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    Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners: Create Your Own Desired Path With Love and Light
    Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners: Create Your Own Desired Path With Love and Light
    Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners: Create Your Own Desired Path With Love and Light
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    Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners: Create Your Own Desired Path With Love and Light

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    Mindfulness is a form of meditation that involves focusing all of your attention on your breathing; feeling as the air flows in and out of your body, without judging or being affected by anything inside or around you. Through this technique, you become the observer of your thoughts. Being mindful is about observing without criticism and about being compassionate with oneself.


    It gives you the ability to acknowledge sadness and keep yourself from wallowing in the negative thinking patterns that it brings. Essentially, it puts you back behind the steering wheel of your life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreenleatherr
    Release dateSep 20, 2018
    Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners: Create Your Own Desired Path With Love and Light

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      Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners - Greenleatherr

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      Chapter 1: What is Mindfulness?

      Mindfulness is a form of meditation that involves focusing all of your attention on your breathing; feeling as the air flows in and out of your body, without judging or being affected by anything inside or around you. Through this technique, you become the observer of your thoughts. Being mindful is about observing without criticism and about being compassionate with oneself.

      It gives you the ability to acknowledge sadness and keep yourself from wallowing in the negative thinking patterns that it brings. Essentially, it puts you back behind the steering wheel of your life.

      The Science Behind Mindfulness

      Meditation, in general, is believed to be helpful in developing the habitual and the unconscious microbehaviors, which can improve both our physical and psychological functions. This idea is based on the principle that meditation is a complex, more profound form of relaxation which involves the parasympathetic response.

      The fight-or-flight response is activated as a result of mental stress. Meditation and other forms of relaxation cancel out this natural body response by reducing stress hormones and enhancing the parasympathetic activity, which in turn regulates our heart rate and increases blood flow to the viscera.

      By using modern technology such as MRI scans, scientists can now better explain the changes that occur in the brain during meditation. They have found that when in a meditative state, the brain stops the dynamic processing of information and significantly reduces beta waves (waves in the brain that indicate information is being processed). Reduced beta waves means we are in a calmer state of mind.

      Here is how the key brain regions respond to meditation:

      Thalamus: The thalamus helps improve focus by funneling sensory data that flow into the brain and blocking other signals on the same path. During meditation, the usual overflow of information is reduced to no more than a

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