In addition to lessening tension, Dr. Patricia Carrington shares other benefits of meditation, including meditating for increased energy and visual-motor coordination.
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Meditation to Increase Energy and Visual-Motor Coordination
This audio clip is excerpted from Dr. Patricia Carrington’s Learn to Meditate Course
Aside from the tension reduction, which is such a major advantage of meditation, there are a number of other benefits many people report, for example, that after commencing meditation they have a good deal more energy, that they’re more productive and efficient than before, and that at the same time, they feel the pressure of their workload lessened.
Visual motor coordination also seems to increase in many meditators. One of my students, who was captain of the Princeton basketball team, was a meditator, and he found that his medication enormously increased his stamina during the games. And, it also increased his ability to make baskets; his accuracy. He found it was much more accurate if he meditated just before the game.
And, because he’d observed this in himself, he wanted to discover if the same thing was true of others. And, he devised some very interesting research to test this out. He used a board game where you try to keep marbles out of little holes by tilting the board. Now, this requires a great deal of coordination to do well. And, what this student found was that when he tested two groups of meditators and allowed one group to meditate before they played the game and the other group simply to rest beforehand, without meditating, the scores for the resting group hardly improved at all over the scores they had before resting. But, the scores for the meditating group increased significantly after they had meditated.
In other words, his subjects did much better at the game if they had meditated just before playing it.
