Ashlee Jakubowski

Ms. Bradshaw

Senior Writing

1 Nov. 2022

Mindfulness Meditation

Meditation can have many benefits to the human body, and for your overall health. Meditation

repetitions are very powerful, two minute repetitions can show special eye movements and

assistive meditation performance (Matizetal). When this is done, it shows that the person is

relaxing and going through a deep process of meditation. The eye movements recorded in a data

process have been shown to be very useful and powerful (Matizetal). A Lot of people rely on

meditation to relieve stress and help them relax. More studies have also shown that emotional

regulation of meditation in the amygdala has reduced mental health (Eprousky). Overall when

reducing one's mental health, they can live an easier life.

The brain functions very interesting when meditating and can do cool things. Meditating can

help ones insomnia and they can also regularly study the amygdala to see how it reacts back to it

(E Prousky). Many people meditate to fall asleep, in order to hopefully keep the insomnia away

and get a great night's sleep. Another way the brain acts during meditation is when one goes

through psychotherapy, it can change and enhance the brain information process neurons and

help improve disorders a person may have (E Prousky). Doing this may help mental health, and

also brain function may be easier and faster. In order for more things to work, one last meditation

trick on the brain is that the brain can change and respond to the stimuli in life differently, and
neuroscientists call this neuroplasticity. It ultimately rewires the brain to process and think

differently (Schlanger).

If you struggle with a headache during the day, meditating for 5 minutes is suggested to help

calm you down and relieve the pain and stress. Meditation mindfulness awareness helps slow

people down at a slow pace to relieve any issues they have by simply relaxing (National Public

Radio). By doing this, you ultimately calm your brain and mind and try to relieve any pain and

stress you have. Using many techniques and hand gestures with guided breathing gives the best

meditation possible and can almost make you fall asleep (National Public Radio). Hopefully, you

will relieve all stress you have had with a headache and be able to go on and not have to worry

anymore.

Many science studies have been done with meditation. Gender, biological and family are a

couple factors playing into the science behind it (Prousky). If there are mental illnesses or

anything else that runs in your family and you have it, meditation can help relieve your stress and

issues by calming down and following guided meditation. Psychological stress, meditation and

other types play into the role of increased biomarkers like high blood pressure, heart rate, lipids

and much more ( Prousky). You will want to stay calm and live a healthy life so that nothing ever

happens to you, it is always easy to deep breathe for five minutes and close your eyes to relax.

The long term factors that come with meditation everyday can form a gryfaction , which is a

folding of your cortex that can fasten the mental process which is a result of meditation. The
more the meditation, the faster the mental process (Prousky). This is really a great result of

meditation and can help a better life.

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