On your quest for inner peace and an overall better life, you might consider listening to advice from Walter Gjergja, a Shaolin secular monk of the 32nd generation. Whether you believe in its power or not, Mercury is now in retrograde. The phenomenon occurs when Mercury’s orbit slows around the sun, giving off the illusion that it is moving backward. For those who believe in astrological practices like mediation and the power of the winter solstice, the time is a particularly difficult one filled with confusion, stress, and anxiety. Inner peace starts with meditation, the monk said Monks, whet…