https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6T02g5hnT4&t=12s 00:00:07You may have heard this word mindfulness. It’s become something of a buzz phrase of late.00:00:11 So I’m going to give you one simple, serviceable definition which is this: Mindfulness is the ability to know what’s happening in your head at any given moment without getting carried away by it. Imagine how useful this could be. Just as an example, you’re driving down the road, and someone cuts you off in traffic. How do you normally react? I think most of us normally react by having […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0DMYs4b2Yw 00:00:05Researchers have known for decades that meditation can improve someone’s physical and mental health.00:00:10 It can relieve stress, lower blood pressure and lift someone’s mood. But only in the last few years have neuroscientists taken a serious loook at the changes in brain structure underlying some of meditation’s benefits. Like everything else we do, meditation rewires our neural circuits.00:00:26 Pruning away the least used connections and strengthening the ones we exercise most. Studies looking for signs of these changes usually focus on “mindfulness meditation” which challenges […]