{"id":42,"date":"2018-11-21T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.38.114.27\/?p=42"},"modified":"2024-03-05T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:35:16","slug":"does-meditation-make-us-better-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leftforright.com\/index.php\/lifestyle\/does-meditation-make-us-better-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Meditation Make Us Better People?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let’s see how meditation helps you…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meditation usually gets positive praise. Meditation is often thought of as something that benefits us in many ways. The ways that meditation is proclaimed to benefit us, is through things such as making us happier, upbeat, more compassionate, healthier, and all round better people. Are these claims about meditation true? We are going to look at whether meditation really lives up to the hype. Whether it really makes us better people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s Start with Whether Meditation Makes us Happier:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are many research studies that show that meditation makes us happier. One of these research studies<\/a> is from a group of University professors from Japan. It is titled, \u2018The structural neural substrate of subjective happiness\u2019. This research found that meditation increases happiness in a person. This is because meditation increases grey matter in the brain. Grey matter in the brain is linked to happiness. Therefore, the more grey matter you have, the happier you will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our happiness often comes down to how our brain functions<\/a> and brain matter. Basically, happiness is partly to do with the matter within our brain. However, recent research shows that meditation studies can be biased. This could be true, if you have studies which ask people who conduct the study who are not objective. But, even then, if you have consistent studies which show that meditation makes people happier, then that shows us that there is evidence to suggest that it does make us happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is irrefutable, is the studies which are science based, such as the grey matter studies. These studies provide us with pictures from brain scans that show how different the brains are with someone who has a lot of grey matter and someone who only has a little grey matter. When you have these brain scans, and people telling us that they are happier and meditate, then that tells us that people who meditate, are happier than people who don\u2019t meditate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now let\u2019s look at whether meditation makes us more compassionate. Research also shows us that meditation makes us more compassionate. There are several research studies which indicates that meditation makes us more compassion. However, we are going to focus on one specific research study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That study is from the University of Rochester, where scientists discovered that meditation does make us more compassionate. The researchers focused on the way that people spoke to one another. It also focused on things like their body language, to determine whether they were compassionate. They found that compassionate people<\/a> were more concerned with how other people were doing. This was noticed through their tone of voice and through their body language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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