MEDITATIONS

MEDITATIONS

Listen for your joy…and upgrade your brain at the same time.

Listen up.

Start here, with Lovingkindness Meditation (also known as Metta). Impressive research has been conducted on this form of meditation, with documented brain improvements in the following areas:

  • Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC): Involved in decision making, conflict monitoring, and emotional regulation. 

  • Amygdala: Plays a role in processing emotions, particularly fear and anxiety. 

  • Insula: Plays a role in emotional processing, empathy, and bodily sensations. 

  • Temporal Parietal Junction (TPJ): Associated with theory of mind, perspective taking, and understanding others' emotions. 

Doesn’t that seem like a lot of benefits from just a few moments of ahh?

Reframe.

This is the meditation for people who say they can’t meditate. You don’t even have to get out of bed, so really, there’s no excuse not to go for it first thing! It’s so easy, you’ll probably be saying to yourself, “This can’t really be mediation, can it?”

Why yes, it can!

(It strengthens your hippocampus, too!)