Meditation delivers. In a 2016 study, researchers at UCLA compared anatomical markers of aging in the brain between 50 long-term meditators and 50 non-meditators. At age 50, the meditators' brains were found to be a whopping 7½ years younger on average than their peers'.
Give it a go today, and two two minute meditations are provided below. Commit to meditating as few as 1 or 2 minutes per day, and stick with it for a month, suggests Richard J. Davidson, PhD, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. As he says, "Even short—but consistent—periods of meditation may improve cognitive function and slow age-related decline."
So, how do we meditate for just one minute or two and pay forward to our own neuroplasticity and incredibly efficient brain response? How to know it is working? You know it when you feel “it” and you will, and you do! Let’s do! Got a minute? Good, then you’ve got a diamond!
Unpacking the full value when you only have this minute or two to meditate, here is a guided audio walk through:
& if sounds help you focus more easily than your use of silent awareness scanning your senses as in the audio guided example above, here below is a two minute stem cell enhancing* military grade pulse file to gander a listen with. Get your headphones, close your eyes and see for yourself within yourself the sensation and feeling that unfolds:
We are biologically built for positive responses when bringing our awareness to the whole of ourselves and our existence: the very space that we occupy in our bodies, feelings, thoughts, spaces, and connections are all a wonder and it is worth honing the avenues to our wonderment.
NASA/TP-2003-212054 available on request: Physiological and Molecular Genetic Effects of Time-Varying Electromagnetic Fields on Human Neuronal Cells.