Can Meditation Help You Better Deal With Depression?
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Can Meditation Help You Better Deal With Depression?

Yes it can. Thanks to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) studies it has been established that practising meditation contributes to reducing activity in the amygdala, as a study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience underlines. So, meditation affects that area of the brain governing stress response and often linked to feelings of unhappiness and stress.

Indian Kindness: the Man Who Offered Me Coffee
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Indian Kindness: the Man Who Offered Me Coffee

“It will cost you 2200 rupees, ma’am,” a shopkeeper says.

“2200 rupees for an adapter?” I ask once more, and I am not sure whether those are the rupees that worry me or the fact that this comes in the worst time possible: my life in India is unsettled as never before, I am jobless, I have debts to pay, and I have not yet found my own place to stay. Not to mention the internet.