Meditation helps you connect with others
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An eight-week meditation program led the women to experience more empathy towards strangers, suggesting that meditation may improve the ability to understand and experience the emotions of others.
“When you practice mindfulness meditation, feelings of connection, empathy, and compassion arise naturally; it's almost like a side effect,” he says. Fadel Zeidan at the University of California, San Diego. This type of meditation is a practice that focuses attention on the present moment by observing sensations such as breathing, and is believed to reduce and help people feel less self-conscious.
Source: www.newscientist.com
