Lawyers need both focus and creativity to solve problems in their day-to-day roles. A simple way to achieve this is to increase our positive emotions.

Achieving flow, a state of focus on a particular activity, can help in-house counsel achieve their goals.

Welcome to Positively Legal, a new column discussing well-being issues in-house professionals face and offering science-based positive suggestions (tried out by our columnist Caterina Cavallaro) to help us all be more productive, happier, and healthier. In her first column, Caterina looks at something most lawyers have experienced — stress and burnout — and offers a useful solution: meditation.