EP 307: Mindfulness and Emotional Regulation

The core benefit of mindfulness - the practice of paying attention to our unfolding experience without judgment - is the ability to regulate our emotions.    The emotions start in the body and enter the brain from the bottom up.    Mindfulness helps to strengthen the top-level, executive functioning of our brain, resulting in a top-down regulation and a vertical integration.    The result is the ability to clearly see the emotions we feel while inhibiting our automatic reactions to them.    If you’d like to learn more about how this works or to learn the simple practices you can do to develop this beneficial skill, send me an email - [email protected]