Meditation for Health Podcas

Meditation for Health Podcast: Getting to Know Regarding Meditators, Dancers, & Mind-Body Awareness

Maybe you have gone through each day when you're very, very busy and you've got to obtain things succeeded in doing so even when you are hungry you just carry on and slowly that hunger sensation becomes a headache? I've seen this eventually my partner a whole lot when she's busy and she or he just forgets about, or puts aside eating plus some hours later she gets a dreadful headache. It could happen to many of us; we simply get busy, we don't focus on what our bodies are doing, and things go wrong. Our bodies and our minds are connected.

For instance a patient of mine came in on one occasion and before she even said anything I could tell something was wrong. She was hunched over, she looked very sad and her body reflected this sadness. I learned shortly later that her mother had just died and he or she was grieving on her behalf mother. This is called the mind body connection. Our minds and our body is connected. Our bodies affect our minds and our minds affect our bodies.

Do this time; just work as if you're really angry. Don't really be angry but let your body be expressive of anger. Let the body be tense, taut, and ready for a fight and see whether it doesn't get a new way your mind feels. Or the other way around, start thinking about a thing that enables you to very angry to see if the body doesn't reflect your anger.

Researchers from the University of Berkley recently wished to look into this mind body connection. They reported in the 2010 issue of Emotion, how people who have been practicing meditation for 2 years or longer are very good at reading the mind body connection. They're a lot better than those who are dancers or perhaps everyone. Let's keep an eye on, comprehensive only at that research information.

They were more interested in studying dancers simply because they spend lots of time using their body, receiving it strong, making it resilient, agile and very functional; so they really wished to determine whether meditators or dancers were better at reading your head body connection. They had three study groups. One band of 21 dancers had at least a couple of years of coaching in modern dance or ballet. Group two was made up of 21 seasoned meditators who had a minimum of 2 yrs of Vipassana practice. Vipassana, or mindfulness meditation, can be a technique focused on observing breathing, heartbeat, thoughts and feelings without judgement. They also were built with a control band of 21 regular people, not dancers or meditators.

All three groups were subjected to emotionally charged movies and also at the same time frame these were to retort on how they were feeling inside during the time. They were connected to electrodes so the scientists could read what their own health were doing and whether their perception of that they were feeling was actually accurate from what the electrodes were saying their own health were doing. What did they find? The dancers inside the controlled group showed no correlation between their emotions and their accurately predicting the speed of their heart; however, the meditators showed a really strong correlation between their feelings as well as the speed of their heart.

What exactly does this mean to us? Why performs this matter? I believe it's important because if we're more in tune to your body we are able to then better react to it, participate in it to make choices that stop us healthy. If we aren't in tune to your body then things may go awry without us being aware of things. Awareness is the best word in the universe. We can't change something unless we're mindful of it. I believe what meditation does is make us become "super awareness" people. It's not too things can't be fallible but we are likely to become more aware that "yup, I'm going to get a headache here easily don't eat" as opposed to "Oh, how did I get this headache?"

When you are more in tune, more aware of our bodily sensations; of the way we feel emotionally and physically, we are able to then better make choices to correct what's happening within us. If we're unaware and we're similar to puppets where life just happens to us, meditation allows us to to create changes. It allows us to become more aware plus the long term, more healthy in a lot of ways.

So let's start taking the time to meditate. I recommend two times a day, once each morning when you get up and when later in the day just before bedtime. This truly is regarded as the wonderful method to practice meditation and improve our mind body connection.

Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D. is really a meditation expert, international speaker and the creator of the weekly Meditation For Health Podcast<.a>. He also creates a weekly podcast that explores the concept of Enlightenment. If you would like to get hold of Dr. Puff, his e-mail address is DrPuff@cox.net