12/20/2025
📣❤️🩹I will never stop repeating this to you because it’s THAT important:
If you cannot make your intentional breathing / focusing practice (aka meditation) a non-negotiable priority, you will continue to suffer.
Because your brain will stay the same.
It’s likely that you will also bring suffering upon yourself due to automatic reactions that stem from cognitive distortions that still remain beyond your conscious awareness.
Your brain was conditioned by trauma to filter, process, and react automatically to protect you. These protective switches are stuck in the “on” position, meaning the reactions will continue against your better judgment and against your will, no matter how much knowledge you think you have about trauma.
You’re reacting to past movies; not reality
If your brain structures (pre-frontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus stay the same, your reactions to life stay the same.
How Meditation Actually Changes Your Brain 🧠
Benefits of consistent meditation:
→ feeling calmer, grounded, centered.
→ gaining clarity about yourself, your motivations, your intentions.
→ actually being able to shift thought patterns, emotional states, and reactions.
Here is the science behind meditation. The changes are the result of taking advantage of the brain’s neuroplasticity.
→ Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to physically reorganize itself by forming new neural connections. With consistent practice, these pathways are reinforced. (This is also how traumatic experiences conditioned your brain in the first place).
→ During meditation, you activate the prefrontal cortex (the logical, grown up, stabilizing brain) while quieting the amygdala (the child-like, fear-based, protection-driven response center).
Over time, meditation the literally changes many brain structures: the pre-frontal cortex, the amygdala, the hippocampus (memory), the insula, etc. The regions associated with emotional regulation expand and the stress-reactive regions shrink.
This isn't theory; neuroscientists have long proven through through functional-magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans. LIVE, active brain scans.
Translation? You're not just feeling calmer. You are becoming neurologically wired to transcend stress and reactivity, so you can achieve calm and control.
This is why meditation works. This is why it’s necessary. This is why I have diligently practiced meditation and mindfulness for + 15 years after studying the neuroscience of trauma and trauma recovery. This is why it is the first thing that I teach my clients.
If you are ready to stop spinning your wheels and finally gain traction towards lasting change, book a call with me today https://miavivone.com/book-a-call to take advantage of holiday pricing for 1:1 sessions or enrollment in the next cohort for my 12-week intensive signature trauma transformation program: The Cognitive-Emotional Recalibration Method TM https://miavivone.com/program starting in February 2026.
Your days of trying to learn lessons from your pain are over. Regulate. Rebuild. Realign.
And do it with someone who has the before and after transformation story that proves results.
