Don’t have time for exercise? Just 25 minutes of Hatha Yoga and meditation are enough to boost your brain function
Do you make excuses of your hectic schedule for not practising yoga and meditation? Then, let us tell you just 25 minutes of Hatha yoga and meditation can help you improve brain function and energy levels. The findings of the study have confirmed that practising 25 minutes of Hatha yoga or mindfulness meditation every day can boost the brain’s executive functions, cognitive abilities linked to goal-directed behaviour and also the ability to control knee-jerk emotional responses, habitual thinking patterns and actions. Researcher Peter Hall from the University Of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada says that Hatha yoga and mindfulness meditation both stress on the brain’s conscious processing power on a limited number of targets like breathing and posing. The team involved 31 participants, in which the participants completed 25 minutes of Hatha yoga, 25 minutes of mindfulness meditation and 25 minutes of quiet reading in randomised order.
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