Because what looks to be random tongue, jaw, and lip movements was not considered from an anatomical and physiological perspective; a student needs to have muscle awareness, tone, and coordination to move each muscle to create speech sounds.

While meditating everyday might not take you to the heights of a Buddhist monastery, it will help you cultivate a center of resilience, empathy, and calm. Here’s one women’s story on how remaining open through her early struggles led to a consistent meditation practice.

“Ma’am, your daughter’s fine,” every doctor and specialist that I took my baby to said to me. They looked at me in a way that rattled my waning confidence and grip on reality.

How could they NOT see that she wasn’t healthy?? Was I going crazy?

I became THAT mom. I knew that my child needed help, yet every doctor and specialist was telling me otherwise. I was becoming desperate.