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From phone until mind: The best mindfulness apps

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By Moris Beracha.-  Every day, more celebrities are undertaking mindfulness practice, becoming a common habit among many successful people. High authority figures of sports, music and media, such as Kobe Bryant, Paul McCartney and Ariana Huffington do it on a daily basis to keep their attention in the top shape. The first step is always hard, but it is definitely worth it for those who want to redesign their lifestyle. Therefore, Forbes made a list of the best meditation apps that will serve as an athletics coach to your focus and mind. Trixie has a nice collection of guided meditations crafted by the mindfulness experts. On top of that, there is a virtual Artificial Intelligence (AI) meditation assistant that analyzes your routine, mood and meditation patterns to find the most suitable guided meditation for any particular moment in your life. Artificial intelligence is a feature integrated into Aura. This app provides short and personalized science-backed mindfulness...

How Mindfulness helps a congressman in Washington stay calm

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Moris Beracha.-   Tim Ryan, Representative for Ohio’s congressional district, has become one of the greatest advocates of practicing Mindfulness. The politician says that mindfulness can have benefits for veterans, schoolchildren and average Americans. Ryan indicates that the ordinary citizen is living under a lot of stress and anxiety and that the practice of Mindfulness is paying attention to the 'present moment'. "While your mind may try to go to the past or the future, you try to discipline your mind to increase your awareness of that present moment, what’s going on around you and, but also, what’s going on inside you," said the congressman. "So you can better understand your own habits, your own emotional states," Ryan said. Stress reduction, increase focus, the boost of the immune system and better decision making are some of the benefits mentioned by Ryan. In 2008, Tim Ryan's signed up for a mindfulness retreat to get a break from...

How to be mindful all day long

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Moris Beracha.- Practicing mindfulness throughout the day is one of the first habits you must work on, because it will bring positive effects in all areas of your life. By being aware, you enjoy more day to day, you are more in tune with your own needs and, most importantly, you will begin to enjoy the present. The fundamental thing is to create opportunities throughout the day to be mindful and get your attention back to the moment. Concentrate on breathing It is not about taking thousands of breaths throughout the day, but taking deep, purifying and soothing breaths. It is beneficial to start the day by taking some deep breath, holding it and exhaling slowly. It is also good to do it throughout the day, to stay calm. After this breathing, there is a physical reaction when you consciously slow down your breathing. This happens because more oxygen is entering the brain and the heart rate is lowered. This is the simplest and most powerful tool that needs to be added into ...

Mindfulness methods improve the immune system

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Moris Beracha. - Currently, there is evidence that the immune system can be improved through stress reduction, or the so-called mind-body medicine. You can use techniques that, after a long-period practice, produce soothing and anti-inflammatory effects for mind and spirit. The brain under polar circumstances (i.e., calm and happiness versus stress and depression) produces a dramatically different set of chemical mediators, including cortisol, one of the master switches of inflammatory responses. In addition, the brain transmits nerve signals consisting of two alternative parts: the sympathetic system, designed to accelerate acutely, but at a chronic cost; and the parasympathetic system, designed to calm. Experiments have shown that it is associated with anti-inflammatory properties. The hint is to learn how to control them to achieve optimal immune health. However, although these exercises are available to everyone, they require diligence and hard work to achieve lasting resu...