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Interesting read, thanks. I'm curious about meditation not helping with everyday stress, outside of your "force field" time. Do you have any thoughts on why there wasn't a halo effect?

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It's hard to say--I definitely expected there to be more of an after-effect, so it was a little disappointing to realize that that wasn't going to happen. I think a lot of it has to do with the setting in which I live and work--big cities simply have a lot of stressors in them: noise, crowds, cars, etc., that are all triggers for me. At the time I was also managing a group of co-workers, and the responsibilities that came with it also were stressful.

I think I would have been able to persist the state longer if I lived in a suburb where I could avoid those things more readily.

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