Mindfulness
Embracing Meditation practices can help you tap into old belief systems that need to be released, thought patterns that need to be altered, and pain that needs to be let go of. Daily practice can help change your mindset and in doing so set up your foundtations to recovery, health and prevention.
Practices can include—
Forgiveness Meditation
Giving Love Meditation
Kindness Practice
Mindful Tea / Coffee Break
Gratitude rituals
Mindful writing
Mindful shower or bath
Conscious slowing down
Using healing tone sounds
Candle mindfulness
Mindfulness of everyday awarenessMindful walking
Mindful chores, ironing, cleaning, washing (being present)
Noticing 5 new things in your daily routine
Mindfulness stretching
Mindfulness body scan
Dressing Mindfully
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES
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Chronic Stress hormones can alter the behaviour of cancer survivors cells and can wake up dormant cancer cells
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE STUDY PUBLISHED IN SCIENCE TRANSLATION MEDICINE
Reactivation of dormant tumor cells
When you hold onto negative thoughts — anger, frustration, anxiety and trauma your cells are effected and the level of estrogen and inflammation in your body begin to rise.*
Your cells can begin to malfunction when your body is not in a state of flow. We can start to practice Mindful methods on a daily basic to free ourselves from some of these negative thought patterns.
Practices can include—
Walking in nature
Gardening / Looking after plants
Growing plants
Being present
Meditation
Swimming / Excercise
Crafts / Art
Cooking
* Science direct, 57 references, medical news today, John Hopkins Medicine
Further reading at the NIH Estrogen and stress induced DNA damage in breast cancer Stressful Life Events, Social Support, and Incident Breast Cancer by Estrogen Receptor Status. Stress and Cancer
Brainwaves and Mindfulness—
Research shows that although one brainwave state may be dominant at any one time, the other brain states are always present even though they may be present.
SCIENTIFIC STUDY
Charlie Morley who does Lucid Dream workshops and events at HELLO LOVE was involved with a scientific study published in the peer reviewed journal Traumatology that showed a decrease in posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms following a lucid dream healing workshop
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
BETA
This is the most common brainwave state. Where the brain is engaged in mental activities. The frequency ranges from 12—38Hz. A person in conversation or activity would be in beta. Too much can lead to stress and anxiety and too little can lead to depression.
ALPHA
The next slower brainwave is Alpha which is higher in amplitude. A person who has completed a task and rests or engages in meditation is often in an alpha state. The frequency is 8—14Hz. A walk in the garden, swimming or listenig to music can create an alpha state. Breathwork can algo get most people into an alpha state a bridge between conscious and unconcious states also known as the idling state.
THETA
When you begin to daydream you go into the Theta brainwave frequency of 5—8Hz. If running, swimming or doing a craft when you are in a state of mental relaxation and your mind becomes less occupied with thoughts then you are in a theta state. This helps you become more prone to ideas and a very positive mental state.
DELTA
This is a very slow brainwave frequency 1—4Hz and occurs a few minutes before we fall asleep, the body and mind recover in this state. A lack of this brainwave pattern can lead to feeling tired. When we dream we go from Delta to Theta for the dream to occur. If you stay in theta state for 10 minutes during meditation practice this can help with meaningful and creative thinking.
GAMMA
This is a lesser known brainstate of 38—100Hz. These are happening in more lucid states like lucid dreaming and out of body experiences. Monks and other long time meditators in deep trance states can also access these brainwaves. They provide creativity, compassion and increased awareness.
Power of our thoughts
Dr Emoto, the Japanese Scientist revolutionized the idea that our thoughts and intentions impact the physical realm, is one of the most important water researchers the world has known.
Water exposed to loving, benevolent, and compassionate human intention results in aesthetically pleasing physical molecular formations in the water while water exposed to fearful and discordant human intentions results in disconnected, disfigured, and “unpleasant” physical molecular formations. The experiment used music and spoken words exposed to the water. He then crystallizes the water to gain his results. As the body is made of around 60% water our thoughts have a great impact on own wellbeing.