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In the past ten years, corporate America has begun to start adapting meditation into their everyday lives. Mostly to reduce stress, however, it has shown huge benefits to those who meditate Especially those who work on Wall Street. In Goldberg's article, there was one example of a trader who would get a twinge in his stomach when he felt a shift in the market, she was able to teach him techniques to take that feeling and turn it into a sensation to reduce his stress. It provides many coping mechanisms to our highly stressed out culture and is something that is extremely beneficial especially in corporate America one of the most extreme and stressful work environments in the world. When the Catherine Albanese says that “Buddhism stood on its head," what I feel she meant was that we took the concept of Buddhism and meditation, and adapted to fit into our culture but not to better ourselves but benefit our financial and power status. She is inferring that as we have done with adapting many different cultures we have turned them around completely to benefit ourselves in the long run and distorted the true meaning of it.

I believe that meditation is something extremely valuable to those who work in extreme stress situations. Corporate America is known as one of the most intense and stressful job market. So why not do something to help prevent bigger issues?