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title: 'Video: How meditation helps poet LeDerick Horne manage attention and emotions'
description: Watch as LeDerick Horne, a poet with learning disabilities, explains how meditation helps him with focus and managing stress.
slug: video-how-meditation-helps-poet-lederick-horne-manage-attention-and-emotions
author: The Understood Team
published: '2019-10-16T11:49:03.657Z'
thumbnail: https://cdn-images.understood.org/p0qf7j048i0q/B76551D728824E1C8367DF236525AE89/51c9c8759369169bc86529f734364c8b/092618_Video_How_Meditation_Helps_With_My_Attention_and_Emotions.jpg
source_url: https://www.understood.org/en/articles/video-how-meditation-helps-poet-lederick-horne-manage-attention-and-emotions
lang: en
---

# Video: How meditation helps poet LeDerick Horne manage attention and emotions

[LeDerick Horne](https://www.understood.org/en/articles/video-lederick-horne-poet-and-activist-with-learning-and-thinking-differences), a poet with learning disabilities, starts every day with a meditation. Watch as Horne explains how he meditates and how [mindfulness](https://www.understood.org/en/articles/mindfulness-kids-who-learn-think-differently) helps with his attention issues and emotions. And read how you can [use mindfulness to reduce stress](https://www.understood.org/en/articles/mindfulness-techniques-stress).

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