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    Study: A lot more Americans are meditating now than just 5 years ago

    by Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times Nov 08, 2018 3 minutes

    If the stress of modern life seems overwhelming, consider giving meditation a try. More than 35 million of your fellow Americans already have.

    A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 14.2 percent of American adults surveyed in 2017 said they had practiced meditation at least once in the last year. That means it rivals yoga as the most popular type of complementary health practice in the United States.

    It's a dramatic change from 2012, when only 4.1 percent of adults said

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