From the course: Mindful Meditations for Work and Life
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Basic body science
From the course: Mindful Meditations for Work and Life
Basic body science
- [Instructor] Many forms of meditation focus on the breath. Let's talk about how the body reacts to stress and why the breath is a powerful tool for calming our body systems down. For hundreds of thousands of years, we've been programmed to react to danger or stimulus in a certain way, and that reaction kept us alive during our cave people days. In our modern world, where we're surrounded by constant stimulus, this reaction is what causes stress in our bodies. And that stress, over time, can lead to serious health issues. We have two nervous systems in our bodies, the sympathetic, known as fight or flight, and the parasympathetic system, known as rest and digest. Imagine way back in time and we're all hanging out at night around the campfire, we hear a stick snap in the woods, and instantly the fight or flight system turns on. Our pupils dilate so we can see better in the dark. Our blood gets stickier so that if we're injured, we won't bleed to death. Our lungs and muscles get more…
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