The Amygdala: The Fear Center
Meditation has shown that it reduces activity in the amygdala, a region responsible for processing emotions such as fear and stress. By decreasing this activity, active meditators experience reduced stress levels and relaxation.

The Hippocampus: The Memory Vault
Regular meditation enlarges the hippocampus, an essential region in the middle temporal lobe responsible for forming and consolidating memories. A larger hippocampus improves memory retention, learning ability, and protection against age-related cognitive changes.

The Prefrontal Cortex: The Decision Maker
Meditation has shown that it strengthens the prefrontal cortex, a region responsible for executive functions such as decision-making, planning, problem-solving, and working memory. This increased cognitive flexibility allows active meditators to better approach challenges, think more clearly, and make more informed decisions.

The Anterior Cingulate Cortex: The Attention Master
Meditation increases activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a region involved in attention, error detection, and conflict resolution. By strengthening this region, meditators can improve their attention skills and solve tasks better and faster.

The Default Mode Network (DMN): The Daydreamer
On the other hand, meditation reduces activity in the DMN, a network of brain regions responsible for unconscious thinking, self-reference, and rumination. By calming this network, meditators can concentrate on the present moment and be less influenced by thoughts and feelings.

The Role of Brain Coherence
Brain coherence (brain-heart coherence) is the unity and connection between different brain regions, particularly during information processing. Cohesive activity between areas such as the frontal, temporal, and limbic systems enables effective communication and cooperation for information integration.

Meditation can contribute to strengthening the connections between these regions, leading to improved information processing and integration, as well as increased cognitive performance:

• Neuronal Synchronization: Meditation can cause neurons in different regions to become activated simultaneously and synchronize. This enables more efficient information processing and integration.
• Connection between areas: Meditation can also strengthen the connections between different brain regions, allowing them to communicate efficiently. This improvement in communication directly leads to better information processing and integration.
• Relaxation and stress reduction: Meditation can help reduce stress levels and enable a more relaxed brain activity. A relaxed brain is better able to process and integrate information.

The enhancement of brain coherence through meditation can have numerous benefits, including:

• Higher cognitive performance: Greater coherence between different brain regions enables more efficient information processing and integration, improving mental performance.
• Improved attention: High coherence between frontal lobes and other areas can increase attention and better focus on tasks.
• Stress reduction and anxiety relief: Through stress reduction and increased relaxation, meditation can help improve brain coherence, which in turn leads to reduced stress and anxiety levels.

It is important to note that each person may respond differently to meditation and that there may be individual differences in the effects of meditation on brain coherence. However, many studies show that meditation improves brain coherence and provides various cognitive and emotional benefits.

The long-term effect of meditation on our health and longevity, beyond the immediate benefits described above, is an additional, unquantifiable advantage: without consciousness-expanding external aids like drugs, we can harness our brain through meditation to become more conscious, relaxed, practical, clear-thinking, and significantly happier. Through the free and side-effect-free longevity lifestyle technique of meditation, we improve our current quality of life and maximize our healthspan!

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By becoming aware of these patterns, we can make conscious choices about which thoughts, actions, and feelings serve us best in achieving our desired outcomes. As we shift our focus toward a brighter future, we open ourselves up to new experiences and opportunities for growth. Embracing this process not only leads to personal transformation but also fosters a sense of purpose and fulfillment that contributes to overall well-being.

The Cognitive Revolution and its Limits

The Cognitive Revolution marked a significant turning point in human history, enabling us to develop complex languages, stories, and technologies that have shaped our societies. However, these advancements also brought about consequences such as wars, terror, and inequality. The Industrial Revolution further exacerbated these issues by leading to an unequal distribution of wealth and ecosystem collapse.

The Plasticity of the Brain

Neuroscience has revealed that our brains are capable of adapting and changing throughout our lives through neurogenesis (the growth of new neurons) and neuroplasticity (the reorganization of neural connections). This means that we can develop new abilities, skills, and behaviors as we age. However, this potential for change is often underutilized, leading to rigidity in thought and behavior.

The Mindful Revolution Thesis

The Mindful Revolution thesis posits that each individual must take responsibility for changing themselves and improving their quality of life. By doing so, we can collectively contribute to preserving the ecosystem and ensuring a better future for all. The REJUVENS Upgrade program is designed to provide practical guidance on how to implement this change through exercises that combine scientific findings with personal experiences.

The focus on our mental health, brain capabilities, and mindfulness, is the starting point for an overall Longevity Lifestyle. By not waking up in the morning, and remembering our problems, connected to certain people and certain things at certain times and places, thus thinking in the past, we must know that thoughts are the language of the brain, and feelings are the language of the body. And how we think and how we feel creates our state of being. We have a choice: instead of being defined by past memories, we should create a vision of the future.

Creating Your Reality

1. Self-awareness: To create positive change, you must become aware of your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This involves introspection and a willingness to examine your beliefs and patterns. Journaling can be an effective tool for this process.
2. Meditation: Regular meditation practice helps calm the mind and increase self-awareness. It allows you to observe your thoughts without judgment, making it easier to identify patterns and negative thought loops. Meditation also strengthens neural connections related to emotional regulation and mental clarity.
3. Visualization: Visualization is a powerful technique for rewiring your brain. By imagining yourself achieving your goals or experiencing desired outcomes, you’re creating new neural pathways that help manifest those experiences in reality. Visualization exercises can be done throughout the day, during meditation, or before sleep.
4. Conscious decision-making: Once you’ve become self-aware and started visualizing your desired future, it’s time to make conscious decisions about what thoughts and emotions you want to cultivate. Write down your goals, aspirations, and positive affirmations. Additionally, identify limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns that hold you back, and consciously choose to let them go.
5. Writing: Writing down your thoughts, goals, and intentions helps solidify them in your mind and makes them more tangible. This process also allows you to track progress and celebrate achievements. It’s essential to update these writings regularly, as your goals and priorities may change over time.
6. Repetition and consistency: The key to creating a new reality is repetition and consistency. Make visualization, meditation, and conscious decision-making a daily habit. As you continue this process, you’ll begin to notice shifts in your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

Conclusion

Creating a new reality for ourselves is the starting point of a journey that requires patience, dedication, and a willingness to change. By embracing The Mindful Revolution and REJUVENS Upgrade program, individuals can tap into their potential for change and contribute to a better future for humanity. Through self-awareness, meditation, visualization, conscious decision-making, writing, and repetition, we can reshape our lives, embrace the person we want to become, and live as long and healthy as possible. Personal BIOCOACHES, in combination with the BIOCOACH AI, can support us on this journey to maximum longevity and healthspan.

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Since the prevailing ‘no time’ argument and a certain unease regarding an overwhelming and partially contradictory amount of recommendations regarding fitness, diet and mindful living, I wrote down my own regimen which could serve as an exemplary schedule, easy to be coxed and pasted into other lives.

Daily REJUVENATION Routine — Synch Body And Mind Towards A Max Health Span

My daily routine consists of physical, mental, and mindful elements that can be copied by anybody who wants to change her life in a healthy way and brings along a certain commitment. Most elements require to overcome one’s inner temptation. That might be tough at the start, but it becomes easier after every repetition and after some time you probably wonder how you could have lived without this training before: the significant positive results on your lifestyle and well-being become so obvious that you can’t think of living without it anymore.

Overview Daily REJUVENATION Routine

For a full Daily REJUVENATION, you need 1.5 h of your time each day. If that sounds much to you, choose between two options: either you just select some specific elements out of the DRR, e.g. you might forgo the run and thus spare 25 minutes. Or, you use it as an excuse for not starting the DRR at all. If you‘re ready to choose the second option, wait for a second, and think about how much of your time is spent on Social Media, TV, and consuming daily news — with none making you a bit happier, let alone more healthy. You might be able to take a bit of this unconsciously spent time budget and instead turn it into an investment in your healthspan.

If you‘re motivated and ready to start with the Daily REJUVENATION — perfect — you won‘t regret your decision! The DRR is probably (one of) the very best wellness programs you can treat yourself with. You train your body to manage oxygen and calorie intake much more efficiently with an optimized metabolism and energy management as a result. You will feel better, you will look better, you will be healthier and you will most probably maximize the healthy part of your life span — your healthspan.

For the skeptics, there is another, totally different, compelling argument in favor of DRR: it’s free! There is no monthly gym bill, no app subscription fee — your sole investment is your time. and willpower.

Now, let‘s start!

Early Morning — After getting up

6:00
Get up — Morning Toilet

6:20
Meditation and Humming (20min)

6:45
Yoga Sun Slute (5min)

6:55
Running incl. 3 HIT intervalls, each 30sec (25min)

7:20
Deep Breathing (3 rounds) followed by 1 round with subsequent Push-ups (10min)

7:35
Warm showering followed by 2min cold showering with ice-cold water

Nighttime — Before going to bed

Deep Breathing(10min)
Humming (5min)

You find a detailed version with explanations of the individual elements of my Daily Rewire Routine on REJUVENS (German). Now, don’t think twice — give it a try and start today with maximizing your own health span!

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Media outlets switch from the term climate change to climate crisis because environmental developments have to be addressed urgently if we want to keep our planet habitable. Politically, we notice a strengthening of parties at the far-right and far-left spectrums and increasingly irrational behavior of leading politicians who seem not to be aware of their responsibilities as heads of governments. Due to environmental, but also economic reasons, there is a mass migration underway that brings millions of people from the southern hemisphere to Europe and other rich areas. — a migration caused by poverty, wars, and other conflicts with the refugees’ single hope for living peaceful, secure lives. This inflow of immigrants also results in huge challenges for governments and people living in rich countries having to somehow share many aspects of their rich lifestyles with millions of new arrivals, most of them not used to western conventions and democratic mores.

At the moment, convincing strategies to meet these challenges are missing. Now and then, some politicians, scientific task forces, or entrepreneurs come up with bold plans, such as installing bases on other planets in order to relocate humankind when planet earth has stopped functioning. Then there is AI, a technological development that awakes the same amount of enthusiasm and belief in the future as skepticism and fear of an uncontrollable behemoth that will subjugate human beings based on its superior intelligence. And there are thousands of mostly grassroots-driven, well-intended activities, many of them somewhat extreme or solitarily designed and therefore rather impractical.

Language And Storytelling

In his fascinating book Sapiens, Israeli historian Yuval Harari describes language and storytelling as the most differentiating abilities of homo sapiens compared to other mammals. For him, modern man has successfully survived and displaced other hominins because of this Cognitive Revolution. The language was the tool to suppress speechless contemporaries and to easily pass knowledge horizontally within huge populations as well as vertically from generation to generation. Unfortunately, wars of religion, autocratic jurisdictions and the more modern phenomenon of fake news have uncovered the flip side of language and storytelling: simple stories make people around the globe kill each other, allow governments and religious leaders to dictate terms for correct clothing and enable democratically elected presidents to trick and deceive as only con artists do.

Beginnings Of A New Era

At the end of the 19th century, there were first indications of a new era in understanding human capabilities. When, in 1890, Harvard psychologist William James published The Principles of Psychology, he was praised in America and Europe both by academics and lay readers. Some declared it a classic and likened it to Moby Dick. James transformed both, psychology and philosophy by popularizing his thesis of pragmatism, a way of thinking that argues human beings must test their beliefs and decisions by results. James invented the phrase “stream of consciousness” to describe the workings of our minds. For him, our thinking is not orderly or logical, but chaotic, and our moods constantly and inexplicably shifting. Without the knowledge of modern neuroscience, the synapses that connect billions of neurons, and neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and oxytocin, he wasn’t able to peer into the brain. Still, he was (one of) the first to state that human beings should be aware of the combination of their mental and physical abilities that by far exceed their physical abilities, alone.

In the past, development in most parts of the world has been regarded as a primarily technical development — first in terms of hardware and, with the advent of the computer, increasingly in terms of software. Any conference, task force, or scientific study that addresses “the future” mainly covers technological developments. I think, this is — an absolutely necessary — but entirely insufficient strategy to ensure the survival of homo sapiens on planet earth. It is my belief that humans living in the 21st century must meet a very individual challenge first, in order to commonly survive as a population: we must start the Mindful Revolution.

After The Cognitive Revolution Comes The Mindful Revolution

For me, the Mindful Revolution is the logical next step built on top of Harari’s Cognitive Revolution. A common feature of both revolutions is that neither one solves any major problem per se — but each one provides human beings with a toolset that can be used to leverage the abilities of individuals and populations to the next level of life. As with language and storytelling, mindfulness isn’t something that has been invented quite recently, but something that has been around for hundreds if not thousands of years. Whereas some scientists believe that Neanderthals living 300,000 years ago, could speak, Gutenberg invented the first printer quite sometime later, around 1440. That machine allowed stories to be distributed efficiently for the first time. The first signs of mindfulness appeared with the advent of Buddhism, in the 5th century BCE. In today’s Tibet, China and India many scholars teach behaviors and attitudes such as compassion, self-compassion, altruism, and others. In Western sciences of recent date, these teachings have been regarded as esoteric or folklore, measured against modern scientific frameworks. This chasm has started closing due to the fact that more and more knowledge about and results of mindfulness practice has been confirmed with scientifically collected and computed data gauged by high-tech medical gear.

High Demands On Ourselves

At the beginning of the 21st century, we know for sure that human beings know little about themselves, that we only use a tiny fraction of one of our mots important endogenous resources — our brains. In other words: we run the show — i.e. ruin our planet and kill our fellow human beings — without knowing ourselves in-depth, utilizing just a fraction of our capabilities. This must not be our expectations. As a humanist, my expectation must be to learn to know myself, to feel self-compassion, and thereby compassion for others. As an enlightened academic, I must utilize my endogenous resources in the best possible way — and I must not accept to capitalize on only 10% of my skill set.

What is the Mindful Revolution?

In short, Mindful Revolution means that human beings know themselves (gnothi seauton), feel self-compassion and compassion for others. The Mindful Revolution enables mankind to capitalize on the maximum of each individual’s physical and mental abilities. The Mindful Revolution enables human beings to develop a new, much broader perspective on life in general and on themselves and fellow human beings specifically. The Mindful Revolution allows for more tolerance, compassion, and understanding, enables people to develop ways and tools for cooperation and collaboration, and in the best case, a new way of jointly saving ourselves and our planet.

Mindfulness is a change that starts within and stays within the individual. By changing oneself, a person becomes more aware of herself, her sensations and capabilities, and, in the next step, more open for her environment including her fellow human beings. Without creating strategies, developing tactics, and planning details, the mindful person opens herself up for any external input. She experiences more sensations on a deeper level and is able to act and behave intuitively in a seemingly effortless way. There are more good things that happen to her, people treat her in a friendlier way, finding solutions to problems becomes easy. The reason for a better flow in life is not any kind of magic of randomness — it is a better utilization of the individual‘s resources, especially her brain. I am not speaking of anecdotal evidence — these effects have been measured and quantified in many scientific studies.

Whether it’s about schoolchildren with experiences in mindfulness practice, inhabitants of retirement homes, athletes, or the average working person, mindfulness results in a quantifiable improvement,ent of a person‘s lifestyle. In recent years, more and more individuals have learned about these positive effects of training without side effects. If this knowledge could be spread further and faster, more people, groups, and, finally, populations could benefit. We should teach our children, and we should integrate mindfulness into school curriculums. Mindfulness should become a mandatory subject in any kind of educational institution. In 2013, Ohio congressman Tim Ryan took this challenge seriously and started Mindful Nation, a non-profit foundation and education outlet teaching mindfulness to everyday Americans.

Mindfulness beats AI

Mindful human beings don‘t have to fear any kind of malicious AI. Whereas AI can easily take over computable tasks from human beings and outperform us in calculations, it should take ages before an AI would be able to emulate our mind. The human cortex alone has 30bn neurons and is capable of making 1 million billion synaptic connections, i.e. at least 10 followed by a million zeros. Knowing that the universe consists of 10 followed by 79 zeros particles, it becomes clear why mindfulness beats Artificial Intelligence, easily.

Beside all meaningful activities, and living a peaceful and eco-conscious life — we have the ability to and must start the Mindful Revolution — now!

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