Personal Narrative Analysis

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For thirty minutes, I sat down in my computer chair in my room and tried to relax as much as possible. I turned off my phone, all of the lights, and made sure that I was going to be uninterrupted for the allotted time that I would be trying this out. Once I got comfortable, sitting up right, I began focusing on how I was going to meditate. I had never done this before; and maybe the closest thing that I have ever got to meditating was daydreaming. So that is what I began doing. I started thinking about my day so far. It was only eleven o’clock in the morning, so I had only done a few things that I could think about. After thinking about my day for around five minutes, I attempted to become very relaxed and focus on whatever came to mind at

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