A C E – M A M U N

Ace is a certified science-focused mindfulness and meditation practitioner/instructor with over five years of experience.
For a one-on-one, group, or corporate session in person or online, email contact@acemamun.com.

Experience 10 minutes of mindfulness in your everyday life. Guided meditation with Ace.

“One of the greatest tools for me through some of the most complex times in life has been regular mindfulness and meditation. As a strong proponent of science and critic of “superstitious woo woo,” I’m genuinely intrigued by the multiple biological and psychological benefits linked, through research, to the practice.”

NUTSHELL: When you actively engage your attentional network (w/ your prefrontal cortex responsible for higher order cognition) by being mindful, it disengages your default mode network, which essentially acts as your always-on mental background activity, so to speak (Garrison et al., 2016). While the DMN seems to play a role in maintaining your sense of reality and timeline (Andrews-Hanna, 2012), it’s particularly active in certain detrimental throughs of self (eg. judgement), past (eg. regrets), or future (eg. worries).

EFFECTS: The above – coupled with more active cognition between input and reaction – has been linked to the reduction of stress (Economides, Martman & Bell, 2018), depression (Sheline et al., 2009), aggression (Desteno et al. 2017), and insomnia (Gong et al., 2016); while helping general wellbeing (Gong et al., 2016), relationship satisfaction (Kozlowski, 2013), healthy habits (Carrière et al., 2017), resilience (Rogers, 2013) and even critical thinking (Noone & Hogan, 2018).

In fact, grâce à neuroplasticity, regular meditation has been shown to literally alter the structure of your brain for better (Lazar et al., 2006) and reduce age-related degeneration – it may quite literally grow your grey matter.

Plus, there’s the bonus placebo effect of you reading all that (even if may be true).