Elliott's heartbroken, introspective storytelling is set against delicately strummed guitar riffs as he meditates on love and loss.

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Now she doesn't need the machine but meditates, more in tune with her nervous system, able to calm herself through concentrated thought.

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But he still wakes daily at dawn and treks to the highest point on Jain Hills, where he meditates and does yoga.

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Now, Ms. O'Boyle meditates every day for 20 to 45 minutes.

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Simmons meditates cross-legged on his bed for 20 minutes each morning.

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Most mornings before going to the office, he still meditates.

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In another song, "Seduced and Abandoned, " Merritt assumes the guise of a woman who's been left with her newborn child by a dastardly cad, and she meditates morosely on her future.

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He does an hour of martial arts two to three times a week before he starts work and he meditates for five minutes between clients to defuse the frustration of having to deal with the Sheffield traffic.

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