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This 8-Word Meditation Changed My Life

In, out. Deep, slow. Calm, ease. Smile, release.

Alex Garrett
Curious
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4 min readAug 14, 2020

In 2015, I fell on hard times. I was in a downward spiral; the worse things got, the more I obsessed over prior misfortunes. Eckhart Tolle calls this phenomenon “the pain-body”: a state of compulsively seeking turmoil…

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