A Place to Meditate

Patricia Lewis likes to start her mornings with meditation. The 20 to 30 minutes that it takes, she says, sets the tone for the entire day.

"It's just sitting and quieting yourself and going within," says Lewis, 66, who uses a spare room she and her husband, Eldon, designated for reiki and meditation when they built their Clovis, Calif., home six years ago. Lewis has practiced reiki, a Japanese technique said to facilitate healing and relaxation by placing the hands on or near another person, for more than a decade. She's been meditating for 10 years.

"I find that if you meditate every day before you do anything, your life goes so well," Lewis says. "It puts you in the now."

"This is my spiritual niche," Lewis says. (More)

Source: The Olympian