Among the myriad storylines that have come up over the last few years, no Cubs-related topic has captured my attention more than neuroscience and mental health.
If you’re a Cubs fan, you’ve been exposed to mindfulness-based strategies over the last two years. Mindfulness attempts to improve self-regulation through meditation, yoga, or tai chi iterations, and scientists have found both novice and experienced mindfulness practitioners to have structural and physiological brain differences.
But before we jump into the topic, I want to point out that researchers who conduct mindfulness-based research are often natural advocates for their therapies. Some research groups actually showed an especially strong bias towards positive results and the field is in need of more robust research designs.