Benefits of Meditation and Breathwork

Your brain jiggles with every heartbeat and breath that you take.

This 3D amplified MRI shows us the micro movements in detail.

Meditation practices that include different forms of breathing

are known

to engage distinct but overlapping brain circuits

and demonstrate increased

coherence of the brain. Maintaining a long-term meditation

practice for

20-plus years can preserve the thickness of the prefrontal cortex

responsible for attention, planning, higher order processing,

and organization as we age. One study tracked prefrontal

cortex thickness of meditators and non-meditators and

documented a 50-year-old subject having the prefrontal cortex

thickness of a 23-year-old. This med spire is the idea that

breathwork and meditation has the power and potential value for

self-regulation of anxiety, enhancing cognition, physical

health, and performance. Links to the studies below.

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