Our mind influences health. In every disease involving biological, psychological and social factors. That is, in addition to the presence of pathogens or genetic predispositions, the way we manage daily stresses, the way we relate to others, our personality type and the way we treat our body also influence.
We can understand that our thoughts and emotions play a relevant role in health and illness. If we know how to manage our mind, we can deal with stress, relationships, emotional reactions and dominate our harmful behaviors in a different way.
Meditating is an excellent way to learn and train our mind, exude gratitude and love. It basically has to do with attention and the ability to master reactions to what we perceive. One of the things that upsets us is our lack of control over our emotional responses. Behind many destructive emotions are unhealthy behaviors, such as poor diet, lack of physical exercise, substance abuse, insomnia, lack of rest, etc.
Meditating will help us respond to tense situations so that we have less stress and more emotional balance.
It is known that positive emotions have a beneficial effect on stress and protect health, and meditation has concrete and effective methods to increase positive reactions such as love, gratitude or compassion.
One of the elements harmful to health is stress. When we are very tense and exhausted we become more vulnerable to viruses and bacteria in the environment, and our genetic predispositions are activated. Stress occurs when we experience situations of great tension and when we do not know how to handle the simple everyday tensions that accumulate.
Stress can have paradoxical effects on pain by activating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which leads to a physiological response to stress: lack of sense of control, social-evaluative threat, unpredictability and novelty.
Stress can have paradoxical effects on pain, specifically they activate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which leads to a physiological response to stress: lack of sense of control, social-evaluative threat, unpredictability and novelty. Multiple stress/cell death pathways have been shown to be involved in neuroinflammation during neuropathic pain. Researchers at the University of Southern California conducted an experiment that revealed that gratitude is good for mental health and has a positive impact on relationships.
The researchers shared stories with 26 people about the kindness Holocaust survivors experienced from strangers, from tangible gifts like food to intangible gifts like emotional support. The experiment showed that feeling grateful makes us realize that we are not alone. Gratitude helped bridge the gap between the parts of the brain associated with “me” and “them.” It makes us more aware of the people who help us, even in small things. When we feel grateful and those specific parts of the brain are stimulated, we become less stressed. The researchers found that gratitude lit up the same part of the brain associated with "the relief of pain associated with seeing a loved one."
Our mind influences health. In every disease involving biological, psychological and social factors. That is, in addition to the presence of pathogens or genetic predispositions, the way we manage daily stresses, the way we relate to others, our personality type and the way we treat our body also influence.
We can understand that our thoughts and emotions play a relevant role in health and illness. If we know how to manage our mind, we can deal with stress, relationships, emotional reactions and dominate our harmful behaviors in a different way.
Meditating is an excellent way to learn and train our mind, exude gratitude and love. It basically has to do with attention and the ability to master reactions to what we perceive. One of the things that upsets us is our lack of control over our emotional responses. Behind many destructive emotions are unhealthy behaviors, such as poor diet, lack of physical exercise, substance abuse, insomnia, lack of rest, etc.
Meditating will help us respond to tense situations so that we have less stress and more emotional balance.
It is known that positive emotions have a beneficial effect on stress and protect health, and meditation has concrete and effective methods to increase positive reactions such as love, gratitude or compassion.
One of the elements harmful to health is stress. When we are very tense and exhausted we become more vulnerable to viruses and bacteria in the environment, and our genetic predispositions are activated. Stress occurs when we experience situations of great tension and when we do not know how to handle the simple everyday tensions that accumulate.
Stress can have paradoxical effects on pain by activating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which leads to a physiological response to stress: lack of sense of control, social-evaluative threat, unpredictability and novelty.
Stress can have paradoxical effects on pain, specifically they activate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which leads to a physiological response to stress: lack of sense of control, social-evaluative threat, unpredictability and novelty. Multiple stress/cell death pathways have been shown to be involved in neuroinflammation during neuropathic pain. Researchers at the University of Southern California conducted an experiment that revealed that gratitude is good for mental health and has a positive impact on relationships.
The researchers shared stories with 26 people about the kindness Holocaust survivors experienced from strangers, from tangible gifts like food to intangible gifts like emotional support. The experiment showed that feeling grateful makes us realize that we are not alone. Gratitude helped bridge the gap between the parts of the brain associated with “me” and “them.” It makes us more aware of the people who help us, even in small things. When we feel grateful and those specific parts of the brain are stimulated, we become less stressed. The researchers found that gratitude lit up the same part of the brain associated with "the relief of pain associated with seeing a loved one."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imr.13275 (2024).--
https://www.baystatehealth.org/articles/gratitude-and-your-brain (2021).--