WHENEVER,
WHEREVER
go to work for nine hours and take
care of the baby? When am I going
to have time to go to the grocery
store? Increasingly, through her
daily practice of meditation, Fisch
is able to exert some control over
those thoughts, recognizing them
when they arise, and calmly telling
them to go away.
“It’s not the traditional idea of
meditation of, ‘I’m sitting crosslegged on the floor, I clear my
mind and I’m saying ‘Om’ for 20
minutes,” Fisch said. “When you
work full-time, and you have a kid,
you’re like, ‘Seriously? I don’t even
have 20 minutes to work out. And
I’m supposed to clear my mind?”
Women are increasingly asking
similar versions of those questions, as the ancient practice of
meditation becomes more and
more mainstream. The possibility that something so seemingly
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