Preservation

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For all the faults and dastardly schemes of this product, it nevertheless serves to preserve an older form that remains valuable, namely meditation, as a reflexive practice of contemplation, a method of planning necessary actions to seed the will, and as a cause for taking a calm breath in the midst of chaos when most respond with panic.