The Mind-Body Connection and Your Health

Have you ever gotten so angry that you were sick to your stomach? Ever been so sad you’ve felt weak? Ever been told you have high blood pressure and you shouldn’t subject yourself to too much stress? If you’ve ever suspected there was a connection between your mind (how and what you think) and your body (how you feel), then you’re absolutely correct. What we think and our emotions have a direct impact on how we feel physically and how diseases such as high blood pressure or obesity manifest themselves in our bodies.

Calm Your Mind

One of the best ways to counteract this is to look at the impact of the mind-body connection. Calming our minds has a direct impact on our body’s health. Using tools, such as meditation or yoga, have been proven to increase calmness and physical relaxation, improving balance and enhancing overall health and wellbeing; and numerous studies have been conducted to look at how meditation can help for a variety of medical conditions such as high blood pressure. Meditation has also been shown to affect the brain in a positive way. Given all these positive results, we might hope that the modern medical community would take a more aggressive approach at integrating the mind-body connection into our health care plans, but sadly, for the majority of physicians, this is not the case. 

A New Perspective

In today’s modern world, it is becoming increasingly necessary to look at health from a different perspective. We need to look at the mind-body connection–which means we have to connect modern medical practices and medicines with other techniques to present a full picture of the body and our health. It’s important to take into consideration our emotional, spiritual and mental health along with our physical health when we’re looking at the best way to treat any disease in our bodies. Every day, from the time we get up in the morning to the time we go to bed at night, we run through a gamut of emotions from happiness to sadness and everything in between. How is this affecting our body and our health? 

Useful Tools

At present, much of the modern medical community is lagging in making this whole picture connection but we believe it’s coming in the near future. According to research being done in India and around the world on this subject, the BrainTap as well as other holistic practices such as yoga and meditation are important tools you can use to minimize the impact of today’s modern, stressful society on your physical health. The results of these studies show that using tools such as brainwave entrainment through use of the BrainTap Headset can show positive long-term impacts on our brain and how we think. It can even assist us in making healthier choices, which keeps our bodies healthier. While we wait for the standard medical community to catch up to the idea of the mind-body connection, you have options to improve your health through these techniques and tools. 

A healthy mind is at the core of a healthy body. We encourage you to find ways to include some of these practices in your daily routine. The BrainTap can be a huge help in doing this. If you’d like to see how BrainTap can help you achieve the healthiest mind and body possible, visit www.braintap.com for more information.