MEDITATION MAY NOT MAKE YOU A BETTER PERSON.

Meditation has a limited role in making you a better person, scientists said on Monday, contradicting the popular belief that the practice could change how we behave with as well as make us more compassionate. Researchers, including those at the UK's Coventry University, reviewed more than 20 studies that investigate the effect of various types of meditation, such as mindfulness and loving-kindness, on pro-social feelings and behaviours. The initial analysis indicated that meditation did have an overall positive impact. The researchers said meditation made people feel moderately more compassionate or empathic than if they had done no other emotionally-engaging activity. 
However, further analysis revealed that it played no significant role in reducing aggression or prejudice or improving how socially connected someone was. The most unexpected result of the study, though, was that the positive results found for compassion had important methodological flaws, the researchers said. Compassion levels in some studies were only said to increase if the meditation teacher was also an author of the report, they said.
All these studies used secular meditation techniques derived from Buddhism, such as mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation, but not other related activities, like yoga or tai-chi.
--Challapalli Srinivas Chakravarthy--   
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