Word of the Day: Perseverance - Steadfast dedication to accomplishing things. Health Cookie #6: Meditation is a versatile hobby. Not only does it boost your mood, stabilize your blood pressure and engage the parasympathetic nervous system, but it also requires no equipment to perform and you can sit yourself nearly anywhere to do it. You can use it to either escape moments of stress or to amplify moments of serenity - or even both simultaneously. Physiologically and neurologically, meditation - when done correctly - can provide you with considerable boons. Essentially all you have to do is sit either cross legged on the ground or with good posture on a chair, keep your back straight but not stiff, relax your whole body and close your eyes, then breathe in deeply through your nose and out through your mouth over and over again. Prolonging the exhale for as long as possible to maximize the engagement of the parasympathetic nervous system, while slow and lengthened inhales will also minimize the activation of your sympathetic nervous system, causing maximum self-sedation and soothing. Meditation has a great many psychological benefits too; Over the long term you will reap enhanced focus and cognition, greater impulse control, and trauma therapy from consistent proper meditation. Even overcoming addiction is a possibility with the power of meditation, because you'll look at your addictive tendencies and the traumas that drive you toward them much differently, if you study both under the microscopic lens of a willfully introspective meditation. While some advocate for an absence of thought while meditating, evading all thoughts in entirety, I practice an approach where once I've entered the "Meditative" state of mind I intentionally contemplate the things that bother me, and sort of "look in the eye" all of the uncomfortable emotions that those contemplations cause. I find that the act of looking at your troubles and studying your emotions under the lens of a meditation can have long-lasting improvements on the severity of negative emotions in your daily life. When you accept something, it somehow begins hurting less; Focused meditation is an expediated method of mitigating the introspective conflicts you feel towards bad things or situations in your life, and ushering in greater internalized acceptance for yourself toward those bad things or situations. The end result is that whenever you think of such bad things or situations outside of the meditative state, the emotional response you feel will be reduced. It's kind of like the psychological parallel of rubbing a papercut that you just got, irritating it intentionally to maximize how much it hurts right now, thus making the persistent pain it causes you later seem lesser and more tolerable by comparison. If you study Wim Hoff's breathing technique, where you perform double-inhales followed by a singular exhale, you'll stumble upon a technique for extraordinary power. The man eliminated endotoxins from his bloodstream after being injected with them, just by meditating them away, in a laboratory setting. He's shattered world records that seemed impossible before he proved them to be possible. His technique is definitely worth looking into.
Word of the Day: Perseverance - Steadfast dedication to accomplishing things.
Health Cookie #6: Meditation is a versatile hobby. Not only does it boost your mood, stabilize your blood pressure and engage the parasympathetic nervous system, but it also requires no equipment to perform and you can sit yourself nearly anywhere to do it. You can use it to either escape moments of stress or to amplify moments of serenity - or even both simultaneously. Physiologically and neurologically, meditation - when done correctly - can provide you with considerable boons. Essentially all you have to do is sit either cross legged on the ground or with good posture on a chair, keep your back straight but not stiff, relax your whole body and close your eyes, then breathe in deeply through your nose and out through your mouth over and over again. Prolonging the exhale for as long as possible to maximize the engagement of the parasympathetic nervous system, while slow and lengthened inhales will also minimize the activation of your sympathetic nervous system, causing maximum self-sedation and soothing. Meditation has a great many psychological benefits too; Over the long term you will reap enhanced focus and cognition, greater impulse control, and trauma therapy from consistent proper meditation. Even overcoming addiction is a possibility with the power of meditation, because you'll look at your addictive tendencies and the traumas that drive you toward them much differently, if you study both under the microscopic lens of a willfully introspective meditation.
While some advocate for an absence of thought while meditating, evading all thoughts in entirety, I practice an approach where once I've entered the "Meditative" state of mind I intentionally contemplate the things that bother me, and sort of "look in the eye" all of the uncomfortable emotions that those contemplations cause. I find that the act of looking at your troubles and studying your emotions under the lens of a meditation can have long-lasting improvements on the severity of negative emotions in your daily life. When you accept something, it somehow begins hurting less; Focused meditation is an expediated method of mitigating the introspective conflicts you feel towards bad things or situations in your life, and ushering in greater internalized acceptance for yourself toward those bad things or situations. The end result is that whenever you think of such bad things or situations outside of the meditative state, the emotional response you feel will be reduced. It's kind of like the psychological parallel of rubbing a papercut that you just got, irritating it intentionally to maximize how much it hurts right now, thus making the persistent pain it causes you later seem lesser and more tolerable by comparison. If you study Wim Hoff's breathing technique, where you perform double-inhales followed by a singular exhale, you'll stumble upon a technique for extraordinary power. The man eliminated endotoxins from his bloodstream after being injected with them, just by meditating them away, in a laboratory setting. He's shattered world records that seemed impossible before he proved them to be possible. His technique is definitely worth looking into.
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Hey thank you, we're almost wrapped up with this series! Probably only 1-2 more episodes to go