Meditation can help you connect with others Mira/Alamy
An eight-week meditation programme led women to experience more empathy for strangers, suggesting that meditation can improve our ability to understand and experience other people鈥檚 feelings.
鈥淲hen you practise mindfulness meditation, these feelings of connectivity and empathy and compassion arise naturally. It is like a side effect almost,鈥 says at the University of California, San Diego. This type of meditation is the practice of focusing attention on the present moment by observing sensations like the breath and is believed to reduce people鈥檚 sense of self and help them…



