Topic：How can you use meditation or other ways of thinking to improve your physi

Topic：How can you use meditation or other ways of thinking to improve your physical and mental health
Goal: Introduce the principles of meditation, provide proof that meditation can improve physical and mental health, and introduce other recent ways of thinking that can improve physical and mental health.
Here are 5 given Bibliography. you should best use these citations. but you can also use others.
Annotated Bibliography
Kok, B. E., Waugh, C. E., & Fredrickson, B. L. (2013). Meditation and health: The search for mechanisms of action. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7(1), 27-39.
a. This paper could provide evidence that meditation can improve physical and mental health.
b. The purpose of this review is to introduce personality and social psychologists to the field of meditation research. Starting with a brief introduction to the heterogeneity of meditation and meditation practice, we present studies linking meditation practice to changes in immune and cardiovascular function and pain perception. We then discuss theoretical and empirical evidence that meditation works by inducing changes in mental abilities (such as emotional regulation and self-regulation) or by repeatedly inducing specific mental states (such as love or metacognitive awareness)
Balaji, P. A., Varne, S. R., & Ali, S. S. (2012). Physiological effects of yogic practices and transcendental meditation in health and disease. North American journal of medical sciences, 4(10), 442–448. https://doi.org/10.4103/1947-2714.101980
a. This article introduces the relationship between yoga and meditation.
b. This article can provide a new perspective to prove that yoga can also improve physical and mental health through the practice of thinking.
c. Various research approaches to yoga practice have shown considerable health benefits, including improved cognition, respiration, reduced cardiovascular risk, BMI, blood pressure, and diabetes. It also affects immunity and improves joint disease.
T De Benedittis, G. (2015). Neural mechanisms of hypnosis and meditation. Journal of physiology-Paris, 109(4-6), 152-164.
a. Hypnosis research provides powerful techniques to isolate mental processes in ways that allow mapping of their neural basis. Hypnotic brain can be used as a way to tap into neurocognitive problems, and our cognitive analysis can in turn provide new clues to the neural basis of hypnosis.
b. Cognitive and emotional calmness produces a state of well-being consisting of calmness, resilience and stability, readiness to express compassion and compassion, which are the main goals of Buddhist practice. Structural changes in gray matter in key brain regions involved in the learning process suggest these skills can be learned with practice. Hypnosis and meditation represent two important and influential landmarks in the history of eastern and western civilizations and cultures.
Deshmukh, V. D. (2006). Neuroscience of meditation. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL, 6, 2239-2253.
a. This article can provide an explanation of the principles of meditation.
b. Topics discussed in this article include brain-mind-reality, awareness, attention, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, meditative thinking, and the meditative brain. A new hypothesis is proposed to better understand the meditative mind.
Davidson, R. J., Kabat-Zinn, J., Schumacher, J., Rosenkranz, M., Muller, D., Santorelli, S. F., … & Sheridan, J. F. (2003). Alterations in brain and immune function produced by mindfulness meditation. Psychosomatic medicine, 65(4), 564-570.
a. The article provides an experiment that shows that meditation changes the structure of the human brain.
b. These findings suggest that a short course of mindfulness meditation has a clear impact on brain and immune function. These findings suggest that meditation may alter brain and immune function in positive ways, and highlight the need for additional research.