New article discusses the spreading of benefits of meditation from one person to the next

A newly published article by Veronika Engert, Olga Maria Klimecki and Philipp Kanske discusses the beneficial effects of meditation training on health and well-being, cognition, emotion, and social behaviour. These beneficial changes can spread from one person to another, thereby spreading the positive meditation effects across the practitioner’s social networks. This spread occurs by positively influencing others through prosocial actions, as well as improved cognitive functioning and positive affect of the practitioner. The researchers propose that this spreading of positive meditation effects could provide a basis for collective responses to urgent societal challenges and they call for further research on the phenomenon.

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