditation, as well.
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