In this mediation audio clip, Dr. Carrington explains the benefits of meditation for relationships and upon mood.
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This audio clip is excerpted from Dr. Patricia Carrington’s Learn to Meditate Course.
Now aside from these effects of meditation on general health and on compulsive habits, meditation has some very useful effects on the way people feel and react to those around them.
People who’ve learned meditation often feel more alive. They’re closer to their own feelings. They may have a sense of being able to love more, or to feel sympathy or sadness more fully, or to recognize anger in themselves, which they wouldn’t have been aware of before. Or, other feelings may become more obvious and more available. This can be a great help with their relationship to other people.
And, one of the frequent things that friends or families of meditators notice is that they’re now easier to get along with. I hear many reports that other people find the meditator to be warmer, more open more trusting, less defensive, less critical, less irritable than before.
Meditation also affects mood and mild depressions, such as many people occasionally experience in the course of everyday life often respond beautifully to meditation.
Meditation seems to have a mood-lifting effect for people who feel depressed, while it seems to calm down over-excitability in people who have problems in this direction.
Again, meditation seems to be performing a regulating function for the individual.
More on Meditation for Relationships
In her book, Freedom in Meditation, Dr. Carrington explores in more depth how meditation can lead to a greater openness to others, writing “Just as meditation can increase one’s sense of individuality and lead to self-assertion, allowing one to feel close to one’s self, by the same token it often increases one’s sense of closeness to
others.”
Related resources:
Meditation Helps to Improve Your Relationship with Others
Effectiveness of Mantra-Based Meditation on Mental Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
