Posted by meshtrip at April 7, 2016, 10:11 p.m.

How to Feel Like You Went on Vacation by Meditating for 15 Minutes

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There are ways to get that serene, lying-on-the-beach feeling, even if the beach is far, far away.
We love to travel because it’s that addictive combination of exciting, interesting, surprising, and, simultaneously, relaxing. We’re inspired by new languages, tastes, and tilts of light over hilltops—but what happens when we get home? Meditation can (yes, really) be another route to the same states that travel brings us.

How? Well, first throw out your ideas of what meditation “should” be: “There’s no ‘right’ way to travel, and there’s not one way to meditate,” says Coby Kozlowski, a Yoga Journal covergirl and contemporary yoga and meditation teacher at the Esalen Institute. Much like how Paris's magic is as available to the student backpacker as a splurging retiree, meditation can happen in bed alone in the middle of a sleepless night, in a group of fellow sanity seekers replete with incense wafting, or while singing or dancing (yes, movement and singing meditation is a thing).

Hackneyed ideas about rules are just one way people get both globe-trotting and meditation wrong. Like meditation, travel has long been known as a vehicle for self-discovery: Herodotus's Histories and Sterne’s Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (440 BC and 1768 respectively) each include their share of querying the world to understand oneself—way before Eat, Pray, Love made the scene. You can adventure in other ways with meditation—“You’re really diving into the adventure of your inner world,” says Kozlowski—and that can have very real mental health benefits, too: Research has shown meditation’s benefits for everything from those who suffer with PTSD, to attention issues and depression and anxiety.

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