Meditation can make you calmer — and startlingly more aware of your own messy thoughts. What do experts say is the right way to begin so it helps without turning into frustration or false hope?

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Dear Abby: My sister has become very interested in Zen meditation. I’m afraid she has become obsessed with it. She spent a week at a special meditation workshop during which she said she meditated all ...