Present times have shed light on fragility and temporary nature of the human body, and put physical health at the pivot It is fascinating to hear stories about people taking on running in their balconies, online yoga, healthy recipes booming on the internet, growing greens on the windowsill, and so on. Health industry is seeing an upward curve with supplements, apparel, food, accessories, nutritionists, trainers, dieticians, etc.
There are many tangible ways to understand and measure physical health hence it’s easy to keep a track. Mental health is something most don’t understand. Even if it’s importance is recognized, the way to manage it is still a grey area.
While healing many covid patients, the trauma during and fear post covid was not easy to remove. The association of ill health and trauma becomes latent, gets triggered any time sickness hits the body again. The body can heal itself faster but the mind, in a genuine way to protect, digs out the last association. The neuropathways keep going back to the old episodes of trauma, fear, anxiety. This is also true for stressful incidents, difficult life situations or people, anything that triggers the fight, flight or freeze mode.
The physical body requires activity to keep fit, mental body is in the action mode most parts of the day. For mental wellbeing, stillness is the key ingredient. Apparently, we produce sixty thousand thoughts per day. And that is kind of load our aura is carrying since the childhood. With the energy field overloaded with noise, how is it possible to achieve calmness and make way to hear the inner peace and guidance.
Brain requires nutrition, new pathways and stillness to function in the best possible way. Nutrition is required to repair and keep the physical brain in healthy condition. New neuropathways make the brain sharp and intelligent. Stillness helps to develop intuition, calmness, better decision making and focus.
Certain foods and supplements provide nutrition to the brain. Neuroplasticity offers various hacks to create new neuropathways and strengthen the brain cells. One of the ways is to challenge the brain to do new challenging activities or do the same tasks differently. For example, learn a new language or pick up a hobby, brush your teeth with your non dominant hand, walk backwards, move around the house blind folded, write with both the hands, etc. These activities have to be repeated for some days to fire new neurons and awaken latent areas in the brain.
Lastly, in the midst of calmness we find solutions to problems. Meditation is a very useful and strategic tool to train the brain. Many people may think of meditation as a passive fad, difficult to do, only involving chanting or something they can’t do.
Dr. Jeff Tarrant, who founded the NeuroMeditation Institute, defines meditation as a “systematic mental training designed to attend habits of thinking, feeling, perceiving, and attending”. Tarrant states. “The goal of meditation is to understand the mind and how it works with the goal of changing habits. These practices are helpful for some physical and mental health concerns, but your intention changes what the practice is for”
Various studies on the neurophysiological, psychological and sociological effects of the Twin Hearts Meditation conducted by Jeff Tarrant and his team, another by Dr Glenn Mendonza and by Vrunda Supriya Ghorparkar and Dr Sundaram show remarkable benefits of this meditation on the brain. There is a considerable drop in anxiety and stress after the meditation. The brain waves increase between hemispheres, front middle and back of the brain. Regular meditators have more gamma waves in the brain, which are responsible for the ‘aha’ moments, ideas and intuition.
For the spiritually hungry, the meditation on the Twin Hearts opens up portals from the heart and crown to bring down the spiritual energy and also build a bridge from the incarnated soul to the higher soul. It develops the ability to eliminate distracting thoughts and build one-pointedness of focus on a given aspect. Over a period of time this creates a path to higher mental frequencies, further empowering the practitioner to manifest goals successfully.
As you train the physical body, don’t leave the brain behind. Training the brain has marvellous long lasting results on the physical, mental health, happiness, success and quality of life. The key is to practice the activity repeatedly for some time to rewire the brain for a permanent outcome.
The light is always shining within. All we have to do is still the body and mind to be aware of the message and register it in the brain.