Several studies have demonstrated that practising mindfulness has a beneficial impact on one's subjective feeling of well-being. When frequent meditators are compared to non-meditators, regular meditators report:
Much greater levels of self-compassion, mindfulness, and general well-being.
Negative psychological symptoms, such as rumination, cognitive suppression, emotion regulation problems, fear of emotion, and issues with emotion control, are significantly reduced.
Higher degrees of life satisfaction, amicability, conscientiousness, acceptance, vitality, self-esteem, compassion, sense of autonomy, competence, and optimism have all been linked to mindfulness.
Neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that meditation has a positive impact on brain connections, supporting the notion that mindfulness practises can lead to neuroplastic changes as well.
How the use of psychedelics can improve mindfulness?
It has been demonstrated that psychedelics and mindfulness techniques have similar effects on many of the same brain regions. According to scientific research both are known to improve behavioural self-control, acceptance, and even metacognitive awareness.
Psychedelics encourage present-moment consciousness and have antidepressant effects, much like meditation. They share an identical potential to change awareness, specifically in regard to self-awareness, sometimes producing something known as ‘self-loss’ or ego death’.
Several facets of self-awareness, such as narrative facets connected to factual memory, self-associated thoughts and mental time travel, and embodied facets anchored in multisensory processes, might be variably impacted by psychedelics and meditation techniques.
Psychedelics could potentially aid individuals in enhancing their level of mindfulness through 'Mindful State Recognition.' These substances caninduce intense non-ordinary states of self-awareness and emotional effects, similar to those experienced during deep meditation. For beginners in the practice of meditation, these hallucinogenic experiences could serve as a useful benchmark for future practices.
Even though consciousness and how this part of the mind functions in general are still not understood clearly, one can say that both mindfulness and psychedelics have the capability to change consciousness.
While researchers are still investigating the precise mechanisms by which meditation and psychedelics alter consciousness, the remarkable similarities between their mechanisms and beneficial effects have prompted them to speculate about the positive outcomes of combining and utilizing both practices.
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