Many people turn to meditation to tame the monkey or, at least calm him down once in a while. But, ironically, many beginning meditators find that the quieter their minds become, the more the ...

Meditation saved my life ... Most people’s minds moves around uncontrollably, kind of like a monkey. “Everyone has a monkey mind,” he said. “The monkey mind sounds like this ...

Used by Buddhists to keep the ‘monkey mind’ at bay, and by Sikhs to get rid of mental dirt, meditation also is a key theme, teaching students the benefits of disconnecting for a while.