Science Shows How Mindfulness Helps Brain Patterns
The owner of Gellis Investment Management, Henry Gellis, has produced films such as Shadow of the Hawk and worked with leading thinkers, including Joseph Campbell and Alan Watts. Since 2015, Henry Gellis has also served as the president of awaken.com, providing uplifting information for healthy living on topics such as mindfulness.
Defined as a focus on the present moment with attentiveness and lack of judgment, mindfulness has helped numerous individuals gain freedom from stress, anxiety, and depression. Although meditation of any sort can help with these issues, mindfulness, in particular, provides a groundwork for healthy responses to the difficulties of daily life.
Science has begun to show the reason for that. Studies demonstrate that mindfulness causes a decrease of beta brainwaves in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and an increase in theta waves. Beta waves activate as a response to high-stress situations while theta waves accompany a calmer response. Mindfulness also lessens the effect of the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), which focuses attention on the self.
The physiological effect of mindfulness in the brain allows individuals to escape the traps of repetitive anxiety thinking partly by directing analysis towards the role of an outside observer. Thus individuals can see things more clearly, allowing them the freedom to more actively choose their responses rather than merely reacting.
Defined as a focus on the present moment with attentiveness and lack of judgment, mindfulness has helped numerous individuals gain freedom from stress, anxiety, and depression. Although meditation of any sort can help with these issues, mindfulness, in particular, provides a groundwork for healthy responses to the difficulties of daily life.
Science has begun to show the reason for that. Studies demonstrate that mindfulness causes a decrease of beta brainwaves in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and an increase in theta waves. Beta waves activate as a response to high-stress situations while theta waves accompany a calmer response. Mindfulness also lessens the effect of the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), which focuses attention on the self.
The physiological effect of mindfulness in the brain allows individuals to escape the traps of repetitive anxiety thinking partly by directing analysis towards the role of an outside observer. Thus individuals can see things more clearly, allowing them the freedom to more actively choose their responses rather than merely reacting.
