Healthy Lifestyles 3/2/21
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 - Period 9 Public Speaking By Allan Rikshpun and Philip Dulas Healthy Lifestyle Presentations Alona Gulko - Meditation can be a positive force in one’s life. Meditation can improve mental, physical, and spiritual health. Throughout her presentation, she related facts and science about meditation to her own personal stories. She spoke about how her experiences with meditation helped her relieve stress, calm her nerves, and ease her mental state. When talking about the science of meditation, Alona showed a brain scan, comparing the amygdalae of two brains. The brain without meditation showed an aggravated amygdala, and the brain with meditation showed a much more calm amygdala. This showed that meditation is scientifically proven to be beneficial for us, since the amygdala is strongly associated with our fight-or-flight response. The science behind meditation was something completely unbeknownst to myself and many other classmates, further making the case ...