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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...

What have we learned about mindfulness?

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Moris Beracha.-  The amount of benefits found by scientists and mindfulness practitioners has been increasingly popular. The Huffington Post reveals the most important findings. We have discovered how mindfulness improves health. Carnegie Mellon University published a study suggesting that 'mindfulness' positively influences health via stress reduction pathways. Scientists developed a model to demonstrate that Mindfulness increases activity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which is responsible for deliberation and planning and which can regulate the biological stress response. Meditation keeps the brain young. According to studies, Mindfulness practice is not limited to making practitioners feel good, but can keep them young. A study from the University of California, found that meditators’ brains seem to age at a slower pace than those of other people. Meditators showed less age-related reduction of gray matter volume. Gray matter is a layer of tissue cri...

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...