Sentences with phrase «limbic emotional reactivity»

9) Regular meditation practice enhances executive functioning and weakens limbic emotional reactivity, thus enabling you to shorten time periods of negative reactivity and shift back to your emotional baseline more quickly.

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Some findings are that regular practice may weaken the limbic systems's reactivity via lower firing rate and neuronal power, strengthen the frontal and prefrontal executive / emotional functions via better intention, attention, awareness, and concentration, and possibly improve right - left brain integration.

For example, dispositional mindfulness has been associated with cortical and limbic markers of emotional reactivity, including less amygdala activation at rest (Way et al., 2010) and during emotional threat (Creswell et al., 2007), as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging.