Change the Brain: Social Anxiety

Mindfulness meditation involves learning to become aware of your emotions and thoughts without analyzing or reacting to them.

Change the brain with meditation?  According to Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 15 million adults suffer from social anxiety disorders.  Mindful medition can reprogram the "habit" the brain follows in social anxiety disorders.  The practice of mindfulness meditation involves learning to become aware of your emotions and thoughts without analyzing or reacting to them. Studies show meditation makes changes in the regions of the brain asociated with self-referential or "me-centered" thoughts.  Here is a link that can help you to begin a mindfulness meditation: 

 

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