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Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

What are the benefits of mindfulness?

6 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD (speaker) describes mindfulness as focusing attention on a single object and summarizes evidence-backed benefits. He recommends brief regular practice (30-minute breakouts three to four times per week), notes modalities (meditation, guided imagery), and cites clinical uses (PTSD, Parkinson’s care referenced via Dr. Brenson at the Buck Institute) and performance uses (elite athletes using visualization). He also states mindfulness can lower cortisol/stress and improve sleep.

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30-minute breakout sessions three to four times per week.

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When you take a 30 minute breakout three to four times a week and you focus on something, you journal, you write, you have a mindfulness practice. Mindfulness is just having, is allowing your attentions to be focused on one thing, one singular thing only. There are different kinds of mindfulness, whether it's meditation, whether it's guided imagery, but these all have literature showing they can help with PTSD. They're being used by neurologists such as Dr. Brenson at the Buck Institute in California to work with patients with Parkinson's disease. Elite athletes are using mindfulness guided meditations when they're actually visualizing their sport to improve function, brain function, reaction times. Mindfulness and meditation are huge, huge evidence based interventions that can help lower cortisol and stress and improve sleep as well.