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One way to help your Mental Fitness is through Meditation. It has been a practice that has been around for MANY decades, and there has been many scientific studies to validate the benefits to improving well-being. Much like visualization, Mediation gets your brain to slow down by bringing attention and awareness to the state of your body and mind.

Scientists have studied how different types of mediation, or mindfulness, can influence our brain pathways to help bring focus and emotion regulation. When practicing mindfulness, it suppresses the activity of the amygdala (the part of our brain that contributes to stress) and increases the connections between this part of the brain and the prefrontal cortex. With the increase in connections in these parts of the brain, it helps decrease the reactiveness to stressors in our daily life and also helps us recover from stress when we experience it.