Frontal Lobe - Capacity to plan, organise, consciousness, communication, memory,

attention

Parietal Lobe - sensory perception (5 senses) and coordinate those senses and
integrate information from it
● Temporal parietal lobe junction - empathy compassion

Temporal Lobe - Understanding language, memory acquisition, face recognition, object

recognition, perception and processing auditory information
● Amygdala - flight or flight response
● Hippocampus - Learning, memories, spacial orientation

Occipital Lobe - visual perception, including colour, form and motion

Cerebellum - Coordinate voluntary movements like walking, posture, balance, eye

movement

Benefits of mindfulness
- Mindfulness increased grey matter in temporal parietal junction and
hippocampus, better cognitive function (according to the beautiful science video)

- Amygdala decreased in grey matter which meant less stress for the people with
people who practiced mindfulness, did a similar test with mice which showed how
mindfulness actually changes the brain (TED talk sarah lazar)

1. Mental health and social media

a. In a 2021 study, nearly half of Americans surveyed reported recent
symptoms of an anxiety or depressive disorder, and 10% of respondents
felt their mental health and worsened during the course of the pandemic
(sciencedirect.org)
b. A 2018 British study by the university of edinburg tied social media use to
decreased, disrupted, and delayed sleep, which is associated with
depression and memory loss
c. Centerformentalhealth.org.uk says that in a span of a decade, mental
health issues like anxiety had doubled in number since 2010 and
depression among teens has increased drastically
2. Personal Tech use
a. I don’t feel taht I overly use technology but I do sometimes see it
becoming an impulse where I have to pick up my phone and that I often
spend way too much time on it where time just passes by without me
knowing. My daily usage of my phone is an average of 3 hours per day
 which i dont think is too bad. I have tried to make steps to cut down by
stopping youtube on my phone and puting a screen time reminder every
30 mins
3. Mindfulness social media
a. I think it can really help to keep me grounded in what is important in the
present and help with managing the naixety I face when going on social
media. It can also help a lot with self control
4. My mindfulness meditation habits have been on and off. Sometimes I am very
eager to do it and am enthusiastic about it and other times I get to lazy and am
not committed. I feel like taht my attention has pimroved a lot and I can
concentrate for longer after meditations. Fitting in the time has been a challenge