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Meditation is taking over Wall Street

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Channel: Krish Murali Eswar · 2017 · Education

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Meditation is taking over Wall Street

Around eight years ago,
Bridgewater Associates founder
Ray Dalio introduced Meditation
to his then - 735 employees.

Dalio had already established
a unique, intense culture at
Bridgewater that he likes to say
is akin to being part of an
"intellectual Navy SEALs,"
and he believed that Meditation
would work as an effective counterbalance.

"I did it because it's the
greatest gift I could give anyone
- it brings about equanimity,
creativity and peace," Dalio told.

Since then, Meditation has popped
into the mainstream.

The meditation teachers have taught
almost 2,500 professionals, with
roughly 55% of those from Wall Street,
and 1,150 of those in 2016 alone.

Dalio began practicing meditation
in 1969 as a college student.

Due to a number of coinciding factors
- the recent cultural normalization
of meditation in the United States,
increasingly distracted lives,

increasingly frustrating markets,
and the fact that institutions like
the American Heart Association have
cleared meditation as a tool
for a healthy lifestyle -

Meditation is having
its moment on the Street.

The wealth of peer-reviewed research
on meditation's ability to
lower blood pressure and

decrease the presence of
stress-causing hormones
at a rate significantly higher than
other forms of stress relief

has caused institutions like the
American Heart Institution to
inspire doctors to tell
their patients about it.

The course has become popular
and many Wall Street employees
have begun to meditate twice a day.

The increase in literature about
the health benefits of Meditation
is one of the reasons the practice
has exploded in popularity
over the past few years, 

Trading is a mental game,
and anything that gives you
even a slight edge is valuable.

Being in front of a computer,
looking for ways to make money
and not finding anything
can be very frustrating.

Meditation allows people
in these situations to
better deal with this stress
and have a clearer head.

Mark Axelowitz, managing director
at UBS Wealth Management,
began learning meditation
in January 2012.

Since then, he has practiced it
every day, only missing one
or two of the twice-daily
sessions each week, if any.

Mark now serves on the board of the DLF.

"I had a Blackberry and an iPhone,
and my life was nonstop work," Mark said.

He said he's awake 18 hours a day.
He found that meditation
profoundly affected him.

He said that since making meditation
a daily habit, he has been able to
have a clearer mind, which has
allowed him to be more present
in both his professional
and personal lives.

When you're investing in the market,
and the markets are moving around...
a lot of people get very emotional.

It affects your day.
If you have a stock or a fund
that's not doing well temporarily,
it bogs you down, it bothers you,
so it affects your productivity.

Meditation allows you to think
through that, to see through that,
and be less emotional.

Scientific community is recognising
the benefits of Meditation for
reducing stress, improving health,
and promoting creativity and performance.

The scientific validation of Meditation,
the increased popularity of meditation
and the ease of learning are all reasons
why Meditation is spreading.

How are you going to argue with
a guy who makes $5 million a day?

You are not going to argue with that!

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