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Thanks Chris - I appreciate the tip about counting breaths. Much
better than staring at my watch!<br>
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Harold<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/15/15 8:25 PM, Chris Corrigan via
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<div class="">These days no matter what process I am doing, if I
offer a minute of silence, instead of looking at a clock, I just
count twelve slow breaths. That way you don;t make people
anxious and you get a little meditation practice in. The
longest I ever did this for was 15 minutes with a group of 180
theological educators. I counted 180 breaths. Many of them
said they had never sat that long in silence with other human
beings before. We did it to allow people to reflect on an
important and energetic conflict in the gathering. It changed
everything, and was indeed the simplest liberating structure I
can think of.</div>
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