Mindfulness Meditation Guide: Simple 7 Days Meditation Practices to Reduce Stress, promote sleep, find Relaxation and inner peace.

By Joseph Samuel

Simple 7 Days Meditation Practices to Reduce Stress, promote sleep, find Relaxation and inner peace.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Joseph Samuel
• Release date: Sep 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9782175402513

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Introduction:

For thousands of years, people have practiced Meditation for spiritual, emotional and physical well-being. But from the scientific perspective, how exactly Meditation affects your body? Does it really do anything? It all starts in the brain, during Meditation, brains can see increased activity in regions directly correlated with decreased anxiety and depression along with increased pain tolerance. The default mode network in particular is activated when one's mind is at rest and not focusing on the outside world and has been found to improve memory, self-awareness and goal setting.

When scientists compare the brains of Buddhist monks to new meditators, they found the region of the brain associated with empathy to be much more pronounced in the monks. It also literally changes your brainwaves and we can measure these frequencies. Meditators have higher levels of alpha waves which have been shown to reduce feelings of negative mood, tension, sadness and anger. And if that wasn't enough, it also physically changes our brain shape and size. Studies found that after eight weeks of a meditation program, gray matter was more dense in areas associated with learning, memory processing and emotion