Mindfulness Explained: The Benefits Meditation
Being mindful clearly helps our spirit, as we are attentive to the present moment, relieving our minds of thoughts and anxieties. Whether meditating on our breath, or an image of the Divine, single-pointed attention helps to center our bodies and minds. What is the mechanism in the brain that allows for such potent internal medicine?
Mindfulness has been shown to improve connectivity between our frontal lobes. The region of the prefrontal lobe that mediates attention and working memory has enhanced connectivity with the right hemisphere, the area that controls our feelings and thoughts, joining the default and executive attention networks.
In most people, the brain is constantly becoming inactive with age, slowly losing all the synapses and networks. Mindful practices help the neural networks by re-establishing the brain’s interconnectivity.
Mindfulness also creates an open field of attention, allowing higher thoughts from spirit to enter and manifest.