Meditation helps us defuse stress‎,‎ experience greater tranquility‎,‎ find a sense of wholeness‎,‎ strengthen our relationships and face our fears‎.‎ Meditation helps sharpen focus‎,‎ lower blood pressure‎,‎ and reduce chronic pain‎.‎ Meditation helps protect the brain against aging and improves our capacity for learning new things‎.‎ And it‎'‎s as easy as sitting down and taking a breath‎.‎ ‎"‎The Power of Meditation‎"‎ is the most effective‎,‎ approachable guide to this transformative technique‎.‎ Beginning with the simplest breathing and sitting techniques‎,‎ Sharon Salzberg‎,‎ distilling thirty years of teaching experience‎,‎ shows how to start