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Mindful Running-An ultimate way to Mindfulness Meditation
Abstract
Last November while running my 4 th marathon in NYC TCS Marathon 2017, I was out of all energy and fuel by 20 th mile. And intuitively it dawn unto me to be focused and getting immersed into the beautiful running motion. I then started to feel my entire body running in synchronicity not alone focused on tired legs and fatigue. I found myself in sync with surrounding feeling the gentle breeze, cooling rains and started using my each sense and muscle to connect with nature and drawing the energy from it. I got into extreme sense of gratitude and getting this opportunity to run this world class race which calmed my nerves and more importantly grateful to my body for ability to run marathon. And after finishing my marathon with ultimate joy and fulfilled heart, I crashed. Later, while I was recovering, I realized that mind had taken over my body and I had gotten into meditative state. The experience was beyond comprehension and for the first time realized that I have been many times running mindfully during my training runs with intention, attention, enjoying the moment and accepting what is. I later started doing reading and research to find deeper understanding of how being mindful during running can be so meditative. It led me to study the process around mindfulness meditation and running from the perspective of its effect on health and well-being.
... The outcome variability of NTBS interventions has also been successfully linked to microanatomical features of white matter. Often, stronger NTBS effects have been related to higher FA in the corresponding fiber tracts (Wahl et al. 2007;Jang et al. 2010;Groppa, Schlaak et al. 2012;Zheng and Schlaug 2015;Lindenberg et al. 2016;Strauss et al. 2019). Again, however, also conflicting findings have been re ported (Klöppel et al. 2008vs Hübers et al. 2012 and the opposite relationship between TMS effect strength and FA has been observed as well (List et al. 2011). ...
... Subscriber: OUP-Reference Gratis Access; date: 14 July 2021 tients. A study by Zheng and Schlaug (2015) demonstrated that 10 days of bihemispheric TDCS over the motor cortices (anode over the ipsilesional M1, cathode over the contrale sional M1) combined with physical/occupational therapy improved function of the upper extremities and altered FA in the cortico tegmental spinal tract (CST). The change in FA correlated with improved scores of motor function, suggesting that white matter structur al changes in the CST may have been contributed to the behavioral improvement. ...
Non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation (NTBS) benefits in multiple ways from structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI). Individual structural brain scans can be used to guide spatial targeting with frameless stereotaxy. For instance, sMRI informed transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) enables personalized cortical mapping aligned to the individual gyral anatomy. Segmented sMRI scans increase the accuracy and robustness of computational dosimetry approaches which are key to standardize the individual dose across individuals, mapping the NTBS induced electrical fields onto the individual brain. Several sMRI modalities can be used to identify macro and microstructural features that are related to the physiological and behavioral effects of NTBS. Structural MRI before NTBS can identify interindividual variations in brain structure that influence NTBS outcomes, including disease or age related anatomical changes. Repeated structural MRI measurements can trace NTBS induced changes in regional macro and microstructure. NTBS based functional markers can be combined with MRI based structural markers to predict disease progression or recovery in individual patients.
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