The lingering effects of outpatient anesthesia and other technical difficulties stopped the production of the #264 issue of With A Shout from distribution on Monday.  Today issues #264 and #265 will be released to catch up.  Today meditation recommendations for non-meditation people and other interesting facts lead off the week.

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If you have ever thought it would help if you could meditate, you've probably read several articles on meditating.  We've moved from wanting to learn how to meditate to calling things like reading for 30 minutes or yoga class meditation.  If you go to bed looking forward to coffee the following day, settling your mind doesn't sound worthwhile.  Yet here we are again, reading another article about how to meditate.

At With A Shout, we make comparisons or associations to explain things.  This is how we learn; with meditation, the best association we've seen to date is what an expectant mother is taught to do during childbirth.  At its core, when you are taught to focus on an object and on your breathing during labor, especially during a contraction, it's about directing your attention away from one thing but focusing on another.  In all the explanations for meditation, at the core, it's about focusing on one thing to direct your attention from something else; in this case, it's everything else.

Vox wrote another article on meditation for those of us who don't meditate, and it includes directions, suggestions, and resources, including applications that can also help.  Another recommendation is to use the time you are meditating to go deep into why you think meditation is good for you.

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It wasn’t the tech industry that created all those acronyms you see everywhere; a few have been around for decades.  Many seem like brands, but "UL," a mark you see on many electronics, stands for Underwriters Laboratories.  This symbol has been around since 1906 and represents testing and safety standards.  The website Interesting Facts has a story on a few acronyms that have been in front of us for decades.  Look at the zipper on your jeans, chances are it has the YKK engraving on it, and this is a brand, but a brand that represents half of the entire market is similar to calling facial tissues Kleenex!

Have user-generated reviews replaced the need for professional critics in the new media? We still have music critics, movie credits, and book critics; where are the podcast credits? Rob Rosenthal asks this same question before he reviews a podcast. Rosenthal has the credentials, and now you can listen to his review of a popular podcast.

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