{Researchers have found a very important reason why you should meditate daily. According to a new study, psychologists have found that meditation can help tame your emotions even if you\u2019re not a mindful person.}<\/p>\n
The researchers from Michigan State University recorded the brain activity of people looking at disturbing pictures immediately after meditating for the first time.These participants were able to tame their negative emotions just as well as participants who were naturally mindful.<\/p>\n
Meditation has gained worldwide popularity as a way to promote health and well-being. But what if someone isn\u2019t naturally mindful? Can they become so simply by trying to make mindfulness a \u201cstate of mind\u201d? Or perhaps through a more focused, deliberate effort like meditation?<\/p>\n
The study conducted in Jason Moser\u2019s Clinical Psychophysiology Lab, attempted to find out.<\/p>\n
Researchers assessed 68 participants for mindfulness using a scientifically validated survey. The participants were then randomly assigned to engage in an 18-minute audio guided meditation or listen to a control presentation of how to learn a new language, before viewing negative pictures (such as a bloody corpse) while their brain activity was recorded.<\/p>\n
The participants who meditated \u2014 had varying levels of natural mindfulness \u2014 showed similar levels of \u201cemotion regulatory\u201d brain activity as people with high levels of natural mindfulness. In other words their emotional brains recovered quickly after viewing the troubling photos, essentially keeping their negative emotions in check.<\/p>\n
According to Jason Moser, MSU associate professor of clinical psychology and co-author of the study: \u201cIf you\u2019re a naturally mindful person, and you\u2019re walking around very aware of things, you\u2019re good to go. You shed your emotions quickly,\u201d Moser said. \u201cIf you\u2019re not naturally mindful, then meditating can make you look like a person who walks around with a lot of mindfulness. But for people who are not naturally mindful and have never meditated, forcing oneself to be mindful \u2018in the moment\u2019 doesn\u2019t work. You\u2019d be better off meditating for 20 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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