Is The Netflix Headspace Guide Helpful For Relaxing Your Mind? We consult psychologists and psychiatrists

Is it possible for the body to naturally let go of agitation? Control stress without much effort? For the mind to naturally let go of any anguish? Sleep soundly just by practicing breathing exercises, with meditation? The Headspace Guide to Meditation offered by the platform streaming it promises to help the mind to solve the problems that cause various disorders.

It is a personalized program in which each individual defines the needs of their mind and the time they can dedicate to solve them. Once three, five, or more minutes are clicked, the guided meditation begins.

Psychologists and psychiatrists agree on the benefits of meditation. Rocío Álvarez, who has her psychiatric office on the road to Samborondón, affirms that the psychorelaxation exercises are excellent.

For the Guayaquil clinical psychologist Christian Arias, “the Netflix guide is extremely well done, it is useful content.”

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A supporter of meditation, the professional ensures that it contributes as an alternative or complementary way to psychological stabilization and the search for balance.

Arias confesses that for most of his patients he recommends practicing meditation, along with treatment, after making his diagnosis. He explains that from the neuroscience approach, studies have been developed that verify the contribution of meditation to the neuroplasticity of the brain.

He insists that psychological therapy is complemented with meditation, which will have a positive impact on the nervous system, on brain function, and this translates into a decrease in stress, stabilization of moods, a decrease in symptoms of depression. , such as anxiety, sleep disturbances, eating disturbances, and sudden changes in mood.

In Arias’s discretion, guided meditation is beneficial. With him the specialist in psychiatry and cognitive neuroscience Denisse Bajaña Pareja agrees.

To the specific question regarding the usefulness of the Headspace Guide to Meditation, she responds that it helps to cope with some situations, but clarifies that it is not a treatment for disorders that require medical assistance.

“These tools are useful as a therapeutic alternative in some cases that include sleep difficulties, anxiety levels, among other mild affective problems,” there is scientific evidence for this, Bajaña points out.

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Specialist Bajaña talks about a range of neuroscience studies on meditation. He refers that in the Congress of the United States Neuroscience Society many participants questioned the evidence on the Dalai Lama, but when studies that “involved functional brain images and more complex electroencephalograms than the conventional ones were disseminated, the question changed.”

In this context, he commented on an analysis from Emory University (Atlanta) that neurobiologically studied different types of meditations, which involved focused meditation, mindfulness meditation and compassionate meditation. Although “the results were different in each of the studies, in all of them intellectual brain areas benefited and areas related to anxiety decreased, with an improvement in cognitive and emotional functions”. Even Bajaña highlights the decrease in brain aging thanks to meditation.

All the specialists mention yoga as beneficial in reducing stress and increasing mental well-being, beyond the fact that in the Headspace Guide to Meditation, from Netflix, is not included as such.

The Headspace Guide to Meditation is an animated documentary of eight chapters. It appears among the recommendations of several specialized pages, particularly this year, after COVID-19 hit the world and its effects continue to be felt both economically and emotionally.