It’s simple and takes 20 minutes… But learning to meditate could unlock your inner calm

Amid a hectic life, meditation can help make you happier and healthier

Jillian Lavender, a much-sought-after meditation teacher and author of a new book Why Meditate?, is on a mission to eliminate stress from people's lives - not to manage it, or cope with, but to get rid of it. Altogether.

People talk about stress as something we have to learn to live with, particularly anxiety," she says. Actually we can do something about stress." She believes we need to change our mindset around what she sees as one of the greatest causes of suffering today. There is no such thing as good stress", she says. People are tired, exhausted and stressed. And they compensate for that by all sorts of behaviours and habits. I want to bring us into a normal state, a balanced state that is healthy."

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