The increased compassion of meditators, then, might stem directly from meditation's ability to dissolve the artificial social distinctions — ethnicity, religion, ideology and the like — that divide us.
My favored explanation, though, derives from a different aspect of meditation: its ability to foster a view that all beings are interconnected.
The National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicines is currently funding research on meditation's ability to relieve stress in caregivers, reduce hot flashes in menopausal women, relieve chronic back pain and alleviate asthma symptoms.
Just as in the case of Theravada and Mahayana types of meditation, the ability of these types of Yoga practices to induce relaxation and relieve stress has been found in previous studies and extensively discussed in the scientific literature [ 102– 104].
Strengthening the connection to your spiritual self will result in an increase of your psychic abilities Meditation is most important for psychic abilities.
Studies have demonstrated that silent meditation improves practitioners' ability to concentrate.
The first rests on meditation's documented ability to enhance attention, which might in turn increase the odds of noticing someone in pain (as opposed to being lost in one's own thoughts).
Similarly, in the acclaimed Glitchhikers, a car travelling a midnight road becomes the hub for multiple dreamlike conversations; the other founding member of Silverstring, Claris Cyarron, says they approached the car "as if it were a room... a meditation chamber whose ability to move you physically is secondary to its spiritual function".
She credits the discipline developed through four decades of meditation for her ability to handle the intellectual workload of graduate school — and begin a second career at age 60. "The mentor of our master's program acknowledged the challenge of doing this while working full time," she said.
By tapping into this natural ability, meditation helps the mind stay focused on the realities of the present moment.
