Your Gut And Mental Health

Say hello to your second brain. It’s in your gut. Emotions play a big part in gastrointestinal disorders. Our mental health is also impacted by our gut health, and emerging research from major Universities show that reducing stress empowers this gut-brain connection.

There is now science behind how meditation can heal mental and physical ailments. Carnegie Mellon University recently published that meditation impacts brain circuits so the brain is able to manage stress, which reduces inflammation.

Researchers from Harvard and Massachusetts General report the need for alternative approaches to depression, and that mindfulness and meditation is showing encouraging results from continued studies.

Meditation calms the brain, and takes us away from the feverish pitch in which we often live our lives as we mistakenly call that ‘living.’

It opens a space where you notice when your thinking is not in your favor, and can even be harmful to your health and wellbeing. When you consciously choose to think positive thoughts instead of dwelling on anything negative, you restore order, gain clarity, and soothe your nervous system.

Believe in a Higher Power. It gives you an outlet for surrender, instead of trying to control what can’t be controlled. Take long walks, deep breaths, and practice yoga, tai chi, stretch your body, exercise.

And above all else, meditate. It is easy to learn, simple to practice when you have a commitment to improve your life at the deepest level, which affects virtually everything.

You will have a new, more skillful ability to choose higher thoughts that feel good.

It is from this emotion of hope and relief that the brain can heal and inflammation can be greatly reduced.