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Mental Wellbeing

Our thoughts, emotions, perceptions of ourselves, others, and our environment deeply affect our ability to manage change and cope with the ups and downs of everyday life. Whether you are healing from grief or trauma, looking for balance in your everyday thoughts and feelings, or seeking a performance advantage, addressing mental wellbeing can be the health focus you need.

Meditation & Mindfulness Benefits

Meditation & mindfulness are practices focused on learning to be fully present and engaged in the moment. Becoming aware of what you are sensing, feeling, and thinking without interpretation, distraction, or judgment can help you experience thoughts and feelings with greater balance and acceptance.

  • Advances in neuroscience demonstrate that meditation calms the limbic system (the “fight /flight/freeze response”) and may decrease the physical and emotional reactions to life stressors and challenges.

  • Meditation can create physiological changes including a decrease in oxygen consumption, breathing rate, heart rate, and blood pressure.

  • Meditation exercises the brain, improving cognitive health. This can lead to a reduction in the habitual thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that lead to negative experiences. Meditation can also increase the ability to concentrate and to approach issues and tasks with clarity and perspective.

  • Greater access to a calm state-of-mind and conscious self-awareness may fuel the process of personal growth and change. Increased kindness and compassion for oneself and others may lead to more satisfying relationships at home and at work.

  • Meditation can contribute to a growing realization of the mind & body’s natural intelligence and resilience for healing. Meditation has been shown to improve many health conditions including stress, anxiety, depression, and pain.