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Harvard’s Health Publishing’s blog on the power of the belly breath to take you out of the fight and flight stress response.

Ease anxiety and stress: Take a (belly) breather

POSTED APRIL 26, 2019, 6:30 AM

Written by Matthew Solan
Executive Editor, Harvard Men's Health Watch

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Learn about how meditation is a way to workout your brain muscles and improve your health along the way.

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The Harvard Gazette’s report on the power of mindfulness meditation on the brain.

Written By Liz Mineo

Harvard Staff Writer

Posted April 17, 2018

The article looks at the results of an 8 week training program and the benefits for stress and anxiety management. It touches on the ‘cognitive neuroscience of meditation’ and highlights mindfulness as a tool for a calm conscious life to supports quality living.

More reading on the benefits of meditation on the brain, our behaviour and our bodies:

Jeffery A. Dusek. Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response. Retrieved from http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0002576

Boston Children’s Hospital. Labs of Cognitive Neuroscience: Stress and Development Lab and Sheridan Lab: Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86NYMDpx4c

6 Ways Meditation Increases Your Intelligence & Raises Your IQ – EOC Institute. Eocinstitute.org. Retrieved from http://eocinstitute.org/meditation/increase-your-intelligence-with-meditation

Gregoire. C. 2017. The Huffington Post Retrieved from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/breathing-health_n_3696302

Anon, (2019). [Blog] Available at: http://www.yoga4classrooms.com/yoga-4-classrooms-blog/scientific-evidence-for-yoga-and-mindfulness-in-schools-how-and-why-does-it-work [Accessed 21 Nov. 2019].

Anon, (2019). [Blog] Available at: http://www.yoga4classrooms.com/yoga-4-classrooms-blog/scientific-evidence-for-yoga-and-mindfulness-in-schools-how-and-why-does-it-work [Accessed 21 Nov.

Jerath, Edry, Barnes et al. 2006/02/01. Vol 566. EP - 71. Physiology of long pranayamic breathing: Neural respiratory elements may provide a mechanism that explains how slow deep breathing shifts the autonomic nervous system VL - 67. DO - 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.02.042-https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7154990_Physiology_of_long_pranayamic_breathing_Neural_respiratory_elements_may_provide_a_mechanism_that_explains_how_slow_deep_breathing_shifts_the_autonomic_nervous_system

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