Are you turned off by the hippie-dippy idea of meditation? Or are you curious about it but not quite convinced enough to try it? Whether you are a true skeptic about the benefits of meditation or curious but cautious, give yourself a few minutes with the articles on this page—because they could change your mind and truly enhance your life.

For example:
If you’ve looked into meditation and have been put off by complex instructions that seem like a lot of work, you’ll be surprised and delighted to learn how little time and effort really are involved. It‘s easy—as easy as closing your eyes, quieting your body and taking a deep breath.

But what it can do for your whole life is truly amazing! For a small investment of time—as little as 12 minutes in some cases—you can reduce the chronic inflammation of asthma, inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis…improve your emotional resilience, especially when dealing with emotionally charged situations…get as good an aerobic workout as walking at a moderate pace…improve your memory, creative problem solving, concentration and mental clarity (even make your brain bigger!)…improve your blood pressure, cardio health and bone density…develop greater compassion for others and for yourself…and much, much more.

Now, take a slow, deep breath…and get ready to be calmer, happier and healthier.
Try It, You’ll Like It: Easy Tips On How to Begin

Meditation for People Who Don’t Like to Meditate:

1. How to Meditate—3 Easy Tricks
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/health-a-healing/how-to-meditate-3-easy-tricks

2. Simple Steps to Learn Meditation
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/self-improvement/meditation-for-people-who-dont-like-to-meditate

3. Mindfulness Makes More of Everyday Life
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/self-improvement/mindfulness-makes-more-of-everyday-life

Practical and Strategic Meditation Tricks:

1. The Six-Second Exercise that Short-Circuits Emotional Explosions
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/self-improvement/the-six-second-exercise-that-short-circuits-emotional-explosions

2. Reduce Stress: Secrets to Staying Calm in a High-Stress World
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/self-improvement/reduce-stress-secrets-to-staying-calm-in-a-high-stress-world

3. Kirtan Kriya Meditation: 12-Minute Brain Boost for Stressed-Out People
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/natural-remedies/kirtan-kriya-meditation-12-minute-brain-boost-for-stressed-out-people

Make a Joyful Noise While You’re At It!:

1. The Power of a Personal Mantra
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/natural-remedies/the-power-of-a-personal-mantra

2. Singing Bowls: Ancient Vibrational Healing Therapy for Cancer
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/health-a-healing/singing-bowls-ancient-vibrational-healing-therapy-for-cancer

3. Chant to Lower Blood Pressure
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/natural-remedies/chant-to-lower-blood-pressure

Love Thy Neighbor and Thyself:

1. Meditation Increases Compassion
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/self-improvement/meditation-increases-compassion

2. Compassion Meditation: Loving Others Makes You Healthy
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/health-a-healing/compassion-meditation-loving-others-makes-you-healthy

3. Self-Compassion: How to Regain Faith In Yourself
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/self-improvement//self-compassion-how-to-regain-faith-in-yourself

4. Love Your Way to Better Health
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/self-improvement/love-your-way-to-better-health

Meditation for Body-Mind Renewal:

1. How Meditation Can Help Arthritis, Asthma and Other Inflammation Problems
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/natural-remedies/how-meditation-can-help-arthritis-asthma-and-other-inflammation-problems

2. Meditation Boosts Memory and Mood
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/natural-remedies/meditation-boosts-memory-and-mood

3. How Transcendental Meditation Helps Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/self-improvement/how-transcendental-meditation-helps-anxiety-and-post-traumatic-stress

4. Ease Depression with Meditation and Yoga
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/health-a-healing/ease-depression-with-meditation-and-yoga

5. Meditation Cuts Depression Symptoms Almost in Half
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/health-a-healing/ease-depression-with-meditation-and-yoga

Meditation For Body-Mind Renewal:

1. Make Your Brain Bigger in Eight Weeks
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/extra/make-your-brain-bigger-in-eight-weeks

2. A Makeover for Your Mind
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/self-improvement/a-makeover-for-your-mind

Meditation In Motion And More:

1. Meditation, Military Style
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/self-improvement/meditation-military-style

2. Tai Chi: A Great Workout for Your Body and Brain
http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/self-improvement/tai-chi-a-great-workout-for-your-body-and-brain

But now we have a chance to give the millions of Americans without access to affordable basic financial services a fair, publicly owned alternative to payday lenders and big banks. Senator Elizabeth Warren has an exciting new proposal that would allow post offices around the country to offer basic financial services like check cashing and bill paying.

As a student organizer in Chicago, I’ve seen the devastating effects of economic injustice firsthand — and I want to be part of the solution. That’s why I started my own campaign on CREDOMobilize.com, which allows activists to start their own petitions. My petition, which is to Congress, says the following:

Millions of Americans lack access to affordable financial services like check cashing, bill paying and small loans. Please support Senator Warren’s postal banking proposal, which would allow the United States Postal Service to offer financial services at local post offices around the country.

According to study released in January by the United States Postal Service’s inspector general, 68 million Americans – nearly 1 in 4 households — are underserved by banks and forced to rely on exploitative and wildly expensive payday lenders. Many of these people spend as much as $2,400 each year on inflated interest rates and unnecessary fees.

Across the globe, countries like Japan, Germany and Kenya have had great success with postal banking. And for more than 50 years, post offices in the United States were also allowed to offer banking services. Despite the program’s widespread success, both at providing banking services and generating billions of dollars in revenue for the United States Postal Service, Congress ended the program in 1967.

Given the lack of access to affordable banking services currently experienced by tens of millions of Americans, Congress needs take immediate action to move forward Senator Warren’s proposal to bring a public option for financial services back to the United States.

While there’s been a lot of buzz lately about Senator Warren’s postal banking proposal, it needs support in Congress to become law. By signing my petition you can help build that support and add real momentum to the fight for postal banking.

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