I'm Sandra Smith I'm Charles Payne and this is the Fox News rundown.

Monday January 1st 2024 I'm Tanya J Powers. It's a brand new year with many of us making

resolutions that focus on wellness and no matter what your path to better

health looks like part of the foundation to making it all work starts with shut-eye.

We can actually rewire the way we think if we have purposefulness or intention a plan and

so the New Year is a great time to underscore that.

This is the Fox News rundown evening edition.

New Year's means a lot of us will make resolutions, get richer, get healthier, read more,

work out more. There are many ways to accomplish these goals that don't require a new gym

membership or substantial financial

investment.

One of them is mindfulness.

Many people think that meditation is a practice that requires sitting still for 30 minutes at a time, perhaps in an uncomfortable

position, and banishing all thoughts from one's mind. And of course, I'm a long time

meditator, I cannot do that.

We're going behind the buzzwords and speaking today with Dr. Greg Hammer who's a physician and mindfulness expert.

I think that many people get turned off to meditation.

Maybe they try it and they feel as though they've failed,

or it's too daunting, given that impression of what meditation is.

Meditation actually is something that can be done in just a few minutes a day and I've written a book called

Gain Without Pain and Gain is an acronym for what I think are the four fundamentals of happiness and mental and spiritual well-being

and they are gratitude, acceptance, intention, and non-judgment. So I practice and teach something very simple which is a gain meditation and I'll tell you about that it can be done in three minutes so who doesn't have three minutes?

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