But there's a cool trick to quiet the chatter and find some inner peace meditation. It's not about forcing your mind to be totally blank, but more like learning to watch your thoughts without ...

As with the monkey mind, reactivity to the struggle present ... Bye-bye playground; meditation turns into nap time. Which, of course, may be the best thing to do, to be pragmatic.

Meditation is about taming our monkey mind and making it a monk. We need to still the mind, kill the mind. The way to still the mind is to watch the mind, observe the mind so that we become a ...

Used by Buddhists to keep the ‘monkey mind’ at bay, and by Sikhs to get rid of mental dirt, meditation also is a key theme, teaching students the benefits of disconnecting for a while.