It's so hot today!

Recently, the Central Meteorological Observatory issued a high temperature warning for more than 10 consecutive days, and the highest temperature in Sichuan, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Henan, Hebei and other places exceeded 40.

Do you still remember the old saying when you are experiencing the heat of the heat - calm and natural coolness! Are all the sayings a lie? NoNoNo, according to a newly published authoritative study, mindfulness meditation that embodies the essence of "meditation" can indeed reduce people's thermal pain perception because it helps people to separate thermal pain from sel.

In a new study published July 7, 2022 in Pain, the leading journal in the field of pain, researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine measured the effects of mindfulness on thermal pain perception and brain activit.

On the first day of the study, 40 subjects underwent brain scans while undergoing thermal stimulation of their leg.

On the last day of the study, the researchers tested the brain activity of both groups agai.

"We are very excited to confirm that you don't have to be a professional meditator to experience these analgesic effects," Zeidan sai.

The default mode network (DMN) is the baseline state of the brain's nervous syste.

One of the important regions of the default network is the precuneus, a brain region involved in a fundamental feature of self-awareness and one of the first to lose function when a person loses consciousnes.

Zeidan said: “For many people who struggle with chronic pain, it is often not the pain itself that affects their quality of life, but the mental pain and frustration that comes with i.

Finally, the heat is unbearable, I hope everyone can keep a bit of coolness in their hearts, live in the moment, maintain righteous thoughts, and harvest physical and mental health and joy!

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Editor: Yezi

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