Can Meditation Help You Become Wolverine?

When I started meditating 7 years or so ago I was reluctant to tell anybody about my guilty little secret, including my family. After all, meditation was weird because how on earth could just sitting quietly achieve anything other than giving you a sore arse and maybe piles? Only strange people meditated. People who wore sandals a lot, stroked whales, raved over recipes using tofu and burned a lot of incense and other assorted legal and not-quite-so-legal herbs. Normal people didn’t meditate. I mean, why on earth would they? Where was the payoff?  Then the research started to trickle in. At first it seemed like once in a while an interesting report would come in highlighting the benefits of some element of meditation and mindfulness. To begin with the research seemed to be concentrating on the benefits on dealing with stress and it wasn’t long before common knowledge to people who meditated became common knowledge to people who didn’t. Meditation is as effective in dealing with stress as a regular exercise regime. But why would we want to get our stress levels under control? Hmm, let me think. Well it does attack the immune system, impedes focus, can negatively effect sleep patterns, reduces creativity, lowers happiness and can even lead to depression.  So there is that, I guess. Oh and… It has also been linked to increased risk of addiction, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, high blood pressure and too many medical conditions to mention without me getting repeti...
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