You're Meditating Wrong (Here's How)

Stuck Not Broken by Justin Sunseri

May 12, 202614:03Health

If you've ever sat down to meditate and felt like you were failing at it, this episode is for you. In this special episode, I read a section from my new book, Stuck Not Broken Book Three, on why most people are meditatin...

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