Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Neale Lundgren, PhD, author of the new Meditations for the Soul. Our global situation has changed our relationship to the world at large and isolated many of us from our work and our friends. In this crisis, we can turn to meditation to help us manage the challenges this situation presents. Noticing our thoughts with awareness rather than giving our thoughts energy is the essence of all meditation. Many of us imagine meditation as something set apart from our everyday life. There are spiritual techniques that can help us gain mental and emotional stability in the midst of the trials life may bring to us. The practice of simple