How Mediation is helping mind and body to be peaceful

 

If you are working out you are on track to feel better. Your brain gains as well as your body: enhanced memory, improved sleep and better mood.

However, outside the gym, there must be other ways to exercise the brain. Although it is an organ, it functions like a muscle—it requires exercise, and parts can change or expand when used. Your habits build the form and the paths it follows day by day and no matter how much you train it the next day there are no DOMs.

 

Therefore, here are two ways to train the brain to feel better—because just as we want our bodies to be lean and muscular, we want our brains to be robust and feel nice.

 

Meditation

Many people might think meditation is pretentious, or they may feel cynical about its benefits—and that is natural. It may take a long time to get it "right," but it is not much more than that: breathing, stopping, and focusing. Sitting there, lonely, with nothing in your mind for ten minutes.

 

In addition, that is very hard. It is the nearest thing to squatting or killing your brain. It is like a full-body workout, but it is just about your brain. It is putting your brain under a mental strain, because the monkey in your head just wants to dance.

You are going to twitch. You are going to struggle to even sit there. You could stop—and that is all right, because part of the process is learning to be all right with that.

 

You are going to feel the profit, though. Increased mood, feeling happy, and just feeling comfortable.

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So, learn all about meditation and do it every day, 3 days a week, once and a week at different frequencies or at different intensities—as if it is reprogramming the brain. It depends on what you value and what works for you, but the most important thing is consistency, so take a shot.

 

Writing your thoughts down

Perhaps you can do this easiest but most powerful thing. Done every day, or even a few times a day will train you to think differently forever.

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Your thoughts can make you feel bad. 'This sucks, I'm poor, and why is it all evil.'

 

It does not have to be that hard. Dr David Burns, author of the Feeling Good Handbook, put it simply. You can alter your thoughts, and your thoughts can build your moods, so that changing thoughts can change the way you feel.

 

He says that many of our ideas are distortions, not based on reality. We think the PT in our gym hates us, or someone judges us for not being able to bench a plate yet, but nobody really cares about it. We try to read their minds and fill our own with facts that are not real. Alternatively, we make a fortune-tell and look into the future and say stuff like, 'This is going to go on forever, isn't it? 'But it's not.

 

So what can you do about it?

 

Write it down, man. Name it what it is: a distortion of thought. And then write down a reasonable answer, which is both real and contrary to negative thinking. Of course, the PT doesn't hate you—it doesn't even know you.

 

Over time, after you write it down, your brain will begin to do something on its own. You're going to have conditioned it to feel better.

 

It's certainly odd to write down what you've been thinking throughout the day. Yet, think about it again, like working out. This is a little known thing that like a workout, can prepare the brain to feel better. It's working.