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How Meditation Affects The Developing Brain Of Kids

The human brain never falls asleep, not even at night when the body needs to recharge. Kids’ brains are incredibly active and ready to accumulate information.

To boost focus and improve memory, research shows that the best “medicine” for the brain is meditation. Once a preferred relaxation practice by Buddhist monarchs, meditation has been proven to improve brain function and promote concentration, inner self-awareness, and self-discipline.

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What Causes Anxiety And What You Can Do About It

In the simplest terms, anxiety is caused by an overload of fear and doubt in the thinking mind, which in turn neuro-chemically and physically activates the autonomic nervous system’s ‘fight, flight, freeze’ response in response to certain triggers i.e. sensations, perceptions, meanings, memories.

Our fears drive our thoughts, and our thoughts and behaviours create our emotions. Through repetitive stimulus, certain thoughts, feelings and behaviours condition the nervous system to become overstimulated and stuck in the ‘ON’ switch.

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How Meditation Changed My Life

For 18 years as I struggled through Bulimia Nervosa, meditation proved useful in picking up the pieces. It gave me hope and confidence that one day I would make it through and be living the life I was creating in my mind – once I overcame the underlying beliefs that kept me stuck.It took many years to challenge and change the negative mental programming and take responsibility for my own thoughts, but meditation was instrumental in giving me the time and space I needed to explore, sit, breathe and listen – to find my own authentic voice. Meditation comforted me through many dark times of feeling rejected, vulnerable, struggling with self-worth and losing my identity in the desire to please others.

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