Mindfulness in US Marine Corps
Lets start with an interesting finding: Studies at Harvard and elsewhere, have shown that after just eight weeks of training in Contemplative Techniques like Mindfulness, there is a significant increase in brain grey matter concentration in areas associated with sustained attention, emotional regulation and perspective taking. Such training also increases activity in the left prefrontal cortex – a predictor of happiness and well-being. And it boosts your immune response, helping to defend against illness. Now towards yet another example of Mind-Body-Soul orientation in an extremely vital & critical establishment: USA Marine Corps USA Marine Corps is an amphibious warfare capability. Extremely extremely high demands of spontaneous decision making, life-death situations, etc while being in almost 24/7 enemy zones. They have been getting world’s cutting-edge training in mind fitness, analytical skills, decision making, mind-body co-ordination, creative thi...