Meditation helps you appreciate moments of natural beauty, human compassion and poignance in the world. It does give you an opportunity to save her life a little more vividly if it's used correctly. I remember my first meditation retreat, I noticed that some people were eating with their eyes closed - they just want to make it total version. Yeah of mindfulness meditation to appreciate Look the person you're talking to at the cocktail party who mean normally might be trying to get away from them. And to appreciate just the visual and beauty and other kinds of sensory beautyworld.
Robert Wright, author of Why Buddhism Is True, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the psychotherapeutic insights of Buddhism and the benefits of meditation and mindfulness. Wright argues our evolutionary past has endowed us with a mind that can be ill-suited to the stress of the present. He argues that meditation and the non-religious aspects of Buddhism can reduce suffering and are consistent with recent psychological research.