Meditation and mindfulness is a conscious discipline used to cultivate attention and self-regulation in daily life, improving stress management and reducing stress perception. Today we know these effects are mediated in part via a delicate and sophisticated inner chemistry balancing intercellular signaling system. Meditation can be transduced into cellular and genetic changes, there is ongoing research happening so the possibilities of new meditative benefits are still yet to be discovered.
What we do know is that the inner chemistry promoted by meditation seems to switch our inner mode from stress to recovery, from survival to thriving, from inflammation to soothing, and from killing to healing. When meditation is practiced intentionally, daily, and mindfully, it acts as a catalyzer for our body to maintain this delicate balance that supports our bodies to thrive and heal optimally.
I know there are a lot of people that think that if you meditate you can become stress-free, but we cannot become stress-free. Who can do that? We need to become stress-proof. So, understanding the chemistry of stress and the relation of brain chemicals associated with calming your mind through a technique like meditation can help people understand the chemistry of happiness or if you need additional help use Calm app the mindfulness app for meditation and sleep…
