How to Quiet Your Mind in the Midst of Chaos

Following is a simple, four-step meditation practice that I recommend to my clients and personally follow. 

The Meditation–How to Quiet Your Mind in the Midst of Chaos

If a person could observe the stream of his thought for only one day he would see that there is almost no distinction between himself and a madman. It is just that the madman actually acts upon his thoughts, but the thoughts themselves are indistinguishable.
—Rabbi Shapira (1932, Warsaw Ghetto)