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MEDITATION… BUT FUNNY!

IMAGINE YOU OPEN the guided-meditation app on your phone and press play on the daily insight. You hear an electric piano and a female voice, smooth as butter. “Wherever you may be right now,” she says, “just take a moment to acknowledge that at least one of your exes has it way worse off than you.”

Feel better?

This delightfully petty insight is from a daily-meditation app called Gfulness. Think of it as Headspace meets Funny or Die. Stand-up comedy meets the seatedlotus position.

The idea behind the service—and a growing number of others—is that there’s no law that says meditation and mindfulness have to be somber and serious. On the road to enlightenment, maybe it’s helpful to lighten the mood.

Beyond Gfulness, serenity seekers can now find dozens of videos,

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