Blissful and Balanced!
March 21st 2008 22:29
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Oh, Yes, and how do we achieve that?
The answer should immediately spring to mind - Meditation.
Meditation plays such a role in optimising brain function and health, from cognitive abilities to cardiovascular wellbeing.
By means of the use of EEGs and galvanic skin response meters (which monitor the skin for evidence of emotional changes) research suggests that the benefits of mediation are experienced due to whole brain integration.
Generally speaking, the left hemisphere is associated with analytical, rational and logical processing, whereas the right hemisphere is associated with abstract thought, non-verbal awareness, visual-spatial perception and the expression and modulation of emotions. In the western world, most individuals navigate through their everyday life in a fashion dominated by left-brained thinking."
Missing out on right-brain activity results in too much thinking going on, and not enough feeling.
In her book: The Blissful Brain: Neuroscience and Proof of the Power of Meditation, Shanida encourages people to set aside 15 minutes morning and evening to relax and focus on "being in the moment" and to carry that awareness with them throughout the day. Ideally every task can be an exercise in present moment awareness. Folding laundry, washing dishes, and walking are all examples of simple tasks that can be practiced as exercises in mindfulness.
But getting started in meditation can be tough. Sometimes our left-brain biased thinking wants immediate results and we struggle to calm our minds and be peaceful.
The key, says Nataraja, is to be kind to yourself, and not to take a punitive approach.
"Acknowledging the thoughts and letting them go activates certain pathways in the brain, and those thoughts therefore have less significance than if you tried to forcibly replace or suppress them."
When we give our brain and senses a break from the bombardment of information they are usually subject too, we can withdraw into a place of restful awareness that reduces stress, enhances our mental resources and reduces the chance of cardiovascular illness. And that's a scientifically proven fact!
So this is the secret to blissful and balanced promoted by The Guardian Newspaper whence comes the source of this article.
But I don't think any of us would choose to differ from those findings, would we?
But I suspect many of us would experience a small shudder at finding 15 minutes in the morning plus in the evening but worst in the morning plus the daily exercise plus the good food preparation plus the commuting plus the mind exercises plus the duties etc, I guess we'd all best meditate while we blog, and that's not such a strange idea although perhaps lacking in feeling - yes, guilty as charged.
But surely all of us would respond to Blissful and Balanced - that ideal dream state.
What do you have to say or should I say 'think AND feel" - ANYTHING to get the message across - especially on my weekend off.
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