Jeanne Ball: Can Meditation Create Social Change?

Here in Asheville, NC, ranks of the Occupy movement have struggled peacefully to keep their encampments. Recently there was a march in protest of occupier arrests.

Bloggers on The Huffington Post have commented eloquently about the widespread protests and the statement being made from Oakland to New England.

In support of social change, there’s another powerful approach, one that’s complimentary to all viewpoints — an approach essential to social evolution, yet so quiet it’s easily drowned out amid the general media’s focus on the obvious and sensational.

That approach: meditation.

“Change Begins Within”The above phrase was coined by David Lynch as the theme of his philanthropic foundation’s annual benefit event to support Transcendental Meditation stress-reduction programs for students and at-risk populations — such as Native Americans, veterans with PTSD, child prostitutes, prison inmates and the homeless…

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Jeanne Ball: Can Meditation Create Social Change?

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