As we all know, anxiety, stress, and difficulty concentrating can usually be overcome through breathing meditation. When panicked or nervous for example, take a deep and deep breath makes a person feel calmer. Yes, meditation does make a person more calm, focused, and easy to concentrate.
This is reinforced by evidence from recent research that was initiated by a team from Trinity College Dublin. Meditation that utilizes breathing techniques is called to have a positive impact on emotion and cognitive function. Then why is that?
In a report published in the journal Psychophysiology, researchers explain, meditation affects part of the brain works called koeruleus locus. That part of the brain controls our emotions, attention, and memory. That's all thanks to the hormones and neurotransmitters that are produced, namely noradrenaline.
How it Works?, Actually the way of noradrenaline works is quite confusing because this hormone will be excessive amount when we stress and make us not focus.
Science explains, However, we also become out of focus when this hormone is too little. It happens when we're lethargic. "Noradrenaline is a multipurpose action system in the brain," said the lead author of the study Michael Melnychuk quoted from New Atlas, "When we are stressed, we produce too much noradrenaline and we cannot focus.
When we feel lethargic, we produce too little and more, we (also) cannot focus. There is a noradrenaline encounter where our emotions, thoughts, and memories are much clearer. "Meditation using the correct breathing technique makes the hormone balanced.
That's because the neurons in locus koeruleus are chemosensitive or responsive to CO2 levels that vary according to the different respiratory phases. The next hypothesis there is a relationship between performance attention and respiration that is modulated through the koeruleus locus.
That is, the exchange of air between oxygen and carbon dioxide when breathing determines whether much or less the hormone in the body. "This study shows that when we take a deep breath, the activity of the koeruleus locus increases slightly. When we exhale it, the activity there is reduced, "said Melnychuk. "That means our attention is influenced by our breathing and it goes up and down with the respiration cycle," he continued.
In other words, breathing can optimize the focus level, so Melnychuk suggests setting up breathing through meditation to increase the power of concentration.
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