How Mindfulness can heal the brain

Mindfulness can heal the brain Vagual nerve sends data- about safety or level of danger. When we are having a bodily response to our stress or anxiety our brain cant think our way into safety- it’s our visceral response. What happens in developing brain when in trauma. The integration of brain is impaired. Integration is connection of neurons. Trauma causes thin or absent neuro connection. Affect disregulation happens when brain is not well integrated. For a healthy brain depend on differentiation and linkage to create stable environment. When you feel disregulated it is because some parts of your brain aren’t integrating. The good news is we can “heal” strengthen integration by the wheel of awareness. Mindfulness practices strengthens the neurons in the brain- repeated experience strengthens the connections - strong connections will strengthen neurons and you will have better regulation. The hippocampus, which is located in the inner (medial) region of the temporal lobe, forms part of the limbic system, which is particularly important in regulating emotional responses. Your amygdalae are essential to your ability to feel certain emotions and to perceive them in other people. This includes fear and the many changes that it causes in the body. The hippocampus is thought to be principally involved in storing long-term memories and in making those memories resistant to forgetting, to decision making. When you use the wheel of awareness- the connection between neurons get thicker and the hippocampus grows and the amigdyla shrinks. This is huge because trauma. trauma grows the amigdyla and shrinks the hippocampus - When in a meticulously manipulated insanity in the same narcisstic abuse cycle. The awareness wheel slowed me down enough to define my reality. Once I could decipher what was real and what was not.. truth vs not.. I could have the discernment to see truth, to speak the truth out loud, so as to give a voice to that truth. I could finally see more clear because I knew what truth that was so evidently laid out in scripture. He is the way, the truth, the life. I am who you say I am. So no longerNo one comes to the Father except through me. Kanon has tried everything to numb that emptiness and the greed is eating up his life.