Improve Mental Clarity

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Behappy, Mental Health, Meditation, Anxiety, Sleep, Mindfulness, Alternative Health, Guidedmeditation, Health & Fitness, Focus

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This week we explore an important topic -- your brain health. Research shows compelling evidence that lifestyle habits contribute to or detract from your brain health. Join us each day to explore a different meditation technique to reclaim your mental focus. Take part in the weekly challenge to tame distractions that hold you hostage. This is part 7 of a 7-part Brain Health and Focus, episodes 2026-2032. Give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2-weeks free! Receive access to 2,000+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from 300+ series to fit your mood with a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each theme. Brand new themes are introduced each week with brand new meditations offered daily. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers.

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sip-and-om/id1216664612?platform=iphone&preserveScrollPosition=true#platform/iphone

2 weeks free access to the Android version:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sipandom.sipandom

All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected].

Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is episode
0:02.0	2032 of The Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to
0:10.0	the final episode in our seven-part series this week where we are exploring your
0:17.6	brain health in regard to mental focus. You've had a challenge. How are you doing with that challenge to let go of
0:27.2	distractions? I want to share with you a little psychology in regard to distractions. This is from
0:38.2	Psychology today an article by Dr. Joshua Gowan.
0:43.7	And the title of the article is
0:46.4	Brains scans show
0:48.6	how meditation improves mental focus.
0:52.2	Meditators have stable brains and stable thoughts. So if you want to
1:00.0	know how this works. In this study, a group of meditators was compared to a control group who had never meditated.
1:14.9	They were the same age and they had the same education level
1:20.4	as the meditators. And then they were each put into an MRI machine
1:28.0	to measure their brain patterns.
1:31.0	And here's what they discovered. Compared to non-meditators, meditators had more
1:40.4	stability in their ventral, posturomedial cortex, otherwise known as the VPMC area of your brain.
1:52.0	This is the region linked to spontaneous thoughts and mind
1:58.0	wandering. That often happens as you meditate or when you want to focus. This VPMC lies on the
2:07.6	underside of the brain in the middle of your head. So this study done by Italian neuroscientist Giuseppe Pagnoni found that
2:20.4	meditation not only changes brain patterns, but it also confers advantages in
2:28.0	mental focus that may improve cognitive performance.
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