New Study: Invincible America Assembly Reduced Homicides and Violent Crime

A new study has found that the community Invincible America Assembly reduced the rate of homicides by a total of 21.2% over the four-year period when attendance was at its peak, and reduced the rate of violent crime by a total of 18.5% over the same period. The study estimates…

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Meditation helps calm veterans’ PTSD

By Tom Corwin, Staff Writer, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016 It is the standard alarm on an iPhone, but when Sgt. Nathan Meisner hears it, he is drawn back to the base where he served in Basra, Iraq. “It sounds just like the alarm when missiles or mortars are being shot into the…

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How meditating in a tiny Iowa town helped me recover from war

By Supriya Venkatesan, a veteran of the U.S. Army and Operation Iraqi Freedom. She is a freelance writer based in Princeton, N.J. I didn’t know how to be a civilian after six difficult years in the military. At 19, I enlisted in the U.S. Army and was deployed to Iraq. I…

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