What is meditation?
Meditation is one of the buzziest topics in the health and wellness world today, and for good reason.
In addition to the mental health benefits of meditation, like less stress and anxiety and improved mood, it has been shown to reduce pain, lower blood pressure, and enhance cognitive performance.
This is all thanks to the way the practice helps you connect with the world around you.
“Meditation is paying attention on purpose with an engaged curiosity,” says psychologist and mindfulness expert Elisha Goldstein, founder of the Mindful Living Collective, an online mindfulness support community. “It’s about being aware and awake to what’s happening in the moment, just waking up to life.”
The process of “waking up” to life gives you the ability to better regulate your body’s responses to stressful situations, giving you a degree of control over a situation that previously may have sent you into a spiral.
Goldstein offers the example of reading the news. Depending on the content, it might send signals to your brain that can make you feel anxious.
This anxiety may cause you to snap at your partner, which can make you feel bad, which then prompts you to
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