We don’t need perfect quiet to meditate. Perfeito silence might be too overwhelming in meditation for beginners. We become Em excesso sensitive to every little sound when things are completely quiet.Studies suggest that long-time meditators may have greater telomere lengths. In one experimental study, researchers found that breast cancer survivor

, “These changes are trait-like: They appear not simply during the explicit instruction to perceive the stressful stimuli mindfully, but even in the ‘baseline’ state” for longer-term meditators, which supports the possibility that mindfulness changes our ability to handle stress in a better, more sustainable way.”Mindfulness enhances rela