3 Guided Meditations     Research shows that cutting through the mental static and focusing your mind this way helps alleviate stress and anxiety, slows aging, improves your attention span — and can even act as a sleep aid. "People often think meditation is about getting rid of thoughts or feelings, which it's not,” says Sharon Salzberg, co- founder of the Insight Meditation Society, and author of Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation and the forthcoming Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World. With mindfulness we learn to feel a whole range of emotions and physical sensations without getting swept up in them — or trying to push them away.  CONTINUE HERE...