The goal is to increasingly strengthen our capacity for attention and concentration, thus strengthening an area of our brain called the medial area of the prefrontal cortex.
In the last 30 years, numerous scientific investigations have been carried out on the effects of Mindfulness, showing it to be effective in pain, anxiety, depression, addictions, eating disorders, etc.
It is also useful for people who do not suffer from any disorder, who want to improve the functioning of their immune system, their body, change the activation of their psyche towards a more positive attitude, and a faster recovery from negative experiences.
Mindfulness is also closely related to the concept of resilience: flexibility and the ability to overcome and even emerge stronger from difficult life situations. With Mindfulness, the left part of the prefrontal cortex is activated, which is the part that tends to approach challenges and difficulties, instead of avoiding them.
Science shows us, then, that with the daily practice of Mindfulness, our brain, specifically the prefrontal cortex, experiences changes at an anatomical level, which give rise to these beneficial results collected in the International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology:
