12/30/2025
Food For Thought 🧘🏽♀️💭 According to a 2023 study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), meditation can foster community by increasing feelings of social connection, empathy and compassion toward others, and by promoting intergroup harmony and reducing prejudice.
After 15 years of leading group guided meditations locally, around the country, in different countries, and online, I can definitively say this is absolutely true.
I've witnessed it countless times, firsthand.
People who arrive random strangers at first to the the meditation class
Leave as newfound friends and even soul-family.
All shapes and sizes,
All colors and ages,
All orientations and beliefs,
All levels of education and income,
The shared experience of meditating
Together
Is profound medicine.
It is not just social lubricant,
As food, drugs and alcohol are usually termed,
But it is also social force multiplier.
A social force multiplier is a factor or interaction that uses social dynamics to significantly amplify the effectiveness or influence of a group or individual.
Stemming from a military concept, it describes how a capability, like technology or morale - or meditation - can make a fighting force disproportionately more effective than its size would suggest.
Applied to social and business contexts, a social force multiplier optimizes human interaction to achieve greater results with the same or fewer resources.
And that is exactly why I lead group meditations.
I've seen people have spontaneous healings.
I've seen people manifest new work or open their heart to love.
I've seen people figure out complex issues that have been plaguing them for months in minutes.
I've seen people create viable, profitable new business plans, brands, and proposals in record time.
It's because of something I call the "Communal Mind" that only manifests when we come together in conscious, positive community. You can't access it alone.
Life is better, together.
Thoughts?👇
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