Mindfulness exercises such as somatics exercises allow the brain to change how muscles behave.
When we change the brain, we can create good feelings in how our muscles feel.
A movement practice of mindfulness exercises relates to 9 pre-frontal cortex functions.
You can improve how you regulate your heart and lungs for instance. You can affect how well your body’s regulation system works.
The nervous system changes from what’s called the parasympathetic system which is a relaxed place to a more driven one called the sympathetic system.
Mindfulness exercises gives us a window as to how we can sense the shift between the two systems.
As we sense the shift, we grow fibers in the brain.
The two separate areas of the brain, the right and left side, integrate more fully with mindfulness exercises.
We can watch our self in an entirely new manner.
Being observant of how we move by slowing down our movements rather than the traditional manner of activating muscles and increasing the blood flow gives us a different perspective.
Mindfulness exercises teach us how to use brain’s inhibitory process.
When you gain better control at the cortex by inhibiting muscles it’s like squirting a little neurotransmitter substance of relaxation down below. This will help us be more emotionally balanced.
It’s ok to freak out, just as long as you can regain your senses. The flip side being you can feel dejected yet have the ability to bounce back too.
Since mindfulness exercises give us a practice in pausing. We may be able to translate that to the idea of response flexibility where we can calm our self down.
By tuning inwards rather than outwards in goal oriented exercises, we work with our sensory system and learn to trust our feeling and sensations. The more “I” can feel, then it’s more likely I’ll know how others feel.
Mindfulness exercises can bring us towards resonance with others in states of empathy. People who lack it, can learn it if they choose.
Another pre-frontal function is being in touch with your own intuition. This awareness
happens when you heed the quiet wisdom of the body.
Reflecting mindfully can be achieved with mindfulness exercises.
When we realize how to be nonjudgmental in our movements, then we gain insight and the brain grows again and improves its function.
To modulate fear happens when we use mindfulness exercises to explore parts of our self which may reveal past or present fears. It can be quite surprising and revealing what essentially a simple, slow, and easy movement can show.
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When we gain this insight, this shift of perspective and improve along the other 8 pre-frontal cortex functions, then all 9 of these provide us with the resilience to free ourselves. We can learn this simply from mindfulness exercises.
