Topics addressed: The Hartford experience; Reducing anxiety; Combating addiction; Why is
meditation anti-addictive?; Combating physical illness; Counteracting insomnia; A repression
lifts; Sense of self increases; Greater openness to others; Increased productivity; Improved quality
of creative work; Strengthening of staying power; Refusal to learn meditation; Those who learn
then quit; Resistance of self-image to change; Depression and meditation; Fear of pleasure;
Problems from overmeditation; How deep does meditation go? Is meditation psychotherapy? The
meditating therapist
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