Stress evolved as a survival mechanism enabling humans to react promptly to life-threatening situations. But beyond a certain point, when stress is activated by events which we simply don’t like, it stops being helpful and starts to damage our health.
Mindfulness has been shown to reduce this chronic activation of what is also known as the fight or flight response, thus regulating the activation of the amygdala, and changing the brain’s neural pathways. Mindfulness meditators become more resilient to stress and improve their psychological states.
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