Meditation helps improve neuroplasticity in the way it influences brain function and limiting thought patterns. Neuroplasticity is how adaptable a brain is at reprogramming and growth. This impacts one’s ability to process, learn, and remember things. It also affects our brain’s ability to heal from side effects of substance abuse, trauma (all sorts), and disease.
Meditation enhances communication between various parts of the brain, improving the effects of addictions of any kind, depression, stress related inflammation, and PTSD. When meditation is practiced with consistent commitment, patience, and discipline it truly builds a more adaptable and resilient mind.
Meditation and somatic mindfulness strengthens our ability to give unconditional presence to our inner self and help foster a healthy connection between mind and body, as well as between consciousness and the subconscious. It also aids in gaining control over the mind—one of the few things we can actually control in this life.
Without practice, as we get older even the most minor fears and beliefs that no longer serve us can seem insurmountable. Making them difficult to acknowledge, process, and resolve.
Our ability to live a fulfilling life well beyond middle age is directly affected by our own strength and willingness to maintain true presence and connection with ourselves and to confront all of the limiting beliefs as well as traumas that we have experienced.
I believe that the body is the subconscious mind, and it becomes ill without deliberate and consistent acknowledgement and willingness on our part to feel into everything that our bodies have taken on.