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Not for everyone
Meditation is not for everyone. For some people, meditation can provoke intense mental distress of impaired physical functioning.
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Gabriela G.
@gabrielagg80
10 Things We Know About the Science of Meditation - Mindful
Mindfulness
... is a collection of practices aimed at helping us to cultivate moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and our environment.
Meditation sharpens your attention
Meditation helps to counter our tendency to stop paying attention to new information in our environment. Other studies have found that mindfulness meditation can reduce mind-wandering and improve attention.
Larger randomized controlled trials are still needed to understand how meditation might work with other treatments to help people manage attention-deficit disorders.
Consistent meditation
Long-term, consistent meditation mindfulness changes our ability to handle stress in a better, more sustainable way.
- Practicing meditation reduces the inflammatory response in people exposed to psychological stressors.
- Mindfulness practices help us to be less reactive to stressors and to recover better from stress when we experience it.
Carlos B.
@carlos_tb483
Six Habits of Highly Compassionate People
Being Compassionate
Compassion can be understood as a mental state of cognitive recognition of suffering, with an emotional feeling, and a desire to do something to end that suffering.
Everyon...
The Four Components Of Compassion
- Cognitive: Recognition of suffering.
- Affective: Arising of emotion.
- Intention: A desire for relief from suffering.
- Motivation: Action to remove suffering.
Six Ways To Compassion
- Try research-tested compassion practices, like writing exercises.
- Informal compassion: Be aware of the people around you, and acknowledge the interdependence with everyone.
- Set up an intention: Find out what you want for yourself, your life, and what you have to offer the world.
- First-hand self-knowledge: Instead of following ready-made knowledge, find out what works for you through self-examination.
- Get support: Find support in your peers, friends, and relatives, to help make compassion a habit.
- Self-compassion: Stick to the practice even when it's hard and be gentle to yourself.
Journee R.
@journeerr331
Is yoga good for you? Here's what the science actually says.
More than 20 million Americans...
...practice yoga, making it one of the most popular forms of exercise.
Yoga and other forms of exercise
Although the research on yoga is still weak, based on the available findings, Yoga is probably just as good for your health as many other forms of exercise.
It seems particularly promising for improving lower back pain and — crucially — reducing inflammation in the body.
Unclear benefits of Yoga
There is no certainty whether some forms of yoga are better than others, whether yoga should be prescribed to people for various health conditions, and how yoga compares with other forms of exercise.
There's also no good evidence behind many of the supposed health benefits of yoga, like flushing out toxins and stimulating digestion.
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