{"id":15655,"date":"2011-06-30T06:04:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T10:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=15655"},"modified":"2011-06-30T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T10:06:13","slug":"mindfulness-practice-heals-physical-cells-in-the-brain-and-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mindfulness-practice-heals-physical-cells-in-the-brain-and-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness practice heals the cells in our brain and body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mindfulness practice does what no drugs can do. \u00a0It causes neural pathways to grow thicker and more robust, more capable of carrying signals. \u00a0Anyone can benefit from this. Childhood trauma can cause neurons connecting critical thinking with emotional control in the brain to whither and die. Mindfulness heals these connections. \u00a0Compassion, empathy, understanding, acceptance and other benefits come from daily sitting practice of mindfulness. \u00a0<em>Here is a tip for parents:<\/em> Daily sitting 25-30 minutes a day heals the neurons connecting critical thinking with emotional control in the brain. \u00a0No beta waves means no words, no words means no story. \u00a0Nothing better than a direct experience of the universe that is beyond words. \u00a0The real universe is so much bigger than can be defined by words or contained by thought we let go of the basis of thinking to experience it in all its magical glory. \u00a0It is akin to being reborn fresh and new when thought returns. \u00a0From gong musician\/therapist\/healer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=542628384\" target=\"_blank\"> Richard Hite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mindfulness-practice-heals-physical-cells-in-the-brain-and-body\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Mindfulness practice heals the cells in our brain and body&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mindfulness-practice-heals-physical-cells-in-the-brain-and-body\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mindfulness-practice-heals-physical-cells-in-the-brain-and-body\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mindfulness-practice-heals-physical-cells-in-the-brain-and-body\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Mindfulness%20practice%20heals%20the%20cells%20in%20our%20brain%20and%20body&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mindfulness-practice-heals-physical-cells-in-the-brain-and-body\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindfulness practice does what no drugs can do. \u00a0It causes neural pathways to grow thicker and more robust, more capable of carrying signals. \u00a0Anyone can benefit from this. Childhood trauma can cause neurons connecting critical thinking with emotional control in the brain to whither and die. Mindfulness heals these connections. \u00a0Compassion, empathy, understanding, acceptance and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15655"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15660,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655\/revisions\/15660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}