{"id":643,"date":"2009-06-09T16:05:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/06\/1-in-11-americans-meditates.html"},"modified":"2009-06-09T16:05:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T16:05:20","slug":"1-in-11-americans-meditates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/06\/1-in-11-americans-meditates.html","title":{"rendered":"1 in 11 Americans meditates?"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to an article yesterday<\/i><\/a> in USA Today<\/i>,<\/i> meditation, “once thought of as an esoteric, mystical pursuit . . . is going mainstream.” One might argue that if it’s in USA Today,<\/i> it already is mainstream, but in any case. . .<\/span><\/p>\n


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\"Unclesamwantyou<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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The article has a few interesting bits of info.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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For one thing, more congressmen are coming out of the meditation closet:<\/div>\n
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Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, feels he has to arrive at the top of his game every day. And Ryan says he has found a way to do that: He meditates for at least 45 minutes before leaving home. yan, 35, sits on a floor cushion, closes his eyes, focuses on his breath and tries to detach from any thoughts, just observing them like clouds moving across the sky — a practice he learned at a retreat<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Another interesting factoid shared is: a government survey found that one in eleven Americans, or 20 million people, have meditated in the last year. Jon Kabat-Zinn<\/a> reports that he has seen “a colossal shift in acceptance” of meditation as a normal activity in for Americans.<\/div>\n
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Of course, meditation can mean a number of things to different people, but article focuses specifically on the sort of mindfulness meditation Kabat-Zinn has popularized, which is Buddhist-influenced at the very least. <\/div>\n
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Cheers America, happy meditating.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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