How to meditate effectively during the pandemic

Linda Allcock  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Oct 2020
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Linda Allcock looks at different techniques for finding tranquillity at this uncertain time

At risk of stating the obvious, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a great deal more anxiety and stress than usual for each of us.

Statistics are now providing evidence of what we already know to be true – that mental health has worsened substantially throughout the UK. These effects are not distributed randomly across the population, but are affected by people’s social and economic position within society. ‘We are all in the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat’ comments one survey by the Mental Health Foundation. At the end of June, one in ten people in the UK reported having had suicidal thoughts or feelings in the past two weeks.

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