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Mindfulness changes brain rhythms toward those associated with calm.

Brain rhythms are very hard to change directly by thoughts.

Movement and breathing can entrain brain rhythms into attractor states.

Mindful movement and breath work can help produce and sustain a calm state of mind form the outside in.

Maybe we should all just calm down, OK? And having someone tell us to calm down will surely enable us to realize, hey, we should probably calm down. And we'll just think about being calm, and bingo bango calmness will wash over us. Maybe. For some people, that is for sure possible. But not for most of us. For most of us, though, trying to think ourselves into being anything except more frustrated is very difficult, especially when we start trying to change how we react to things. That is, when we try to alter our thoughts on the inside so that our outside behaviors change. But what if we go the other direction? What about going outside in?

It's hard to get the thing that's doing the thinking........

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