Meditation Benefits- Mindful Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and your Super Body, Super Brain

Meditation Benefits-MBSR-Michael Gonzalez-Wallace-Super Body, Super Brain

Who knows how to breathe properly? Breathing for our body is like gas for a car. Try driving a car without gas you can't. We need it, we long for it and it is not that easy to learn how to breathe properly. Did you know that you don't only breathe from your nose? You have a powerful muscle in your stomach called the diaphragam.

According to the site breathing.com The diaphragm is the central muscle of the human body, the principal muscle of your breathing. It almost completely separates the body in half from top to bottom. Ancient Greece called the diaphragm phrenos, "the unity of all possibilities of human expression".

The diaphragm shrinks and as it shrinks it will rise less and less up into the chest. Liken it to a bicycle pump. Click here to keep reading . Using your diaphragm properly allows  you to bring more oxygen not only to your lungs but to the entire body. In order to do that we need a more calmer focused mind.  According to the New York Times This exercise in focused awareness and mental catch-and-release of emotions has become perhaps the most popular new psychotherapy technique of the past decade.

In my opinion it is easy to close your eyes and even think blank but it is not that easy to have a focused mind that will really concentrate in proper breathing isolating any other thoughts that may arise. I have been doing meditation and I may confess that at the beginning is not as easy as it looks like, it requires practice, concentration and proper awareness. After few sessions you will experience a better sense of yourself and where you are in this world, an increased awareness, focus and internal peace.

Regarding the different techniques we have plenty to chose from but  just wanted to share with you the work of a phenomenal teacher Amy Grosswho teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. In this article publisedNewsweek and The Daily Beast explains how we can all benefit from meditation in very simple ways from our personal to our professional life, dealing with stress, anxiety, pain or having a better attitude towards life especially how do we treat ourselves and people around us, read this article and you will get hooked! I am! click here to read this phenomenal article

I am very proud to say that my book Super Body, Super Brain it is the first time that an exercise program is combined with Meditation! I believe in Meditation so much that I wanted to go to one of the top experts in meditation Sharon Salzberg who is the author of many books and she provided me and my readers with a phenomenal 5 minute meditation after my Super Body, Super Brain exercises.

7 Benefits of Meditation 

- Increases lung capacity and endurance

- Helps maintain physical and mental focus

-Gives you increased flexibility in your torso muscles

-Can be used as a tool raise or lower heart raise

-Can be used to help you relax and or meditate

-Improving personal and social awareness

-A better brain body functioning and improve focus

Here you can see some of Sharon Salzberg recommendations if you want to start meditating