Oh, I guess I have to give you a hint: This is not about meditation.

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About meditation and breath work, a greater understanding of various meditative and breath practices opens the door to empowering people to take control of their own health and well-being.

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Most of the book is a meditation about the problem of evil in European history.

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But part of it was a meditation about what they had lost by not going.

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Of these, about 500 have been clinical trials testing meditation for various ailments, but only about 40 trials have been long-term studies.

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You can also ask her about finding management wisdom in pop culture, meditation, and her introductory exploration of the fiber arts.

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Although all this high-end bathing -- not to mention an onboard sushi chef (who Larson says is "the best in Scandinavia") -- account for much of the boat's allure, the 40-year-old meditation enthusiast believes there's something a little more transcendental about the whole experience.

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Films from his "experimental period" include "ABC Africa" (2001), an impressionistic documentary about Ugandan orphans, and "Roads of Kiarostami" (2006), a meditation on the image of the road, a recurring motif in his films and landscape photography.

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They heard about advances in ape-human communication, about undersea technologies that enable us to discover seven new species an hour and about proof that happiness can be both synthesized by amnesiacs and built up like a muscle by meditation.

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